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Russia on Wednesday blamed Polish failures for the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
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/ 1 December 2010
Ten people have died in Poland and Lithuania as temperatures fell drastically across Central Europe in the passed week.
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/ 22 November 2010
A Polish expatriate’s last wish is to be buried at the site of her Jewish family’s death place: A death camp called Treblinka.
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/ 22 November 2010
Pilgrims streamed into the Polish town of Swiebodzin on Sunday for the unveiling of what has been billed as the world’s tallest statue of Jesus.
Bronislaw Komorowski has narrowly won Poland’s presidency, setting the stage for a political alliance with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Poland has moved to fill key state posts after a weekend plane crash in Russia killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other top officials.
Russian officials said on Monday the pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland’s president had received explicit weather warning.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s coffin returned home on Sunday, a day after he and much of the country’s political and military elite were killed.
Poles were in deep mourning on Sunday after President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country’s ruling elite were killed in a plane crash.
New book claims Polish journalist, who died three years ago aged 74, repeatedly crossed the boundary between reportage and fiction-writing.
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/ 21 December 2009
Forty-two people have died of cold over the past three days in Poland after temperatures plunged to minus-20 degrees Celsius, police said on Monday.
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/ 21 December 2009
Polish police have recovered the sign that hung over the entrance to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz and detained five suspects over the theft.
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/ 18 December 2009
Israel on Friday condemned as a "declaration of war" the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.
A Polish lawmaker who failed a drunk-driving test said he had eaten too many apples, the website of daily Gazeta Wyborcza said on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2008
A UN conference made progress on Friday towards agreeing a fund to help poor nations cope with the impacts of climate change.
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/ 27 November 2008
Polish border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle kangaroos, miniature ponies and 11 pheasants across Poland’s border with Ukraine.
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/ 26 November 2008
Unable to hammer out a plan to fight global warming, Europe has ruined its ambition to lead the world at upcoming climate talks.
The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station parts of a US missile defence shield on Polish soil.
Poland’s police headquarters has banned officers from using a social networking site because they were spending too much time using it.
South Africa’s medal tally rose to three on the penultimate day of the 12th World Junior Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
A bronze medal for Andre Olivier in the 800m and a new South African junior record in the 4x100m men’s relay at the junior championships in Poland.
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/ 31 January 2008
Piotr Kucy (38) from the city of Polkowice in south-west Poland was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days after his own funeral. Despite pointing out the fact that he was alive to government officials, Kucy still remains dead in official records, stopping him from working and paying social insurance.
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/ 25 January 2008
An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. Daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294 hours for the letter to arrive at his home. He also said the distance between his home and the sender was 11,1km.
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/ 11 January 2008
Accusing Poland of having forced out Jews who survived the Holocaust, historian Jan Gross sparked a backlash ahead of the Friday launch of the Polish edition of his book, Fear. ”Until now, no one has ever written like Gross … about the attitude of Poles towards the Jews,” said historian Pawel Machcewicz, a fierce critic of the Polish-born Jewish writer.
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/ 10 January 2008
A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.
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/ 21 October 2007
Poles began voting on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that could cost the ruling Kaczynski twins their full grip on government in the European Union’s biggest former communist country. Opinion polls suggest a centre-right opposition party might do best in the vote.
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/ 27 September 2007
Clad in a dirty blue overall, the young man planted his feet squarely on the floor of the stifling bus, raised his megaphone and hectored the passengers: "You stinking capitalists!" Headed by the ageing 1960s bus, the rattle-trap convoy of communist-era vehicles, which also included a couple of Trabant and Lada cars, lumbered off to the heart of what was once the showpiece of the People’s Republic of Poland.
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/ 5 September 2007
A Polish crime writer has been jailed for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said on Wednesday. In his 2003 book Amok, Krystian Bala described in detail the brutal murder of a Polish businessman.
More than six decades after the Holocaust, the museum at the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau has turned to ultra-modern technology to ensure the legacy of Nazis’ victims is never lost. The challenge was how to preserve masses of suitcases, shoes, eye-glasses, human hair and other poignant reminders of the lives of those exterminated under Hitler’s ”final solution”.
September 4 1988 was a day like any other in late Soviet-era Poland. Weary queues formed outside grocery stores. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the head of state who attempted to crush the anti-communist Solidarity movement, led a debate on the theme ”sincerity for sincerity”.
Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski revealed on Thursday that he doesn’t have a bank account and instead hands his salary over to his mother. "I still don’t have a bank account," the 57-year-old conservative premier said in an interview with the weekly news magazine, <i>Wprost</i>. "I’m not joking. I keep my money in Mum’s account," he said.