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Cocaine found in Polish supermarket banana shipment [Apr 20, 2012] WARSAW (AFP) - A hundred kilogrammes of cocaine have been found in a shipment of bananas delivered to two hypermarkets owned by France's Auchan chain in southern Poland, local media reported Friday. Related Stories Catholic nuns group 'stunned' by Vatican slap Clinton urges tougher UN pressure on Syria Man killed by five-metre shark in S. Africa US calls for 'restraint' after Indian missile ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Lech Walesa asks pope to support a free Cuba [Mar 22, 2012] Warsaw (dpa) - Former Polish labour union leader Lech Walesa has written to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to support Cuban political prisoners and activists during his upcoming visit to the Communist country, local media reported on Thursday."Your Holiness, please speak up for those who get sent to prison for their beliefs," wrote Walesa, who lead protests in the 1980s that helped topple Poland?s ... [via YahooNews] More >>

'Many hurt' in Poland train crash [Mar 04, 2012] Two trains collide on the Warsaw-Cracow mainline in southern Poland, leaving 50 injured, with reports of two dead, local media reports say. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish police okay new Warsaw stadium opening-report [Feb 24, 2012] Polish police have said the country's new national football stadium in Warsaw is safe to open, meaning the key Euro 2012 football venue has cleared its final bureaucratic hurdle, local media reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish police okay new Warsaw stadium opening [Feb 21, 2012] WARSAW - Polish police have said the country's new national football stadium in Warsaw is safe to open, meaning the key Euro 2012 football venue has cleared its final bureaucratic hurdle, local media reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish Police Okay New Warsaw Stadium Opening-Report [Feb 21, 2012] Polish police have said the country's new national football stadium in Warsaw is safe to open, meaning the key Euro 2012 football venue has cleared its final bureaucratic hurdle, local media reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Double tragedy in Poland [Aug 22, 2011] Warsaw - Six people died in two separate plane crashes in Poland, local media reported on Monday. The accidents occurred late Sunday night in southern Poland. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's former deputy PM Andrzej Lepper dead at 57 [Aug 05, 2011] WARSAW (Reuters) - Andrzej Lepper, a former Polish deputy prime minister and leader of the small, populist Self-Defense Party, died on Friday, police said, and local media said he may have committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's former deputy PM Andrzej Lepper dead at 57 [Aug 05, 2011] WARSAW (Reuters) - Andrzej Lepper, a former Polish deputy prime minister and leader of the small, populist Self-Defense Party, died on Friday, police said, and local media said he may have committed suicide. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland denies report of arrest linked with Norway attacks [Jul 26, 2011] Poland's officials on Monday denied reports that a man had been detained in the country in connection with Friday's deadly attacks in Norway that left 76 dead, local media reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Russians start questioning Polish witnesses of Smolensk air crash [Apr 19, 2011] A Polish witness to the April 10, 2010 Smolensk plane crash testified at the Warsaw Military Prosecutor's Office on Monday, local media reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Russia hands over more Katyn files to Poland [Apr 08, 2011] Russia has given Poland a further 11 dossiers on the 1940 Katyn Forest killings of Polish POWs by the Soviet security service NKVD, local media reported on Thursday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Russia sends Poland files on Smolensk crash [Apr 08, 2011] Four days before the first anniversary of the deadly Polish presidential plane crash near Russia's Smolensk, Russian prosecutors have transferred to Poland 14 volumes of files on the Smolensk investigation, including protocols from hearings of air traffic controllers from the Smolensk airport, local media reported on Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's last Communist leader hospitalized [Mar 15, 2011] Warsaw - Poland's last Communist leader, Wojciech Jaruzelski, has been hospitalized with a high fever and a respiratory infection, local media reported on Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland reduces embassy staff in Libya [Feb 28, 2011] Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has decided to reduce the staff of Poland's diplomatic mission in Libya, local media reported on Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki said that three Polish diplomats left Libya over the weekend. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland withdraws Chopin comic book because of vulgar language [Feb 22, 2011] Warsaw - The Polish government has dropped plans to distribute a comic book in Germany about composer Frederik Chopin after it was found to contain vulgar language, local media reported Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Government wants Nazi camp museums to drop Poland domain suffix [Feb 02, 2011] Warsaw - Poland's culture minister has appealed to Nazi concentration camp museums to drop the ".pl" from their website addresses in order to avoid the mistaken notion that such camps were Polish, local media reported Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to release own presidential air crash report in February [Jan 17, 2011] Poland's report on the causes of the Kaczynski presidential plane crash will be unveiled in February, local media said, citing a spokeswoman for polish Interior Ministry, Malgorzata Wozniak. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland confirms two A/H1N1 flu deaths [Jan 11, 2011] A 41-year-old Polish man and a 2.5- year-old child, both infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus, died in hospital in Slupsk and Olsztyn of northern Poland on Sunday, local media reported on Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>