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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Dario Thuburn

Poland's main opposition leader, former premier and head of the centrist Civic Coalition bloc Donald Tusk addresses supporters at the party's headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, after the presentation of the first exit poll results of the country's parliamentary elections, on October 15, 2023,. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
October 16, 2023, 10:18 am
Polish liberal opposition declares ‘victory for democracy’ after election exit poll
Jubilant Donald Tusk, leader of Civic Coalition, expected to have majority, ousting populist Law and Justice (PiS)
By Dario Thuburn
Shoshana Greenberg, 74, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, poses for a picture holding a portrait of her parents Regina and Israel, at her home in Israeli city of Tel Aviv on July 18, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
July 20, 2021, 3:40 pm
Ghosts of Poland’s past haunt Holocaust restitution spat
‘I feel like I lost a part of my body,’ survivor’s daughter says of planned legislation that would thwart claims for Jewish-owned property seized by Nazis
By Dario Thuburn
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński speaks to The Associated in Warsaw, Poland, September 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
June 28, 2021, 7:05 pm
Poland says it’s hoping Israel will come around on Holocaust legislation
After Israeli envoy to Warsaw is summoned, Polish deputy FM assails Jewish state’s ‘inappropriate’ criticism of law barring restitution claims
By Dario Thuburn
Marek Dunin-Wasowicz - Nazi death camp surviver and witness in the trial of former SS guard Bruno Dey is seen during AFP interviev in his appartment in Warsaw, Poland on July 16, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI/AFP)
July 22, 2020, 7:49 am
‘The crematorium couldn’t keep up’: Witness in SS guard’s trial speaks out
Still haunted by the pyres of burning bodies, Marek Dunin-Wasowicz, 93, spent several months at Stutthof camp where war crimes defendant Bruno Dey served
By Dario Thuburn
A man walks by campaign posters showing two contenders in Poland's presidential election runoff, conservative incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his rival, liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, top, in Warsaw, Poland, July 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 12, 2020, 9:36 am
Poles go to polls to vote in tight presidential runoff
Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski seeks to upset conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda, who has railed against Jewish wartime compensation claims as part of his campaign
By Dario Thuburn
This combination of pictures shows Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) flashing V-signs after addressing supporters as exit poll results were announced during the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland, on June 28, 2020 and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, a candidate, flashing V-signs to supporters as exit poll results were announced during the presidential election in Warsaw, Poland, on June 28, 2020. (Photos by Wojtek RADWANSKI and JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
June 29, 2020, 12:29 am
Polish president Duda, liberal rival Trzaskowski to face tight run-off
Inconclusive first round of election gives incumbent 41.8% versus 30.4% for rival, who is expected to shore up support from other candidates ahead of July 12 second round
By Dario Thuburn
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquarters on February 28, 2020, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
February 28, 2020, 8:37 pm
World Health Organization raises global virus risk to maximum level
WHO chief says developments ‘are clearly of concern’ but that there is still ‘a chance of containing this virus’ if robust action taken
By Dario Thuburn
The Swiss town of Davos. (CC BY-SA MadGeographer, Wikimedia Commons)
January 22, 2020, 10:38 am
Suspected Russian ‘plumber’ spies found in Davos in 2019
Pair reportedly held diplomatic passports, were suspected — but not charged — of planning to spy on World Economic Forum being held this week in Swiss resort town
By Dario Thuburn
Illustrative: Screen grab taken from video of a packed chamber during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, April 3, 2019 (House of Commons/PA via AP)
May 23, 2019, 4:52 pm
British government postpones Brexit vote as crisis deepens
Move comes as PM May’s latest proposal is widely rejected and she is reported to be planning to resign as early as Friday
By Dario Thuburn
A puppet head of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May spearing a representation of the British Economy is taken on a march and rally organized by the pro-European People's Vote campaign for a second EU referendum in central London on March 23, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/AFP)
March 29, 2019, 6:46 pm
Her Brexit strategy in tatters, British PM’s days are numbered
After losing yet another vote on her EU divorce deal and accused of plunging Britain into chaos, Theresa May’s leadership is hanging by a thread
By Dario Thuburn and Alice Ritchie
A pro-Brexit demonstrator arrives outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, January 15, 2019. (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP)
January 15, 2019, 2:49 pm
British prime minister faces massive defeat in historic Brexit deal vote
Both those in favor of leaving European Union and those against the move oppose Theresa May’s plan; failure to pass agreement could bring early elections
By Alice Ritchie and Dario Thuburn
In this photo taken on March 8, 2018, members of the emergency services in green biohazard encapsulated suits investigate the site where Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found on March 4 in critical condition at The Maltings shopping center in Salisbury, southern England. (AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL)
April 4, 2018, 1:46 am
UK lab cannot determine if spy nerve agent was Russian-made
Military facility says analysts identified poison as Soviet-made Novichok, but exact source remains unclear
By Dario Thuburn
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis, November 9, 2017. (Jeff Roberson/AFP)
March 27, 2018, 9:16 pm
Facebook’s Zuckerberg rebuffs British MPs for data privacy grilling
CEO and founder of social media giant offers to send a deputy instead, but parliamentary committee chair says he wants to speak with the boss himself
By Dario Thuburn
Head of the centre-right party Forza Italia (Go Italy) Silvio Berlusconi (C) poses for pictures with supporters, outside the San Severo chapel during his tour in downtown Naples on March 3, 2018 on the eve of a closely-watched general election poll. (AFP PHOTO / Carlo Hermann)
March 4, 2018, 5:21 am
Italians head to the polls with far-right expected to make gains
Scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi returns to limelight in election praised by Steve Bannon as ‘pure populism’
By Dario Thuburn
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on April 19, 2017 ahead of the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons. (AFP/Chris J. Ratcliffe)
April 19, 2017, 6:20 pm
British parliament backs holding early elections on June 8
In heated exchanges, PM May says Labour offers only ‘bankruptcy and chaos’; Corbyn slams gov’t ‘broken promises’
By Dario Thuburn and Alice Ritchie
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