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Belarus orders out EU, Polish envoys over sanctions
Feb 28, 2012 13:56 EST
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus on Tuesday told the ambassador of the European Union and that of Poland to leave the country and recalled its own envoys from Brussels and Warsaw, sparking anger in the EU and plunging relations between Minsk and the 27-member bloc to a new low.
Auschwitz museum seeks return of barracks lent to U.S.
Feb 28, 2012 13:24 EST
WARSAW (Reuters) - Occupying the site of the biggest Nazi death camp in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum is having trouble getting back a wooden barracks building it rented to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum some 20 years ago, officials said Tuesday.
Poland to engage more partners in nuclear program
Feb 23, 2012 14:35 EST
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will seek to engage more partners to help its top utility PGE build the country's first nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
Insight: Poland's shale gas play takes on Russian power
Feb 09, 2012 05:27 EST
LESNIOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - When Wieslaw Radzieciak took office as the mayor of Lesniowice in the gently-rolling farmland of southeastern Poland 26 years ago, the Soviet garrisons that dotted the county were a stark reminder of which superpower was in control.
Bomb kills 5 Polish troops in Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2011 14:52 EST
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.
Bomb kills 5 Polish troops in Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2011 08:17 EST
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.
Thousands of Poles protest against new EU treaty
Dec 13, 2011 18:12 EST
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.
Belarus jails rights activist for tax evasion
Nov 24, 2011 11:28 EST
MINSK (Reuters) - A Belarussian court jailed leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky for 4-1/2 years for tax evasion on Thursday, sparking an outcry in the European Union, particularly in neighboring EU countries which unwittingly aided his prosecution.
Lech Walesa's wife shakes Poland with frank biography
Nov 22, 2011 10:20 EST
WARSAW (Reuters) - The wife of Nobel prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa describes the loneliness and domestic grind she faced as her husband rose to power in a frank biography that is causing a stir in the country even before its official release.
Lech Walesa's wife shakes Poland with frank biography
Nov 22, 2011 09:36 EST
WARSAW (Reuters) - The wife of Nobel prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa describes the loneliness and domestic grind she faced as her husband rose to power in a frank biography that is causing a stir in the country even before its official release.
Fog, crash landing bring air traffic turmoil to Poland
Nov 02, 2011 19:44 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed in Poland on Wednesday due to heavy fog and the closure of the country's biggest airport in the capital Warsaw following an emergency landing a day earlier.
Fog, emergency landing bring air traffic turmoil to Poland
Nov 02, 2011 07:23 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed in Poland on Wednesday due to heavy fog and the closure of the country's biggest airport in the capital Warsaw following an emergency landing a day earlier.
Plane carrying 230 makes emergency landing in Warsaw
Nov 01, 2011 16:48 EDT
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.
Plane carrying 230 makes emergency landing in Warsaw
Nov 01, 2011 12:16 EDT
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.
Train derails in southern Poland, nobody badly hurt
Oct 19, 2011 08:17 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - An intercity passenger train traveling from Vienna to Warsaw derailed in southern Poland on Wednesday but nobody was seriously hurt, a Polish railway spokesman said.
Polish PM rules out radical reforms after poll win
Oct 11, 2011 10:55 EDT
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.
Exclusive: Polish President: poll result good for Europe
Oct 10, 2011 11:06 EDT
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.
Poland to trade AAUs for Japan's energy technology
Sep 05, 2011 14:28 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will exchange its surplus emission permits under the Kyoto Protocol (AAUs) to Japan for the Asian country's energy storage technologies, according to a preliminary agreement between the two, Poland's environment minister said on Monday.
Vandals destroy Jewish pogrom memorial in Poland
Sep 01, 2011 05:36 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Vandals destroyed a monument to victims of a World War Two pogrom against Jews in Poland, covering it with racist inscriptions and swastikas in green paint, police said on Thursday.
Poland exhumes first Smolensk crash victim
Aug 29, 2011 08:41 EDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland exhumed on Monday the first victim of last year's plane crash in western Russia, which killed the country's president and 95 others, because of concerns that the Russian autopsy may be faulty.
