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Yesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of Darfur was created hundreds of thousands of refugees and countless more have been created..
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A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt ignored the plight of Jews under the Nazis.
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FILE - This Jan. 19, 1937 file photo shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he...
