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Poland: Racism on the rise
Muslims and Africans are the most frequent targets of racially motivated attacks. Anti-German sentiment is also playing a role. By Monika Sieradzka.
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Hundreds attend funeral of Polish truck driver killed in Berlin
Polish President Andrzej Duda and hundreds of mourners on Friday attended the funeral of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver who was killed and his vehicle used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market last week. The 37-year-old father of a teenaged boy was among 12 people killed in the attack claimed by Islamic State. Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday Urban had died shortly before the attack and forensic tests were needed...
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US tanks and troops to begin arriving in Poland
US tanks and armoured vehicles along with more than 3,000 US soldiers start arriving in Poland on Thursday. They are part of President Barack Obama's response to reassure Nato allies concerned about a more aggressive Russia. Their arrival comes just days before the inauguration of Donald Trump who has signalled he wants to improve relations with Moscow.
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A Children's Charity vs. a Conspiracy Theory - Brian Porter-Szűcs
The cultural chasm between supporters of the current Polish government and their opponents was on stark display Sunday night.
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Breitbart does not lie - Brian Porter-Szűcs
Breitbart, the website that best reflects the views of the Trump administration, has written about Poland. It is not a lie if you know how to read it.
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Poland’s Pitch to Brexit Bankers: You Might as Well Move Somewhere Cheap
Wroclaw, Poland, is one of a clutch of cities in the Eastern European country wooing big banks’ business as the U.K. prepares to leave the European Union.
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Auschwitz death camp: Poland puts database of prison guards online
The names of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland have been put online by the country's Institute of National Remembrance (INR). It has been hailed as the most comprehensive list to date. About 9,000 names - nearly all German - are on the Auschwitz garrison list, some with photographs attached. The INR hopes the list will prove that Auschwitz was not a Polish-run camp. More than a million people died there.
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Poland: Into the light : Nature : Nature Research
As it embraces competitive international science, Poland is becoming a force to be reckoned with.
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Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael K. confirmed "100 percent" that he was a commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion.
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Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people still obey
A replication of one of the most widely known obedience studies, the Stanley Milgram experiment, shows that even today, people are still willing to harm others in pursuit of obeying authority.
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Warsaw rising: the historic city is getting a starchitect's touch
From the 49th floor of Zlota 44, the Daniel Libeskind-designed tower, the charms of the Polish capital aren’t immediately obvious.
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Russian controllers deliberately caused 2010 air crash: Polish prosecutors
Prosecutors probing the 2010 crash of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia said on Monday they want to charge Russian air traffic controllers with intentionally causing an air catastrophe.
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Russian air traffic controllers willingly contributed to killing Polish president, new evidence suggests
Polish prosecutors alleged Monday that a new analysis of evidence into the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed the Polish president shows that two Russian air traffic controllers and a third person in the control tower willingly contributed to the disaster. The Russian government strongly denied the allegations. Poland's National Prosecutor Marek Kuczynski said there is "no doubt" that one of the causes of the crash was the behavior of those in the control tower. He said they were guilty of "deliberately causing a catastrophe." read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.781127
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Somerdale to Skarbimierz
How to explain Poland’s swing against the European Union? How to explain the election of the Catholic fundamentalist, authoritarian, populist, Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party to rule a booming country... By James Meek.
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The Gloucestershire shopkeeper who became a hero in Poland
Amo Singh - a shopkeeper from Stroud, Gloucestershire - was badly beaten after defending a Polish teenager from a gang attack. The Polish community have responded by donating money online, and even called for Amo to be officially invited to Poland as a VIP.
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The Katyn Massacre, Witness - BBC World Service
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were secretly executed in the USSR during World War 2. The German occupying forces reported the first mass grave, in the village of Katyn in 1943, but Moscow only admitted to the killings in 1990. Dina Newman speaks to the son of one of the murdered officers, Waclaw Gasiorowski.
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Brexit’s Biggest Loser May Actually Be Poland
Business is booming at Olsztyn-Mazury airport in northeast Poland: Its two weekly flights, both to the U.K., are booked up all summer and almost full for winter. Then it’s a trip into the unknown. With the clock now ticking on two years of Brexit negotiations, Poland looks more vulnerable to a painful divorce between the U.K. and European Union than anywhere else. Poland is the biggest net recipient of EU aid and also the continent’s largest provider of cross-border labor. And it’s in the arrivals halls at provincial airports like this former military base 160 kilometers (99 miles) north of Warsaw where those two things meet.
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Poland’s Prime Minister says country will be accepting no refugees
Poland’s Prime Minister has claimed the country “cannot accept refugees” as the EU threatens legal action against nations failing to comply with quotas. Alongside Hungary and Austria, it is one of only three countries not to have relocated a single refugee, “in breach of their legal obligations” and commitments. “This cannot be the responsibility of just a few member states – this must be shared be all,” said Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Commissioner for migration.
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Poland unveils memorial to WWII hero slain by communists
Warsaw’s mayor unveiled a monument Saturday to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp and informed firsthand on atrocities there but was later executed by Poland’s communist regime.
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The 28 people who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe. #4 Jarosław Kaczyński
Formally, Jarosław Kaczyński is just one of 460 members of the Polish parliament. In reality, the former prime minister and current chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party is the most powerful man in the country.
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