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In this Oct. 12, 2016 photo Stefan Rochow, a former far right extremist, poses for a photo prior to an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin. He is a member of a small but effective network of former neo Nazis working to help people leave the far-right scene. Spread across Germany they work closely with an organization called EXIT that provides quick, non-bureaucratic advice to extremists who want out. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Rehabbing Germany’s neo-Nazis: Modern Denazification is being led by reformed far-right members

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UPDATED: 6 dead in shooting at Munich shopping mall, police say

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David Cameron (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)

Great Britain in turmoil after stunning Brexit from EU

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Apple Store New York (Wikimedia)

The NSA can crack your phone too

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Members of German Piraten Partei (Pirates party) hold the portraits of U.S. President Barack Obama and Edward Snowden (R), a former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), during a protest in Berlin's Tiergarten district. (REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski)

U.S. to Europe: Our snooping is the same as yours

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Studio Total teddy bears hang on parachutes during a training in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP/Studio Total/Per Cromwell)

Weird news: Teddy bears invade Belarus

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US, Germany stress cooperation to end euro crisis

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Anti-regime protesters shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a protest after Friday prayers in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday Oct, 7, 2011 in a show of support for Syrians protesting against Syrian President Bashar Assad. () (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Syrians Protest As UN Says Death Toll Tops 3,000

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FILE - In this July 2, 2009 file photo, a gay rights activist in Calcutta, India, participates in a rally celebrating the groundbreaking ruling by the Delhi High Court decriminalizing homosexuality. The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people on Friday, June 17, 2011, in a cautiously worded declaration hailed by supporters as a historic moment. Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council narrowly voted in favor of the resolution put forward by South Africa, against strong opposition from African and Islamic countries. (AP Photo/Sucheta Das, File) (AP)

U.N. backs gay rights for first time ever

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In this photo taken Tuesday, May 24 , 2011, a table and a chair are seen in an apartment used by snipers loyal to Libyan-leader Moammar Gadhafi and destroyed during fighting with rebels for the control of Tripoli Street, Misrata, Libya. Since the weeks-long siege of the city ended in mid-May, Misrata residents make pilgrimages to Tripoli Street, site of the fiercest fighting in the battle for Libya between the rebels and Moammar Gadhafi's forces. People gawk at the wreckage of bombed-out buildings with gaping holes and walls pocked by bullets, and shoot photos of charred hulks of tanks, rubble-strewn streets and a side walk museum featuring drumloads of bullet casings, uniforms of dead enemies, and unexploded munitions. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

U.N. panel finds Libya forces committed war crimes

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Migrants receives assistance as they arrive on the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy, early Sunday, May 8, 2011. Italian police and coast guard officials on Sunday rescued some 400 illegal migrants coming from Libya whose boat was tossed against rocks near port in southern Italy after the steering malfunctioned, officials said. Tens of thousands of migrants have fled unrest in northern Africa since January, most arriving at Lampedusa, the nearest Italian port to Africa. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta) (AP)

Ship with 600 migrants sinks off Libyan coast

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Christof Scheurer, spealer of the public prosecutor's office, right, speaks, while Gabriele Berger, the head of Bern police's special investigations unit, listens at a press conference in Bern Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A 54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 mentally disabled children and adults in care homes in Switzerland and Germany during almost three decades, in what Swiss police described Tuesday as an unprecedented case. The abuse took place in nine different care homes where the unidentified man had worked as a therapist since 1982, police in the canton (state) of Bern said. The head of Bern police's special investigations unit, Gabriele Berger, told a news conference in Bern that the evidence against the man includes photos and hours of video recording the abuse. (AP Photo/Keystone/Peter Schneider) (AP)

Swiss police identify 122 victims in “unprecedented” sexual abuse case

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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and his wife Teresa Heinz talks with guests at the funeral Mass for R. Sargent Shriver at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in Potomac, Md., Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys, and the first director of the Peace Corps, died Tuesday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool) (AP)

John Kerry: Advice for Mubarak

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In breakthrough, scientists trap antimatter atoms

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FILE - In this is Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, film director Roman Polanski looks on in Montrouge, France. The Swiss government says it will make an announcement Monday July 12, 2010 about Roman Polanski's extradition to the United States for a 1977 sex case. The government says Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will hold a news conference in the capital Bern at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT; 8 a.m. EDT) "on the matter of the Roman Polanski extradition decision." (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) (AP)

Polanski free, Swiss reject US extradition request

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U.N. expert: “Targeted killings” may be war crimes

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Study on cellphone link to cancer inconclusive

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Rig owner holds closed-door meeting in Switzerland

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Ash cloud further nixes European travel

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Data on Swiss account holders stolen

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Red Cross: Up to 3 million need aid

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Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban

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