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WARSAW * The leaderships of Poland's liberal Civic Platform headed by incoming Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the centrist Peasants Party formally agreed to govern in coalition yesterday.

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Ceremonies marking the 89th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland were held on Sunday throughout the country.

“Jan Karski was a Polish hero and an unusual one because he was a hero for”

A monument honoring the Polish underground officer who is credited with giving the first eyewitness accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to U.S. and British officials was unveiled Sunday outside the Polish Consulate.

The Manhattan monument features a statue of the officer, Jan Karski, sitting erect on a bench, with his legs crossed and a cane in his hand. A chess board _ a game he enjoyed playing _ is nearby.

Karski, a Roman Catholic, infiltrated the ghetto and concentration camp and in 1942 and 1943 told President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, among others, what he saw. But few believed him, and little immediate action was taken, said people who attended the dedication ceremony. Read more

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I remember a bleak time in Poland when the economy was so maddeningly out of touch with the needs of its people that anyone lucky enough to own a car would remove their windshield wipers at night and take them ... via The Herald

“It's not as if we had mobile phones! No one paid any attention to a boy running through the forest”

He struggles to sit ramrod straight, but 105-year-old Stanislaw Wycech is as sharp as a tack as he recounts his teenage role in Poland's fight for independence during World War I. "I wanted to walk tall in the ... via XtraMSN Real Estate

Krzysztof Bobinski , Open Democracy The 21 October election in Poland was of historical significance as it was the first in which the 18-year-old first-time voters were born after the end of communist rule in ... via EurActiv.com

The Warsaw Barbican is a barbican in Warsaw, Poland, and one of few remaining relics of the complex network of historic fortifications that once encircled Warsaw. via The World According To Google

“Russia and Poland reached an agreement on joint inspections of Polish meat plants that will begin on Nov. 13”

Russian food-safety officials plan to begin inspections of food producers in Poland as the countries seek to end a two-year dispute over meat quality that has stalled Russia's talks on a key accord with the ... via The St. Petersburg Times

Poland's prosecutors have filed charges against former Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper following allegations he sexually abused a female employee. via The Post Chronicle

David McHugh, chief of bureau for the AP in Germany and Poland, will become the news organization's business editor for Europe. via PR-inside.com

“One might say that after more than 67 years, this act has no meaning, but I think this is wrong”

Poland began a two-day ceremony Friday to mark a bitter moment in its past, giving posthumous promotions to 14,000 Polish officers who were captured early in the Second World War and then murdered by the Soviet ... via The Chronicle-Journal

TOMMY Haas's apparent garden-variety stomach virus that sidelined him on the decisive day of the Davis Cup semi-final against Russia in Moscow in September took on sinister implications when allegations ...

WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 8 Poland has opened a refugee center, the second of its kind, to accommodate foreigners who want their refugee status made legal.

Polish prosecutors charged a former deputy prime minister Thursday with soliciting sex from two women who worked for his party, the latest development in a scandal that shook the outgoing government of Prime ...

Polish prime minister designate Donald Tusk is due to be be nominated as head of the new government this afternoon, the President's office has said.

Agence France-Presse Polish competition authorities gave a green light yesterday to the takeover of the country's Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of the 1980s Solidarity trade union movement, by Ukrainian group ...

“What distinguishes the Polish community is that they all came at the same time. Almost 600,000 arrived within a two-year period”

Maciek Machalak arrived in England, despondent. In his native Poland, he sold cars and kitchen equipment. He watched a dance studio fold and managed a toy store. Nothing worked. So in 2005, he left his wife, baby, and friends in the small city of Copernicus and joined the exodus to a Europe opening its job market.

Mr. Machalak was determined, but had a low opinion of himself - a residue of post-communist torpor, he says.

Today, after rising to a top waiter post in a swank London restaurant, he has a new outlook. "Before, I felt feeble, a nobody," he says. "Now, I am ... confident. I feel new possibilities." Read more

Tycoons on course to buy historic Polish shipyard by Mark Rachkevych, Kyiv Post Staff Writer Nov 07 2007, 22:47 Ukraine's Industrial Union of Donbas, co-owned by billionaires Serhiy Taruta and Vitaliy Hayduk, ...

The first Chevrolet built in the European Union rolled off the assembly line of the FSO plant in Warsaw, Poland, today.