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Riot police take part in a drill to prevent violence among hooligans at the Euro 2012 soccer championship, at the Arena Lviv stadium in Lviv on May 4, 2012. Hooligan-related football violence in Ukraine and Poland is still a major problem for both countries. Pitched battles between rival gangs and riot police often spill out of the stadiums and into the streets. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Will Europe boycott biggest soccer tourney of the year?

by Nicholas Nehamas on May 7, 2012

Ukraine's treatment of its ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in jail for abuse of power, has raised an international outcry. Now, European leaders have called for a boycott of this summer's Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. Will they derail the world's second biggest soccer tournament?...

A real-life Barbie? Valeria Lukyanova (via Facebook)

A real-life Barbie raises questions about ourselves

by Jone Satran Fulkerson on April 28, 2012

From a wannabe Barbie to plans for a candlelight vigil: whether news happens in Ukraine, California, Seoul or Great Britain, things have a funny way of being connected. ...

Irish immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri in 1909. (Jeanne Boleyn)

Ireland’s brains drain to Australia

by Jack Rodolico on February 27, 2012

In response to our story about Polish immigrants going back to Poland, one Latitude News reader wonders if the same is true for the Irish. Latitude News investigates....

New York’s “Little Poland” losing its Poles

by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska on February 23, 2012

Unlike most of its European neighbors, Poland is upbeat: its economy is growing. Many Polish immigrants in the U.S. are smelling the coffee: they're going home. What does this mean for places like Brooklyn's "Little Poland", Greenpoint? ...

An employee pastes gold leaves onto a client's face at the Viet My beauty salon in Hanoi, Vietnam. Viet My is one of a small number of salons in Vietnam that provides 24k gold leaf face mask therapy, said to help make skin whiter. A single facial costs 1.8 million Vietnam dong ($86.41). (REUTERS/Nguyen Huy Kham)

Photo Gallery: Valentine’s Day around the globe

by Jack Rodolico on February 14, 2012

Angela Merkel blushes, Thais kiss for two days and some Indians protest Valentine's Day. ...

Protester wearing Guy Fawkes mask attends a demonstration against the signing of the international copyright agreement ACTA in Ljubljana

Europe braces for ACTA storm

by Tim Mansel on February 10, 2012

Hundreds of protests against ACTA are planned in Europe. Germany says it will not sign the agreement -- unless the EU gives it cover. ...

Demonstrators in masks protest against Poland's government plans to sign ACTA in front of the EU office in Warsaw

In Poland, ACTA’s just another name for SOPA

by Michael Fitzgerald on January 29, 2012

After ACTA was signed on Thursday, Poles weren't masking their feelings.They took to the streets and to the airwaves. This forced the government to backpedal. But ACTA is a different beast than SOPA. Will the protests put it in its place?...

Polish MP Janusz Palikot lights incense with some marijuana in the Parliament building to test a new law on soft drugs. (Polska Agencja Prasowa/Jacek Turczyk)

Poland tokes doobie, Holland harshes mellow

by Jack Rodolico on January 20, 2012

Amsterdam, known for its free-wheeling drug culture, tries to rein in drug tourism. Poland, meanwhile, loosens up its pot laws. Somebody's smoking something......

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