Migration Commissioner open to EU finance for border walls and fences
The Commission will 'reassess needs' in the protection of borders for the next multi-annual budget, as European People's Party joins right wing...
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Poland purchases a rare Chopin manuscript from private owners
Poland says it acquired a rare manuscript of a ballad by Frédéric Chopin from private owners after confidential and lengthy negotiations.
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Ditching alcohol and going ‘California sober’ — here’s what you need to know
Demi Lovato, Post Malone, Chris Stapleton, Billy Strings and Willie Nelson have all sung about being "California sober." What does that mean — and...
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Russian Vinnik back in Moscow after prisoner swap, news agency says
Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national convicted of cybercrime and released by U.S. authorities as part of a prisoner swap, arrived in Moscow on...
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Italian court upholds slander conviction against Amanda Knox
Knox wrongly accused a man of killing 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. Her lawyers say police pressured her into doing so.
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Work under way to mark 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz
More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz and historians say that most of them, about one million, were Jewish but the victims also...
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A third coal miner dies in Poland after a methane explosion
The victims were among 16 miners injured at the Knurow-Szczyglowice coal mine on Wednesday, when methane gas ignited about 850 metres below ground...
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Olga Tokarczuk’s New Rules for Realism
Olga Tokarczuk’s new rules for realism. In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in...
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World leaders commemorate victims of Nazi Germany
World leaders will be attending the ceremony at Auschwitz on Monday including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and...
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A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now feel lost or...
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