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+4 +1Fox News Violates Poland’s Holocaust Law With Reference to “Polish Death Camp”
FOX news could face legal action in Poland, and a potential fine of $100 million, for violating that nation’s new law on Holocaust memory on Tuesday by repeatedly referring to a Nazi concentration camp built during the wartime German occupation of Poland as a “Polish death camp.”
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+14 +1How I Survived Socialism: A Self-Help Guide for Worried Americans
The regime was harsh, the system absurd but rules made up in Moscow were no match for the individualistic Poles. Magda Romanska’s delightful piece shows us how it was done. Elegantly, of course. (Apr. 22, 2012)
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+10 +1No compensation for Lebensborn children abducted by Nazi SS
Children regarded as "racially pure" and abducted by the SS are not entitled to compensation, a German court has ruled. Up to 200,000 children were kidnapped and forcibly Germanized during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
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+9 +1Road death toll in Poland among highest in EU: EC stats
Around 2,800 people died and 11,000 were severely injured in road accidents in Poland in 2017, putting Poland close to the bottom of a European Union ranking on road safety.
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+14 +1Top Poland judge vows to defy 'purge'
The head of Poland's Supreme Court has vowed to defy a controversial new law forcing her and dozens of senior judges to retire early. Chief Justice Prof Malgorzata Gersdorf has been told she must step down at midnight in line with new legislation. But a spokesman for the Supreme Court said she would go to work as normal on Wednesday. Prof Gersdorf earlier branded the reforms, which require judges to retire at 65 instead of 70, a "purge".
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+11 +1EU, Baltics, Poland target Russia grid separation by 2025
The Baltic nations, Poland and the European Commission agreed Thursday (28 June) on a roadmap to synchronise the region’s electricity network with the rest of continental Europe’s by 2025 and end their reliance on the Russian grid. The leaders of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission all signed up to a political agreement during a special ceremony on the sidelines of the ongoing European Council summit.
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+15 +1Poland's Supreme Court rules against print shop worker who refused to make banner for LGBT group
The Polish Supreme Court ruled this week against a print-shop worker who refused to create a banner for an LGBT group, a decision hailed as a victory by gay rights groups in the country.
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+14 +1The gay mayor shaking up politics in Catholic Poland
Robert Biedron is one of Poland's young, rising political stars. He's an atheist in perhaps Europe's most Catholic country and its only openly gay politician. And now he is being viewed as a frontrunner for Poland's presidency. "I'm a dreamer. I was born in a very traditional, conservative part of Poland. I am gay and being an atheist, it wasn't easy for me," says Mr Biedron, mayor of Slupsk, a city about 18km (11 miles) from the country's Baltic Sea coast.
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+14 +1Miners still missing a week after coal mine quake
Three men remain trapped some 900 metres underground in Jastrzębia Zdrój, southern Poland, a week after a tremor saw the collapse of a tunnel in the Zofiówka coal mine.
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+20 +1Sugar Crash: After Tanker Flips, Chocolate Bars Traffic On Polish Highway
A truck carrying tons of liquid chocolate flipped over on a highway Wednesday, leaving sweet stuff to congeal on the asphalt. Happily, there's video — though it's a bit grosser than you might imagine.
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+18 +1When Abbas spews anti-Semitic vitriol the response is thunderous. Not so much for Poland's prime minister
When Holocaust denial is treated differently depending on which world leader utters it, politics has trumped history and remembrance. By Lev Golinkin.
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+18 +1How Ewa Kurek, the Favorite Historian of the Polish Far Right, Promotes Her Distorted Account of the Holocaust
In public events across America, including one attended by a U.S. Congressman, the formerly respected scholar Ewa Kurek accused rich Jews of plotting with the Nazis to kill their poor brethren and argued that the ghettos were voluntary
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+1 +1Christians and Jews to march in memory of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Polish Council of Christians and Jews organised the march which will be led by Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich, Catholic Bishop Rafał Markowski and Reformed Evangelical Church Pastor Michał Jabłoński. The march will start at the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes and end at Umschlagplatz, the site from Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were transported to Nazi German death camps.
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+3 +1Poland broke EU law by logging in ancient forest: court
Poland's rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe's last primeval forests, a UNESCO world heritage site, the European Union's top court ruled Tuesday. Logging in the Bialowieza Forest began in May 2016 but the European Commission took Poland to court last year arguing that it was destroying a forest that boasts unique plant and animal life. "The forest management operations concerning the Puszcza Bialowieska Natura 2000 site that have been undertaken by Poland infringe EU law," the European Court of Justice said in a statement.
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+31 +1Poland’s Surprisingly Beautiful Cheese
Oscypek, a golden-hued, spindle-shaped cheese, is as delicious as it is beautiful. But authentic versions are getting increasingly hard to find.
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+3 +1Poland signs $4.75 billion deal for U.S. Patriot missile system...
Poland signed the largest arms procurement deal in its history on Wednesday, agreeing with the United States to buy Raytheon Co's Patriot missile defense system for $4.75 billion in a major step to modernize its forces against a bolder Russia.
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+17 +1Poland detains man suspected of spying for Russia: report
The suspect was in contact with Russian intelligence officers working under diplomatic cover at the Russian embassy in Warsaw, according to TVP. The man was detained by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) last Friday in an operation coordinated with the security services of other European Union countries, TVP reported.
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+5 +1State Dept. denies US has suspended high-level dialogue with Poland
“The reports that allege any kind of a suspension in security cooperation or high-level dialogue – all of that is simple false,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday. She said that America’s “security posture, as it pertains to our ally, Poland, is not changing. People are trying to find distance or space between our longstanding relationship, and there is no space there.” Nauert added: "Poland is a close NATO ally. That will remain; that hasn’t changed."
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+9 +1A colorful organic blob overtakes a 100-year-old building facade in Lodz, Poland.
Hyperbolic is a wild exterior growth that wraps around the art nouveau façade of a 100 years old building. Crystal Wagner is known for her large-scale mixed-media installations using a variety of materials like braided nylon, wire mesh, and cable ties that create colorful forms affixed to buildings or suspended from galleries.
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+13 +1Polish official: Germany owes Poland $850 billion for WWII
A Polish official said Friday that Germany could owe his country $850 billion (690 billion euros) for the damage it inflicted during World War II. Arkadiusz Mularczyk is leading a team in the parliament that is assessing potential reparations to Poland. Germany killed 6 million Polish citizens and caused great material losses during its nearly six-year occupation of Poland.
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