
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 ...
Poland's treasury minister fired over gas deal
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday fired the treasury minister for failing to properly oversee state-run companies, in particular a gas deal ...
Slovak, Polish PMs support joint 2022 Olympic bid
The prime ministers of Slovakia and Poland say they support a possible joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico ...
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 ...

Opposition uses tablet to speak out in parliament
In Poland, speaking out in parliament is a privilege mostly reserved for lawmakers, but the opposition has skirted that regulation with the help of ...

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 ...

Polish parliament approves EU fiscal compact
Polish lawmakers have approved the European Union's fiscal compact, a set of rules that will limit public debt. The vote Wednesday by the lower ...

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.

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 ...
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 ...