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Rugby Rescue Plan

Feb.18.2005

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...

France to host first Franco-Polish summit

Feb.17.2005

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...

Welcome News For Warsaw's Jewish Museum

Feb.17.2005

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 ...

Europe's Oldest White Rhino Passes On

Feb.17.2005

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 ...

Hollywood History

Feb.16.2005

'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...

Polish parliament drops abortion vote

16.Feb.2005

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 ...

Polish Troops Will Not Leave Iraq Yet

Feb. 15.2005

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...

Michelin Expands In Poland

Feb.15. 2005

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...

An Unlikely Hero

Feb.11..2005

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...

Poland Seeks Apology For 1939 Pact

Feb.11.2005

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...

A Forgotten Odyssey

Feb.11.2005

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...

Bush To Ask Congress For $100 For Poland

Feb.10.2005

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...

The Palace of Culture: Over the top, Over the hill

Feb.9.2005

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...

Pokonamy Fale: We'll Overcome The Wave

Feb.7.2005

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...

Yalta Casts Its Shadow 60 Years On

Feb.7.2005

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...

New U.S Secretary Of State In Poland

Feb.7.2005

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...

Cold War Files Thrust Into Cyberspace

Feb.3.2005

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...

Communist Cats Among The Pigeons

Feb.4.2005

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

Prayers For The Pope

Feb.2.2005

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...

Investment Boom

Feb.2.2005

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...

Pope's Health Scare

Feb.2.2005

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

UEFA Reveals Polish-Ukrainian Bid

Feb.1.2005

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 ...

Pole Position

Jan.28.2005

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...

A Light In The Darkness

Jan.28.2005

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...

Forgotten Auschwitz Victims Seek Equality

Jan.27.2005

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...

Returning To Auschwitz

Jan.27.2005

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...

Sharon Responds To Auschwitz Anniversary

Jan.25.2005

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...

World Leaders Arrive In Poland

Jan.27.2005

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...

The Strange Case Of The Missing Durers

Jan.27.2005

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...

Poland To Open Borders

Jan.27.2005

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...

Cheney Hails Yushchenko

Jan.27.2005

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...

A Voice From The Past

Jan.25.2005

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...

Publisher Guilty Of Libelling Pope

Jan.25.2005

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...

Bollywood Hits Poland

Jan.24.2005

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...

Walesa Ponders Comeback

Jan.25.2005

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...

Kiev: Out With The Old

Jan.25.2005

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...

Radio Free Europe Remembers Hero

Jan.25.2005

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...

Jobless Rate Cause For Concern

Jan.25.2005

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...

Walesa Attends Kiev Inauguration

Jan.24.2005

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 ...

'Courier From Warsaw' Dies

Jan.21.2005

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...

Liberating Auschwitz

Jan.20.2005

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 ...

Achilles' Thirst

Jan.20.2005

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 ...

Composer Sends Budgies To Sleep

Jan.19.2005

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....

African Couple In Polish Adoption Wrangle

Jan.19.2005

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...

Polish Fishermen Reach To Asia

Jan.17.2005

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...

Major Pile-Up On Cracow Road

Jan.17.2005

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...

Polish 'Ghost' Sent To Jail

Jan.17.2005

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 ...

Calls For Freedom of Information

Jan.17.2005

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

Warsaw Bomb Scare

Jan.17.2005

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...

Poles Defend Role in Babylon

Jan.17.2005

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...

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