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If you switch off, people think youre lazy: demands grow for a right to disconnect from work Peter Yeung © Provided by The Guardian Remote staff are working an extra 48.5 minutes a day, according to a Harvard study. Photograph: AleksandarNakic/Getty Images When Poland went into strict lockdown last March, Natalia Zurowska barely had time to clear her desk at work. “I went in to get my laptop and then left,” says the 36-year-old, an office manager for a graphic design firm...

The presidents of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia on Wednesday discussed mass vaccination as a means to bring their economies out of the coronavirus pandemic and backed nuclear energy as a way to curb climate change amid rising demand for energy.

Article content A University of Ottawa history professor says he’s deeply concerned about the chilling effect a Polish court ruling could have on Holocaust scholarship like his that seeks to explore the role of individual Polish collaborators. In a telephone interview from Poland on Wednesday, Prof. Jan Grabowski said the ruling, which demands an apology for “inaccurate information” published in a 2018 book he helped edit, has unleashed a frightening backlash. We apologize, but this video...

EU-MEDIA/POLAND-HUNGARY (PIX, TV):EU frets over Hungarian radio closure, levy on Polish media

Katy Trail Community Health is offering free COVID-19 testing in several area communities over the next several days. According to a flyer, free testing will be available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 11, at the office in Warsaw at 17571 North Dam Access Road. Free testing also will be available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, February 12, at the Sedalia office at 821 Westwood Drive. Also, free testing will be available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, at the Mar...

In the verdict of a lawsuit seen by some as significant for the future of Holocaust research and freedom of expression in Poland, a Warsaw court ordered two historians to publicly apologize for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom.

This used to be your favourite show: Polish media falls silent to protest tax 02/10/2021 14:01 WARSAW (Reuters) - Several private TV and radio stations and web portals in Poland took themselves off the air on Wednesday in protest against a proposed media advertising tax they say threatens the industrys independence and its diversity of views. In place of their usual shows, the outlets ran written or spoken running slogans like "This used to be your favourite programme" and "Media without c...

Misha Defonseca had a secret. As she stood before the synagogue at Temple Beth Torah in Holliston, Massachusetts, she harbored a tale so remarkable that it would eventually catapult her to international notoriety. After a half century of silence, Misha began to share her story of escaping Nazi-occupied Belgium during the Holocaust. Her fellow congregants were stunned to learn the details of her journey. The story began with Misha’s parents’ disappearance, after which she was “hidden” by...

That day commemorates the liberation of the Nazis’ largest death camp, Auschwitz, by the Red Army.  Jews from more than 20 countries were deported to their deaths there. But in that talk I remarked that the prime focus on Auschwitz obscures a key aspect of the Holocaust that needs to be assimilated: that, on the eve of the Nazi invasion, half of the Jews who would be murdered in the Holocaust were citizens of Poland. Jews comprised 10 per cent of Poland’s entire pre-war population. In Pola...

Funeral Announcements for February 9, 2021 A graveside service with military honors for David Wayne Byrd, 72, of Sedalia, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at Crown Hill Cemetery. There will be no formal visitation, however friends may pay their respects and sign the guest book between 12 noon and 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at Heckart Funeral Home. A memorial service for Martha A. Bridges, 94, of Sedalia, will be held at Wesley United Methodist Church Saturday, Feb. 13. Arrangements are u...