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Wealthy Luxembourg is western Europe’s last Holocaust restitution deadbeat. A 1950 law prevents about 75% of roughly 4,000 Jews who had lived there before the Nazi invasion of 1940 from applying for compensation for stolen property. Read More

 

Tesla says investigating car explosion in Shanghai. Tesla did not confirm the car model but social media identified it as Model S. In 2018, a Tesla car driven by British TV director Michael Morris burst into flames, following another such incident involving a Model S model in France in 2016. Read

 

Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg’s health significantly worsens. Luxembourg’s former Head of State was hospitalised a couple of weeks ago due to a pulmonary infection. Continue

 

Death toll soars to 290 after bombings hit churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. Police said 24 people had been arrested, but it is not yet known who carried out the attacks. About 500 people are injured and at least 35 foreigners are among the dead. News