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A time capsule buried by the Nazis in 1934 was uncovered in the Polish town of Zlocieniec earlier in September, revealing an array of perfectly preserved relics from the Nazi era, bring back memories of a time when Poland was under the occupation of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government. Sealed with wax and red string, the capsule contained two copies of Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf" as well as coins, photographs and documents.
The US West Point military academy finds no apparent contents in a 200-year-old time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point, New York, and believed to have been left by cadets in the 1820s. "The box didn't quite meet expectations," says an expert during the unveiling ceremony, adding that his team will collect a layer of silt from the bottom of the box to see if they can find any remains in it. IMAGES
The Red Cross demands a halt to all military operations around a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, warning the consequences of a strike could be "catastrophic". "It is high time to stop playing with fire and instead take concrete measures to protect this facility and others like it from any military operations," Robert Mardini, director general of the ICRC, tells reporters in Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath at a monument to martyrs of Algeria's war for independence, which ended more than 130 years of French colonial rule in 1962. Macron arrived in Algeria for a three-day visit, as the country marks this year its 60th anniversary of independence. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will speak to his Russian counterpart for the first time since the Ukraine invasion but would narrowly focus the call to priorities including the release of detained Americans. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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