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Polish government defends support for copyright treaty that sparked Internet attacks
WARSAW, Poland - Polish officials vowed Monday to stick to plans to sign an international copyright treaty that has outraged Internet activists and prompted an attack on government websites.
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Polish government defends support for copyright treaty that sparked Internet attacks
WARSAW, Poland - Polish officials vowed Monday to stick to plans to sign an international copyright treaty that has outraged Internet activists and prompted an attack on government websites.
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ETF Chart of the Day: Poland
A ?frontier? economy that likely flies under the radar but is now represented in two separate exchange traded fund is that of Poland. Market Vectors Poland (NYSEArca: PLND - News ) debuted in late 2009, and is ...
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Nobel-winning Polish poet Szymborska dies aged 88
WARSAW, Feb 2 ? Nobel-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died yesterday at the age of 88, her assistant Michal Rusinek announced. Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, passed away ?peacefully, in her sleep? at her home in Krakow in southern Poland, Rusinek told Poland?s PAP news agency. Born on July 2, 1923 in Bnin, near ...
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Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88
WARSAW, Feb 1 - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as the "Mozart of Poetry," died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung cancer. She was 88. "She died quietly, in her sleep," Szymborska's assistant Michal Rusinek was quoted as saying by the state news agency PAP. The shy poet became a reluctant celebrity when she became the fourth Pole to win the literary Nobel ...
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Polish ambassador criticises report on welfare recipients
POLAND?SGAZETA Wyborczanewspaper and the country?s ambassador to Ireland have criticised as ?inaccurate? and ?inflammatory? a report in the Irish media on Polish social welfare recipients in Ireland.
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Poland's 1996 Nobel winning poet Wislawa Szymborska has died at 88
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88.
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Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88. Szymborska, a heavy smoker, died in her sleep of lung cancer Wednesday evening at her home in the southern city of Krakow, her personal secretary Michal Rusinek said. She died ...
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Polish movies draw record audience in 2011
Polish cinema had its best year ever in 2011 after hitting the doldrums the previous year, with a record 11.8 million people choosing to see home-grown films, industry sources said Tuesday.
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Poland wants Euro 2012 to showcase its success
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland hopes Euro 2012 will attract about a million tourists and showcase its economic success and political stability at a time when a debt crisis has engulfed most of the European continent, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha told Reuters. Poland and Ukraine will co-host the European soccer games in June and July and Warsaw has pegged an ambitious infrastructure building programme ...
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Polish finance minister says no target date for euro entry yet
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski denied on Monday that Poland was planning to adopt the euro in 2015, after a senior European Union official said Warsaw was targeting that date ...
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Poland not planning to adopt the euro in 2015
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Government officials say that Poland is not intending to adopt the European currency in 2015 but should meet the main financial criteria for admission that year.
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Poland's Borysiuk signs for Kaiserslautern
Poland international Ariel Borysiuk on Tuesday signed for German top-flight club Kaiserslautern, his current side Legia Warsaw said Tuesday.
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Euro 2012 - Poland aims to showcase its success
Poland hopes Euro 2012 will attract about a million tourists and showcase its economic success and political stability.
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Officials say Poland in not planning to convert to the euro in 2015, but should meet criteria
WARSAW, Poland - Government officials say that Poland is not intending to adopt the European currency in 2015 but should meet the main financial criteria for admission that year.
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Poland gets ready for Euro 2012 finals
WARSAW, Jan 31 ? Polish rock stars gave the new national stadium a suitably rousing inauguration here on Sunday as Poland?s final stadium for this year?s Euro 2012 finals was unveiled. Constructed at a cost of 1.9 billion zloty (RM1.81 billion), it resembles an enormous fruit basket, painted in the national colours, and will host the opening ...
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Poland wants Euro 2012 to showcase its success
WARSAW, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Poland hopes Euro 2012 will attract about a million tourists and showcase its economic success and political stability at a time when a debt crisis has engulfed most of the European continent, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha told Reuters.
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Poland gets ready for Euro 2012 finals
WARSAW, Jan 31 ? Polish rock stars gave the new national stadium a suitably rousing inauguration here on Sunday as Poland?s final stadium for this year?s Euro 2012 finals was unveiled. Constructed at a cost of 1.9 billion zloty (RM1.81 billion), it resembles an enormous fruit basket, painted in the national colours, and will host the opening ...
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