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Poland risks controversy on independence centenary
Chaos engulfed plans for the state military parade in Warsaw just days ahead of the centenary
Poland illegally logged in ancient forest — EU
The country’s rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe’s last primeval forests setting up a clash between Brussels and Warsaw.
Urinating troops ‘democratise’ evil of war
Afghan incident shows it is no longer surprising that violence and cruelty are self-documented, writes Jonathan Jones.
Mini-kangaroos nabbed at Polish border
Polish border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle kangaroos, miniature ponies and 11 pheasants across Poland’s border with Ukraine.
Polish man struggles to return from the dead
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…
It’s official — Polish post is slow as snails
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…
Historian shocks Poland with charges of ethnic cleansing
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.…
Man runs into his wife at brothel
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…
Poles start voting in early parliamentary election
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…
Truth stranger than fiction as Polish author jailed
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.…
Polish premier’s mum holds the purse strings
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…
‘Propagated homosexuality’ irks Polish minister
Poland’s education minister on Wednesday called for a ban on the ”propagation of homosexuality” in the country’s schools, a plan that he argues would protect traditional family…
Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski dies
Polish author and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, several times cited as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on January 22 at the age of 74, TVN24…
Google sues Polish poets over web address
Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their internet domain name <i>Gmail.pl</i>, a member of the cultural collective said…
Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany halted
A Russian oil pipeline carrying supplies across Belarus to Poland and Germany stopped pumping overnight in a trade dispute between Moscow and Minsk that could lead to fuel…