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Polish children give a desk's-eye view of the world
June 1st is the day on which many European countries mark International Children's Day and Poland is one of them. In the former communist bloc it was one of the most…
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Poland's President wants demotion for former martial law leader
Poland's President Lech Kaczynski wants the martial law leader Wojciech Jaruzelski to be degraded from general to private. A bill, now being drafted in the President's…
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Are anti-smoking campaigns in Poland failing to reach teenagers?
More than 3 million Poles are believed to have quit smoking over the past 15 years since first nationwide anti-smoking campaigns were launched in the early 90s. From a…
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Polish dentists offer Swedish patients services at half price
Polish dentists are taking Sweden by storm. The first private dental clinic employing specialists from Poland has opened in Stockholm to the applause of patients and some…
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Bird flu - Poland's veterinary services on alert
Poland's veterinary services have been put on alert following the outbreak of a dangerous bird flu strain in Kazakhstan and Russia. According to the latest reports, the…
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Poland and Russia plumbing new depths in troubled relationship
Poland and Russia are plumbing new depths in their troubled relationship. First a diplomatic row erupted after the mugging of Russian diplomats' children in Warsaw. Then…
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Poles and Germans at odds over how Europe's end-of-war history should be written
Ethnic German's expelled from Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe at the end of the second World War are applauding German opposition leader Angela Merkel. Ms Merkel…
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Tense relations between Poland and Belarus see no sign of abating
Tensions between Poland and its neighbour Belarus have sharply increased as the authoritarian regime of Belarus President Viktor Lukashenko steps up its campaign against…
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Polish plumber and nurse feature in ads countering perception of cheap labour from East
In the lead-up to France's referendum on the European Constitution, fears of cheap labour from the East were represented by the figure of a "Polish plumber", who could…
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Moscow and Warsaw wage war of words over street names
Moscow and Warsaw are at loggerheads over the late Chechen president Dzhokar Dudayev, who was killed in an air-strike back in 1996 during the first war in the southern…