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Feb.06.2006 | |
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... | |
Feb.6.2005 | |
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... | |
Feb.2.2006 | |
Princess Anne is paying a visit to Poland. Her meeting with Poland’s First Lady Maria Kaczynska focused on charity organizations in the U.K. and Poland, and the... | |
Jan.31.2006 | |
Poland's prime minister said new federal regulations would allow authorities to close buildings whose roofs aren't cleared of snow, and investigators picked thr... | |
Jan.31.2006 | |
The government has ordered the temporary closure of some large buildings fearing their roofs may collapse in a repeat of a weekend disaster that killed 67 peopl... | |
Jan.30.2006 | |
Poles came from around the country to Katowice today to lay flowers and light candles in memory of the 62 people who died when the roof of an exhibition hall co... | |
Jan.30.2006 | |
Rescuers abandoned hope Sunday of finding survivors beneath the wreckage of an exhibition hall that collapsed, killing 66 people, and authorities were bringing ... | |
Jan.26.2006 | |
A coalition of Polish NGOs including OTOP (BirdLife in Poland) has today turned to the European Commission to help secure the long term future of some of its mo... | |
Jan.26.2006 | |
Poland will spend over 100 billion zlotys(more than 30 billion U.S.dollars) on the construction of new highways and motorways by 2013, announced Prime Minister ... | |
Jan.26.2006 | |
It will be the fastest railway line in Poland. EU will forward about 3 billion PLN (780 million euro) to Polish National Railway (PKP) to finance the change of ... | |
Jan.24.2005 | |
U.S. diplomats arranged for Cuban dissidents to get a pep talk from former Polish President Lech Walesa on Saturday in the latest chapter of Washington's long-r... | |
Jan.23.2005 | |
As temperatures continue to plummet, we thought we'd bring you news of a less freezing variety. Indeed, whilst motorists brave the snows and ice here in Polska,... | |
Jan.19.2006 | |
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... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
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... | |
Jan.12.2005 | |
Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II, was released from his Turkish jail today after serving over 25 years behind bars. Agca was a right-wing ... | |
Jan.12.2005 | |
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... | |
Jan.11.2005 | |
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 ... | |
Jan.14.2002 | |
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... | |
Jan.9.2005 | |
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... | |
Jan.6.2005 | |
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... | |
Jan.5.2006 | |
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... | |
Dec.12.2005 | |
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 ... | |
Dec.7.2005 | |
Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi... | |
Dec.7.2005 | |
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... | |
Dec.2.2005 | |
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... | |
Dec.2.2005 | |
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash. H... | |
Nov.30.2005 | |
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... | |
Nov.28.2005 | |
Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”... | |
Nov.18.2005 | |
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. ... | |
Nov.18.2005 | |
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... | |
Nov.16.2005 | |
Budget airline Wizz Air is to start flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the Polish city of Gdansk. The carrier, which in less than 12 months has c... | |
Oct.08.2005 | |
UEFA have shortlisted Italy and joint bids from Croatia/Hungary and Poland/Ukraine to host the the European Championship in 2012, rejecting rival bids from Gree... | |
Nov.05.2005 | |
A Polish archaeologist claims to have found the skull of the father of modern astronomy, Nicolas Copernicus (1473- 1543). The apparent discovery was made i... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
The European Union commissioner for Media and Information, Viviane Reding, received the highest Polish distinction in culture this week, the prestigious Gloria ... | |
Oct.26.2005 | |
President elect Lech Kaczynski said he would soon give up his membership of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and PiS' honorary chairmanship. "In my opinion the d... | |
Oct.25.2005 | |
During the course of his election campaign, President-elect Lech Kaczynski had naught but strong words for Poland's eastern nemisis, Russia. Stirring up anti-ru... | |
Oct.24.2005 | |
Lech Kaczynski, Warsaw's mayor, won Sunday's election for Poland's president, marking a second unexpected success for his Law and Justice party (PiS) following ... | |
Oct.24.2005 | |
Yesterday, Poles cast their ballots in the second round of the Presidential election. While Donald Tusk owned a large lead only weeks ago, his rival Lech Kaczyn... | |
Oct.21.2005 | |
An unknown gay rights group claimed it planted a dozen fake bombs around Warsaw that paralysed the Polish capital on Thursday, three days before the second roun... | |
Oct.19.2005 | |
Jaroslaw Walesa, the 29-year-old son of Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, pledged Tuesday to uphold Roman Catholic and family values as he begins his career in pa... | |
Oct.17.2005 | |
President Aleksander Kwasniewski left for Zagreb, Croatia on Friday morning to take part in the 12th annual meeting of Presidents from 18 central, eastern and s... | |
Oct.17.2005 | |
Recently, hooliganism reared its ugly (bald) head in Torun, where football fans on their way to a match in Gdansk, attacked police. An estimated 500 fans wer... | |
Oct.14.2005 | |
During talks with outgoing Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, U.S. President George Bush invited Poland's new foreign and defense ministers to Washington.... | |
Oct.12.2005 | |
The TRAKO 2005 International Railway Fair in Gdansk was opened at 10.00 yesderday. The event has gathered over 220 Polish and foreign exhibitors. It's the large... | |
Oct.12.2005 | |
A Polish rescue team has been sent to Pakistan to aid in the rescue efforts currently underway in the earthquake ravenged countryside. The team consists of 1... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
Poland's ambassador in Belarus, Tadeusz Pawlak, returned to his mission in Minsk on Tuesday. He had been recalled to Warsaw in late July in connection with conf... | |
Oct.11.2005 | |
Poland's key presidential candidate Donald Tusk said Monday that if elected, he will hold dialogues with Russia "in a very candid and firm voice" and seek bette... | |
Oct.10.2005 | |
Having cast their ballots, the two big guns in this years presidential election, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, seem destined for a runoff election later this ... | |
Oct.07.2005 | |
This week in Warsaw, a moc election was conducted amongst Poles under the legal voting age. Over 310,000 youngsters cast ballots to voice their opinion on who s... | |
Oct.10.2005 | |
Donald Tusk, the mild-mannered head of the business-friendly Civic Platform party who led Sunday's Polish presidential elections, became interested in politics ... | |
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