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Julian Assange: Vivienne Westwood hopes UN can break the ‘national conspiracy’

British designer Vivienne Westwood arrived at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on 4 February, posing for photographers with her passport before visiting her friend Wikileaks founder Julian Assange inside. Assanges three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid rape investigation in Sweden amounts to arbitrary detention, a United Nations panel will rule on 5 February. Feb 5, 2016

Holocaust Memorial Day: Obama says ‘we are all Jews’

US President Barack Obama marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, by repeating the words of US Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds taken prisoner during World War II who told his German captors, “we are all Jews. The US leader also exhorted his audience to fight what he said is a rising tide of anti-Semitism around the world. Obama made his comments at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Jan 28, 2016
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