World Oct 11, 2019
Two Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe's fault lines
The two writers who won the Nobel Prizes for literature on Thursday — a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes — are enmeshed in Europe's social ...
Basketball Sep 14, 2019
U.S. places seventh at FIBA World Cup with victory over Poland
Donovan Mitchell scored 16 points and handed out 10 assists, Joe Harris scored 14 and the United States defeated Poland 87-74 on Saturday for seventh place at the FIBA World Cup. Khris Middleton had 13 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Americans, who ...
World Sep 1, 2019
The heads of state of Poland and Germany on Sunday marked 80 years since the outbreak of history's bloodiest conflict with a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell. Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter ...
World / Politics Jul 14, 2019
Polish opposition, unveiling election pledges, promises to eliminate coal
Poland's biggest opposition group, the European Coalition, plans to eliminate coal from power production by 2040, its leader said on Saturday as he unveiled pledges ahead of an autumn election to be fought against the coal-friendly, conservative government. Poland generates electricity mostly from coal and ...
National Jul 2, 2019
Japan's crown prince says during Poland visit that he has high hopes for future of the two countries
Crown Prince Akishino said Monday evening in Warsaw that his visit to Poland made him aware of its strong bond with Japan, and that he has high hopes for the future of the two countries, which are celebrating the 100th anniversary of diplomatic ties. The ...
National Jun 27, 2019
Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko leave for European trip
Crown Prince Akishino and his wife, Crown Princess Kiko, left Japan on Thursday for a tour of Poland and Finland where they will join in celebrations marking the centenary of Japan establishing ties with the two European countries. The couple's tour is the first overseas ...
World / Offbeat Jun 8, 2019
Beavers could be a good source of food, Poland's agriculture minister said on Friday, after he outraged animal rights activists by joking the aphrodisiac qualities of the rodents' tails could encourage Poles to eat them. Jan Ardanowski made his tongue-in-cheek comment on the tails in ...
World Jun 4, 2019
Semion Rosenfeld, the "last known survivor" of the Nazi death camp Sobibor, has died aged 96, the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency said Monday. The head of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, said he was "very sad" about the death of Rosenfeld, who he described as a ...
World / Politics May 17, 2019
Poland's ruling Law and Justice party could suffer in EU elections due to pedophilia scandal
A Polish documentary on clergy pedophilia that has shocked the devout country could deal a blow to the chances of the ruling conservatives in this month's European Parliament elections, given the party's close ties to the Catholic Church, analysts said Thursday. With Poland's two main ...
World May 14, 2019
Holocaust survivor and WWII vet have emotional meeting in Michigan
A Holocaust survivor welcomed to her suburban Detroit home a former soldier whose U.S. Army unit liberated the German concentration camp where she was being held. Sophie Tajch Klisman (SOH'-fee TIHK' KLIS'-mehn) on Monday greeted Doug Harvey with a hug and thanked the 95-year-old for ...
World / Social Issues May 2, 2019
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn ceremony as Netanyahu hit surge in anti-Semitism
Israel on Wednesday began commemorating its Holocaust Remembrance Day in honor of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, as leaders voiced concerns about a rising wave of anti-Semitism around the world. In emotional addresses to an opening ceremony at Israel's national Holocaust memorial, ...