My News Roundups
Short summaries of the top global news. Maxime Usdin has contributed 12, including:
IMF might reduce aid to Greece, Junker assures
Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker predicts a path for the IMF aid plan to countries such as Greece. Junker said that after many years of receiving IMF aid, and not returning the loans, Greece may no longer receive the aid.
Ex-guard at Nazi concentration camp sentenced to five years
A German court found John Demjanjuk guilty of having been a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. Demjanjuk was convicted for having helped murder 28 000 Jews who were killed in the camp while he worked there in occupied Poland.
Ex-Soviet policeman jailed for taking part in the Medininkai massacre
On July 31, 1991 during a firefight on the Russian-Lithuanian border, Soviet police, the Omon, killed six border guards. An ex-member of the Omon, Konstantin Mikhailov was recently sentenced to life in jail for having taken part in this massacre.
Suspects confess to setting bomb in Minsk metro, Belarus
Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko stated that two suspects in the bombing of the Oktyabrskaya metro station this Monday confessed to being responsible for this act. The bomb, made of nails and ball bearings, killed 12 and injured over 120 more.
Fears of radiation reaching eastern Russia (article in Russian)
With the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Russian government is leading investigations to see if any of this radiation has reached eastern Russia, including the very nearby Kuril Islands. So far only tace amount have been deteced.
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