Word: german
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...criminal sentenced to death by the state of Israel, but he was released when exculpatory evidence withheld at his trial later emerged. He has had his U.S. citizenship revoked, then reinstated. In March 2009, after a protracted period of diplomatic wrangling, Demjanjuk was extradited to Germany, where a German court charged the 89-year-old with being an accessory to at least 27,900 murders. The allegations stem not from Ivan the Terrible's reign at Treblinka but rather from Demjanjuk's alleged role as a guard at Sobibor, another Nazi death camp. On Nov. 30, the accused was wheeled...
...mills of justice grind slowly, and sometimes not very finely," says Paeffgen dryly. The twins disagree. "We are proud of the German legal system and grateful," they told Berlin's daily Der Tagesspiegel through a family member after their release...
...That night they got away, but they did leave evidence: DNA, found in a drop of sweat on a latex glove discarded next to a rope ladder used to reach the ground floor. Police ran the material through the German crime database. And they got a hit - two in fact. (See pictures of money being printed in Germany...
...computer identified 27-year-old identical twins Hassan and Abbas O. (under German law they cannot be named in full). The unemployed and Lebanese-born brothers have lived in the northern German state of Lower Saxony since age 1 but still have not been granted permanent residency. They have criminal records for theft and fraud. (See pictures of the annual Twins Days festival...
Obama, President Barack • avoidance of horrible Gridiron Dinner by • German culinary "homage" to spokesman for explains that joking reference by to Jay Leno about lack of bowling skills of "was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics...