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Polish workers protest plan to hike retirement age
Polish workers protest plan to hike retirement age WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Thousands of people from across Poland demonstrated noisily Friday outside Parliament to protest government plans to raise the retirement age to 67. The law currently allows women to retire at age 60 and men at 65, but Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to raise the retirement age to 67 for all Poles, saying it will increase ...
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CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site
WARSAW, Poland -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public.
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Polish parliament rejects referendum on retirement age hike
Warsaw - Poland s Parliament on Friday rejected demands to hold a referendum on raising the retirement age to 67 years after a heated debate and protests by thousands of workers at the unpopular proposal.
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Polish foreign minister: EU failure would bolster Russia, China
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Poland's foreign minister called on March 29 for deeper European integration, warning that a fracturing of the 27-nation European Union would allow Russia and China to dominate Europe and Asia.
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Polish prosecutor says there is no evidence 2010 plane crash was assassination
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's top prosecutor says no evidence to date supports theories that a 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski was an assassination.
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Poland coalition agrees to raise retirement age
WARSAW - Poland's ruling coalition agreed on March 29 to press ahead with raising the retirement age to 67 years after months of political wrangling over Prime Minister Donald Tusk's flagship austerity reform.
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PM: Poland is 'victim' of leaks from US government on secret CIA prison
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The prime minister says Poland has become the "political victim" of leaks years ago by U.S. officials who indicated the country hosted a secret CIA prison for terrorism suspects.Donald Tusk made the comments Thursday after media reports that Polish prosecutors have brought the first charges in their investigation into a now-closed CIA facility in the country.Former U.S ...
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Poland: Collision of minibus and truck kills 8
WARSAW, Poland ? A minibus carrying Polish coal miners and a truck have collided in Poland, killing eight people and injuring 10 others.
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Twin of late Polish leader says his 2010 plane crash could be assassination
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The twin brother of the Polish president who died in a 2010 plane crash in Russia claimed Wednesday that the accident is looking increasingly like an assassination and called on the European Union to investigate.Jaroslaw Kaczynski's appeal comes amid a backdrop of deep suspicions over the crash by some Poles, mainly people of a nationalist bent who distrust Moscow, which ...
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Poland investigates rendition links
WARSAW, Poland, March 28 (UPI) -- Poland treats its Constitution with respect, a human rights official said after a former intelligence officer was charged with aiding so-called renditions.
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Tests reveal aging of da Vinci masterpiece
(03-26) 11:53 PDT WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Bark beetles and old age have damaged Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century painting "Lady with an Ermine," but the masterpiece is still holding up well, according to a...
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Darby Private Equity Announces Two New Hires
WARSAW, POLAND and WASHINGTON, DC and SINGAPORE-- - Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. , the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, today announced that it had hired two new executives.Mr. ...
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Media Stakeout in Warsaw
Media Stakeout in Warsaw Press Availability Marc Grossman Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Warsaw, Poland March 20, 2012
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Poland exhumes 2010 plane crash victims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds nearly eight inches to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all.
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Poland exhumes 2010 plane crash victims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds nearly eight inches to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all.
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Poland exhumes some 2010 plane crash victims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish investigators have exhumed the remains of three of the 96 Poles killed in the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski due to what they say are flaws in the initial autopsies performed by Russian officials. Related Stories No faith in trial of US massacre suspect: Afghan Taleban US faces deadline to nominate World Bank chief Celebrity hacker to ...
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Poland exhumes 2010 plane crash victims to correct flawed Russian autopsies
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? One autopsy report describes organs that had been removed years before. Another adds 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches) to a short man, making no mention of bones disfigured by childhood polio. One family doubts whether an autopsy was performed at all.Polish investigators have exhumed the remains of three of the 96 Poles killed in the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed ...
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15th-century frescoes identified in Poland
15th century frescoes in an Orthodox church in Posada Rybotycka, in eastern Poland, are presented publicly at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Gradually revealed from under layers of white paint since 1966, they were recently dated to the 15th century and identified as a rare in central and eastern Europe complete set of icons painted on walls.
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Poland's Leading Digital Signage Operator Call2Action Selects BroadSign Software
WARSAW, Poland and MONTREAL, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading digital signage network operator in Poland, Call2Action has completed the deployment of BroadSign's SaaS platform on its 3400-screen ...
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Estimate cuts Poland's usable shale gas reserves to under 768 billion cubic meters
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's shale gas reserves are far lower than originally forecast, the government said Wednesday, a disappointment for a country that had been hoping to break its dependence on Russian energy imports.
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