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Prosecutors in Poland say a British historian who denies the Holocaust is touring World War II sites including former Nazi death camps.
Author David Irving is leading a group on a visit to the camps and other World War II sites but is not releasing...
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Exiled Chechen independence leader Akhmed Zakayev has been freed from custody in Poland after being arrested earlier in the day on a Russian warrant accusing him of...
made popular Sep 18 2010
The State Museum that takes care of the site estimates the damage at 1 million zlotys, or some $330,000. It took firefighters three hours to extinguish the flames that...
made popular Aug 11 2010
The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose to 11 as Poland’s interior minister said Sunday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the...
made popular Aug 9 2010
Poland’s new president pledged to serve as a unifying force and work closely with European allies as he was sworn in Friday — but the ceremony was overshadowed...
made popular Aug 7 2010
A Polish appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to hand over to Germany an alleged Mossad agent wanted in the slaying of a Hamas leader.
The...
made popular Aug 6 2010
A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse’s image with that of a swastika and a nude woman’s body is causing a stir in Poland, where memories of...
made popular Jul 15 2010
A Melbourne artist Jane Korman’s European family tour included Auschwitz, Dachau, Theresienstadt, and a memorial in Lodz, Poland, resulted in Dancing Auschwitz,...
made popular Jul 14 2010
An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative will be extradited to Germany, a Polish court ruled Wednesday.
Suspected Mossad agent Uri...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Acting Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski pledged Friday to improve relations with Russia to “expand the spheres of our cooperation.”
Komorowski, in an...
made popular Jun 19 2010
The state of Israel seems to be incapable of existing for more than a few weeks without another diplomatic crisis. But before you feel any sympathy for the Israelis...
made popular Jun 15 2010
O’ that Mossad. One humiliation after another. Today Polish authorities, at the behest of the Germany government, arrested a Mossad agent believed to have...
made popular Jun 14 2010
News from Poland about re-burial of Nicolas Copernicus (Nikolay Copernik), the greatest astronomer of the last two millenniums, triggered some thoughts inevitably.
It...
made popular May 24 2010
A video of the plane crash which killed the president of Poland apparently shows survivors being shot.
The video, which is being circulated on the internet, has...
made popular May 14 2010
Why is it that when any world leader dies so much of the world gets so sombre and seems to operate under the belief that any world leader is worthy of mourning? That...
made popular May 10 2010
Presidential elections to find a successor to Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash, will be held in Poland on 20 June.
The poll date was set by acting...
made popular Apr 21 2010
Members of the Polish Sejm — the parliament of a nation in mourning — wept yesterday as they remembered the 18 deputies and senators who died with their President...
made popular Apr 14 2010
Poland moved on Monday to fill key state posts after a weekend plane crash in western Russia killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other top officials, plunging...
made popular Apr 13 2010
Why is it that when any world leader dies so much of the world gets so sombre and seems to operate under the belief that any world leader is worthy of mourning? That...
made popular Apr 12 2010
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Canadian police have apologised to the mother of a Polish man who died after being repeatedly shot with a Taser stun gun at Vancouver airport in 2007.
Robert...
made popular Apr 2 2010
ussia insists on the inclusion of U.S. missile defenses in Europe in a new strategic arms reduction treaty between the two countries in order to ensure nuclear parity,...
made popular Mar 23 2010
A team of Polish scientists said Monday they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave, a find they hope may shed light on how similar to modern humans our...
made popular Feb 3 2010
Oświęcim looked very grey and cold on windy, snowy-raining, dark late winter early-December afternoon I was walking to Auschwitz, a tragically-known worldwide...
made popular Jan 30 2010
So diverse, challenging world!
What could denominate seemingly unlinked, strange different issues happening on a planet and customarily belonging to different sections...
made popular Jan 23 2010
More than 80 people have died across Europe as days of snow storms and sub-zero temperatures swept the continent.
At least 42 people have frozen to death in Poland...
made popular Dec 22 2009
The Polish police said early Monday that they had found the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that was stolen Friday from the gate of Auschwitz.
made popular Dec 21 2009
Down come the cheesy Che Guevara posters in student bedsits across the land. Off come the T-shirts wittily emblazoned with a hammer and sickle.
Twenty years after...
made popular Nov 27 2009
Travelers often have a tendency for odd complaints. They will book a visit to, say, the Australian outback and then complain that it is too - oddly somehow -...
made popular Nov 25 2009
All people are equal-that is what French Revolution proclaimed centuries ago and the UN legislated worldwide more recently.
In the age of sci-fi-turning-into-reality...
made popular Oct 31 2009
The United States guarantees Poland’s security, he said. “This strategic assurance is absolute, absolute, Mr. Prime Minister,” Mr. Biden declared. It is “a...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Post-modern American has debased noble words: artist, classical, original, and hero. Everyone it seems is a hero today. Both the rescue workers and their saved victims...
made popular Oct 12 2009
When Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities on a 32-year-old rape charge, the first reaction of many Poles was to immediately leap to his defense, but in...
made popular Oct 3 2009
Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their...
made popular Sep 19 2009
A methane leak in a Polish coal mine set off an explosion Friday that killed 12 miners and left dozens injured, 15 of them in critical condition, officials said.
The...
made popular Sep 18 2009
Personally, I feel always a sort of affection in iconic places history associated with. And a living walking history impresses me surely as info of a hundred year old...
made popular Sep 8 2009
Acontest between competing needs of conservation and economic growth is threatening the future of large parts of Europe’s last ancient forest. The 380,000-acre...
made popular Aug 4 2009
As I stand inside, helmet on head, shoulder to shoulder with a group of slightly nervous strangers, the refrain of a Merle Travis song keeps running through my head:...
made popular Jul 30 2009
It may be difficult to say who “won” the European elections, but it is clear who lost. From France to Poland – and spectacularly in Britain –...
made popular Jun 9 2009
European leaders gather in the Polish city of Gdansk today to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, amid an acrimonious row between Moscow and...
made popular Sep 1 2009
Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life. “Keeping tropical rain forests...
made popular Dec 5 2008
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A European Union flag is displayed on Warsaw’s landmark Palace of Culture communist era building, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, April 30, 2009. Eight ex-communist states mark their fifth anniversary as European Union members Friday, transformed by new...
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