Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) has detained four people in a joint operation with FBI and Homeland ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A big, brutal, blundering and untrustworthy bear – its accurate and enduring emblem. Some of its oblasts (administrative regions) still boast them on their coats of arms. Bears are best avoided, and ...

WHEN British soldiers looked along the Italian battlefield at the height of World War Two, they were met with a surreal sight: a fully-grown bear lumbering with an armful of artillery shells. The ...

It’s Spring 1942 and Polish Armed Forces are on the move to Iran with thousands of Polish civilian refugees. It’s a long trip and en-route to Tehran they took a stop outside the city of Hamadan. While ...

Wojtek endeared himself to members of a Polish army unit in 1942 when he alerted them to the presence of a spy in their camp. The Polish soldiers, who were released by Russia after the German invasion ...

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Archibald Brown had already seen a lot during the war -- but nothing like this. It was mid-February 1944, and the courier for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery was in the port of Naples to help ...