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April.25.2005 | |
Poland's capital wants to honour Pope John Paul II by opening an institute focusing on his life and teachings, to be built on the site of his triumphal 1979 ret... | |
April.22.2005 | |
An historian from the Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance sparked a storm of controversy yesterday when he declared that he had studied docum... | |
April.20.2005 | |
Still grieving for their native son John Paul II, people in Krakow on Tuesday expressed happiness and hope at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germa... | |
April.18.2005 | |
The owner of an escort agency in the small town of Poronin in southern Poland is closing down his business out of respect for Pope John Paul II , who died on Ap... | |
April.12.2005 | |
The metal cross atop Giewont, the Tatra range's most fabled peak, beamed though the darkness this weekend after a bold group of mourners scaled the mountain in ... | |
April.6.2005 | |
Whilst the future Pope John Paul II was still a Cardinal, it was suggested that it was inappropriate for a man in such a position to ski. He replied with typica... | |
April.5.2005 | |
The Polish national railway company PKP has announced it will lay on six special trains to take pilgrims to Rome for John Paul II's funeral. Fares for the trip ... | |
April.4.2005 | |
Roman Catholic cardinals Monday set Pope John Paul's funeral for Friday as they began to plan the Church's future following the death of the Pontiff who led its... | |
Apr.02.2005 | |
Pope John Paul II passed away on Saturday night. Poles came out onto the streets to mourn his death, turning the streets of towns and cities across the country ... | |
March.30.2005 | |
Poland's government approved an early buyback of a large chunk of communist-era debt to a group of six countries in the Paris Club, a government official said T... | |
March.25.2005 | |
The sun may well shine on Easter Monday, but even if this is so, we warmly recommend that ladies of a faint-hearted disposition carry an umbrella about their pe... | |
March.15.2005 | |
The latest book by Polish-born Pope John Paul hit bookstores in his native land on Monday, amid great interest from fellow Poles. The pope's fifth book, Mem... | |
Feb.1.2005 | |
Hot on the heels of the tremendous news that beer can help fight cancer, we are delighted to report that a Slovak man trapped in his car by an avalanche urinate... | |
Jan.31.2005 | |
There was little doubt that the high-pedigree Polish Eagle was going to win today after his bird-of-prey-like first round flight of 132-metres. Fourth-last t... | |
Jan.30.2005 | |
For so long has Janne Ahonen dominated this season's World Cup that we have forgotten what a real competition it like. Last Sunday's seventh place at Titisee... | |
Jan.28.2005 | |
It's party time in Poland: local hero Adam Malysz is in wing-flapping form as the World Cup circuit comes home to nest at Zakopane! Adam Malysz, the Polis... | |
Jan.25.2005 | |
A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500. The ruling against Jerzy Ur... | |
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.19.2005 | |
Paulina Ligocka of Poland snatched the gold medal in the women's snowboard halfpipe event at the 2005 Winter Universiade in Innsbruck this Wednesday. Ligock... | |
Jan.17.2005 | |
Poland's Adam Malysz won a ski flying competition Sunday, becoming only the second jumper with more than one World Cup victory this season. Malysz had jumps... | |
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.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.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... | |
Dec.12.2004 | |
Polish ski jump star Adam Malysz claimed victory in the World Cup large hill event ahead of Janne Ahonen of Finland and Germany's Georg Spaeth. Ahonen, who h... | |
Dec.02.2004 | |
A comic-strip version of the life of Pope John Paul II written by three Frenchmen has been published in the ailing pontiff's homeland Poland, the book's publish... | |
Nov.21.2004 | |
A Polish woman abducted from her apartment in Baghdad reappeared on Saturday in Poland after being suddenly released. While she said she was treated well, she r... | |
Nov.17.2004 | |
An opinion poll released in Poland Tuesday suggested the ruling Democratic Left Alliance enjoyed the support of just 8 percent of voters. The CBOS poll put t... | |
Nov.16.2004 | |
Warsaw's influential mayor Lech Kaczynski has said that Germany should pay $45 billion (24.4 billion pounds) for the destruction of Warsaw during World War Two,... | |
Nov.9.2004 | |
The Polish zloty rose to its highest level against the dollar in seven years this Monday. The Polish currency has risen strongly against the dollar, partly d... | |
Nov.4.2004 | |
The German government plans to appoint a high- profile special adviser for relations with Poland, a report said Tuesday. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is set... | |
Oct.21.2004 | |
Polish-born Pope John Paul II plans to visit his homeland in 2005, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been quoted as saying. Asked by journa... | |
Aug.6.2004 | |
Mushrooms abounded-round the fair damsels the young men did throng; Or vixens, as they're hailed in Lithuanian song. They symbolize maidenhood, their flesh no... | |
Oct.04..2004 | |
Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ... | |
Sept.27.2004 | |
Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis... | |
Aug.14.2002 | |
Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g... | |
Sept.02.2004 | |
Marek Ziolkowski, Poland's ambassador to the Ukraine, confirmed yesterday that his country will launch a joint bid with the Ukraine to host the 2012 European Fo... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row. There was barely an... | |
July.21.2004 | |
Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression. Schroeder should offer hi... | |
July.21.2004 | |
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti... | |
July.20.2004 | |
The ten countries that joined the European Union last May could generate 3 million jobs and 47 billion euros ($56 billion) in added economic output if they boos... | |
July.19.2004 | |
More than 1,500 knights in shining armour crossed swords on Saturday to re-enact the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the greatest of all medieval clashes, which saw Po... | |
July.19.2004 | |
Poland will keep troops in Iraq at least through the end of 2005, but firmly intends to reduce its presence at the start of next year, the nation's prime minist... | |
July.12.2004 | |
Between July 30th and August 2nd, a number of ceremonies will be held in Warsaw to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the last major battle t... | |
April.22.2004 | |
Polish economic growth surged ahead by six percent in the first quarter, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner said on Thursday, in the latest sign of economic recover... | |
April.14.2004 | |
Poland has ruled out sending more troops to Iraq, outgoing Prime Minister Lezsek Miller said today. "We rule out increasing our (Iraq) contingent," Miller to... | |
April.07.2004 | |
Polish troops reportedly killed a leader of the Shia uprising in the Iraqi city of Kerbala today, as the military commander of the US-led coalition vowed to "de... | |
Feb.6.2004 | |
A year-long parliamentary probe of high-level corruption exonerated Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and other officials in his left-wing administration on M... | |
Mar.31.2004 | |
Polish voters frustrated with economic austerity plans and sleaze are turning to a populist party led by a euro-sceptic pig farmer according to an opinion poll ... | |
Feb.20.2004 | |
In that fair city of Nottingham, England, you can't turn a corner without bumping into a place that is named after a certain fellow named Robin Hood. In Zakopan... | |
Feb.18.2004 | |
At least 13 Iraqis were killed, and many civilians and troops injured, in an apparent suicide bomb attack by insurgents in Hilla today. The attack happened i... | |
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