News & Views Directory 11

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Dudek On Sidelines

Aug.9.2005

Liverpool's Champions League final hero Jerzy Dudek has been ruled out for three months after dislocating his right elbow in training. The accident happened ...

Belarus Blocks Poles

Aug.9.2005

Belarus yesterday denied a delegation from the European Parliament permission to enter the country. Polish diplomat Bogdan Adam Klich, chairman of the Europe...

Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland

Aug.06.2002

Poland were crowned World Speedway Champions after storming to a home victory in Wroclaw. The Poles won with 62 points ahead of Sweden who were second on 34 a...

Suspects Released in Mugging Case

Aug.04.2002

Warsaw police detained two persons who might have been involved in Sunday's attack on Russian diplomats' children, but they were released Tuesday afternoon when...

The Best for your Buses

July.30.2005

By the end of 2006, over 300 polish bus drivers will be behind the wheel in Britain. To staff its expansion into England, the Scottish bus company Stagecoach, ...

Wicker Working Wonders

Aug.02.2005

In southern Poland, a small rural town is building on historic tradition to fuel their economy in the 21st century. But what exactly are they building and what...

Double Your Vote!

June.16.2005

The upcoming elections aren't offering poles more of the same. Or are they? Identical twin brothers, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are running for the Presiden...

Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence

Aug.01.2005

Recently, 15 Polish Youths shouting anti-Russian slogans attacked and beat upon three Russian teens in a Warsaw park. The three Youths were the children of Rus...

Poland Tops Investment List

July.29.2005

According to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) European Attractiveness Survey, Poland holds the fourth place in the world and the first in Europe with respect to attractive...

Hot Culture In Kazimierz

July.29.2005

Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz Dolny 2005 'Wysokie Temperatury Filmowe' The quaint riverside town of Kazimierz Dolny has long been a favourite weekend ...

World Record For Polish Girl

29.July. 2005

Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak broke her own world record to win the women’s 200 metres butterfly final at the World Championhips in Montreal. She overtook Aus...

British Historian Honoured

July.29.2005

British historian Professor Norman Davies is to be honoured today by the Union of the Warsaw Insurgents of 1944. Davies' recent book 'Rising 44' about the Polis...

Belarusian Force Storms Polish Union

July.28.2005

Belarussian special forces stormed a building used by ethnic Poles in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday near the border with Poland, a witness said. It is the la...

A John Paul II Holiday?

July.28.2005

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to support a measure that will establish a national day to honour the late Pope John Paul II. The lower house, or S...

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???

July.22.2005

Germany's BASF and the Russian firm Gazprom are in the advanced stages of planning an oil pipeline that would connect the two nations by way of the Baltic Sea. ...

Unemployment Down .3 Percent

July.25.2005

Unemployment in Poland has dropped to 18 per cent from 18.3 in May. Still, according to the figures released by the General Statistical office, 2 million 800 th...

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal

July.25.2005

The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski ...

Revelations From Polanski Temptress

July.25.2005

The model at the centre of Roman Polanski's successful libel suit against Vanity Fair says the filmmaker never tried to seduce her. Polanski on Friday won h...

Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012

Dec.14.2002

UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012, European soccer's governing body announced in a statement on Friday. They comp...

Belarusian Press Slams Poland

July.25.2005

The pro-government Belarusian media blames Poland and the Union of Poles in Belarus for the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Warsaw and Minsk. The biggest gov...

Bid For Polish Mobile Stake

July.25.2005

Britain's Vodafone and Denmark's TDC have made an offer for a controlling stake in Polish mobile phone operator Polkomtel, an advisor to Poland's treasury minis...

Polanski Wins Libel Case

July.22.2005

Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame...

Belarusian Problem Spirals

July.22.2005

Polish authorities have suggested they could toss a Belarusian diplomat out of the country and hinted at visa troubles for Belarusians in the latest installment...

Jury Retires In Polanski Case

July.22.2005

The judge in Roman Polanski's libel case against Vanity Fair magazine told jurors Thursday they should not focus on the filmmaker's lifestyle as they deliberate...

Sport Star Passes Away

July.21.2005

Andrzej Grubba, Poland’s most successful table tennis player of all time, has died at the age of 47 after an unsuccessful struggle against cancer. His top s...

Happy Bastille Day!

July.22.2005

The great liberation of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 was in fact more of a symbolic than a numerical victory. Only seven miserable souls happened to be holed ...

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.

Jul.20.2005

Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t...

A Price To Pay

July.20.2005

Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid. The promised 100 million US dollars will be use...

Farrow Fights For Polanski

July.20.2005

Roman Polanski was so consumed with grief after his wife's brutal murder he was unable to think or talk about anything else, actress Mia Farrow said Tuesday, de...

Jewish Museum Plan Set

July.20.2005

The construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews will commence already in 2006. The government has approved a schedule till 2009, when the museum is...

New Steel Plants For Poland

July.20.2005

Mittal Steel Poland, the country's steel giant, agreed yesterday to build a hot rolling plant in Krakow and a new continuous caster in Dabrowa Gornicza, the new...

Polish Mushroom Hit

July.20.2005

"Poland has gained a reputation for producing exceptional quality, low-cost mushrooms,'' says John Smith, Chairman of major UK supplier, Northern Mushrooms. ...

Polanski In The Dock

July.19.2005

Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ...

Poles Support EU Enlargement

July.19.2005

Poles, just like the nationals of other new EU member states, are more open towards further enlargement of the bloc than the citizens of old member states. ...

Poles Killed In London Blasts

July.19.2005

The identity has been confirmed of another Polish woman killed in the recent terrorist attacks in London. 29-year-old Karolina Gluck was on one of the train...

Diplomat Gets The Elbow

July.18.2005

Belarus said yesterday it is expelling a Polish diplomat, in the latest diplomatic tit-for-tat expulsion between the two neighbours. Belarus has given Andrze...

Medieval Showdown Relived

July.15.2005

Today marks the 595th anniversary of the battle of Grunwald, the biggest armed clash of medieval Europe, when the forces of Polish King Ladislaus Jagiello toget...

Former Policeman Held Over Hoax

July.15.2005

The Polish police arrested Thursday a former police employee suspected of being involved in two bomb hoaxes which led to the shutdown and evacuation of the subw...

Germans Nervous Of Would-Be President

July.15.2005

The influential German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claims that a victory of Lech Kaczynski in the coming presidential elections may change Polish-Germa...

Polish Triumph At Film Festival

July.13.2005

The Polish film 'Nikifor' stole the show at the 40th Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week in the Czech Republic. The film tells the 'true life tale' of a cur...

Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain

July.13.2005

Exorcists from all over the world have convened in the Jasna Gora shrine in the central Polish city of Czestochowa. The meeting is closed to the media, and no d...

Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists

July.12.2005

Joining the seductive "plumber", an alluring "nurse" on Tuesday debuted in Poland's tongue-in-cheek tourism campaign launched last month in a humorous response ...

Metro Evacuated In Warsaw

July.12.2005

Warsaw authorities evacuated the city's only underground line on Tuesday following a bomb threat, but the mayor said he suspected the threat was a hoax. Pola...

Poles Missing In London

July.12.2005

Eighteen Poles are still missing Monday after last week's bomb attack on London, Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld confirmed Monday. Speaking to...

Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last

July.11.2005

Almost three hundred Polish veterans took part in a grand victory parade in London yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. ...

Extradition Row Runs On

July.6.2005

Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecut...

Polanski Fights With Vanity

July.6.2005

Mia Farrow is key witness in a libel action filed in London by director Roman Polanski against Conde Nast, the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The Polish ...

Poles Flock To The Cloth

July.6.2005

Poles already make up a quarter of Europe's Roman Catholic clergy and interest in vocation for the priesthood is on the rise after the death of compatriot Pope ...

Former PM Edges Into Lead

July.6.2005

Former prime minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has become the new favourite in the Polish presidential election, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpos...

Backlash Over Vodka Sale

July.6.2005

The Polish Treasury has been accused of lacking transparency in its sell-off of Polmos Bialystok. Sobieski Dystrybucja, which lost out on the majority stake in ...

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