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NationalAuthor in court over communist collaboration claims
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:11:15 GMTAn author and his publisher are on trial in Krakow for claiming prominent intellectual and war veteran collaborated with the communist secret police.
Legendary wartime courier dies
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:14 GMTJozef Uznanski, one of Poland's celebrated wartime couriers, has passed away in his native Zakopane at 87.
Polish left pushes for referendum on pensions
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMTDemocratic Left Alliance (SLD) looks to gather 500 000 signatures for a referendum on the increase of the retirement age.
Free paper gets Poles reflecting for Lent
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:30:00 GMTA free newspaper is distributed today, Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, at Warsaw’s underground stations and in some of the city’s churches.
Poles concerned as to national state of affairs, poll shows
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:11:29 GMTAccording to 63 percent of Poles, the country’s overall situation is developing in the wrong direction.
PM Tusk says ACTA suspension “not caused by external pressure”
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:02:00 GMTPrime Minister Tusk announced Tuesday that the government’s U-turn on the ratification of ACTA was not the result of public pressure or demonstrations in the matter.
Church under attack, says leading archbishop
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:12:00 GMTThe chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference (KEP) has claimed that the Church is suffering from a “planned attack” by “various libertine, atheistic and masonic circles.”
Walesa scorns new informant claims
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMTFormer president disputes new attempts at researching secret documents regarding his alleged cooperation with secret services.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski honoured on 90th birthday
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:00 GMTWarsaw's Royal Castle hosts birthday celebration for the war underground hero.
Oldest Varsovian turns 112
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMTApolonia Lisowska, a resident in an old people’s home run by the Felician Sisters in Warsaw, celebrated her 112th birthday
Kosher supervisors for Polish Jews
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:20:41 GMTA group of 17 people have been granted official certificates as kosher supervisors in Poland.
Police provide protection to mother of dead baby
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:44:00 GMTPolice in Silesia, southern Poland, confirmed on Thursday that they have provided protection for a mother who admitted to the unintentional manslaughter of her six-month-old baby.
Poles gorge themselves on Fat Thursday
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:44:00 GMTMillions of doughnuts will be consumed throughout Poland today to celebrate Fat Thursday, traditionally observed here in the last week of Carnival before Lent.
Heavy snow and blizzards sweep through Poland
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:43:00 GMTAround 8,000 homes in Upper Silesia and nearly 2,000 households in Western Pomerania, are without electricity this morning as heavy snow fall covers much of Poland.
Polish Senate posthumously honours WW II hero Jan Karski
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:20:00 GMTThe life and achievements of Jan Karski were recalled during a special meeting of the Upper House of the Polish Parliament.
Valentine's Day gift idea – erotic toys for Catholics!
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:19:00 GMTAn e-retailer has seen its range of sex toys for married Roman Catholic couples "who love God" flying off the shelves like proverbial hot cakes.
Film director Wajda 'not ill'
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMTUPDATE – The hospital that film director Andrzej Wajda was taken to today in Warsaw says that he is “not ill” and was taken in for a check up.
Polish Pope’s driver laid to rest
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:14:00 GMTJózef Mucha, who served as the driver of then Cardinal Karol Wojtyła for 16 years, before his election as Pope John Paul II in October 1978, has been buried in Wierzchosławice, a village in southern Poland.
LOT airlines to ban staff wearing the cross?
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:42:00 GMTConservative MPs in Poland have complained to the national airline LOT that banning staff wearing the Roman Catholic cross on flights is “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional”.
Close to 100 die from cold in Poland
Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:46:00 GMTFive more people died of hypothermia, last night, reports the Interior Ministry, bringing the death toll from the deep freeze in Poland to 97.