Languages: English and Urdu Poland's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since World War II, raising concerns about the country's demographic and economic future. Newsweek reached out to ...

Located in occupied Poland, Auschwitz was part of a network of camps at the centre of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jews. There were questions over whether Israeli Prime ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where ...

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews killed on an industrial ...

Using contemporary maps, this sumptuous new volume covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war. Content includes: The ...

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A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Sunday, with the first six-weeks of the deal ushering in a pause to fighting, the staggered release of Israeli hostages and ...

Watched by drones and guarded by a five-and-a-half-metre steel barrier, a border crossing near the Polish town of Połowce encapsulates the security challenges facing the EU, Poland has said.