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August 15, 2019

Poland marks Armed Forces holiday with military parade

Poland celebrated its Armed Forces national holiday on Thursday with a parade that included more than 2,600 soldiers and a ...

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Marek Kuchcinski

August 09, 2019

Polish parliament picks new speaker, seeking to end scandal

Polish lawmakers have chosen a new parliamentary speaker as the ruling populist party seeks to move past a scandal over the ...

Andrzej Duda, Heiko Maas

August 02, 2019

Polish president wants parliamentary election held on Oct.13

Poland's president says he wants the country's parliamentary election to be held on Oct. 13 after a short campaign season but ...

German FM in Poland for talks, WWII revolt anniversary

Germany's foreign minister is in Poland for talks and to attend observances marking 75 years since the Warsaw Rising against ...

Ursula von der Leyen, Mateusz Morawiecki

EU president-elect in Poland for talks on migration, law

European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen met with Poland's prime minister Thursday to discuss the executive ...

Accident in Turkey injures some 30 tourists; mostly Poles

Poland's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that 30 Poles were hurt when a tour bus carrying tourists from Poland, Russia and ...

Court: Walesa must apologize to Poland's ruling party head

A Polish appeals court upheld a lower court's verdict in a slander case and ruled Monday that pro-democracy fighter and ...

Germany marks 75th anniversary of plot to kill Hitler

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Europeans to confront populism, nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism as she paid ...

EU takes further step against Poland over judicial reforms

The European Union has given Poland's government two months to reverse new disciplinary regulations the bloc says undermine ...

Police in Poland search for missing boy whose father died

Polish police are searching for the fifth straight day for a small boy whose father failed to deliver him to his mother and ...

Artur Brauner

Film producer and Holocaust survivor Artur Brauner dies

Artur Brauner, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who became one of post-World War II Germany's most prominent film producers, ...

Gas explosion kills mother and 2 young daughters in Poland

Officials in southern Poland say that a woman and her two children have been killed in a gas explosion in an apartment in the ...

1 miner killed, 5 injured at Polish copper mines

Poland's international copper mining company KGHM Polska Miedz says that one miner has been killed and five injured at two ...

Poland convicts former gov't employee of spying for Russia

A Polish court has convicted a former government employee on charges of spying for Russia and sentenced him to three years ...

Police break up huge 'modern day slavery' ring in UK

Details about what prosecutors have called one of Britain's largest-ever modern day slavery rings have emerged with the ...

Activist arrested for chanting 'Down with Polish fascism!'

An activist in Poland has been arrested and charged with the crime of insulting the Polish nation for chanting "Down with ...

Ukrainian worker dies in Poland after employer abandons him

A Ukrainian man who fainted on the job in Poland was found dead in a forest after his employer dropped him off there rather ...

Officials: US to send about 1,000 more troops to Poland

The U.S. is expected to announce Wednesday that it will send about 1,000 additional troops and a squadron of Reaper drones ...

Poland's democracy anniversary exposes political divisions

Poland marked Tuesday the 30-year anniversary of partly-free elections that contributed to the fall of communism, with the ...

Adam Bialiatski, Mikita Valadzko

2 men get prison for slain sheep 'performance' at Auschwitz

On a cold day in March 2017, a group of young adults stripped naked at the former Auschwitz death camp and chained themselves ...