http://www.mail.com/locations/1502-poland.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/1502-poland.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2102504-polish-man-quick-face-transplant-injury.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant. Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated and relatively rare procedures that us... Thu, 23 May 2013 03:11:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2102504-polish-man-quick-face-transplant-injury.html 2013-05-23T03:11:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100430-warsaw-ghetto-insurgent-boruch-spiegel-93-dies.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93. Spiegel died May 9 in Montreal, where he had spent the past four years in a nursing home, his son Julius Spiegel said Tuesday. With ... Tue, 21 May 2013 18:27:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100430-warsaw-ghetto-insurgent-boruch-spiegel-93-dies.html 2013-05-21T18:27:42Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2089446-polish-exports-meat-jews-muslims-limbo.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic nation — were the unlikely venues for the Islamic and Jewish slaughter of animals, which in both religions involves a swift cut to the throat of a conscious animal and death by bleeding... Thu, 16 May 2013 10:52:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2089446-polish-exports-meat-jews-muslims-limbo.html 2013-05-16T10:52:58Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070886-polands-shale-gas-hopes-suffer-blow.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — News that Talisman Energy Inc. and Marathon Oil are pulling out of exploration for shale gas in Poland is a blow to the country's hopes that its deposits of the hydrocarbon will soon cut its dependence on Russian supplies and support the weakening economy. Canada's Talisman and U.S. Marathon Oil said Wednesday they had not found enou... Wed, 08 May 2013 19:03:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2070886-polands-shale-gas-hopes-suffer-blow.html 2013-05-08T19:03:17Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2044044-polish-airline-to-resume-flying-boeing-787s-june-5.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's national airline, LOT, says it is resuming flights on its two grounded Boeing 787s on June 5 and is selling tickets for the flights. LOT said earlier this week that it would resume flights on the 787s in June without giving an exact date. The world's total fleet of 50 Boeing 787s has been grounded since Jan. 16 as Boeing and... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:03:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2044044-polish-airline-to-resume-flying-boeing-787s-june-5.html 2013-04-25T14:03:40Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2038662-polands-boeing-787s-to-resume-flight-june.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish national airline LOT said Tuesday its Boeing 787s, which had been grounded for months due to battery problems, will resume flying in June and that it will seek compensation from the U.S. plane maker. The world's total fleet of 50 Boeing 787s has been grounded since Jan. 16 as Boeing and investigators tried to figure out why on... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:12:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2038662-polands-boeing-787s-to-resume-flight-june.html 2013-04-23T15:12:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2038450-immigrant-patients-deported-hospitals.html DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid paying for long-term care after serious illness or injury. The Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University has documented "medical repatriation" cases in 15 states involving pati... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:14:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2038450-immigrant-patients-deported-hospitals.html 2013-04-23T07:14:27Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2033098-us-philanthropist-savors-opening-jewish-museum.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents — papers that plainly identified him as an 8-year-old Jewish boy from Poland. But the full terror of the war was ... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:54:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2033098-us-philanthropist-savors-opening-jewish-museum.html 2013-04-20T15:54:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2030586-warsaw-marks-70-years-uprising-ghetto.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 against German Nazi forces in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The mournful sounds marked the start of state ceremonies that were led by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski at the iconic Mon... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:31:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2030586-warsaw-marks-70-years-uprising-ghetto.html 2013-04-19T16:31:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2030854-polands-treasury-minister-fired-gas-deal.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday fired the treasury minister for failing to properly oversee state-run companies, in particular a gas deal one of them signed with Russia. Tusk said Mikolaj Budzanowski would be replaced by the current deputy administration minister, Wlodzimierz Karpinski. He said there had been an insuffici... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:32:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2030854-polands-treasury-minister-fired-gas-deal.html 2013-04-19T12:32:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2028680-ap-interview-warsaw-ghetto-survivor-recalls-hell.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Jakub Gutenbaum still squirms at the thought of scalding-hot walls in the basement where he hid while houses burned overhead during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Talking to The Associated Press on Thursday, the 83-year-old Gutenbaum recalled people in the basement lying on the floor in utter silence with no clothes on in that "infernal... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:38:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2028680-ap-interview-warsaw-ghetto-survivor-recalls-hell.html 2013-04-18T17:38:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025446-poland-remembers-warsaw-ghetto-fighters.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel's ambassador to Poland opened a 3-D show of Warsaw ghetto photos on Wednesday as part of observances marking the 70th anniversary of the ghetto's ill-fated revolt against Nazi Germans. The 48 pictures shown at Warsaw's Fotoplastikon are images of people walking or begging in the streets, street vendors, German troops and the J... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:57:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025446-poland-remembers-warsaw-ghetto-fighters.html 2013-04-17T16:57:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2020264-heir-to-johnson-johnson-wealth-buried-poland.html WROCLAW, Poland (AP) — Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a former maid who married the American heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was buried Monday in her hometown in Poland after a modest funeral. An art collector and philanthropist, Johnson died at age of 76 on April 1 near Wroclaw, in southwestern Poland. She lived and studied art history in Wroclaw befor... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:18:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2020264-heir-to-johnson-johnson-wealth-buried-poland.html 2013-04-15T16:18:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2018646-events-mark-70-years-warsaw-ghetto-uprising.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A month of commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has begun, with a communal cleaning of a Jewish cemetery and a religious ritual at a new Jewish history museum. The key event will be a ceremony Friday led by President Bronislaw Komorowski remembering the hundreds of Jewish fighters who fought... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:27:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2018646-events-mark-70-years-warsaw-ghetto-uprising.html 2013-04-14T15:27:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2017638-poland-unveils-giant-statue-john-paul-ii.html CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) — A giant statue of the late Pope John Paul II billed as the world's tallest has been unveiled in southern Poland. Archbishop Waclaw Depo unveiled the statue of the Polish pontiff Saturday in the southern city of Czestochowa, the home of this predominantly Catholic nation's most famous pilgrimage site, the Jasna Gora monastery. ... Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:10:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2017638-poland-unveils-giant-statue-john-paul-ii.html 2013-04-13T15:10:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2010144-mother-suspected-killing-3-newborns-poland.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Poland on Wednesday were questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the family's freezer. Police spokesman Slawomir Nojman said that the woman, identified as 41-year-old Lucyna D. from the northern town of Lubawa, has confessed to killing the infants. If convicte... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:08:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2010144-mother-suspected-killing-3-newborns-poland.html 2013-04-10T11:08:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2007904-giant-john-paul-ii-statue-readied-unveiling.html CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) — Workers are putting the finishing touches on a new statue of the late Pope John Paul II that its backer is calling the tallest one of the pontiff in the world. The 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) white fiberglass figure will tower over the southern Polish city of Czestochowa, home to the predominantly Catholic country's most important pi... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:58:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2007904-giant-john-paul-ii-statue-readied-unveiling.html 2013-04-09T17:58:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2005914-jewish-youths-march-honor-holocaust-victims.html OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Thousands of youths from Israel and other countries marched in silence Monday at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi death camp in Poland, to pay homage to 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust. Frank Lowy of Australia, a Holocaust survivor whose father died in the camp, joined the youths as they walked between the two main se... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:14:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2005914-jewish-youths-march-honor-holocaust-victims.html 2013-04-08T17:14:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2003786-israel-annual-holocaust-memorial-day.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel dedicated its annual memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust to mark 70 years to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II that resonates deeply in Israel to this day. At the opening ceremony at nightfall, President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netany... Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:51:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2003786-israel-annual-holocaust-memorial-day.html 2013-04-07T18:51:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2003314-israels-military-chief-to-visit-auschwitz.html JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its chief of staff will head a delegation to a Holocaust memorial at the site of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, the son of Holocaust survivors, left for Poland Sunday as Israel prepared for its Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day commemorations. Six million Jews were systematically murdere... Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:48:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2003314-israels-military-chief-to-visit-auschwitz.html 2013-04-07T06:48:12Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2002684-warsaw-ghetto-survivor-israel-recalls-uprising.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. The end was near. Nazi troops had encircled the ghetto, and the remaining Jewish rebels inside were prepared to die fighting. They had few ... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2002684-warsaw-ghetto-survivor-israel-recalls-uprising.html 2013-04-06T17:40:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2000332-nkorea-warns-embassies-guarantee-safety.html MOSCOW (AP) — North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want to evacuate their staff, Russia's top diplomat said Friday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is demanding an explanation from the North Koreans — asking whether the warning is an order to evacuate... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:41:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2000332-nkorea-warns-embassies-guarantee-safety.html 2013-04-06T01:41:05Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1997546-heir-to-johnson-johnson-fortune-dies-76.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — She was a Polish farmer's daughter who emigrated to the United States, a maid who worked for a wealthy American heir, and a third wife who inherited much of the Johnson & Johnson fortune after a sensational court battle with her six stepchildren. Barbara Piasecka Johnson, the widow of J. Seward Johnson Sr., heir to millions made from... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:26:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1997546-heir-to-johnson-johnson-fortune-dies-76.html 2013-04-04T16:26:26Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1984552-tv-drama-reopens-debate-germans-war-guilt.html BERLIN (AP) — With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, a television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe. Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five ... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:45:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1984552-tv-drama-reopens-debate-germans-war-guilt.html 2013-03-28T15:45:13Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1982202-slovak-polish-pms-support-joint-2022-olympic-bid.html BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — 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 says the countries take the bid "extremely seriously" and will do all they can to make it successful. Under the proposal, the hub would be Poland's historic city of Krakow, with mo... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:31:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1982202-slovak-polish-pms-support-joint-2022-olympic-bid.html 2013-03-27T14:31:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1982024-us-detainee-zubaydah-sues-poland-european-court.html LONDON (AP) — A Guantanamo detainee who allegedly revealed valuable information about 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed is suing Poland in a European court. Abu Zubaydah's lawyers say he was held in a CIA black site in Poland, which they say has withheld critical information needed to investigate his case. He was allegedly held in Poland between 2002 ... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:28:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1982024-us-detainee-zubaydah-sues-poland-european-court.html 2013-03-27T13:28:02Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1966604-19-polish-miners-rescued-7-hour-search.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 after a seven-hour search. The men were trapped by fallen rock at the Rudna copper mine in Polkowice after a magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck the area. "It was a very difficult rescue action... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:22:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1966604-19-polish-miners-rescued-7-hour-search.html 2013-03-20T10:22:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1962266-us-reassures-poland-missile-defense-changes.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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 integration in a key U.S. security system. Meanwhile, it has infuriated Russia, which sees the interceptors as a threat and has cited them to block cooperation on nuclear arms reductions and other issues. ... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:09:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1962266-us-reassures-poland-missile-defense-changes.html 2013-03-18T18:09:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1961902-russia-unmoved-us-missile-defense-plan-change.html MOSCOW (AP) — 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 opposition. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last week announced that plans to place long-range missile interceptors in Poland in the final stage of its European system are being abandoned. U.S... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:03:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1961902-russia-unmoved-us-missile-defense-plan-change.html 2013-03-18T17:03:20Z