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TOP STORIES Biden’s ‘Time to Act’ on Climate Change President Biden has announced a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on public lands, one of a slate of executive actions to demonstrate his commitment to fighting climate change, despite opposition from the fossil fuel industry and many Republicans. The move in effect hit pause on the federal government’s leasing program while the administration considers an overhaul, weighing the climate and public health risks of continued oil and ...

Image via AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski This article was republished here with permission from The Associated Press, however it is no longer available to read on Snopes.com. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A near-total ban on abortion has taken effect in Poland and triggered a new round of nationwide protests three months after a top court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional. Led by a women’s rights group, Women’s Strike, people poured onto t...

27.01.2021, 21:47 Rallies continue all over the country. Yesterday was the 172nd day of protests in Belarus. Belarusians held rallies across the country and were determined to protest until the final victory over Lukashenkas regime. The Charter97.org website offers a selection of some rallies held by Belarusians yesterday in photo and video format. Minsk pensioners lined up in a chain of solidarity and demanded the release of political prisoners. A rally of solidarity with political prisoners...

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/poland-puts-into-effect/"></div>WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s government put into effect on Wednesday a constitutional court decision banning terminations of pregnancies with foetal defects, as conservative policies increasingly take root in one of Europe’s most devout Catholic countries. The Oct. 22 ruling had led to weeks of massive protests, forcing the nationalist Law and Ju...

Funeral Announcements for January 28, 2021 A private Mass of Christian Burial for Jack Francis Veulemans, of Sedalia, formerly of Tipton, will be held at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Tipton.  Although the funeral will be limited to family only, it will be livestreamed on Meisenheimer Funeral Home’s Facebook page at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. There will be no formal visitation, but friends are welcome to pay their respects and sign the guest book between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2...

LISBON|BRUSSELS  Portugal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias, said on Wednesday that the procedure for assessing violations of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary may be delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more. /// BERLIN Warnings over growing anti-Semitism in Germany. In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the German Bundestag dedicated an hour to commemorating the victims of the Shoah on Wednesday, during which speakers warned of growing ...

Print this page Protesters took to the streets of the Polish capital, Warsaw, late Wednesday and more demonstrations were scheduled for Thursday after the government implemented a court ruling that placed a near-total ban on abortions. The ruling, which was made October 22 but came into force Wednesday, permits abortions only in cases of rape and incest, and when the mothers life or health is endangered. Doctors performing illegal abortions in Poland face jail. The implementation had be...

DHS issues warning on violent domestic extremists Credit: Share Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday on the growing threat from “violent domestic extremists,” warning of the potential violence motivated by anti-government sentiment after the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The bulletin marks a departure for DHS after what appeared ...

(JTA) — The city of Warsaw has accused an Israeli Holocaust museum of being involved in the smuggling out of Poland of Jewish prayer artifacts that the museum said were found inside an old bunker in the Polish capital.  A bunker containing one hundred-year-old tefillin (phylacteries) hidden from the Nazis in World War II was discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. In recent years, Polish authorities have begun to demolish buildings inside the Warsaw Ghetto to turn them into reside...

Print Rabbi Shaul Nekrich holds the Sulzbach Torah Scroll in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin. (Odd Andersen/Associated Press) A Jewish prayer for the souls of people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over the site where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online this year because of t...