
Warsaw marks 70 years since uprising in ghetto
Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in Warsaw as largely Roman Catholic Poland paid homage Friday to the Jewish fighters who rose up 70 years ago ...

Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader
About 200 Poles chanted accusations against Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, accusing the Russian leader of murdering their own President Lech Kaczynski in ...

Ukraine president pardons 2 Tymoshenko allies
A top ally of imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko walked free from jail Sunday, after Ukraine's president pardoned him and another ...
Poland presents plan for privatizing airline
The Polish government has devised a plan to sell off LOT airlines, the deeply indebted state-run flag-carrier. Revealing the draft law for the ...
Slovak, Polish PMs support joint Olympic bid
The prime ministers of Slovakia and Poland say they fully support a possible joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Slovak Prime Minister Robert ...
Protest action in Poland against government
Thousands of workers held work stoppages in Poland's southern industrial region on Tuesday to demand more job security, higher pensions and government ...
Psychiatric tests for Pole accused of terror plan
A court has ordered a psychiatric examination of a man accused of planning to detonate a bomb in front of Poland's Parliament building. On a request ...
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 ...
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 ...

Polish lawmakers protest Walesa's anti-gay rant
Poland's first openly gay and transsexual lawmakers took seats on the front bench of Parliament Wednesday to protest hostile remarks by former ...

Lech Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay words
Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent ...
President: Poland should be euro-ready in 2015
Poland should focus on meeting financial criteria to join the euro bloc by 2015 and only then decide whether to adopt the single currency, national ...

Polish transsexual lawmaker loses shot at top post
The before and after photos of Anna Grodzka show how much she — and her country — have transformed. As a man, she once wore a thick beard.
Premier: Polish image intact despite price fixing
Poland's prime minister says he believes the discovery of corruption in the country's road construction sector should not hurt its standing in the ...
Poland rejects draft laws for unmarried couples
Poland's lawmakers have rejected three separate draft laws that were intended to give legal rights to unmarried couples, including same-sex ones.

Mother of Poland's Kaczynski twins dies at 86
Jadwiga Kaczynska, the mother of the late President Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw — an unusual political duo who shaped ...

Poland launches program to reduce traffic deaths
Poland will upgrade its roads, improve law enforcement and take other steps as part of a new government program designed to improve the country's ...
Poland acts on illegal immigrants' complaints
Living conditions and the treatment of illegal immigrants at Poland's detention centers will be improved, the interior minister said Monday.
Russia says Polish crash wreckage to be returned
Russia's foreign minister has promised his Polish counterpart that Russia will return as soon as possible the wreckage from the plane crash that ...

Polish parliament passes 2013 budget
Poland's lower house of parliament has approved a 2013 budget that foresees a slightly lower deficit than that expected for this year. The government ...
Polish energy advisor: keep using coal for energy
An advisor to the Polish government says the country should keep using its coal for decades to come, despite a European Union policy of replacing the ...
Poland asks EU to push Russia to return wreckage
Poland is asking the European Union to pressure Moscow to return the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Russia in 2010, killing President Lech ...