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On a Sunday morning, a crane lowered a rusty remnant of the Holocaust onto tracks outside Manhattan's Museum of Jewish Heritage — a vintage German train car like those used to transport men, women and children to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. The windowless ...
Poland snubs Russia before World War II commemoration, cites Ukraine aggression
Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Krzysztof Szczerski, an aide to the Polish president, said Wednesday in comments carried by the Polish news agency PAP that Russia ...
Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave in Belarus
Soldiers in Belarus have unearthed the bones of hundreds of people shot during World War II from a mass grave discovered at the site of a ghetto where Jews lived under the Nazis. The grave was uncovered by chance last month on a construction site ...
Far-right protest staged for first time during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp's liberation in an annual ceremony. The two parties gathered in different parts of ...
Poland mulls curbing state use of Huawei products after worker is arrested
Poland could consider banning the use of Huawei products by public bodies, a senior government official said on Sunday, following the arrest of a Chinese Huawei official in the east European country last week. The Polish government could also look to tighten legislation to allow ...
During World War II, Wojciech Narebski and his fellow Polish servicemen had to lift crate after heavy metal crate of artillery. Fortunately for them, one of the soldiers had superhuman strength: Cpl. Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear. "When he saw that we were struggling, he'd ...
Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei said on Saturday it had sacked an employee arrested in Poland on spying charges in a case that could intensify Western security concerns about the company. Poland's internal affairs minister, Joachim Brudzinski, called for the European Union and NATO to ...
Huawei arrests in Poland show how Trump-China tensions test Europe
As Poland added to the global scrutiny of Huawei Technologies Co. on Friday with the arrest of a company employee and a local former security agent, the country's authorities also exposed the division in Europe over policy toward the Chinese technology giant. Huawei is facing ...
Poland arrests two over spying allegations, including Huawei employee
Poland has arrested a Chinese employee of Huawei and a Polish national involved in cyberbusiness on allegations of spying, Polish media reported on Friday, deepening the controversy over Western criticism of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker. U.S. intelligence agencies allege Huawei Technologies Co. is linked ...
Last surviving fighter in 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising dies in Israel
The last surviving fighter from the doomed 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Jewish partisans against the Nazis died Saturday in Israel aged 94, the country's president said. Simcha Rotem, who went by the nom-de-guerre Kazik, served in the Jewish Fighting Organization that staged the uprising ...
Nations 'face extinction' without instant emissions curbs as climate talks limp toward close
Dozens of nations threatened with catastrophe from unchecked climate change warned Thursday they "face extinction" without immediate action to rein in mankind's emissions, as U.N. climate talks limped toward their conclusion. Representatives from nearly 200 nations are locked in negotiations in Poland over how to ...
Protesters at U.N. climate talks disrupt U.S. event pitching fossil fuel and clean coal tech
Groups representing indigenous peoples and youth disrupted a U.S. government event at United Nations climate talks Monday, criticizing the Trump administration's policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. About 100 protesters stood up and chanted "Keep it in the ...
