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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: Collision of truck and minibus carrying coal miners kills 8 [Apr 02, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? A minibus carrying Polish coal miners and a truck have collided in Poland, killing eight people and injuring 10 others.Polish lawmakers held a minute of silence on Thursday for the victims of the road accident, which occurred late Wednesday near Zywiec, a town in southern Poland near the border with the Czech Republic.The all-news station TVN24 reported Thursday that some ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to mourn 16 killed in head-on train crash [Mar 05, 2012] WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski announced a two-day national mourning period on Sunday for the 16 people killed in a head-on collision of two trains in the country's worst rail accident in more than two decades. The trains collided at an average speed of 100 km (60 miles) near the town of Szczekociny in southern Poland on Saturday night after one ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Two detained for questioning in Polish train crash [Mar 05, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish media say that prosecutors have detained two rail traffic controllers for questioning in a head-on train collision in southern Poland over the weekend. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to mourn 16 killed in head-on train crash [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW, SZCZEKOCINY, Poland (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski announced a two-day national mourning period on Sunday for the 16 people killed in a head-on collision of two trains in the country's worst rail accident in more than two decades. The trains collided at an average speed of 100 km (60 miles) near the town of Szczekociny in southern Poland on Saturday night after one ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Six killed as trains collide in Poland [Mar 04, 2012] Warsaw, March 4 (IANS) At least six people were killed and nearly 50 injured in southern Poland after two trains had a head-on collision Saturday, said local officials. [via YahooNews] More >>

Two trains collide in Poland; 8 dead, dozens injured [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland late Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring around 50 in what appears to be one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years, officials said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish Train Crash Leaves Several Dead, Dozens Injured [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland on Saturday evening, an accident that has apparently killed several people, injured around 60 and appears to be one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years, a government minister said. [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 >>

Passengers killed in Polish train crash: transport minister [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Two trains collided head-on in Chalupki in southern Poland Saturday, killing a number of passengers and injuring up to 60, the country's transport minister said. "I'm on my way to the site of the accident ... It looks like it's one of the worst railway accidents of the last few years ... I know there are a few people dead," minister Slawomir Nowak told television station TVN24 ... [via YahooNews] More >>

2 trains collide in Poland, injuring 60 people [Mar 04, 2012] WARSAW, Poland - Polish media are reporting that two trains have collided in southern Poland, injuring around 60 people. [via YahooNews] More >>

Nobel-winning Polish poet Szymborska dies aged 88 [Feb 02, 2012] 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 ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Auschwitz has more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record [Jan 07, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? The memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau says it saw more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record high for the former death camp. The figure released Friday underlines how the death and labor complex that Nazi Germany built in occupied southern Poland during World War II has become one of Europe?s most visited Holocaust remembrance sites. Read full article >> [via YahooNews] More >>

Auschwitz has more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record [Jan 06, 2012] WARSAW, Poland ? The memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau says it saw more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record high for the former death camp. The figure released Friday underlines how the death and labor complex that Nazi Germany built in occupied southern Poland during World War II has become one of Europe?s most visited Holocaust remembrance sites. Read full article >> [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish singer Violetta Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, laid to rest at Warsaw cemetery [Dec 20, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Family members and hundreds of fans bid farewell Monday to Violetta Villas, a Polish coloratura soprano who spurned opera for popular music and once reigned in a Las Vegas cabaret. Villas died at her home earlier this month of untreated pneumonia and complications from a broken leg. She was 73 and lived alone in a house in Lewin Klodzki, in southern Poland. Read full article >> [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies [Dec 09, 2011] The Associated Press The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Police say popular Polish singer Violetta Villas, a Las Vegas star in the 1960s, has died. She was 73. Area police spokesman Pawel Petrykowski told The Associated Press that Villas died late Monday at her home in the village of Lewin Klodzki in southern Poland. No cause of death was given. Villas was born Czeslawa Cieslak in 1938 to a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies [Dec 06, 2011] The Associated Press The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Police say popular Polish singer Violetta Villas, a Las Vegas star in the 1960s, has died. She was 73. Area police spokesman Pawel Petrykowski told The Associated Press that Villas died late Monday at her home in the village of Lewin Klodzki in southern Poland. No cause of death was given. Villas was born Czeslawa Cieslak in 1938 to a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish singer Violetta Villas, a Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies at 73 [Dec 06, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? She was a coloratura soprano who spurned opera for popular music, a Polish singer who became a caberet star in Las Vegas, an artist trapped for years behind the Iron Curtain when she flew home to tend to her dying mother. Singer Violetta Villas, 73, died late Monday at her home in Lewin Klodzki, a village in southern Poland, local police spokesman Pawel Petrykowski told The ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Pole who sneaked Jewish girl out of Auschwitz dies [Oct 22, 2011] The Associated Press The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland Jerzy Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, has died at age 90. Bielecki's daughter, Alicja Januchowski said Saturday that he died peacefully Thursday at his home in Nowy Targ, in southern Poland. In July 1944, the 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position as a German-speaking ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Jerzy Bielecki, a Pole who led his Jewish sweetheart out of Auschwitz in 1944, dies at 90 [Oct 22, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Jerzy Bielecki, a Polish inmate who led his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, has died at age 90. Bielecki?s daughter, Alicja Januchowski said Saturday that he died peacefully Thursday at his home in Nowy Targ, in southern Poland. In July 1944, the 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position as a German-speaking Catholic Polish inmate of Auschwitz to ... [via YahooNews] More >>