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Clinton says US to give $15m to preserve Auschwitz

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the US will donate $15m (£10m) to preserve the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Mrs Clinton was on a visit to Poland, where she oversaw the signing of a key missile base agreement.

She warned of a "steel vice" of repression crushing democracy and civil liberties activists in countries such as Iran, Egypt and Zimbabwe.

She held up Poland, which elects a new leader on Sunday, as a model democracy....

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