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Piotr Skolimowski
A drone view of damages caused by flooding in Stronie Slaskie, Poland, on Tuesday
WORLD
Sep 19, 2024
European cities brace for peak of floods as cleanup starts
Europe is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global rate, making it particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.
Local residents are evacuated by Polish rescuers in the village of Rudawa, southern Poland, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2024
Flood death toll rises as Europe counts cost of storm Boris
Governments across the region taking emergency measures and preparing to spend hundreds of millions of euros on the cleanup.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces
WORLD / Politics
Feb 9, 2024
Ukrainian commander who defended Kyiv early in war takes top job
Oleksandr Syrskyi succeeds Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who was replaced following speculation about a rift with the president.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda sits next to Ukraine’s  Ambassador to the United Nations Sergіy Kyslytsya during a ministerial level meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the crisis in Ukraine in New York on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2023
Poland halts supply of arms to Ukraine as grain dispute escalates
Warsaw reacted to remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the U.N. General Assembly accusing countries of feigning solidarity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 6, 2023
Polish-German tensions expose crack in unified Ukraine front
Quarreling in Warsaw and Berlin over missiles, tanks and spare parts has reached a new level.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 16, 2022
Panic eases over Poland strike as allies query rocket’s origin
Russia denied its forces had aimed missiles at targets near Ukraine's border with Poland, and Poland's president said it was unclear who was responsible.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 25, 2021
Exiled Belarusians fear they could be next to be captured
After Minsk reportedly diverted a commercial aircraft to allow the arrest of a reporter, others are worried for their safety.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2017
Cryptocurrencies threaten central banks' control over money supply — and officials study using their technology
The boom in cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology is becoming too big for central banks, long the guardian of official money, to ignore.

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Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh