The Millennium Shrimp

From London’s Telegraph:

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.

Gorbachev’s acknowledgment confirms decades of speculation that, although he publicly professed Atheism in line with Soviet dogma, he was in fact a secret believer.
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From the Beeb:

A woman whose parents disappeared during military rule in Argentina wants the couple who adopted her to be jailed for kidnap and concealment.

Maria Eugenia Sampallo Barragan was born in a secret camp run by the Argentine military . She, along with some 200 children who were born in these camps, was taken by a family with connections to the Argentine military who forged paperwork to make her appear to be their natural born daughter. Some 10-30,000 people disappeared or were killed during the period of military rule between 1976 and 1983. Her birth parents are still listed as missing.

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