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WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s president-elect, who takes office on Thursday, says he wants to see NATO bases in Poland and will talk to European Union partners about including Poland in Ukraine peace talks. Andrzej Duda, previously a member of a conservative opposition party, says the ruling Civic Platform hasn’t done …

GOWANDA, N.Y. – Military officials say medals have been posthumously authorized for a soldier from western New York who died while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Army officials notified Barbara Hutchinson of Gowanda last month that her cousin, Pvt. Carroll Heath, was entitled to nine decorations, …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australian government lawmakers on Monday elected a new speaker of the House of Representatives after the previous speaker resigned over an expense scandal that has damaged Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s conservative government. The new speaker Tony Smith defeated his nearest challenger Andrew Southcott in a ballot of …