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One forest, two Polish tragedies, 70 years apart (AP)

Volunteers carry candles in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 11, 2010, after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday April, 10, 2010, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The leader of Poland’s government in exile while the nation was under Soviet-backed rule. The shipyard worker whose firing helped ignite the labor uprising that ultimately toppled communism…

Pope’s ivory tower past adds to his detachment (AP)

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than forty books and winning a devoted following of students who respected his prodigious memory and briliant mind. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Long before entering Vatican life, Pope Benedict XVI won renown as a theologian and a German university professor, penning more than 40 books and winning a devoted following…

Euro governments offer Greece euro30 billion backstop (AP)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Sunday April 11, 2010. Finance ministers of the 16 euro nations met in a video conference to discuss the technical details of a financial aid package for Greece. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Trying again to halt a debt crisis that has hammered the euro, fellow eurozone governments tossed struggling Greece a financial lifeline Sunday, saying they would make euro30 billion…

Ousted Kyrgyz leader: I’m not to blame for deaths (AP)

An elderly Kyrgyz man places flowers on the fence of the government building in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, April 11, 2010. The number of dead during the unrest, while thousands of protestors clashed with police across the country, grew to 81 on Sunday, the Kyrgyz health ministry said in a statement, after two more people died of their wounds overnight. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s deposed president on Sunday defended the legitimacy of his rule and urged the United Nations to send peacekeepers to help stabilize the strategically vital Central Asian nation.


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Eurozone nations offer euro30 billion loans to Greece (AP)

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Sunday April 11, 2010. Finance ministers of the 16 euro nations met in a video conference to discuss the technical details of a financial aid package for Greece. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Greece’s European partners tossed a financial lifeline Sunday to Greece, offering euro30 billion in loans this year to help ease a debt crisis that has hiked the country’s…