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IN THE heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto an 11-metre-high black monument rises out of a wide, empty square.  One side of the monument is a dramatic sculpture of muscular fighters, young men and women in ragged clothes and with basic weapons, around the central figure of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when, in 1943, a remnant of the Jewish population for three weeks held off a Nazi army determined to obliterate Jewish life in Europe.  At the base of the sculpture...

Poland will today implement a near-total ban on abortion following a ruling on the matter three months ago.  The ruling will be published today in the Journal of Laws, the government information centre said on Twitter.  Under the new legislation, abortions are only permitted in cases of rape and incest, and when the mothers life or health is endangered.   The announcement is expected to spark major protests.   Polish protesters hold sparklers and a rainbow flag during anti-government prot...

DGAP-News: CPI PROPERTY GROUP: CPI Property Group - 10-year Bond and Hybrid Offerings CPI Property Group - 10-year Bond and Hybrid Offerings 27.01.2021 / 21:27 CPI PROPERTY GROUP L-2661 Luxembourg PRESS RELEASE CPI PROPERTY GROUP (" CPIPG" or the " Group"), the leading owner of income-generating real estate in the Czech Republic, Berlin, Warsaw and the CEE region, announces the successful offering of 10-year senior unsecured and hybrid bonds totaling €1 billion. On 27 January 2021, CPIPG is...

Fox News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Amy Kellogg reports from Milan. WARSAW, Poland – Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camps final days. Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp hospital, next to the body of a young woman who had just died. As German forces preparing to flee the scene of their genocide went from bed to bed shooting anyone still alive, ...

* Will launch Poland-based website * Dominant e-commerce player in Poland is Allegro * Amazon’s move was anticipated, likely to grow e-commerce (Adds detail, Allegro comment, analysts comments, share moves) WARSAW, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Amazon said it was going to launch a Polish-based website to better serve customers currently diverted to its German site, sending shares in top local e-commerce rival Allegro down by over 7% on Wednesday. Poland’s growing e-commerce market was given a further ...

The year 2020 tested democracy and civic freedoms in many ways. After the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic in March, governments took unprecedented actions, such as imposing curfews, restricting people’s movements, and limiting or banning gatherings. According to international law, some of these measures went beyond the permissible bounds for limiting rights during public health emergencies, bounds meant to ensure that such measures are kept “proportion...

Manuel Herzs design for the Babyn Yar Synagogue © Manuel Herz Architekten A foundation established to commemorate one of the most horrific massacres of the Second World War at Babyn Yar in Ukraine has unveiled its construction plans for one of the world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres, which is to include a synagogue, church and mosque, a research centre and two museums to commemorate both the atrocities at the site and the wider genocide against Eastern European...

By Sam Kerr 27 Jan 2021 Huuuge, the Polish social and mobile gambling company, has set a price range for its listing on the Warsaw stock exchange valuing it at up to $1.2bn. The company will sell shares at between Z40 and Z50. It is seeking to raise up to Z565m ($150m) through a sale of new shares while shareholders will also sell around 18.35m secondary shares worth up to Z918 ($244m) at the top of the range. At base deal size the ... Already a subscriber? Logi...

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will soon appear in court for a hearing that will determine his fate. In the run-up to this pivotal decision, Western capitals have tried to show support for Navalny and for his anticorruption, pro-democracy cause. But they should beware a trap that the Kremlin is likely to set. Like Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev before him, Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to coax the United States and European governments into helping him neutralize his ...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read WARSAW, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Japan’s SoftBank Group is among investors interested in buying a stake in Polish online shoe shop eobuwie from retailer CCC, two sources familiar with the situation said. CCC, Poland’s biggest shoe retailer, started to look for a minority investor for eobuwie last year, saying it needed a partner with e-commerce know-how as the group turns to online sales while traditional shops suffer from lockdown measures to stem the spread of COVID-...