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⚖️ A former Nazi secretary was convicted yesterday for her involvement in over 10,000 murders at a concentration camp. Irmgard Furchner, 97, worked as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. Furchner made headlines in mid-October, when she briefly went on the run weeks ahead of her court date. As she was a juvenile when the offenses occurred, Furchner was tried in an adolescent court in Germany, and her sentence will see her placed on juvenile probation.

🇦🇫 The Taliban indefinitely banned all women in Afghanistan from attending universities yesterday. The move came just over a month after Afghan women were barred from parks, gyms, and swimming pools across the country. And in March of this year, the Taliban government failed to deliver on its commitment to reopen secondary schools (middle/high schools) for girls. A US State Department spokesperson said the latest ban “will have significant consequences for the Taliban.”

🇨🇳 China reported its first official Covid deaths in over two weeks on Monday and Tuesday. Beijing this week also confirmed its health officials are changing the way they count Covid deaths. Moving forward, only people who tested positive for Covid and died from lung damage caused by the virus will count towards the official tally. In other news, a recent WSJ report found crematoriums in the Beijing area are currently working “24 hours a day” to keep up with a recent surge in requests.