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Katyn War Crimes Case Reopens
Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by t... | History |
Poles Back Yushchenko
Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country on Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated... | Current Affairs |
Forgotten Manuscripts Return
The Czech Republic will return 33 priceless Hebrew manuscripts stolen by the Nazis during World War II to the Jewish Theologic Seminary in Wroclaw, Poland, an o... | History |
Poland Hopes To Mediate Ukraine Crisis
Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate – a sign of anxiety ... | Current Affairs |
Poland's Walesa Steps Into Ukrainian Crisis
Former Polish President Lech Walesa will go to Ukraine Thursday to help mediate the stand off following the disputed presidential elections.
The PAP news age... | Current Affairs |
Miraculous Reappearance Of Polish Hostage
A Polish woman abducted from her apartment in Baghdad reappeared on Saturday in Poland after being suddenly released. While she said she was treated well, she r... | Current Affairs |
Major Exhibition Opens In Warsaw
The Exhibition "Warsaw-Moscow. Moscow-Warsaw. 1900-2000" opened on Wednesday night at the National Gallery of Contemporary Art Zaheta in the Polish capital.
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Pull-Outs Threaten Polish-Led Force in Iraq
A Polish-led multinational division in charge of security in south-central Iraq faces disintegration if more countries pull their troops out, Polish officials s... | Current Affairs |
Out With The Old
An opinion poll released in Poland Tuesday suggested the ruling Democratic Left Alliance enjoyed the support of just 8 percent of voters.
The CBOS poll put t... | Current Affairs |
Reparations Row Runs On
Warsaw's influential mayor Lech Kaczynski has said that Germany should pay $45 billion (24.4 billion pounds) for the destruction of Warsaw during World War Two,... | Current Affairs |
Polish Embassy in Iraq Under Attack
More than a dozen insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad with automatic weapons on Sunday, and embassy guards returned fire in an exchange that laste... | Current Affairs |
Polish Ecstasy Pill Pounce
Australian police have arrested two men and seized three million ecstasy tablets that the pair is accused of importing from Poland hidden inside a bakery oven. ... | Comment |
Indian troupe lights up Poland on Diwali
An Indian troupe has been performing all around Poland to mark what might perhaps be the first nationwide celebration of Diwali here.
Shakhwat Hussein and h... | Current Affairs |
Polish Zloty Hits 7 Year High
The Polish zloty rose to its highest level against the dollar in seven years this Monday.
The Polish currency has risen strongly against the dollar, partly d... | Business |
Anniversary of Liberation and Desolation
The presidents of France, Russia and Israel are expected to attend the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp's liberation on January 27, Polish officials... | Current Affairs |
An End To Compensation Claims?
Following their meeting on 4 November in Krakow, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said that neither the German claims fo... | Current Affairs |
Poland Attracts Plastic Surgery 'Tourism'
A rising number of Germans and others from western Europe are traveling to Poland and other new EU members such as Hungary and Slovakia to pay less for plastic ... | Comment |
Hostage Pleads For Poland To Withdraw Troops
A Polish hostage being held by militants pleaded for her life in a video aired Saturday by Al-Jazeera television, asking Poland to remove its troops from Iraq. ... | Current Affairs |
Polmos Branch Comes Up For Grabs
The initial public offering (IPO) for Polmos Bialystok will be launched in the first half of next year. Poland’s deputy Treasury Minister, Dariusz Witkowski, an... | Business |
Poland Keeps Smiling
There was a famous joke in the communist era that the foot (in Polish "foot" and "rate" are homonyms) should be wrapped up in newspaper for it grows the fastest... | Comment |
Poland Rejects Death Penalty
Polish lawmakers narrowly voted Friday against reintroducing the death penalty following a series of killings that outraged the nation, including the case of a ... | Current Affairs |
Pope to Visit Poland in 2005
Polish-born Pope John Paul II plans to visit his homeland in 2005, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been quoted as saying.
Asked by journa... | Current Affairs |
Poland Honours Priest Slain in 1984
Poles lit candles and laid flowers on Tuesday at the grave of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, abducted and killed by the communist secret police 20 yea... | Current Affairs |
Chocolate Big Boys Buy Up Brand
Polish confectionery maker Jutrzenka has said it has reached an agreement to buy the Goplana confectionery brand from the Polish unit of Swiss food giant Nestlé... | Business |
Museum Opens For Polish Martyr
A museum dedicated to the life of a pro-Solidarity priest tortured and murdered by Poland's communist secret police opened on Saturday, ahead of the 20th annive... | Current Affairs |
Poland To Reduce Number Of troops In Iraq
Poland said Friday it plans to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq from early next year and will not remain there "an hour longer than is sensible."
Pri... | Current Affairs |
Chopin Anniversary Concerts
Concerts on the 155th Anniversary of Chopin's Death.
The 155th anniversary of Chopin's death falls on October 17th. To Poles, the Romantic composer is a nati... | Art and Culture |
Poland Puffed Up By EU Bank
The European Investment Bank said it had approved loans of 760 million euros (940 million dollars) for investment projects in Poland.
On the occasion of the... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Film Festival
THE 20TH WARSAW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Warsaw, October 7 - October 18, 2004
According to its organizers, this year's 20th edition of the WARSAW INTE... | Art and Culture |
Polish-led force in Iraq to leave base
The command of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq will move out of a camp that includes ancient Babylonian archaeological sites by year's end, Poland's ... | Current Affairs |
Mayor Fails To Rise To The Occasion
The organisers of a Polish erotic fair vowed to defy a ban by the Warsaw mayor and go ahead in staging a contest for the woman who can have sex with as many men... | Comment |
Wolfowitz Tries to Whip Things Up
US.Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz compared the crimes of Saddam Hussein to the atrocities of the Nazi and Stalinist eras in a speech in Warsaw on Tuesd... | Current Affairs |
Mayor To Ban Sex Championships
The Mayor of Warsaw will ban the "world sexual championships" due to open tomorrow in the Polish capital.
The organisers of the four day "Eroticon" festival ... | Comment |
Polish Mushrooms
Mushrooms abounded-round the fair damsels the young men did throng;
Or vixens, as they're hailed in Lithuanian song.
They symbolize maidenhood, their flesh no... | Comment |
Polish Plan To Pull Out of Iraq
Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising Ends: October 1944
Sixty years ago this week, the Warsaw Uprising, the Polish action to liberate Warsaw from the Nazi occupiers, reached its close. The Rising had originally been ... | History |
Poles Uneasy With Iraq Policy
Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis... | Current Affairs |
Shooting Starts on Pope Film
Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g... | City Focus |
Communist Icon To Be Renamed After Reagan
'Uncle Joe' Stalin has probably turned in his grave so often now that he's given up bothering - the complete overturning of the communist system in Europe must ... | City Focus |
The King of the Tarmac
Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row.
There was barely an... | Comment |
Polish Chivalry: A Survivor's Guide
Casanova's partner in crime the Prince de Ligne (1735-1814) was a considerable match for his Italian friend when it came to the art of seduction. A regular gue... | Comment |
Victory Snatched from the Wisla Boys
OK, the headline may be a slight exaggeration but even the most die-hard Real Madrid fan would be hard pushed to deny that the Poles gave the Spaniards a fair r... | Comment |
Warsaw Uprising Remembered
Boy Scouts from across Poland paid tribute on Thursday to the insurgents who rose up in 1944 against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw, retracing their paths through... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Mayor Calls For German WWII Apology
Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression.
Schroeder should offer hi... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising
Sixty years ago this week Poland was poised for one of the most dramatic (and as it turned out tragic) chapters in the war. With the Soviet tanks advancing on W... | History |
Echoes of the Bad Old Days
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti... | Current Affairs |
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