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City officials in Kavala, Greece, have canceled the Sunday unveiling of a Holocaust memorial because they don’t approve of the Star of David carved into the monument, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.According to the JTA, nearly 1,500 Kavala Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II.Other parts of the Greek government were dismayed by the news from Kavala.“As an Orthodox Christian, I feel deeply insulted by this issue, because it would be as if someone asked us to erase or modify for ‘aesthetic reasons’ the symbol of the cross on the tombs of our grandfathers executed by the Germans,” said Giorgos Kalantzis, Greek minister of culture, education and religious affairs.
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Scientists have developed a new type of drug test that can tell whether you have taken cocaine by analyzing chemical traces left behind in your fingerprint.
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