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Thousands of Poles protest pro-market reforms
Thousands of Poles blew horns, prayed and waved flags in downtown Warsaw on Saturday to show their anger over a new law that raises the retirement age ...
Polish Solidarity hero is reburied after mix-up
Mourners on Friday bid a second farewell to Anna Walentynowicz, a legendary figure with Poland's Solidarity movement whose body was mistakenly buried ...
Poland's unemployment rises to 12.4 pct in August
Government figures show that Poland's jobless rate rose to 12.4 percent at the end of August from 12.3 percent in July, as the economy shows signs of ...
Poles angered by Ukraine's graveside fashion shoot
Poland on Thursday protested a Ukrainian photo exhibition featuring models dressed as Catholic nuns posing next to the graves of Polish soldiers, an ...
Polish troops find abandoned baby in Afghanistan
Polish troops on patrol in southern Afghanistan have found a newborn baby abandoned on the side of a road. The towel-wrapped girl was found Wednesday ...
Poland urges Ukraine to make East-West choice
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski urged Ukraine's leader on Thursday to push for integration with the European Union, but acknowledged that a key ...
Poles help people of Belarus, recalling own past
Volha Starastsina saw no choice but to flush her work down the police station toilet. That was the only place the Belarusian journalist could hide TV ...
Czech PM wants liquor history on new bottles
The Czech prime minister says any new hard liquor produced in the country needs to have a detailed certificate of origin — a move that comes after at ...
2 Poles arrested after death of 2 foster children
An official says a Polish couple accused of killing two children in their foster home have been arrested. Regional prosecutor Piotr Styczewski says ...
Methanol kills 19, injures 24 in central Europe
) — At least 19 people are dead and 24 others hospitalized. Some of them have been blinded, while others have been induced into comas in the hope that ...
AP Exclusive: Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of ...
Key dates related to the Katyn massacre
— September 1939: World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland from the west, quickly followed by the Soviet invasion from the east.
Polish crematorium plan offends Holocaust memory
Authorities in an eastern Polish city are trying to stop a funeral company from building a crematorium in the same neighborhood as the former German ...
Poland hopes to identify remains of Auschwitz hero
It could hardly have been a riskier mission: infiltrate Auschwitz to chronicle Nazi atrocities. Witold Pilecki survived nearly three years as an ...
Polish economic growth slows to 2.4 percent in Q2
Poland's economy, which has steamed ahead for years in defiance of trouble elsewhere in Europe, made a sudden slowdown in the second quarter of this ...
Poland files new fraud charge in financial scheme
Polish prosecutors filed a new charge of fraud on Wednesday against a man who ran a nationwide financial scheme that allegedly cheated thousands ...
Gold-based scam unravels, robbing Poles of savings
It was pretty much all the money Bozena Oracz had after a working life as an accountant: the equivalent of $15,000. She placed it in a fund investing ...
Israeli archaeologist digs into Nazi death camp
When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family's unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began ...
Polish prosecutors charge owner of financial firm
Prosecutors in Poland charged the owner of a suspended investment fund with illegal activity in a case that has increased government scrutiny of the ...
Russian, Polish churches appeal for forgiveness
The leaders of Russia's Orthodox church and Poland's Catholic church signed a document Friday that urges their nations to forgive each other for past ...
Russian Orthodox head pays 1st visit to Poland
The controversial head of Russia's Orthodox Church arrived Thursday in Poland for a trip hailed as a promising step in the thorny relationship between ...
Polish priest charged with pedophilia found dead
A charred body was found at a cemetery in eastern Poland and is believed to be that of a priest suspected of pedophilia in Germany and in Poland, a ...
Widowed giraffe at Polish zoo to get new mates
A young male giraffe widowed following a hooligan attack in May is set to get three new female partners at his zoo. The females will arrive next week ...
AdWatch: Romney ad hits Obama on religious freedom
TITLE: "Be Not Afraid" LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: The ad is on the web. Romney's campaign said it will air on television beginning Friday, but will ...
Last Polish soldier of WWII opening battle dies
Maj. Ignacy Skowron, the last known Polish survivor of the opening battle of World War II, died on Sunday at the age of 97. Family friend Zofia Nowak ...