News & Views Directory 13

news front page
articles directory

This is a full directory of all 770 articles about Warsaw, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.

An Unlikely Hero
An elderly Polish newspaper editor has been making headlines in the West over the last month after he became embroiled in a controversial libel case. Seventy on...

Current Affairs

Poland Seeks Apology For 1939 Pact
Poland's president said Wednesday he will attend the commemorations of the end of World War II in May in Moscow, but said the notorious 1939 pact between Nazi G...

Current Affairs

A Forgotten Odyssey
Candles were lit yesterday in Warsaw at the monument to the victims of Stalin's deportations to the East. Aging survivors said prayers for loved ones that had p...

History

Bush To Ask Congress For $100 For Poland
President Bush said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $100 million to help modernize armed forces in Poland, a staunch ally in the war in Iraq. During an O...

Current Affairs

The Palace of Culture: Over the top, Over the hill
Standing tall in the center of Warsaw, the Palace of Culture and Science (Palac Kultury i Nauki) has watched over the capital city through thick and thin. An ex...

City Focus

Pokonamy Fale: We'll Overcome The Wave
Thousands of Varsovians descended on Plac Teatralny yesterday for a major concert in aid of the Asian Tsunami disaster. A host of Poland's favourite pop acts...

City Focus

Yalta Casts Its Shadow 60 Years On
It is 60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace of the tsars in the Cr...

History

New U.S Secretary Of State In Poland
Condoleezza Rice was on Saturday making a brief stop in Poland, a US ally in the war in Iraq, as she continued her first major trip since she took up her post a...

Current Affairs

Cold War Files Thrust Into Cyberspace
Poles have flooded websites to view a list of names taken from communist-era files made public for the first time since the fall of Communism, searching for men...

Current Affairs

Communist Cats Among The Pigeons
When communist rulers cracked down on Poland's Solidarity movement in 1981, Malgorzata Niezabitowska risked prison to smuggle out photographs of tanks on Warsaw...

Current Affairs

Prayers For The Pope
Worshippers in the southern Polish town of Wadowice, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, were praying Wednesday for his recovery after the pontiff was rushed t...

Current Affairs

Investment Boom
According to a report published yesterday by Merril Lynch, no other member country has gained more than Poland from EU accession. After a very positive firs...

Business

Pope's Health Scare
Pope John Paul spent a peaceful night in hospital after receiving urgent medical treatment for breathing difficulties, a Vatican source said on Wednesday. Th...

Current Affairs

UEFA Reveals Polish-Ukrainian Bid
UEFA finally revealed the bids yesterday for the European Football Cup of 2012. As rumours had suggested, Poland was amongst the hopeful entrants, this time in ...

Current Affairs

Pole Position
Piotr Kardys is a Pole with a problem - a pole; in fact, a telephone pole in his kitchen. It was erected without his permission by telephone operator TPSA an...

Comment

A Light In The Darkness
A half-mile of railroad tracks blazed in the wintry dusk, marking what had been the final journey for many into the Nazi death camp. A train whistle split the s...

Current Affairs

Forgotten Auschwitz Victims Seek Equality
Three generations after the Holocaust, Europe must widen its fight against ethnic-based violence to protect the Roma people, who like the Jews were mass-murdere...

Current Affairs

Returning To Auschwitz
World leaders and survivors have stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust at a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th anniversary of the l...

Current Affairs

Sharon Responds To Auschwitz Anniversary
In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world "didn't lift a finger" to sto...

Current Affairs

World Leaders Arrive In Poland
World leaders began converging on southern Poland Wednesday for two days of emotional ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest N...

Current Affairs

The Strange Case Of The Missing Durers
Poland is putting new pressure on America's Cleveland Museum of Art and other major museums to return a widely dispersed collection of Albrecht Durer drawings l...

Art and Culture

Poland To Open Borders
European Union newcomer Poland is to enter the bloc's unified Schengen border regime on 28 October 2007, ending controls on the western frontier with Germany an...

Current Affairs

Cheney Hails Yushchenko
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is an "ally of freedom's cause," Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday in toasting the new leader, who leans toward th...

Current Affairs

A Voice From The Past
If life was hell in Auschwitz during Spring and Summer, then what must the experience have been like in Winter? World leaders attending the sixtieth anniversary...

Art and Culture

Publisher Guilty Of Libelling Pope
A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500. The ruling against Jerzy Ur...

Current Affairs

Bollywood Hits Poland
The Poles are getting a taste of Bollywood with the release of Karan Johar’s movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham in Poland. ‘Sometimes Sunshine and Sometimes Rain...

Comment

Walesa Ponders Comeback
Former Polish president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt at a political comeback by running for president later th...

Current Affairs

Kiev: Out With The Old
Cameramen can never resist a nice shot of the loser. Whether it's a clash at the lawcourts, a politician who has been given the sack, or an Olympic athelete who...

Comment

Radio Free Europe Remembers Hero
Jan Nowak, the legendary fighter for the Polish resistance during World War II who went on to head the Polish service of Radio Free Europe for a quarter of a ce...

History

Jobless Rate Cause For Concern
Poland's jobless rate climbed to 19.1 percent in December, rising for the first time in 10 months, according to government figures released Monday. The unem...

Current Affairs

Walesa Attends Kiev Inauguration
Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to steer the nation toward the West, capping a popular revolt and a bitter months-long fight over ...

Current Affairs

'Courier From Warsaw' Dies
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's gover...

History

Liberating Auschwitz
Sixty years on, memories of the horror they stumbled upon are still painfully vivid for the former Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's most ...

History

Achilles' Thirst
Poles heartily confess that they're fond of the odd beer or ten - it's very much part of the culture. And if we stray into politically incorrect territory, one ...

Comment

Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep
On a freezing Sunday in Jaslo, Poland, three pet budgies, named Cziko, Czako and Dako, fell asleep in broad daylight to the strains of John Levine’s alphamusic....

Comment

African Couple In Polish Adoption Wrangle
A Mombasa peasant family is fighting to have a child they gave to a Polish couple in exchange for a mobile phone and Sh4,000 returned to them. Mr Joseph Riob...

Current Affairs

Polish Fishermen Reach To Asia
Polish fishermen want to send their old boats to fishing villages on the Indian Ocean wiped out by last month's tsunami, rather than scrapping them under a Euro...

Current Affairs

Major Pile-Up On Cracow Road
Heavy fog caused a 61-car pile-up on Monday on a busy highway near the southern Polish city of Krakow, injuring 18 people, the fire brigade said. "Dense fo...

Current Affairs

Polish 'Ghost' Sent To Jail
A Polish woman who pretended to be a ghost and "haunted" an Alpine castle was sentenced to four months in prison by an Italian court. Police were called in ...

Comment

Calls For Freedom of Information
A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files ...

Current Affairs

Warsaw Bomb Scare
A Polish man who threatened to blow up a building in central Warsaw gave himself up after hours of negotiations that began early on Friday, police said on Satur...

Current Affairs

Poles Defend Role in Babylon
Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a ''negative influence'' on the sit...

Current Affairs

More Vodka Pickings
Having announced yesterday that the privatisation process of Polmos Bialystok is underway, Poland’s Treasury Ministry has said that a further five distillers wi...

Business

Prince Rules Out Poland Visit
Britain's Prince Harry has ruled out visiting Auschwitz as atonement for wearing a Nazi uniform at a party just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the dea...

Current Affairs

Thaw in Paris-Warsaw Relations
Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday he saw reasons for closer ties between his country and Poland as he inaugurated the renovated Fren...

Current Affairs

Poland OKs Shootdown Of Hijacked Planes
A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down — a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Euro...

Current Affairs

Vodka Veteran Draws Major Interest
The Polish privatisation authorities have received 20 requests for memorandums for the upcoming privatisation of Polmos Bialystok, the local press reported toda...

Business

Elections Rule Out Pope's Trip
Pope John Paul will visit Germany this year but will not take up an invitation to visit his native Poland in June because of elections planned there, the Vatica...

Current Affairs

Give Ukraine A Chance In EU Say Poles
Ukraine should be given a chance to join the European Union, and the people of the former Soviet republic should have the final say on membership, Polish Presid...

Current Affairs

Golden Goal Back On Track
A major investment project at the heart of Warsaw finally looks set to kick back into gear after a bungle by outgoing officials from the local government. The l...

Business

<<< previous

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

next >>>