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  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    ERICKSON: Missiles to meet the new threat curve

    When President Obama abandoned the Bush administration's negotiated missile and radar deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic, he doubled down on what has become known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach - a series of missile defense deployment strategies staggered over the next decade throughout the European continent designed to adapt to the changing threats facing the American homeland, our allies and interests abroad.

  • A moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing is observed at 2:50 p.m. Monday on Boylston Street near the race finish line, exactly one week after the tragedy. (Associated Press)

    LIPIEN: Hushing America's message in terrorism's redoubt

    In President Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request to Congress that never passed, officials proposed to end U.S.-funded radio broadcasts to Chechnya. The violent enclave in the Russian Federation is the ancestral home of the Boston bombing suspects.

  • The Polish ambassador in Washington, Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf, is angered over plans by a Chicago-based film distributor to market a German movie that portrays Polish resistance fighters in World War II as greedy anti-Semites.

    Embassy Row: Poland protests film

    The Polish ambassador in Washington is angered over plans by a Chicago-based film distributor to market a German movie that portrays Polish resistance fighters in World War II as greedy anti-Semites.

  • A children's choir takes part in the unveiling ceremony of the statue of the late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, Poland, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. Archbishop Waclaw Depo unveiled the 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) white fiberglass figure that was funded by a businessman, Leszek Lyson, in gratitude for what he believes was an intervention by the late pontiff in saving his drowning son. At front is a small replica statue. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Mega Pope: Poland unveils giant statue of John Paul II

    A giant statue of the late Pope John Paul II billed as the world's tallest has been unveiled in southern Poland.

  • ** FILE ** In this April 3, 2013, photo, a worker pushes a cart as live pigeons are sold at a cage at a poultry wholesale market in Shanghai China. China announced a sixth death from the new bird flu H7N9 strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat. The first cases were announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

    U.S. watchful, wary as China fights new bird flu strain

    As the bird flu death toll continues to rise in China, there's no panic in the American medical community — yet. There is, however, much caution and uncertainty as doctors from around the world monitor the unique and deadly H7N9 virus that claimed its sixth Chinese death on Friday.

  • Rep. Michael R. Turner

    EDITORIAL: Shoot, look, shoot

    The White House can put aside global warming hysteria. Nuclear proliferation among rogue nations is the real worry, but President Obama isn't persuaded. He has been making sleepy-time choices.

  • Justin Bieber performs during the halftime show at the CFL Grey Cup championship football game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

    Justin Bieber: Neighbor claims singer attacked him, authorities say

    Deputies were investigating claims made Tuesday by a neighbor that singer Justin Bieber attacked and threatened him during an argument in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.

  • Ronson on producing for McCartney: 'It's insane'

    Mark Ronson went from being the DJ at Paul McCartney's wedding to producing for the icon in the studio.

  • Illustration Natural Gas by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    PORTER: The earth-shaking promise of shale

    The rapid development of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to produce domestic shale gas and oil should make America a much stronger player on the global energy scene. Our shale revolution has made us the world's largest natural-gas producer, and we'll soon pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the foremost oil-producing country.

  • Man charged in Poland philharmonic killings

    Prosecutors in Poland say a man was charged with murder in the double homicide of a young female harpist and a security guard in the building of a philharmonic in western Poland.

  • Poland philharmonic employee charged in killings

    An employee of a philharmonic in western Poland was charged with murder in the double homicide of a young female harpist and a security guard inside the orchestra's building, prosecutors said Monday.

  • Polish police arrest man in philharmonic killings

    A Polish official says a suspect has been arrested in the killing of a young female harpist and a security guard in the building of a philharmonic in western Poland.

  • 2 bodies found at Polish philharmonic

    Polish authorities have launched a double homicide investigation after the bodies of a harpist and a security guard were found in a building housing a philharmonic orchestra in western Poland.

  • Poland aims to pave way for 2015 climate deal

    Hoping to win over EU critics of Poland's recent stance on climate change, the environment minister said Friday that the coal-powered nation will make every effort to pave the way for a lasting deal in 2015 when it hosts a U.N. global warming conference in November.

  • Opposition uses tablet to speak out in parliament

    In Poland, speaking out in parliament is a privilege mostly reserved for lawmakers, but the opposition has skirted that regulation with the help of a hand-held tablet computer.

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