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Zvika Karavany, 72, a Yemeni-born Israeli, wipes his tears in front of the Death Wall in the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz during ceremonies marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

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Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Fri,01/27/23-1:15AM , 116 Reads
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp's liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.
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Guards and the military watching the start of work on the first part of a 180 kilometers (115 miles) and 5.5 meter (18ft)-high metal wall intended to block migrants from Belarus crossing illegally into EU territory, in Tolcze, near Kuznica, Poland, Jan. 27, 2022. When relations with Belarus deteriorated after its authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of an election widely seen as fraudulent, the government in Minsk sent thousands of migrants streaming across the EU's frontiers. In response, Poland and Lithuania erected walls along their borders with Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

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A 'barbed wire curtain' rises in Europe amid war in Ukraine
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Thu,11/17/22-2:17AM , 90 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The long border between Finland and Russia runs through thick forests and is marked only by wooden posts with low fences meant to stop stray cattle. Soon, a stronger, higher fence will be erected on parts of the frontier.
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Jacek, 37, a local resident, closes a door to a shelter in the basement of a residential building in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. Fighting around Ukraine's nuclear power plants and Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons have reawakened nuclear fears in Europe. This is especially felt in countries near Ukraine, like Poland, where the government this month ordered an inventory of the country's shelters as a precaution. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

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Russian threats revive old nuclear fears in central Europe
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Fri,10/21/22-2:27AM , 84 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two stories beneath a modern steel production plant on Warsaw's northern edge lies an untouched Cold War relic: a shelter containing gas masks, stretchers, first aid kits and other items meant to help civil defense leaders survive and guide rescue operations in case of nuclear attack or other disasters.
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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. This year’s Nobel season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The famously secretive Nobel Committee never leaks or hints who will win its prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. So it is anyone’s guess who might win the awards that will be announced starting next Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
Fri,09/30/22-2:26AM , 347 Reads
This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster.
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