Warsaw and Moscow bicker over anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

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Poland’s president will not attend a ceremony in Israel marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The World’s Orla Barry tells host Marco Werman why President Andrzej Duda is skipping the Jerusalem event to instead attend a rival ceremony at Auschwitz in southern Poland.

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