Gold For Polish Ski-Surfer
Jagna Marczulaitis of Poland edged Daniela Meuli of Switzerland to win the parallel slalom event at a snowboarding World Cup on Sunday. Sara Fischer of Swed...

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Snowboard Showdown
Jan Michaelis of Germany and Paulina Ligocka of Poland won snowboard World Cup halfpipe events Friday. Michaelis won his first event of the season ahead of ...

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Poland On Steady European Course
Poland's integration with the EU is very advanced and it is very improbable that Poland could have an EU-hostile government, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Mell...

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Poland To Host Miss World
In these politically correct times, the British are somewhat awkward about their creation of the Miss World beauty contest. However, viewers have voted with the...

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Poles Show Light At The End Of Tunnel
A Dad of six is due to throw himself out of a plane to raise vital funds for his nephew's medical treatment. John Gibbens, from St. Mary Cray, England, is se...

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Poland Trailing Euro Target
Poland's Finance Ministry said the country would not be able to meet the fiscal requirements for adopting the euro before 2010. In an update of its euro conv...

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Poet Passes On
Polish priest and popular poet father Jan Twardowski has died in a hospital in Warsaw at the age of 90. His poetic debut came in 1936 with a small tome titl...

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Bargain Flights To Poland
If you're on the look out for some great deals on flights to Poland, look no further. Centralwings, LOT Polish Airlines’ cut-price alter-ego, is offering fli...

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Uproar In Parliament
The Polish Sejm (parliament) descended into farce yesterday when the Speaker of the House refused to set in motion a vote on the new budget. Opposition MPs c...

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Warning About Icy Roads
Weather forecasters have issued a warning that roads will be slippery in places as a cold atmospheric front is moving from western to southern Poland. The w...

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AirBaltic Returns To Scene
AirBaltic, the low-cost airline owned by the Latvian treasury (52.6 percent) and SAS (47.2 percent) is going to restart its routes to Poland. The company has...

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'The Sausage' Is Unsure Of Birmingham
Korona Kielce striker Grzegorz Piechna has decided to stay at the club for at least the next six months, despite Birmingham's interest in trialling him. The ...

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Pole Joins Potter Adventure
Oscar nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak has won the commission to film the next Harry Potter movie, 'The Order of the Phoenix.' Idziak, who won fame ...

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Freedom Balloons Will Fly Over Belarus
One thousand coloured balloons will soar to Belarus from Bialystok, northeast Poland next Monday in support of democratic change in the country, the Polish bran...

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Vatican Turns On Hardliners
The Vatican has issued a document imposing discipline upon the clergy in Poland. Their public activity outside the church now requires written permission from b...

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Polish Countess Meets Big Brother
A Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Free Europe has taken her place in Britain's notorious Celebrity Big Brother House. Rula Lenska (b.1947, Cambr...

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Pope Plans Polish Trip
The Vatican envoy for papal tours Alberto Gasparri arrived in Poland today with the aim of touring the route of the planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI to that c...

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Polish Maestro Takes Tokyo
An injury to his hands in World War II cut short Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's career as a concert pianist. But the 82-year-old composer and conductor, who has left...

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Ten ambassadors recalled
Poland’s new conservative right wing government has recalled ten ambassadors believed to be linked with the former communist regime. Diplomats who have held pos...

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White Eagles
It wouldn't be too much to say that being dubbed a Knight of the White Eagle is something akin to being dubbed a Knight of the Round Table. The 300 year old ord...

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Priests Learn Defense Tactics
Polish police have conducted a training course for Roman Catholic parish priests on how to protect their churches against robberies and acts of terrorism. Accor...

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Fading From Memory
13th of December marks the 24th anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, a date which is an important one in the pages of Polish history. Howev...

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'He Had Plenty Of Spirit'
A 111-year-old pensioner, thought to be the oldest man living in Britain, has died. Former Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was known to ...

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Brit Wins Polish Reality TV Romp
A British man has been chosen as the winner of Bar Europa, the Polish version of TV's Big Brother. Tom Amos, 28, from Malvern, Worcs, entered the contest as ...

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Her Majesty's Joker In A Twist
A top British ambassador has risked sparking a diplomatic row after a stinging attack on France and Poland over European Union farm subsidies made in a "joke" e...

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Saturday Vernissage
Gallery SD Wilanow will showcase the work of Bogna Jarzemska-Misztalska and Marian Jarzemski. Bogna Jarzemska completed her studies at the Academy of Fine ...

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If You Can't Beat 'Em
Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi...

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Poland Under The Spotlight
News portals are being deluged with articles reasserting that the CIA has secret holding camps in Eastern Europe for top terror suspects. The issue returned...

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Pardon Confirmed For Gangster Killer
A Polish businessman jailed for the beheading of two gangsters who were blackmailing him is to receive a pardon after serving 10 years in prison, an aide to Pre...

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EU Shock Up For Debate
Poorer European Union newcomers may agree to a reduction in the aid they receive from the bloc's coffers but not to as big a cut as current EU president Britain...

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Tragic Saga of Swimming Champ
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash. H...

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Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'
Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the award of the prestigious European weekly European Voice as statesman of the year 2005.T he Polish head of state has been...

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If You Go Down To The Woods Today
Polish and German football hooligans met in a wood near Frankfurt an der Oder to fight for the control of Berlin during the coming EURO 2006 Championships. Over...

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Poland Piqued By Tony's Plan
Poland's president said Tuesday that Britain's latest proposals for a long-term EU budget were bad for Poland and Europe, insisting that economic aid promised t...

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Warsaw Pact A Pandora's Box
Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”...

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The Quest For The Golden Frog
A gala at the Grand Theatre in Lodz has inaugurated the International Film Art Festival “Camerimage”. During the opening celebrations a special award of meri...

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Rallying For Tolerance
A rally in support of equal rights for sexual minorities in Poland has taken place in downtown Warsaw. The several hundred peaceful demonstrators were joine...

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Warsaw Pact Secrets To Be Revealed
Poland today followed through on a promise to open secret files of the Warsaw Pact. Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said some of the documents indi...

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Winding up in Iraq?
Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq in 2006 but it may move the deadline for withdrawal from January to mid-year, Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorsk...

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Survivors Meet After 60 Years
A survivor of the Holocaust is to be reunited with the Polish family that saved her 60 years ago. Ruth Gruener, whose father ran a confectionery shop in the ...

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Skies Open For SkyEurope
Budget airline SkyEurope is expanding its Krakow services with a range of flights to some of Europe's most appealing cities. Plans are afoot to launch new fligh...

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Easyjet flying high
British budget airline easyJet beat forecasts with a 9 percent rise in annual profits on Tuesday as new routes, rising fares and cost cuts eased the pain of so...

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Several small steps for man.....
Krzysztof Dzienniak, a well known social activist, has set out from Zgorzelec, a city on the Polish-German border, to Leverkusen – the headquarters of Bayer, th...

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Hullabaloo As League Uses Shock Tactics
An anti-abortion exhibition organized at the European Parliament by an ultraconservative group of Polish representatives has provoked scuffles between rival MEP...

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Expats Have Pole Position
Poland ranks as one of the cheapest countries to live for expats, whereas Norway is the most expensive. In a recent survey comparing the cost of living for e...

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Papal Premiere Stirs Hearts
Pope Benedict and Oscar winner Jon Voight attended a special screening on Thursday of a television mini-series in which Voight plays the late Pope John Paul. ...

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Poland To Hold Missile Base?
The United States is holding talks with Poland about establishing a military base there to shoot down long-range missiles fired from the Middle East or Africa t...

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Greenpeace Blocks Ship
Rough seas on Thursday forced Greenpeace activists to give up a blockade of a ship they say carried 25,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentinian soya...

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Cowboy Reflects On Papal Role
For Jon Voight, the actor who shot to fame 36 years ago as an aspiring stud in "Midnight Cowboy," playing Pope John Paul was like a personal coming home. "I'...

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Russian Ban Causes Rumpus
Polish authorities declared that Russia's ban on food imports was costing its agricultural industry $1 million per day in lost revenues, as Polish Foreign Minis...

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