GHAZNI CITY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed five Polish soldiers in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the country's prime minister said, Poland's largest loss of life in a single incident since it joined the NATO-led coalition of foreign troops almost a decade ago.

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war.

GHAZNI CITY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed five Polish soldiers in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the country's prime minister said, Poland's largest loss of life in a single incident since it joined the NATO-led coalition of foreign troops almost a decade ago.

WARSAW (Reuters) - About 5,000 Poles protested in Warsaw on Tuesday against closer European integration after the government agreed to a new EU treaty for closer fiscal cooperation to tackle economic crisis.

France's nuclear watchdog on Tuesday said it had detected traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week after similarly low contamination was reported by the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Austria.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday condemned activists who clashed with police during Independence Day rallies, describing them as "commandos imported from Germany and other nations".

The UN atomic agency said Friday "very low levels" of radioactive iodine-131 had been detected in the air in the Czech Republic and in other countries, but presented no risk to human health.

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WARSAW (Reuters) - No one was hurt when a Boeing 767 flying from Newark, New Jersey, with some 230 people on board, made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport Tuesday after trouble with landing gear.

WARSAW (Reuters) - No one was hurt when a Boeing 767 flying from New York with some 230 people on board made an emergency landing at Warsaw's airport on Tuesday after trouble with landing gear.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The leaders of three central European countries will oppose Ukraine's efforts to integrate into the European Union as long as the former Soviet country keeps opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in jail.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's new government will avoid "costly" reforms at a time of global crisis, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was quoted as saying on Tuesday, in comments that may disappoint investors two days after his Civic Platform (PO) party won an election.

Poland's centrists moved Monday to craft a new cabinet after winning a landmark second term in a vote that also saw a fiercely anti-clerical party storm into the deeply Catholic nation's parliament.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began talks on forming a new coalition government Monday after his center-right Civic Platform became the first party to win a second consecutive term since the fall of communism in 1989.

WARSAW (Reuters) - The outcome of Poland's parliamentary election underlines its political stability and reinforces its drive for closer integration with the European Union, President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Monday.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Center-right leader Donald Tusk has become the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term following his Civic Platform's election victory, nearly complete results showed on Monday.

Poland's centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk moved Monday to craft a new administration with his coalition allies, after securing a landmark second term in a general election.

Poland's governing centrists won a landmark second term in Sunday's general election, initial results showed, seeing off a challenge from the conservative opposition.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to rule for two successive terms after his center-right Civic Platform trounced its rivals in a parliamentary election.

A team of observers from Arab Spring nations were on hand on Sunday to monitor Poland's general election, as Warsaw shares the lessons of the democratic wave that drove out its communist regime in 1989.