U.S. moves warplanes and more troops to Eastern Europe.
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The Pentagon is moving up to eight F-35 fighter jets and a slew of other warplanes to Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Poland to shore up...
A Nazi officer’s housekeeper hid 12 Jews in the basement. All of them made it out alive.
“Without her, I wouldn’t be alive,” said Roman Haller, who was conceived while his parents were in hiding. Roman Haller owes his life to...
Stronger Borders Trump Human Rights At Vilnius Migration Conference
The head of Europe’s border agency Frontex has called on the European Union to clarify the rules on managing its external border. At a...
Between Belarus & Poland, Yazidi refugees find cold & hunger – then ‘came back to nothing’ in Iraq
Smugglers took their money to spirit them out of Iraq, but Belarus’s authoritarian regime pushed them to Europe’s frontier, where Polish...
Dictators Face Democratic Backlash, Says Human Rights Watch
LONDON — Autocratic leaders are facing a democratic backlash from their people in several countries around the world, according to the...
Recognition of 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh
"The concept of considering Genocide as a Crime has been established very strongly by the end of the twentieth century when Yugoslavian,...
Doctors Without Borders leaves Poland-Belarus frontier after being blocked from assisting refugees
The medical NGO said it had been 'repeatedly blocked' by Polish authorities from accessing the border region, where groups of migrants...
Guantanamo Bay: ‘The legal equivalent of outer space’
How the US decided on a place where suspected ‘terrorists’ could be jailed without legal protections after 9/11. Twenty years ago, the...
Belarus Under Fire for Law Equating Holocaust With Nazi Crimes Against Nationals
Israeli historians warn that the new legislation defining the Nazi mass killings of Belarusians as 'genocide' would blur the distinction...
Poland’s population drive puts women on red alert over reproductive rights
While an outright ban was rejected by lawmakers, Polish women fear the state could control their access to abortion in other insidious...
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