The last time Norma saw her son was in late January, when she dropped him off at an airport in Peru’s capital, Lima. He told her he found a job as a cook for the Russian army advertised on social media, assuring her he’d be far from the war in Ukraine, make good money and even have a shot at obtaining Russian citizenship. Norma was instantly suspicious. Her 31-year-old son had never left Peru before and had never even held a weapon. (CNN is not publishing Norma’s full name or that of her son to protect both from retaliation.) “I wanted to lock him in the house, but he had made up his mind already,” Norma told CNN. She considered even calling the police. “He told me ‘Mom, please, understand, I am just going as a cook.’ But a mother’s heart knows, if not I wouldn’t have felt so anxious.”
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Eleven people were killed when a small plane crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine on Sunday, the local prefecture said. The plane belonged to a parachutist school. The pilot and all 10 passengers – five students and five instructors – died in the accident, the prefecture said. The French interior minister was on his way to the scene, the interior ministry said.
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Drones and artillery killed civilians on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine border on Saturday, local officials said. In the Russian border region of Bryansk, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in their car in a village near the border, the region’s acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on Telegram. Russia’s Defense Ministry, quoted by Russian news agencies, said 124 Ukrainian drones had been downed over Russian regions over a period extending from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time).
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German political scientist Jürgen Falter has devoted much of his career to studying Nazi membership records and has written extensively on the rise of Adolf Hitler and his party. He had previously looked up his own mother’s denazification records, which are kept in local state archives in Germany and typically contain post-war questionnaires taken during the allied-led process that followed World War II. He found that she had been classified as “exonerated,” meaning she was cleared of complicity in the regime. A false statement on this questionnaire could have resulted in punishment.
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