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Despite international criticism over the Gaza war, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized that Israel "will stand alone" and defend itself alone if need be. In remarks late Sunday marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, Netanyahu said: "In the terrible Holocaust, there were great world leaders who stood by idly; therefore, the first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us. And if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone." Israel has been waging war against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 7. This ...
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Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to make a statement. On Wednesday, the Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not...
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A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the only synagogue in Warsaw to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, the police confirmed to the Polish news agency PAP following a report made to the police. The Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not be tolerated today," Livne wrote. "The perpetrators must be found and punished." Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorsk wrote on X that the synagogue's rabbi had written that so...
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The Kiev authorities began dismantling a Soviet-era monument marking the connection between Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday, more than two years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It will take several days to fully tear down the red granite monument, which consists of some 20 elements, the city administration said. It is a group of statues showing Ukrainian Cossacks surrounding hetman, or "leader," Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and the Moscow ambassador. It sits below a steel rainbow-shaped installation near the bank of the Dnipro River. The statues, said to weigh some 6,000 to 7,00...
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The discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb led authorities in western Germany to evacuate more than 2,000 people from their homes early on Sunday. The village of Ingeln-Oesselse, south-east of Hanover, was cleared so that ordinance disposal experts could defuse the unexploded bomb. The all-clear was given in the early afternoon. "The bomb has been defused and the evacuation has been lifted," a local government spokeswoman told dpa. "All residents can return to their homes." The unexploded British aerial bomb was dropped on the area during World War II. According to the spokeswoman, the s...
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The discovery of a suspected unexploded World War II bomb led authorities in western Germany to evacuate more than 2,000 people from their homes early on Sunday. The evacuation of the village of Ingeln-Oesselse, south-east of Hanover, was completed on Sunday morning, a local government spokeswoman told dpa. A helicopter was flying over the restricted area to check if anyone is still in the area before a bomb disposal team begins its work, she said. "Then we will see whether there is actually a bomb there," the spokeswoman added. Evacuated residents are being accommodated in an elementary schoo...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski urged Germany to make proposals on how to make reparation for the damage Poland suffered during World War II in a keynote speech to parliament in Warsaw on Thursday. "There is no shortage of ideas," Sikorski, a key member of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government, which has pledged to repair relations with its powerful western neighbour following strains between the two countries under Poland's previous government. Germany could provide financial support to Polish survivors of German occupation between 1939 and 1945, contribute to rebuilding historica...
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In remarks commemorating the genocide in Rwanda 30 years ago, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday called for increased vigilance in the face of crises worldwide. Baerbock decried the international community's failure to act or prevent the killings in Rwanda while addressing the German parliament. "It is important to react earlier if there are signs of escalating violence," Baerbock said. The world cannot look away when there are warning signs, but must remain vigilant "all over the world, especially in the region with regard to the increasing escalation of violence in eastern...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. An RTL spokeswoman said the network continued broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin temporarily took over direction. Presenter Roberta...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews were dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bomb. An RTL spokeswoman said the network would continue broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin would temporarily take over direction. Presen...
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