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Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor whose life bore witness to the horrors of Nazi rule, has died at the age of 103, according to a report by The Associated Press on Friday.
Her passing, confirmed by the Margot Friedländer Foundation based in Berlin, coincided with the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II. No specific details regarding the cause of death have been made public.
Born as Margot Bendheim on November 5, 1921, in Berlin, she lived through the trauma of the Holocaust and survived imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Syrian media is reporting that the body of American journalist Austin Tice has been discovered buried in a cemetery located in Aleppo. Tice had been missing for over ten years, and this development marks a possible end to a case that has haunted the journalism and diplomatic communities.
Tice, a decorated Marine veteran turned freelance reporter, was abducted during the summer of 2012 while documenting the devastation of Syria’s civil war. The incident occurred near a checkpoint situated to the west of Damascus, after which all contact with him ceased.
Throughout the years, both U.S. officials and Tice’s family have steadfastly held on to hope, asserting that he remained alive despite the passage of time and lack of concrete updates.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation. The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The Republican administration argues that the decision wrongly intrudes on the Department of Homeland Security’s authority. “The district court has nullified one of the administration’s most consequential immigration policy decisions,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote. The order from U.S.