Poland

Poland has held a state burial of the remains of more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions that were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the country’s north.

Observances have been held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German prisoner-of-war camp into a snowy forest. A solemn roll call of remembrance was held in the town where the former POW camp is now a...

After a bitter and emotional campaign, turnout was projected at almost 74%, the highest level in the country’s 34 years of democracy and surpassing the 63% who turned out in the historic 1989 vote that toppled communism.

Some 14,000 people have been evacuated in the eastern Polish town of Lublin to allow military experts to remove a massive unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II.