 | | | world | | Iraqis who have come home to Mosul’s Old City knew it would be hard living in the rubble left by the battle against Islamic State, but there is one aspect of their surroundings they are finding unbearable seven months on. “We can live without electricity, but we need the government to clear the corpses," said Abdelrazaq Abdullah, back with his wife and three children in the quarter where the militants made their last stand in July against Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces. | | | | Commentary: A bill passed by Poland’s senate that would establish prison terms for anyone who suggests that Poles were culpable during the Holocaust, has backfired badly, writes Alex Storozynski, president emeritus of The Kosciuszko Foundation. "Giving archivists authority to defend a country’s reputation will not suppress painful realities or opposing views. It will do the opposite. It already has." | | | | | | The bullet-ridden corpses are found everywhere in the sprawling portside shanty town in Manila. "We can't really count them because there's been so many," a woman tells @donditawatao http://reut.rs/2DVQaYM @reuterspictures 11:57 AM - FEB 5, 2018 | | | |
