Pardon Confirmed For Gangster Killer
A Polish businessman jailed for the beheading of two gangsters who were blackmailing him is to receive a pardon after serving 10 years in prison, an aide to Pre...

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Prince Sponsors Jewish Centre
The World Jewish Relief organisation is to build a centre for the Jewish community in Krakow under the patronage of Britain’s Prince Charles, a community offici...

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EU Shock Up For Debate
Poorer European Union newcomers may agree to a reduction in the aid they receive from the bloc's coffers but not to as big a cut as current EU president Britain...

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Tragic Saga of Swimming Champ
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash. H...

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Christmas Competition Kicks Off
The celebrated Christmas Nativity Scene competition (Szopki) was launched this morning as hundreds of Cracovians, young and old, gathered around the tower of th...

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Settling Scores
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on the site of the former Nazi death camp in southern Poland has purchased a collection of musical scores that belonged to the cam...

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Poles in the Steppe
Some 60,000 ethnic Poles live in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. They found themselves there against their will in 1936 in an act of Stalin's ethnic c...

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A Dash of Winter Magic
A sprinkling of seasonal magic will descend on the Market Square tomorrow morning (Thursday 1st) as the annual Christmas Nativity Scene competition gets underwa...

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Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'
Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the award of the prestigious European weekly European Voice as statesman of the year 2005.T he Polish head of state has been...

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If You Go Down To The Woods Today
Polish and German football hooligans met in a wood near Frankfurt an der Oder to fight for the control of Berlin during the coming EURO 2006 Championships. Over...

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Poland Piqued By Tony's Plan
Poland's president said Tuesday that Britain's latest proposals for a long-term EU budget were bad for Poland and Europe, insisting that economic aid promised t...

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Vatican Reveals Miraculous Lead
Krakow's Roman Catholic archbishop spoke Tuesday of a possible miracle performed by Pope John Paul II in France that a church tribunal will focus on as the Vati...

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Warsaw Pact A Pandora's Box
Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”...

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The Quest For The Golden Frog
A gala at the Grand Theatre in Lodz has inaugurated the International Film Art Festival “Camerimage”. During the opening celebrations a special award of meri...

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Rallying For Tolerance
A rally in support of equal rights for sexual minorities in Poland has taken place in downtown Warsaw. The several hundred peaceful demonstrators were joine...

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150th Anniversary of best-loved poet
He may never have set foot in Cracow but his popularity was such that his statue was given centre stage in the city's grand market square. That very monument wa...

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Warsaw Pact Secrets To Be Revealed
Poland today followed through on a promise to open secret files of the Warsaw Pact. Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said some of the documents indi...

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Krakow leads solidarity marches
Peaceful marches of solidarity with gays are to be staged in a number of Polish cities this weekend. Demonstrations in solidarity with Poznan, where police were...

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Winding up in Iraq?
Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq in 2006 but it may move the deadline for withdrawal from January to mid-year, Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorsk...

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President congratulates Ukraine
Poland’s outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski has said that Ukraine has made a big step forward and is today different and better than a year ago, when the...

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Market Set To Open
November is usually a terribly depressing month. There are the grey skies, the rain, the endless crows going awk, awk, awk.... Yet this years Zloty Jesien (Gold...

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Plumbing Gaps But Not Taps
Nearly three million migrants from central Europe have applied for work in the UK since EU enlargement last year – and not all of them are working as plumbers. ...

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Polish Ukrainian Tete-a-Tete
Poland’s outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski is in Kiev for talks summing up the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations, as well as the situation in Uk...

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Poles Rally For Belarusian Cause
An action under the motto: “Freedom of speech in Belarus”” began in Poland today. The action was initiated by Amnesty International and aims at bringing into fo...

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Survivors Meet After 60 Years
A survivor of the Holocaust is to be reunited with the Polish family that saved her 60 years ago. Ruth Gruener, whose father ran a confectionery shop in the ...

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Skies Open For SkyEurope
Budget airline SkyEurope is expanding its Krakow services with a range of flights to some of Europe's most appealing cities. Plans are afoot to launch new fligh...

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Major Gallery Open For Business
The National Museum's Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art reopened this weekend after six years in the doldrums. Although the project seemed to drag on inter...

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Easyjet flying high
British budget airline easyJet beat forecasts with a 9 percent rise in annual profits on Tuesday as new routes, rising fares and cost cuts eased the pain of so...

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Several small steps for man.....
Krzysztof Dzienniak, a well known social activist, has set out from Zgorzelec, a city on the Polish-German border, to Leverkusen – the headquarters of Bayer, th...

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Hullabaloo As League Uses Shock Tactics
An anti-abortion exhibition organized at the European Parliament by an ultraconservative group of Polish representatives has provoked scuffles between rival MEP...

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Expats Have Pole Position
Poland ranks as one of the cheapest countries to live for expats, whereas Norway is the most expensive. In a recent survey comparing the cost of living for e...

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Star Attraction Reopens!
After six years of umming, ahhing and god know's what else, Cracow's Gallery of 20th Century Art is finally reopening this weekend. Cracow has been derided in t...

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Papal Premiere Stirs Hearts
Pope Benedict and Oscar winner Jon Voight attended a special screening on Thursday of a television mini-series in which Voight plays the late Pope John Paul. ...

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Poland To Hold Missile Base?
The United States is holding talks with Poland about establishing a military base there to shoot down long-range missiles fired from the Middle East or Africa t...

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Greenpeace Blocks Ship
Rough seas on Thursday forced Greenpeace activists to give up a blockade of a ship they say carried 25,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentinian soya...

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Cowboy Reflects On Papal Role
For Jon Voight, the actor who shot to fame 36 years ago as an aspiring stud in "Midnight Cowboy," playing Pope John Paul was like a personal coming home. "I'...

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Russian Ban Causes Rumpus
Polish authorities declared that Russia's ban on food imports was costing its agricultural industry $1 million per day in lost revenues, as Polish Foreign Minis...

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Survivors find hidden treasures
Four survivors of the Holocaust have found jewellery and other precious objects which they and other prisoners buried some 62 years ago near Majdanek death camp...

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Fly From Lennon to Lech
Budget airline Wizz Air is to start flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the Polish city of Gdansk. The carrier, which in less than 12 months has c...

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Walesa's innocence confirmed
The Institute of National Remembrance should soon confirm that any accusations against Lech Walesa are false. A special written confirmation will be handed in p...

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Dudek's High Hopes For Poland
Jerzy Dudek believes Poland can be the surprise package at next year's World Cup in Germany and is sure the proximity of Germany will guarantee plenty of travel...

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Fat Bills For Fighter Pilots
Colonel Roscislaw Stepaniuk is the first Polish pilot trained to fly the new F-16 fighter planes. Colonel Stepaniuk completed his seven months’ training in Tucs...

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Metal Guitarist Goes AWOL
According to an article in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Mortician vocalist/bassist Will Rahmer was arrested by the Polish police after threatening a ta...

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Retracing the Past
For Jews with roots in Poland, a new search engine on the web provides help and hope, with a database of over 1/4 million records - one of the largest Holocaust...

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Polish Heroine Set For Silver Screen
A distinguished South African writer has just become the oldest lady ever to have sold the film rights to a book. 92 year old Madeleine Masson, grandmother and ...

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Early Bloomer?
The hunt for agents of communist secret services continues. Vice-mayor of the central city of Radom Krzysztof Gajewski was accused of cooperating with the depar...

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AWOL Aussie Turns Up In Warsaw
One of Australia's most infamous white-collar fugitives, Abraham Goldberg, whose USD 1.5 bln business collapse ranks among the largest in Australian history, ha...

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Poland May Yet Host Cup
UEFA have shortlisted Italy and joint bids from Croatia/Hungary and Poland/Ukraine to host the the European Championship in 2012, rejecting rival bids from Gree...

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Woody Allen Blows Horn In Warsaw
World famous New York comic and film director Woody Allen will prove his musical talent in Warsaw on December 31 as the lead clarinet player in "The Woody Allen...

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Polish sailor rescued off France
A Polish sailor has been rescued off France’s Atlantic coast after phoning a friend at home to get help as his sailing boat was lashed by a violent storm. Accor...

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