The Polish interior ministry has recently stated that they want more of an American presence in their country to protect them from a possible attack by Russia.

Russian war games targeted Poland by air and sea during military training exercises thought to be held in September. Soldiers from Belarus also participated.

USS Ramage accidentally fired into the Polish port city of Gdynia on Oct. 28, at around 10:40 a.m. Nobody suffered any injuries.

Animal activists struck at least four different fur farms in Spain and France earlier in October, releasing approximately 20,000 of the animals. Some mink were recaptured.

The Danish government has just approved the building of a pipeline through it's waters which will supply Germany with natural gas directly from Russia. The project has evoked criticism.

Following a meeting in Warsaw with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed that his country is ready to participate in a new defense shield announced last month by the Obama administration.

Tony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Biden, said that leaders in Warsaw, Bucharest and Prague should think less of what the U.S. can do for them and more about what they can do with the United States.

The Auschwitz memorial museum is looking to Facebook to help it reach the world's youth in an effort to engage them in conversations about the site and the Holocaust.

Barred from the White House, the Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner sends Obama a letter with congratulations and some good advice, but his message may be ignored just like an earlier message from Lech Walesa, also a Nobel Prize laureate.

Jan Fischer, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, one of only two member states of the European Union not to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, has indicated that he does expect ratification by his country before the end of the year.