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WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Europe is marking its first anti-death penalty day, despite moves from Poland to block the event, calling for it also to condemn abortion and euthanasia. The day was organised by the Council of Europe, a human rights body, after Poland's veto threatene.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 6:01am neoform

Yahoo News -- A European investigator said on Friday he had proof Poland and Romania hosted secret prisons for the Central Intelligence Agency in which it interrogated top al Qaeda suspects using methods akin to torture. Swiss senator Dick Marty said Poland housed.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Poland is holding events to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Polish President Lech Kaczynski with 100 guests gathered at a large square on the site of the ghetto, where thousands of Jews died. Beside the monument to the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Polish PM Donald Tusk has travelled to Brussels on his first major foreign trip since he took office last month. He has pledged to improve ties with the EU that were strained under Poland's previous Euro-sceptic government led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The future of Poland's iconic Gdansk shipyard remains in doubt as a key European Union (EU) deadline approaches for the site to reduce its capacity. Brussels has given Poland until the end of Tuesday to either close two of Gdansk's three slipways or el.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The two-day summit was scheduled to arrive at a new treaty to replace the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters. Acrimonious debate Nearly all other EU states apart from Poland favour the voting formula that requires 55 per cent of m.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 10:24am neoform

BBC News -- Poland's President, Lech Kaczynski, is visiting Germany for crucial talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the future of a new EU constitutional treaty. Germany, the current holder of the EU presidency, wants states to agree to a road map on a simplifi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:55pm neoform

SF Gate -- The CIA held suspected al Qaeda militants in secret prisons in Poland and Romania, enlisting top officials in those countries to create and conceal the facilities, a European intergovernmental agency alleged Friday. Current and former intelligence offi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

FOX News -- The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate detainees in the war on terror, a European investigator said in a report released Friday. The report by Swiss Sen. Dick Marty also accused Germany and Italy of obstructin.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 12:14am neoform

FOX News -- A Polish railway worker who woke up after 19 years in a coma is learning to live again and to understand a politically altered Poland, his wife said Sunday. "For 19 years he did not move or say anything," Gertruda Grzebska told The Associated Press by.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 11:02am neoform

Washington Post -- Almost two decades have passed since dictatorship gave way to democracy in Poland, but after years of burying memories and avoiding the subject, this country is finally grappling with its communist past. On March 15, a controversial law went into effec.. Read More