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Poland Marks 11th Anniversary Of Presidential Plane Crash In Russia April 10, 2021 10:13 GMT Share share Print Poland has commemorated the 11th anniversary of a plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk that killed 96 people -- including Polands then-President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and many of the countrys senior political and military officials. Many Poles, including senior members of the governing Law and Justice Party, question the results of an investigation released in 2011 by a sp...

The Latest: Romania passes 1 million confirmed virus cases The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14A member of the medical staff draws serum from an AstraZeneca vaccine container at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. British authorities recommended Wednesday that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine not be given to adults under 30 where possible because of strengthening evidence that the shot may be linked to rare blood clots, a recommendatio...

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — State lawmakers across the U.S. are taking actions to limit the emergency powers of governors — not just in the current coronavirus pandemic, but for any future emergencies. The pushback is coming primarily from Republican lawmakers but is not entirely partisan. GOP lawmakers are targeting both Democratic and Republican governors. When the pandemic hit a year ago, many governors and their top health officials temporarily ordered residents...

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — State lawmakers across the U.S. are taking actions to limit the emergency powers of governors — not just in the current coronavirus pandemic, but for any future emergencies. The pushback is coming primarily from Republican lawmakers but is not entirely partisan. GOP lawmakers are targeting both Democratic and Republican governors. When the pandemic hit a year ago, many governors and their top health officials temporarily ordered residents...

Participant Biographies Dr. Mark Kramer is the Director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center. He is the author and/or editor of several books and has written nearly 200 articles on a variety of topics. He has worked extensively in newly opened archives in all the former Warsaw Pact countries and several Western countries. He edits both the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and the peer-reviewed Journal of Cold War Studies. Dr. Ognyan Minchev is a professor of political scien...

European Catholics fear erosion of religious freedoms across continent 04/08/2021 at 2:02 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White by Jonathan Luxmoore, National Catholic Reporter, April 6, 2021 20210322T1115-EUROPE-CHURCHES-FREEDOM-1167921 crop.jpgA woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen) A woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the C...

WARSAW, April 9 (Reuters) - Poland seems to have passed a peak in the number of coronavirus infections, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday, adding that the country is still testing its health system capacity. Poland reported 28,487 new coronavirus cases on Friday, compared with a record 35,251 on April 1. The country of 38 million also reported on Friday 768 coronavirus-related deaths, the second highest number since the start of the pandemic. (Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko and ...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read WARSAW (Reuters) - Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) is interested in developing clean energy projects in Poland, including possibly taking a slice of Warsaw’s multi-billion nuclear plans, the company’s chief executive said. Poland generates most of its electricity from coal, but pressure from investors and many governments, as well as rising costs for carbon emissions certificates have driven the country to seek low and zero emission energy sources. While the o...

SPECIAL REPORT: How a successful business lady from Brest thinks out-of-the-box and preserves memory about war heroes What is a patriot and what is patriotism? I think those are people, who create and unite first and foremost. Natalia Ilnitskaya, a business lady from Brest and a member of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, has taken it upon herself to spend her own resources in order to implement a unique patriotic project, which is unparalleled in the European space and the post-Soviet one: ...

by Tyler Durden Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.com The central bank of Hungary, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), has just announced a purchase of a massive 63 tonnes of Good Delivery gold bars, and in doing so tripled the nation’s gold holdings from 31.5 tonnes to 94.5 tonnes. In its press release about the huge transaction, published 7 April, the Hungarian central bank explains its rationale for the dramatic purchase of what is approximately 5040 large (400 oz) gold bars, highlighting t...