Flight Deals With CentralWings
Book between Monday, March 6, and Sunday, March 12. Centralwings, the budget offshoot of LOT Polish Airways, has flights to Poland from £1 one-way excluding tax...

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Swiss Fork Out For Poland
Switzerland will grant Poland 489 million Swiss Francs in aid for new EU members, Swiss economy minister Joseph Deissem said on Thursday in Warsaw after talks w...

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Probe Goes Ahead
A team of Roman Catholic Church historians and experts has been pulled together to check the files of communist-era secret police for evidence of collaboration ...

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Is Garlic The Answer?
A resident of Woliborz in south-western Poland has celebrated his 116th birthday. Pawel Parniak has 11 grandchildren, 32 great grand-children and 22 great-great...

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Miraculous Rescue Of Miner
A coal miner who was trapped underground for almost five days has been brought to the surface. He is now in a hospital, dehydrated after 111 hours without food ...

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Celluloid Sensation
Two Polish film fanatics have jumped into the record books (or rather sat into the record books) after seeing out a colossal 115 hour session in their local cin...

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Silver For Poland
Poland’s Tomasz Sikora has won the silver medal at the Winter Games in Turin. He put up an almost flawless performance in the 15-kilometre mass-start biathlon e...

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Pope's Aide Becomes Cardinal
Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz has been named cardinal by Pope Benedict. While the appointment is seen as a victory for the Church’s more open wing in P...

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Polish Maid Given Tough Sentence
A maid whose clients included Robert DeNiro and Candice Bergen was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison by a judge who said the defendant was "clea...

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T-Shirts Whip Up A Storm
A university in Poland has banned an exhibition of T-shirts bearing slogans such as "I didn't cry when the Pope died" and "I've got Aids", saying the show was t...

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Scottish Bishop looks to Poland
Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen is visiting Poland to invite bishops to establish links which could lead to Polish priests coming to work in his far-flung Scotti...

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Poles And Brits Win Design Awards
Britain's The Guardian and Polish daily Rzeczpospolita have been voted the world's best-designed newspapers. Five judges from the Society for News Design rev...

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Arrests Over Roof Collapse
Prosecutors said yesterday they have filed charges against three managers of a company that owned an exhibition hall whose roof collapsed last month, killing 65...

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Holocaust Denier Given Jail Time
Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday. Irving admitted to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaus...

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Poles recruit Chinese students
A delegation of Polish higher educational institutions held a seminar on studying in Poland here on Monday, with the aim of attracting more Chinese students. ...

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Iranian Team Cold-Shouldered
Poland's Foreign Minister Stefan Meller on Friday ruled out allowing any Iranian researchers to examine the scale of the Holocaust committed by the German Nazis...

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Doctors Demand Pay Rises
Medical specialists in south-eastern Poland have begun a protest against low pay. About 1,000 doctors from 13 medical clinics are to be absent at work, having t...

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Irving In The Dock
British historian David Irving, facing charges of Holocaust denial in an Austrian court on Monday, told reporters on his way into court he no longer questioned ...

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Beginning Of Diplomatic Thaw
An advisor to the Russian president Sergei Yastzhemsbki is in Warsaw for talks on the improvement of Polish-Russian relations. He is meeting foreign minister St...

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Conflict Over Church Project
The Polish Parliament has approved allocating 20 milllion zlotys or over 5 million euros to speed up the construction of the Divine Providence Temple in Warsaw....

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Film Unveiled Of Dresden Bombing
German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a "war crime" with a carefully ba...

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Journalist Kicked Out Of Belarus
A correspondent of leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has been expelled from Belarus. Waclaw Radziwinowicz was approached by two Belarusian officers at a...

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Director Returns To Childhood
Celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda said on Wednesday he aims to finish a film close to his heart this year about the 1940 Soviet massacre of 15,000 Polish...

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2010 For Euro?
Poland does not plan to adopt the euro before 2010, Polish Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska said in an interview published on Friday. "Poland cannot enter the...

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A New Man In Moscow
Polish-Russian relations have been troubled since time immemorial, and the post of ambassador to Moscow is a key one. In this respect, Lech Kaczynski's choic...

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Olympic Adventures
Poland’s Adam Malysz has won 7th place in the K95 ski jumping competition. After the first round, the Polish athlete lay 8th and managed to improve his result b...

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Wajda Wins Golden Bear
Andrzej Wajda, Poland’s renowned film director, has received the honorary Golden Bear, the prestigious award of the International Berlin Film Festival. The Poli...

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Church Pressured To Name Agents
East European church leaders faced new pressure to name clergy who acted as communist agents after a Polish priest accused colleagues of spying on Pope John Pau...

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Wizz Leads The Pack
Hungary's low-cost airline Wizz Air announced on Tuesday that it was voted for the second consecutive year as the best discount airline in Poland by pasazer.com...

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Dudek Handed Poland Chance
Liverpool's Jerzy Dudek is among four goalkeepers named in Poland coach Pawel Janas' 30-man squad for the March 1 friendly against the United States due to be p...

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Elections Off!
President Lech Kaczynski on Monday rejected speculation he would dissolve parliament and call early elections for the spring, capping a daylong storm of uncerta...

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Pole Busted In Ireland
A Polish national accused of having €1.4m worth of cocaine in Cork city centre had a change of mind today and pleaded guilty to having the drugs for sale or sup...

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Rembrandts Revealed
On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt, Poland confirms that it has two more paintings in collections here by the Dutch master than the world though...

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Poland Will Cooperate with EU Probe
Poland's prime minister said Tuesday he sees no reason to reopen an investigation into allegations the CIA operated secret prisons here, but indicated he would ...

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A Polish Promised Land?
Poland has traditionally sympathized with Chechnya in its fight against Russia for independence. Warsaw named one of its roundabouts after the Chechen President...

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Pope's Car Is No Auctioneer's Paradise
Bidders at Christie's auction house offered up to $71,820 for a 1958 car that once belonged to the late Pope John Paul II, but the seller decided the sum was no...

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'Just Flying Off To The Dentist...'
Germans regularly pop over the Polish border for a spot of dentistry. However, it seems that the cheaper prices are now luring folks from even further afield. ...

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Reflections On Poland
In a long article reflecting on the current state of Poland, a leading authority noted that today 'there is a stronger sense than ever of "two Polands": one mor...

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The Italian Job
Forty-six Polish aces are poised to take part in the Winter Olympics, which begin tomorrow in Turin, Northern Italy. Poland will be represented in nine event...

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Pole Strikes Out For Southampton
Poland striker Grzegorz Rasiak has left Tottenham Hotspur for Southampton in a loan deal expected to become permanent for a fee of about STG2 million ($A4.7 mil...

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Bollywood Hits Poland
Bollywood bonanzas are not normally known for getting jiggy with it at -20 centigrade. But the producers of 'Fanaah' - a tale of troubled love set against the b...

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Polish President Heads For US
Poland's new president - a conservative former Solidarity activist jailed by communists in the 1980s - heads to Washington on Wednesday for talks with President...

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Zurawski Is Pole Apart
Maciej Zurawski has all the necessary ingredients to be a success at Celtic, according to the man about to sell him. The 28-year-old returned to Poland on We...

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Winter Deals Further Blows
Heavy snowfall caused roofs across Poland to collapse Tuesday, but no deaths were reported just nine days after the country's worst building disaster claimed 65...

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British MP Will Bike To Poland
Former Conservative MP Edwina Currie has had more than her fair share of thrills and spills, but her new venture should win her more friends than foes. Long ...

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Cartoon Furore Continues
Head of the Muslim Religious Union in Poland Tomasz Miskiewicz demanded an apology from the editor-in-chief of the Rzeczpospolita daily which reprinted caricatu...

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3 In 4 Oppose War
72 percent of Poles want the country's mission in Iraq to terminate, shows a public opinion poll. The figure is slightly higher than a year ago, when it stood a...

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Lynch Loose In Poland!
David Lynch has arrived in Poland to complete Inland Empire, a film that is still shrouded in secret. The title does not give much away – referring to the f...

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Microsoft Invests In Poland
Microsoft Corp. plans to set up a regional software engineering center in Poland this year as part of an effort to increase investment in the ex-communist count...

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Fresh Election On The Cards
Parliament has just missed a crucial deadline to pass the 2006 budget. A snap general election now seems probable. The Polish constitution says that if the ...

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