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Suspects Released in Mugging Case

Aug.04.2002

Warsaw police detained two persons who might have been involved in Sunday's attack on Russian diplomats' children, but they were released Tuesday afternoon when...

The Best for your Buses

July.30.2005

By the end of 2006, over 300 polish bus drivers will be behind the wheel in Britain. To staff its expansion into England, the Scottish bus company Stagecoach, ...

Wicker Working Wonders

Aug.02.2005

In southern Poland, a small rural town is building on historic tradition to fuel their economy in the 21st century. But what exactly are they building and what...

Double Your Vote!

June.16.2005

The upcoming elections aren't offering poles more of the same. Or are they? Identical twin brothers, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are running for the Presiden...

Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence

Aug.01.2005

Recently, 15 Polish Youths shouting anti-Russian slogans attacked and beat upon three Russian teens in a Warsaw park. The three Youths were the children of Rus...

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???

July.22.2005

Germany's BASF and the Russian firm Gazprom are in the advanced stages of planning an oil pipeline that would connect the two nations by way of the Baltic Sea. ...

Unemployment Down .3 Percent

July.25.2005

Unemployment in Poland has dropped to 18 per cent from 18.3 in May. Still, according to the figures released by the General Statistical office, 2 million 800 th...

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal

July.25.2005

The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski ...

Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012

Dec.14.2002

UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012, European soccer's governing body announced in a statement on Friday. They comp...

Polanski Wins Libel Case

July.22.2005

Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame...

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.

Jul.20.2005

Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t...

Danziger Goldwasser: Good to be Golden!

July 20, 2005

Danziger Goldwasser (English translation: Gold water from Danzig) is the registered tradename of a strong (38%) root and herbal liqueur that has been produced s...

A Price To Pay

July.20.2005

Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid. The promised 100 million US dollars will be use...

Polanski In The Dock

July.19.2005

Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ...

Poles Support EU Enlargement

July.19.2005

Poles, just like the nationals of other new EU member states, are more open towards further enlargement of the bloc than the citizens of old member states. ...

Poles Killed In London Blasts

July.19.2005

The identity has been confirmed of another Polish woman killed in the recent terrorist attacks in London. 29-year-old Karolina Gluck was on one of the train...

Gunter Grass Illuminates Historic Gdansk!

July.12.2005

Gunter Grass, the Nobel laureate author of ‘The Tin Drum,’ has often traveled to his hometown of Gdansk, to find inspiration for his art. Having experienced li...

25 Years Of Solidarity!

July.13.2005

This July, the city of Gdansk will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement in Gdansk. In 1980, the Soviet-backed Polish government mor...

Polish Triumph At Film Festival

July.13.2005

The Polish film 'Nikifor' stole the show at the 40th Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week in the Czech Republic. The film tells the 'true life tale' of a cur...

Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain

July.13.2005

Exorcists from all over the world have convened in the Jasna Gora shrine in the central Polish city of Czestochowa. The meeting is closed to the media, and no d...

Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists

July.12.2005

Joining the seductive "plumber", an alluring "nurse" on Tuesday debuted in Poland's tongue-in-cheek tourism campaign launched last month in a humorous response ...

Poles Missing In London

July.12.2005

Eighteen Poles are still missing Monday after last week's bomb attack on London, Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld confirmed Monday. Speaking to...

Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last

July.11.2005

Almost three hundred Polish veterans took part in a grand victory parade in London yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. ...

Extradition Row Runs On

July.6.2005

Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecut...

Poles Flock To The Cloth

July.6.2005

Poles already make up a quarter of Europe's Roman Catholic clergy and interest in vocation for the priesthood is on the rise after the death of compatriot Pope ...

Former PM Edges Into Lead

July.6.2005

Former prime minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has become the new favourite in the Polish presidential election, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpos...

Polish War Efforts Revealed

July.5.2005

Polish foreign minister Adam Rotfeld considers the report on Poland’s contribution to the Allied victory in World War Two compiled by the joint Polish-British c...

Vodka Giant To Leave Polish Hands

July.5.2005

The Polish government has agreed to sell its leading distillery, Polmos Bialystok, the producer of the Zubrowka (Bison Grass) vodka brand, to US spirits distrib...

Ian Holm To Play Pope John Paul II

June.30.2005

Ian Holm will play Pope John Paul II in the upcoming CBS biopic about the late pontiff, reports Variety. The four-hour miniseries is on track for a debut as ear...

Pope Coins A Runaway Hit

June.30.2005

Poles lined up Wednesday to buy collectors' coins with the image of the late Pope John Paul II, issued by the central bank to honor Poland's most famous son. ...

Austrian In Choppy Water Over Polish Remark

June.30.2005

The Vienna city council on Wednesday lifted the immunity of a politician who suggested that Nazi gas chambers were found in Poland, but not anywhere else in the...

Poles Are Anti Ads

June.30.2005

Around 80% of Poles do not approve of advertising while three –quarters define it as boring and irritating. According to the recent poll conducted by the CBOS c...

Ukrainian Airline In The Running

June.30.2005

According to Puls Biznesu information, the most likely candidate to service internal flights in Poland is a Ukrainian airline. "A few foreign enterprises, f...

Saucy Plumber Seduces French

June.29.2005

Poland could have taken offence when French critics of the proposed European constitution, fearing a flood of migrant workers from eastern Europe, made the "Pol...

Sainthood Path Officially Launched

June.29.2005

Pope John Paul, considered a saint by many Roman Catholics even before he died in April, was formally launched on the road towards sainthood on Tuesday. A si...

Mayor Convicted Of Slander

June.29.2005

Lech Kaczynski, the mayor of Warsaw and a leading presidential candidate, was convicted Friday of slander - a ruling that could force his resignation. The c...

Fresh Start For Poles And Ukrainians

June.28.2005

‘The official opening ceremony of the cemetery in Lviv, today’s Ukraine, of young Polish freedom fighters who lost their lives in the Polish-Ukrainian war of 19...

Ryanair Launches New Routes To Poland

June.21.2005

Ryanair Holdings PLC, the Irish based budget airline, has launched new routes to Grenoble in France, Lodz and Poznan in Poland aswell as Kaunas in Lithuania, wh...

Hope For Poorest Regions

June.20.2005

Poland could benefit to the tune of EUR 900 (zl.3,635) million from a new EU fund to help areas suffering most from unemployment. The fund was actually propo...

Call For Reconciliation

Junne.20.2005

A beatification mass of three Polish priests was held in Warsaw this morning. An important element of the ceremony was a joint prayer for the reconciliation bet...

Saddam Looks To Poland

June.15.2005

Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein say the deposed Iraqi dictator wants his case to be tried in Sweden or Poland instead of Iraq where he faces the death penalt...

Landmark Case Adjourned

June.15.2005

The European Court of Human Rights has adjourned the case of Broniowski v. Poland pending the outcome of friendly settlement negotiations on the question of jus...

Tragic Turn To Memorial Day

June.14.2005

Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp took a sad turn when one of the passengers, an 85...

Vets On Wheels

June.13.2005

A veterinary clinic on wheels has arrived in the city of Lodz, central Poland, offering free check-ups for dogs. The huge truck, which boasts three consultancy ...

Boost For Polish-Ukrainian Cup Bid

June.13.2005

Ukraine's FFU has published an appeal to the media asking to support Ukraine’s and Poland’s joint bid to host Euro-2012 football finals. The Federation believe...

The Hevelius Forum

June.13.2005

Drawing inspiration from the traditions of its home city of Gdansk, the Hevelius Forum for Dialogue between Science and Religion strives to increase tolerance w...

Intelligence Ignored

June.10.2005

A new offiicial report on Second World War Intelligence has spotlighted what Poles have been aware of for some sixty years now - namely that the British governm...

Leaders Meet On The Vistula

June.10.2005

The prime ministers of four of the European Union's central European members have urged the bloc to push on with ratification of the EU constitution. The pr...

Mystery Airline Set To Launch

June.9.2005

It is likely that by the fall one will be able to fly directly between regional airports at a cost below zl.300 per flight. These are the foundations of a pr...

Dziwisz Defends Decision

June.9.2005

John Paul II's longtime private secretary defended on Wednesday his decision not to burn the pope's papers as the pontiff's will instructed, saying the pope had...

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