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Football: 13 of 16 Euro 2012 teams pick Poland over Ukraine
(WARSAW ) - An overwhelming 13 of the 16 teams qualified for Euro 2012 have opted for base-camps in Poland, tournament organisers said Monday, leaving fellow-host Ukraine virtually out in the cold.
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Polish prime minister debates anti-piracy treaty with bloggers
Warsaw (dpa) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk debated a controversial internet anti-piracy treaty with activists and bloggers on Monday, after massive protests pushed him to halt the ratification of the agreement last week.Tusk said Poland would not withdraw its signature from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which it signed last month, simply because "some group demands it."A ...
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Poland o Receive F-16 Follow-On Support and Additional Munitions
WASHINGTON | The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified U.S. Congress Feb. 2 of a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Poland of F-16 support and munitions, as well as associated...
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Airport Strategy & Marketing Updates on Role in Helping Warsaw Modlin Airport
Airport Strategy & Marketing, a UBM Aviation brand, has revealed its role in helping the new Warsaw Modlin Airport in Poland land its first major scheduled airline, Wizz Air.
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Deadly cold front continues in Europe
WARSAW - The toll from Europe's killer cold snap kept climbing Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and at least three people died after a Bulgarian dam burst.
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Deadly cold front continues as dam bursts in Bulgaria
WARSAW (AFP) - The toll from Europe's killer cold snap kept climbing past 300 on Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and at least three people died after a Bulgarian dam burst.
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62 dead in Polish big freeze
62 people have died so far in Poland's cold snap where temperatures have plunged to -24C.
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Poland halts copyright law after mass protests
Poland's prime minister says he is suspending the ratification process for an international copyright treaty after widespread protests and attacks on government websites.
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Poland freezes anti-piracy pact ratification
Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.
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ACTA on the edge in Europe? Poland suspends ratification, Greece gets hacked
Anger at last month's decision by the European Union and 22 of its member states to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has led to widespread protests, hacked Web sites, and legislators backing away from the treaty. The anti-ACTA protests that saw Polish politicians don Guy Fawkes masks in parliament have borne fruit. After experiencing a considerable backlash in Poland, Prime ...
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Exxon's Polish Fracking Plans Hit Air Pocket
Exxon Mobil announced that the gas flow from its two exploratory wells drilled in Poland did not justify bringing them into production.
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Poland freezes anti-piracy pact ratification
Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.
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Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-winning Polish poet, dies at 88
During a five-decade career, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska had so rarely appeared in public that a newspaper dubbed her the "Greta Garbo of poetry" after the notoriously private actress. But in 1996, Poland's most reticent literary icon was forced to open her door to the world: She had won the Nobel Prize in literature and the world was clamoring for her reaction.
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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 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'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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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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