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The names of around 425,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time.The names represent individuals who were investigated through a special legal system established towards the end of World War 2. Of them, more than 150,000 faced some form of punishment.The full records of these investigations were previously only accessible by visiting the Dutch National Archives in The Hague.The Huygens Institute, which helped digitise the archive, says this is a major barrier for people wishing to research the Netherlands’ occupation, which lasted from its invasion…

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The Mitte Combined Heat and Power (CHP) natural gas power plant, operated by Vattenfall AB, in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesUkraine halted the flow of Russian gas to several European countries on New Year’s Day, bringing an end to Moscow’s decades-long dominance over Europe’s energy markets.Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom confirmed gas exports to Europe via Ukraine stopped at around 8 a.m. local time (5 a.m. London time) on Wednesday.The widely expected move marks the end of a five-year transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine, with neither side willing to strike a new…

FBIThe suspect has been named as Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42Fourteen people were killed and at least 35 injured after a man apparently inspired by the Islamic State group (IS) drove into large crowds in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early hours of New Year’s Day.Here’s what we know so far about what happened and the perpetrator, who was killed in the incident. How did the attack unfold?At 03:15 local time on New Year’s Day, a pick-up truck rammed into crowds gathered on Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter.CCTV footage shows a white, Ford F-150 Lightning…

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European markets closed higher Thursday following a mixed start to 2025 trading.The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 0.6% higher, reversing earlier losses as regional bourses reopened after the New Year’s Day holiday.Oil and gas stocks led gains, up 2.3%, while utilities climbed 1.6%.Europe’s banking index and autos stocks dipped, however, losing 0.3% and 0.47% respectively, as uncertainty remained over the economic outlook and potential tariffs under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.France’s CAC 40 also erased earlier losses to gain 0.18%, though lagged other bourses. President Emmanuel Macron appeared to admit on Tuesday that his decision to hold snap parliamentary elections last…

There are relatively few events that could persuade me to leave my voluntary retirement from the intellectual hard graft of political blogging. However, the appalling events in the state of Israel and whatever territorial scraps are left of the promised state of Palestine make it difficult not to offer at least a couple of observations. Firstly, however momentous the October attacks by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (IQB), the military wing of the Islamist party Hamas, may have been they were certainly not unprecedented in the long and bloody history of the Jewish-Arab conflict in the region. Nor was the…

Where are the trading desks of the Federal Reserve System and the European Central Bank moving markets? Back in mid-December, the Federal Open Market Committee directed its trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to undertake open market operations to maintain the federal funds rate between the target range of 4.25% and 4.50%. Open market operations involve buying and selling securities, usually government debt, in order to maintain the target range for setting the overnight interest rate at which banks exchange excess reserves. Another tool for establishing the target range for the federal funds rate is the…

May 4, 2020 – 04:57 am Alberta Liberals would put resources into illness prevention David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, says a Liberal government would put resources into illness prevention. The announcement came on Tuesday when the Alberta Liberal party released its healthcare platform. According to Swann, illness prevention would reduce hospital bed use as well as surgeries and a variety of future health complications. Swann says the healthcare system in Alberta has been struggling to find its identity after being decentralized, centralized and then decentralized again since 2008. The Liberals say if elected they would reduce administrative…

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