A memorial to hundreds of Roma killed at a World War II concentration camp on Tuesday opened in the Czech Republic at the site of the camp that became a pig farm during communist rule when the slaughter was nearly forgotten. The communist government, which ruled former Czechoslovakia from 1948, built a farm for 13,000 pigs on the site in the 1970s.
Four-time Olympic women's football champion United States will play host to Costa Rica on July 16 at Washington in a final sendoff match before the Paris Olympics, US Soccer said Tuesday.The US women are 17-0 all-time against Costa Rica.
Humanitarian workers have no knowledge of plans to evacuate Palestinians from Gaza's southernmost city ahead of an expected Israeli assault, but such a transfer would not be "possible" under current conditions, a Red Cross official told AFP on Tuesday. "We don't see for the time being any plans for civilian evacuations," Carboni said during the interview on Tuesday at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference (DIHAD).