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Polish journalist abducted in Syria in July is alive
A Polish journalist who was taken hostage by Islamist militants in northwest Syria in July is alive, Poland's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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Poland's first post-communist PM Mazowiecki dies
For Tadeusz Mazowiecki, his transformation from a pro-democracy writer and an intellectual to a moving force in Poland began in 1980, when he joined ranks with the striking workers at the Gdansk shipyard who gave birth to the Solidarity movement.
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Poland asks European court to hide CIA secret torture prison case from public
Poland has asked the European Court of Human Rights to bar media and public presence during an upcoming hearing on Poland’s complicity with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program that delivered terror suspects to secret prisons around the world.
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The Colorfully Decorated Homes of the Polish Village of Zalipie
A small ancient village in South-Eastern Poland, Zalipie, is definitely one of the country’s top tourist attractions. Not because it has five-stars hotels or massive glass buildings, but on the contrary, due to its small wooden cottages, which are painted in the most vibrant colors.
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Poland to shrink by over 2 million by 2035
The draft report by the Migration Research Academy - which will be published in full next spring - finds that following Poland joining the European Union in 2004, mass emigration has affected many regions of the country negatively. "Depopulation from permanent emigration, combined with low birth rates and an aging population, has caused significant disturbances to socio-economic development and will have an effect on the future development of these regions," the report says.
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The hidden history of the CIA’s prison in Poland
On a cold day in early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes. Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch.
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Torture compromised integrity of the United States
Whether torture “works” and whether Congress was misled are critically important reasons the committee should release the report now. But both are secondary to the consensus of U.S. religious leaders that torture is immoral and should not be used under any circumstances, for any reason. Until we get a full accounting of what happened at the black sites, the moral integrity of the United States is compromised, as is the safety of our personnel in the field.
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A look into the Polish medieval combat league (real fighting)
Movie is based on footage from the Polish Medieval Combat League tournament in Piotrków Kujawski on 11th January 2013, by Knight-club.tv
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Poland's Surveillance Programs Could Be Worse than the NSA
The US is a big country, with roughly 317 million citizens at the time of writing, and it has 11 major intelligence agencies (depending on how you qualify that). Of those 11 big boys, only a few are well-known for major intelligence work: the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Poland, a country of around just 39 million, has nine agencies and several forms of law enforcement that handle intelligence.
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The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto
Irving Milchberg, who has died aged 86, was the wartime leader of the “cigarette sellers of Three Crosses Square,” a gaggle of Jewish youths who sold smokes to German officers in wartime Warsaw while covertly spiriting food into the city’s ghetto and smuggling arms to the resistance.
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Poland calls for larger U.S. military presence in eastern Europe
The U.S. should increase its military presence in Poland and in other NATO members in central and eastern Europe in light of the Ukraine crisis, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on Saturday. Siemoniak said Washington was open towards the idea but detailed talks were yet to begin.
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Paradiso Błekitna Przystan is the sexiest dog in Chicago
Inside the world of the northwest side's champion stud, Paradiso Błekitna Przystan
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The Polish Soldier Who Snuck Into Auschwitz
On September 19, 1940, Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, was captured by German SS officers and sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Considering he was a spy, things had turned out exactly as he’d planned. Captain Pilecki's mission was to organize resistance from within the most horrific symbol of the Holocaust, send information to the Allies, and record the horrors he witnessed for the sake of history.
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Palestinian university students’ trip to Auschwitz causes uproar
Professor Mohammed S. Dajani took 27 Palestinian college students to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland a few weeks ago as part of a project designed to teach empathy and tolerance. Upon his return, his university disowned the trip, his fellow Palestinians branded him a traitor and friends advised a quick vacation abroad.
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Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors to boost sales, says whistleblower
Britain’s biggest drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, allegedly bribed doctors in Poland using money that was meant to be spent on educating patients, according to new evidence revealed today by the BBC Panorama programme.
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Poland: NATO should send troops to east Europe, ignore Russia's objections
WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia's military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula makes it vital that NATO station significant numbers of troops in eastern Europe and ignore any objections Russia might have...
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Eurovision 2014: Voting controversy after UK public revealed to have voted Donatan & Cleo first – but jury placed them last
It has been hailed as victory for tolerance and a counterblast to a creeping tide of homophobia...
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R'Amen: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is an Official Religion in Poland!
Pastafarians in Poland can finally rejoice: the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will now be an official religion.
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Wim Hof World Record Breaker Trains Others On His Mental Method
Extreme Everest Climber Wim Hof Teaches his endurance mental method – all it takes to defy death is practice. You won’t believe the outcome
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Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, dies
Wojciech Jaruzelski, the expressionless Polish general behind dark glasses who imposed martial law in 1981 to crush the independent trade union Solidarity and nearly eight years later participated in the negotiated revolution that led to the fall of communism in Poland, died Sunday at a military hospital in Warsaw. He was 90.
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