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Pandemic peaks in Eastern Europe and ruins Easter © Reuters Poland is seeing its highest infection levels since the start of the pandemic Eastern Europe largely escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, but the picture has changed dramatically with several countries experiencing record infections and deaths. There is now a scramble to vaccinate the population fast but, as BBC correspondents across the region explain, the rate of infection is proving a major obstacle. © BBC By...

news World Insights: Europeans celebrate Easter in lockdown amid new wave of COVID-19 infections Chen Jing,Liu Fang,Li Deping,Zhang Zhang,Chen Xu,Fu Yiming,Peng Lijun,Zhang Qi,Lin Jing,Meng Dingbo,Shi Zhongyu © Provided by N.C.N. Limited People are seen at a coffee shop at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, capital of Germany, April 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Shan Yuqi) The pandemic situation in Europe has hardly improved. The risk of another wave of infections is feared to be imminent after Ea...

  A second Easter under the COVID-19 pandemic has arrived. Instead of celebrating it at home, Shousha, a young Finnish shop owner who runs a dessert shop with a friend in downtown Helsinki, decided to stay open for business, awaiting customers.   Battling against a new wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by more transmissible variants, European countries are facing the unprecedented challenge of balancing disease control and public life with economic reopening.     Easter arrived early this ...

BBC News Published image captionPoland is seeing its highest infection levels since the start of the pandemic Eastern Europe largely escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, but the picture has changed dramatically with several countries experiencing record infections and deaths. There is now a scramble to vaccinate the population fast but, as BBC correspondents across the region explain, the rate of infection is proving a major obstacle. Health system tested to its limit By Adam...

Romea.cz   Prague Forum for Romani Histories: Joint commemoration of the Jewish and Romani victims of the Holocaust should inspire others 4.4.2021 10:08 Pražské fórum pro romské dějiny - PFRD) the joint commemoration of the Jewish and the Romani victims of the Holocaust should become an inspiration and a model for other initiatives, whether at the local or the state level. The PFRD is responding to the decision taken by the board of directors of the Institute of the Terezín Initiative to...

Why World War III in Asia Would Not Play Out Like You Expect Scholars have devoted far less attention to the planning of World War III in East Asia than to the European theater. Heres What You Need to Remember: The 1984 wargame played out much differently. Instead of sitting on its hands, the Soviets opened the war with a massive air and missile assault against Japan. This assault destroyed most Japanese air assets on the ground, along with those of the US. special operators delivered by sub...

NATOs B-Day: Russian Foreign Ministry Mocks Blocs Securing Peace Motto, Points to Soaring Budget Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202104041082539072-natos-b-day-russian-foreign-ministry-mocks-blocs-securing-peace-motto-points-to-soaring-budget/ The North Atlantic Alliance marked its 72nd anniversary on Sunday. Created in 1949 at the height of the Cold War to ‘contain the Soviet threat’, the alliance continued to expand after the USSR’s collapse, swallowing up ...

Get email notification for articles from Adrian Hennigan Follow Apr. 4, 2021 10:36 PM It takes something special to be even more astounding than a Matt Gaetz alibi, but Judy Batalion’s new book, “The Light of Days,” achieves that and much, much more. Even the book’s subtitle – “The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos” – doesn’t do justice to the amazing tales recounted in this labor of love from the Canadian-born New Yorker. The 20 young Jewish wom...

Romea.cz   Terezín Initiative in Czech Republic does not want Romani names included in Shoah commemoration, director of its Institute disagrees 3.4.2021 18:52 The Yom Hashoah event, held throughout the Czech Republic, has involved people publicly reading the names of the Jewish and Romani victims of the Nazi concentration camps since 2010. (PHOTO: Romea.cz) The board of directors of the Institute of the Terezín Initiative (ITI) in the Czech Republic has decided that this years commemorative...

America had planned to use nuclear weapons in an all-out third World War with the Soviet Union. Key point: Here is what the United States thought it would have to do if it wanted to defeat the Communist menace. Yet, despite what we now know, Washington still will not say how many nuclear bombs it had planned to use. In one scene from Stanley Kubrick’s iconic Cold War film Dr. Strangelove, an irate president Merkin Muffley refuses to get on board with a massive nuclear attack already in prog...