The International Monetary Fund on Friday offered Poland a new two-year credit line worth about $30 billion, citing potential risks from financial woes in other parts of Europe.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Tuesday that Russian ground controllers made mistakes in the build-up to a plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others on board in western Russia in April.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia's report into last year's plane crash that killed Poland's president is "incomplete" and Warsaw will seek further talks with Moscow on the issue, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a news conference Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plane carrying Polish leader Lech Kaczynski crashed killing all on board because the crew feared that aborting the landing due to fog would anger the president, Russian aviation officials said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plane carrying Polish leader Lech Kaczynski crashed killing all on board because the crew feared that aborting the landing due to fog would anger the president, Russian aviation officials said on Wednesday.

Top Polish officials present in the cockpit of the plane of president Lech Kaczynski that crashed in Russia put pressure on the crew who ignored advice to land at a different airport, investigators said on Wednesday.

Poland's call for help in a probe of claims it hosted a US "black site", where suspected Al-Qaeda members were allegedly tortured, was rejected by Washington, an official document showed Tuesday.

US authorities seize 2 paintings in NYC that were stolen by Nazis from Polish museum in WWII. U.S. authorities say they've seized two paintings in New York that were stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, by the Nazis during World War II.

WARSAW (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has lavished praise on Polish troops serving there after a magazine article quoted U.S. army officers criticizing the Poles' effectiveness.

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - Poland's first black lawmaker, John Godson, says the color of his skin has helped him get ahead in his overwhelmingly white adopted country and he now wants to promote contacts between Poles and Africa.

A Guantanamo inmate and alleged lieutenant of Osama bin Laden who says he was held and tortured in 2006 at a secret US facility in Poland has filed a law suit seeking a formal probe, his lawyer said Thursday.

Warsaw: US offers to deploy F-16 jets, Hercules planes to Poland for joint training. A Polish official says the United States has offered to periodically station F-16 fighter jets and Hercules planes in Poland starting in 2013 for joint exercises.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has pushed the "reset" button to improve its relations with Russia, but Poland's president said on Wednesday his country was not yet able to push that button all the way down.

Obama confident Senate will ratify START, cites support from Polish president. President Barack Obama says he's confident the Senate will ratify a U.S.-Russia nuclear arms pact before breaking for the holidays.

President Obama urges Congress to look at facts of compromise tax deal and 'get this done'. President Barack Obama says economists predict higher job growth in 2011 and 2012 if Congress passes tax deal he negotiated with Republicans.

President Obama urges Congress to look at facts of compromise tax deal and 'get this done'. President Barack Obama says economists predict higher job growth in 2011 and 2012 if Congress passes tax deal he negotiated with Republicans.

Poland's parliament gets its 1st African lawmaker, a Nigerian teacher and pastor. Poland's parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader.

Russia and Poland vowed Monday to put history behind them as President Dmitry Medvedev made the first state visit by a Kremlin leader to Poland in nine years, amid thawing ties spurred by the Smolensk air disaster.

Russia and Poland seek their own reset in relations after a breakthrough visit by Medvedev. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday took his mission to modernize his country and improve ties with the West to Poland, a former Soviet satellite with whom it shares a troubled but improving relationship.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday awarded acclaimed Polish film director Andrzej Wajda his country's Order of Friendship, honouring over five decades in the movie industry.