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‘Monkey dungeon’ discovered in US zoo

A dead lemur was also found in a freezer, a court heard this week.

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A Nazi fleeing child sexual abuse charges led a cult in Chile from 1961 to 2006

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The photographs of a man who knew he was about to be killed by a volcano

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