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Photos: Black Los Angeles During The First ‘Great Migration’

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These photos celebrate ordinary, and extraordinary, slices of Black life in L.A. from the 1890s through 1930. [ more › ]

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Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests

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Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross faces losing Order of Merit over comments Polish villagers were complicit in massacre of Jews

Academics have rallied to the defence of one of the world’s leading Holocaust historians after reports that Poland intends to strip him of a national honour because he claimed that Poles were complicit in Nazi war crimes.

Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross, 69, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1996. He is best known for his 2001 book Neighbors, which describes in graphic detail the 1941 massacre by Polish villagers of up to 1,600 Jewish men, women and children. The book inspired Aftermath (Pokłosie), a 2012 film directed by Władysław Pasikowski.

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150,000 penguins killed after giant iceberg renders colony landlocked

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Penguins of Cape Denison in Antarctica have been effectively trapped by an iceberg the size of Rome and face 120km round trip to feed

An estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins living in Antarctica have died after an iceberg the size of Rome became grounded near their colony, forcing them to trek 60km to the sea for food.

The penguins of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay used to live close to a large body of open water. However, in 2010 a colossal iceberg measuring 2900sq km became trapped in the bay, rendering the colony effectively landlocked.

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Zika virus: more than 5,000 pregnant women infected in Colombia

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Total of more than 31,500 cases places country second only to Brazil in severity of outbreak

More than 5,000 pregnant Colombian women have been infected with the Zika virus, the country’s health authority has said, as the outbreak continues to spread across the Americas.

An epidemiology bulletin from Colombia’s national health institute said there were 31,555 cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the country, including 5,013 pregnant women. The virus is believed to be linked to a neurological birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and suffer incomplete brain development.

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Poland plans to punish use of the phrase ‘Polish death camps’

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Justice minister says Poles ‘are blasphemed’ by phrase that suggests country was responsible for Nazi atrocities on its soil

Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, the justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, has said.

Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, which was occupied by Nazi Germany during the second world war, was responsible for concentration camps on its territory.

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