Israel has published the names of 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them jailed for deadly attacks, who are to be released this week as part of a US-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Middle East negotiations.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a willing follower of Hitler, his war crimes trial heard today.

GERMAN prosecutors yesterday charged a 90-year-old former member of Hitler’s SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.