Poland

Poland

• Polish jobless rate rises to 14.4 percent

  Polish government statistics show that the unemployment rate in February inched up to 14.4 percent from 14.2 from the previous month, underlining the ... 

• 1 Polish soldier killed, 1 wounded in Afghanistan

  Poland's Defense Ministry says an improvised explosive device has killed a Polish soldier and wounded another one in Afghanistan. The ministry said ... 

• FM: Poland should step up role in threatened EU

  Poland's foreign minister says the future of the European Union is uncertain and Poland should increase its role to help mend the ailing 27-member ... 

• 19 Polish miners rescued after 7-hour search

  Nineteen miners trapped nearly a kilometer (half a mile) below ground by a cave-in at a copper mine in southern Poland were freed early Wednesday ... 

• Poles describe Himalayan climb where 2 died

  It was a race against the clock, against the mountain and against the darkness — and two climbers lost their lives doing it. Two Polish climbers who ... 

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  US reassures Poland over missile defense changes

  A U.S. plan to deploy missile defense interceptors to Poland and Romania has been a source of assurance to Washington's allies, who welcome further ... 

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  Russia unmoved by US missile defense plan change

  A top Russian diplomat says the United States' cancellation of a critical part of its European missile defense system plan doesn't mollify Moscow's ... 

• US canceling key part of European missile defense

  The Obama administration announced Friday that it is abandoning a key part of its European missile defense plan: an interceptor that had been strongly ... 

• LOT's grounded 787s set to fly this summer

  Poland's state-owned airline said Friday that its two grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners may be among the first to resume flights, possibly in the summer 

• Merkel learns to say Polish grandfather's surname

  Poland's prime minister said it took German Chancellor Angela Merkel just two tries to correctly say the surname of her Polish grandfather: ... 

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  Robert Kubica ready to learn in 1st WRC season

  Former Formula One driver Robert Kubica plans to use his first season on the second-tier circuit of the European and World Rally Championships to ... 

• Walesa avoids hate crime charge for anti-gay words

  Polish prosecutors say they will not charge former President Lech Walesa with hate crimes for recent remarks deemed offensive to gays. Walesa, a ... 

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  Airport closed after plane skidded in Poland

  Teams of experts were working to free a Boeing 737 airplane from a muddy field after it skidded off the runway while landing in Katowice, southern ... 

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  Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof

  A Jewish history museum in Warsaw has unveiled a reconstructed synagogue roof with an elaborately painted ceiling modeled on a 17th-century structure, ... 

• Poland philharmonic employee charged in killings

  An employee of a philharmonic in western Poland was charged with murder in the double homicide of a young female harpist and a security guard inside ... 

• Old sausage found at Polish meat plant

  A local veterinary inspector has been suspended in northern Poland after evidence was found of old sausages and meat stored at a processing plant. 

• World War II explosives found under future runway

  An airport spokesman says that dozens of World War II German artillery shells have been found at the site where a new runway is to be built in ... 

• Repair starts on runway in idled Polish airport

  A spokeswoman says repair has started on the runway at Modlin airport near Warsaw, idled since December due to surface cracks. Edyta Mikolajczyk said ... 

• Polish police arrest man in philharmonic killings

  A Polish official says a suspect has been arrested in the killing of a young female harpist and a security guard in the building of a philharmonic in ... 

• Poland aims to pave way for 2015 climate deal

  Hoping to win over EU critics of Poland's recent stance on climate change, the environment minister said Friday that the coal-powered nation will make ... 

• Pole taken to hospital with screwdriver in head

  Polish doctors say a 25-year-old man has undergone a three-hour operation to remove a screwdriver lodged about five centimeters (two inches) into his ... 

• Polish plant accused of rotten meat in sausages

  Polish inspectors on Friday halted meat processing at a plant in northern Poland after a television program alleged that it was adding rotten meat to ... 

• 2 bodies found at Polish philharmonic

  Polish authorities have launched a double homicide investigation after the bodies of a harpist and a security guard were found in a building housing ...