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  • Slovakia opens Holocaust museum in former Nazi camp

    SLOVAKIA, 2016/01/28 Slovakia's president and prime minister have opened the country's initial Holocaust museum at a site of a former Nazi labor and concentration camp. Andrej Kiska and Robert Fico inaugurated the museum at a ceremony Tuesday in the western town of Sered. Fico said: "We are obliged to document the tragedy of the Slovak Jews." Slovakia was a Nazi puppet national during World War II. It sent over 70,000 of its Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where most of them perished and only has a tiny Jewish community today.
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.