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{Three Rwandans are among the 92 street children who were arrested by the Burundian police Friday, June 24 in an urban center of the province of Kayanza (northern Burundi).}

According to RNA, among 92 children rounded up more than 70 are from the province of Kayanza .Three are of Rwandan origin who will soon be repatriated to Rwanda. While the rest are from the different municipalities of the province of Kayanza.

{{The Fuhrer ‘would not have been happy’ to learn he was more Berber tribesman than Aryan superman.}}

Adolf Hitler may have owed more to the ‘subhuman’ races he tried to exterminate than to his ‘Aryan’ compatriots, according to new finding published in Belgium this week.

In research for the Flemish-language magazine Knack, journalist Jean-Paul Mulders traced Hitler’s living relatives in the Fuhrer’s native Austria, as well as the United States.

“The results of this study are surprising,” said Ronny Decorte, a geneticist interviewed by Knack. “Hitler would not have been happy.”

Geneticists identify groups of chromosomes called haplogroups, ‘genetic fingerprints’ that define populations.

According to Mulders, Hitler’s dominant haplogroup, E1b1b, is relatively rare in Western Europe – but strongest in some 25 percent of Greeks and Sicilians, who apparently acquired the genes from Africa: Between 50 percent and 80 percent of North Africans share Hitler’s dominant group, which is especially prevalent among in the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and Somalis.
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More surprising still, perhaps, is that Hitler’s second most dominant haplogroup is the most common in Ashkenazi Jews. }

“The findings are fascinating if you look at them in terms of the Nazi worldview, which ascribed such an extreme priority to notions of blood and race,” Decorte said.

Knack said it would now petition Russian government archives to release a human jawbone wrapped in a blood-soaked cloth, retrieved from a Berlin bunker where Hitler is thought to have committed suicide and believed to have belonged to the Fuhrer, who dreamed of engineering a Nazi superman.

“For modern science, there are no more races, Decorte said. “This pure type of ‘superman’ and the [Nazi] breeding programs to perfect ‘purity’ were sheer fabrication.”

Haaretz Service

{ Paul Cortez can remember the night 31 years ago as clearly as if it was last week. He had walked into the pediatric intensive care unit of Riverside County Regional Medical Center to find his 7-year-old son, Mikey, barely clinging to life.
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Bandages were covering his little body, seemingly from head to toe. Wires and tubes attached to machines were keeping him alive.

Doctors told Cortez that Mikey might not make it. A drunken driver had smashed into the car carrying the boy and relatives, sending four of them, including his mother, brother and sister, to other hospitals. Four other relatives, including Mikey’s oldest brother, were dead.

Not knowing what to do, Paul Cortez got down on his knees and, with Mikey’s hand in his, made a promise to God: If his son somehow survived, whatever the condition, he and his family would always be there for him.

It felt strange at first because, although he is a deeply religious man, Cortez had never before asked for any favors from heaven.

“But he was our son,” he recalled.

Mikey would never walk or talk again, but that didn’t matter to his family. For the next 31 years, they would raise him at home, including him in every activity they could. From holidays to family vacations to high school football games, they were by his side until his death last month.

“I prayed to God to walk our families through this,” Cortez said, his voice thick with emotion. “To help us. And he did.”

The youngest of Paul and Roonie Cortez’s four children, Austin Miguel Cortez — “but Mikey just stuck,” his mother says — had always been the most gregarious and mischievous member of the family. He was a veritable whirlwind of energy and practical jokes.

“If you look at the pictures, they pretty much tell you the story of Mikey, because in every one he’s goofing off,” Cortez said.

In one, he’s striking some sort of warrior-cowboy pose.

AP

A group of former global leaders known as the Elders, tasked with encouraging dialogue between Iran and the international community, is due to arrive in Tehran Sunday, their website said.

The group, formed in 2007, is made up of twelve global leaders who try “to promote peace, justice and human rights,” according to their website.

The group sees “recent positive developments as a historic and strategic opportunity to end decades of animosity between Iran and the international community,” the statement published on Saturday said.

But it added “trust will only be built slowly, through continued goodwill and reciprocal action.”

During the visit, the Elders “will exchange ideas with the Iranian leadership about peaceful ways of addressing conflict”.

The group will be headed by former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace laureate Kofi Annan, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed on Facebook on Saturday he would host the delegation.

President Hassan Rouhani won last year’s presidential elections with promises of a more diplomatic approach to the West.

Iran and major world powers clinched a historic nuclear deal in November, when Tehran agreed to curb parts of its nuclear programme for six months in exchange for modest sanctions relief and a promise by Western powers not to impose new sanctions.

AP