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Polish Doctors Head Overseas
According to the medics' association, over 7,000 doctors have already left, or are planning to leave Poland.
The list includes anesthesiologist, surgeons an... | Current Affairs |
Fraudster Caught In The Capital
A man in his 20s has been arrested in Warsaw after banks in France and Poland laid a trap for him and foiled a bid to fraudulently transfer EUR 600,000 (USD 800... | Comment |
Court Compensates Solidarity Icon
A former shipyard worker whose 1980 firing triggered the labor protest that spawned Poland's Solidarity movement was awarded $23,000 on Tuesday for her imprison... | Current Affairs |
'Mein Kampf' Furore
A German state that holds the rights to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" said Tuesday it was seeking legal action to prevent the book from being published in Po... | Current Affairs |
Polish Artist Found Dead
Polish contemporary artist Zdzislaw Beksinski, famed for his haunting fantasy paintings, has been found murdered at his home, police said Tuesday.
Police sa... | Art and Culture |
Chopin's 195th Birthday!
The 195th anniversary of Chopin’s birth is fast approaching! The F. Chopin Society will celebrate it in Sanniki on February 20th with a concert by pianist Wojci... | Art and Culture |
Pope Recalls Assassination Attempt
In his new book, Pope John Paul II for the first time described publicly the moments after he was gravely wounded in 1981, saying he was fearful and in pain but... | History |
Ryanair Eyes Polish Airports
No-frills airline Ryanair believes that flights to and from Poland will be profitable, "If we manage to have 75% booking, then we will break even on flights to ... | Business |
Rugby Rescue Plan
The England Rugby Supports’ Club (ERSC) have teamed up with SOS IRB Kit Aid to give England Rugby fans the chance to help hundreds of rugby mad Polish youngster... | Comment |
France to host first Franco-Polish summit
Presidents Jacques Chirac and Aleksander Kwasniewski will hold the first-ever Franco-Polish summit on February 28 in the northern French city of Arras, Chirac's... | Comment |
Welcome News For Warsaw's Jewish Museum
As of Tuesday, 25th January 2005, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is in partnership with the Polish Government, the City of Warsaw authorities and the ... | City Focus |
Europe's Oldest White Rhino Passes On
Zulu, the oldest white rhinoceros in captivity in Europe, has died at the age of 45 at Lodz zoo in central Poland, the zoo's management said.
Born on August ... | Comment |
Hollywood History
'Schindlers List' and 'The Pianist' are the two most widely known films about the fate of Poland's Jews during the Second World War. The former was made by Step... | Art and Culture |
Polish parliament drops abortion vote
The Polish parliament voted Tuesday not to consider a controversial bill allowing abortion up to 12 weeks into pregnancy.
The bill had been proposed by the ... | Current Affairs |
Polish Troops Will Not Leave Iraq Yet
Poland will keep its soldiers in Iraq at least through the end of the year, when the U.N. mandate for foreign troops expires, the country's defense minister sai... | Current Affairs |
Michelin Expands In Poland
Although the official announcement isn't due from Michelin until 16th of February, it's become common knowledge that the company has signed a lease on a 205-acr... | Business |
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 |
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 |
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