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Jan.25.2005 | |
In the Spring of 997, an earnest Bishop from Bohemia said a mass at a small church on Cracow's Market Square. His name was Adalbert, and this was to be his las... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
Former Polish president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt at a political comeback by running for president later th... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
With delegations from over sixty countries expected, and all of Cracow's hotels booked solid as a result, it is unlikely that travellers will have much luck in ... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
Cameramen can never resist a nice shot of the loser. Whether it's a clash at the lawcourts, a politician who has been given the sack, or an Olympic athelete who... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
Jan Nowak, the legendary fighter for the Polish resistance during World War II who went on to head the Polish service of Radio Free Europe for a quarter of a ce... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
Poland's jobless rate climbed to 19.1 percent in December, rising for the first time in 10 months, according to government figures released Monday. The unem... | |
Jan.24.2005 | |
Renovation is due to finish this week in one of Cracow's most glorious buildings, the turn of the century Slowacki Theatre. The theatre, which is a miniature... | |
Jan.24.2005 | |
Viktor Yushchenko became Ukraine's president Sunday and vowed to steer the nation toward the West, capping a popular revolt and a bitter months-long fight over ... | |
Jan.21.2005 | |
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's gover... | |
Jan.20.2005 | |
Sixty years on, memories of the horror they stumbled upon are still painfully vivid for the former Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's most ... | |
Jan.20.2005 | |
Poles heartily confess that they're fond of the odd beer or ten - it's very much part of the culture. And if we stray into politically incorrect territory, one ... | |
Jan.19.2005 | |
On a freezing Sunday in Jaslo, Poland, three pet budgies, named Cziko, Czako and Dako, fell asleep in broad daylight to the strains of John Levine’s alphamusic.... | |
Jan.19.2005 | |
As a priest, Karol Wojtyla refused to baptize a Jewish child who had been entrusted to a Catholic family in Nazi-occupied Poland, out of respect for the youngst... | |
Jan.19.2005 | |
A Mombasa peasant family is fighting to have a child they gave to a Polish couple in exchange for a mobile phone and Sh4,000 returned to them. Mr Joseph Riob... | |
Jan.18.2005 | |
On this day in 1945, the Soviet forces under Marshal Ivan Konev liberated Cracow from Nazi Occupation. Marshal Konev took the Germans by surprise by attacking f... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
Polish fishermen want to send their old boats to fishing villages on the Indian Ocean wiped out by last month's tsunami, rather than scrapping them under a Euro... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
Heavy fog caused a 61-car pile-up on Monday on a busy highway near the southern Polish city of Krakow, injuring 18 people, the fire brigade said. "Dense fo... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
A Polish woman who pretended to be a ghost and "haunted" an Alpine castle was sentenced to four months in prison by an Italian court. Police were called in ... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
A Polish legislature panel investigating allegations of high-level bribery broadened its mission this week, demanding the release of communist-era secret files ... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a ''negative influence'' on the sit... | |
Jan.14.2005 | |
Britain's Prince Harry has ruled out visiting Auschwitz as atonement for wearing a Nazi uniform at a party just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the dea... | |
Jan.14.2005 | |
Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday he saw reasons for closer ties between his country and Poland as he inaugurated the renovated Fren... | |
Jan..14.2005 | |
A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down — a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Euro... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
If any building in Cracow looks like it's in good shape then it is the Sukiennice. This glorious edifice, which sweeps across Europe's largest medieval square l... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
Given Cracow's hallowed status as Poland's cultural capital, the lack of a museum of contemporary art is something of an anomaly. However, plans are underway fo... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
Pope John Paul will visit Germany this year but will not take up an invitation to visit his native Poland in June because of elections planned there, the Vatica... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
Ukraine should be given a chance to join the European Union, and the people of the former Soviet republic should have the final say on membership, Polish Presid... | |
Jan.13.2005 | |
Britain's Prince Harry apologized on Thursday after he wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party two weeks before Queen Elizabeth is due to lead the country's Holo... | |
Jan.12.2005 | |
A bungling criminal's plans to pay his cousin to serve out his jail sentence went wrong when he foolishly squandered his freedom. Now they could both end up bei... | |
Jan.12.2005 | |
Polish parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said Tuesday he would seek a vote to dissolve parliament May 5 leading to general elections June 19. Po... | |
Jan.12.2005 | |
'It's outrageous that Cracovian delicatessens don't stock Wilkinson & Smilkinson's No.1 Gentleman's Relish. And come to think of it, the Mayor really ought to s... | |
Jan.11.2005 | |
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will speak at a ceremony this month marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a gr... | |
Jan.11.2005 | |
We are already into the last week of one of the major exhibitions of the season, 'Napoleon and the Poles.' Culture vultures should head on down to this lively s... | |
Jan.7.2005 | |
A man escaped unscathed after a boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland, the hospital spokesman said Thursday. Cameras monitori... | |
Jan.7.2005 | |
Poland still hopes to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of this year, but the staunch US ally could prolong the mission if the international community as... | |
Jan.6.2005 | |
If anyone in the Polish parliament could score a hit as a character in a James Bond film then it is Jozef Oleksy, who was relieved of his post as Speaker last w... | |
Jan.6.2005 | |
More than half of the Polish people oppose the transfer of large US military bases from Germany to Poland, an opinion poll issued Wednesday said. According ... | |
Jan.4.2005 | |
This Sunday Cracow's Main Market Square will kick back into action after the fantastic frolics of the New Year. The WOSP Charity Day, now in its 13th year, will... | |
Jan.4.2005 | |
The clumsy among us will know the experience of crouching down on the floor, trying to find shards of glass after you have accidentally smashed something on som... | |
Jan.4.2005 | |
A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq for nearly a month was terrified of being rescued by U.S. troops because she believed any military-style raid would have end... | |
Jan.3.2005 | |
Some 170,000 revellers descended on Cracow's Rynek (Main Market Square) for the New Year celebrations, making the event Poland's largest open-air party. A ha... | |
Jan.3.2005 | |
The speaker of Poland's Parliament, Jozef Oleksy, offered to resign on Wednesday, a party spokesman said, after a court said he had worked for the country's Com... | |
Jan.3.2005 | |
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski congratulated Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on his presidential election victory this monday, hailing it a... | |
Jan.3.2005 | |
President Putin said that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's statement that "Russia without Ukraine is better than Russia with Ukraine" was wrong. "T... | |
Jan.03.2005 | |
The American Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a man who allegedly served in a Nazi-sponsored police force during W... | |
Dec.22.2004 | |
Christmas Eve has always occupied a special place for those of Polish and eastern European heritage. The sacred symbols, beautiful customs and festive foods, so... | |
Dec.22.2004 | |
Poland's prime minister and defense minister arrived in Iraq Wednesday for a Christmas visit to Polish troops, a Polish military official said. Prime Ministe... | |
Dec.15.2004 | |
Centralwings, a new low-cost airline owned by Poland's national carrier LOT, will start flying to European destinations in February, its president said Tuesday.... | |
Dec.14.2004 | |
Young political activists demonstrated yesterday outside the home of Poland’s last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversa... | |
Dec.14.2004 | |
Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish... | |
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