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PRAGUE (AP) – The head of NATO’s military committee said Saturday that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage – reflecting the beliefs of a number of U.S. allies – even as the Biden administration balks at allowing Kyiv to do so using American-made weapons. “Every nation that is attacked has the right to defend itself. And that right doesn´t stop at the border of your own nation,” said Adm. Rob Bauer, speaking at the close of the committee’s annual meeting, also attended by U.S. Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of...

Congratulations on surviving Auschwitz, now here’s your tax bill –Dutch intern reveals Amsterdam’s postwar shame Imagine you had survived one of the Nazi death camps, but on returning home found that you owed the city council back rents and taxes on the house the Nazis had stolen from you, and to add insult to injury, had to pay fines for late payment. < That is exactly what happened to 217 Amsterdam Jews, and now the city is considering compensating them . “They were completely expropriated. And then, after the Second World War, they were taxed for the period in which...