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Poland’s cunning plan to get a US military base? Call it ‘Fort Trump’

Polish President Andrzej Duda wants a permanent US military presence to deter Russia.

19 Sep 2018 - 9:35pm

Contestant in Mister Gay Europe 2018 take part in a gay pride parade on the streets of Poznan on August 11, 2018. Photo: AFP

Mr Gay Europe 2018 crowned in Poland, despite protests

12 Aug 2018 - 10:07pm 1

Biotrem manufactures edible tableware and cutlery — including plates, bowls and cups — that solve a big environmental problem: Styrofoam, plastic and paper waste generated by consumers. The Warsaw-based company makes its edible plates and bowls from wheat bran. Photo: Biotrem

What’s for dinner? Your plate in the edible tableware era

21 May 2018 - 3:00pm

Truck overturns and spills tonnes of liquid chocolate over Polish highway

Truck overturns and spills tonnes of liquid chocolate over Polish highway

10 May 2018 - 8:32pm

Collapse could have been caused by a gas explosion

Four killed, 24 injured after block of flats partially collapses

5 Mar 2018 - 11:10am 2

People walk past the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ gate at the former German concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo: AP

Polish official accuses Jews of ‘passivity’ during Holocaust

10 Feb 2018 - 10:16pm 5

Participants in the yearly March of the Living walk between barbed wire fences in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, on April 24, 2017. Jews from Israel and around the world marched the route from Auschwitz to Birkenau to commemorate Holocaust victims. A law recently passed by the Polish legislature would make it a crime to refer to such camps as “Polish”. Photo: AP

Poland’s Holocaust law is about much more than anti-Semitism

6 Feb 2018 - 3:23pm

Visitors to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews look at exhibits from the second world war. Poland and Israel are locked in a bitter dispute over Poland's new legislation that regulates Holocaust speech. Photo: AP

With anti-Semitism on the rise, will Poland scrap Holocaust bill?

4 Feb 2018 - 10:54pm

Polish climber Tomasz Mackiewicz died earlier this week after beating the famous Himalayan ‘killer mountain’ Nanga Parbat. Mackiewicz (seen in January 2014 on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan) has been remembered as a free spirit who lived an extraordinary live. Photo: Forum/Michal Obrycki via Reuters

Friends remember Polish climber left to die on Pakistan’s ‘killer mountain’

3 Feb 2018 - 6:55am 3

Two neo-Nazis burn a swastika in undercover footage recorded in Poland on April 20, 2017. The country – which was invaded, occupied and prutalised by Nazi Germany – has reacted in horror at the newly aired footage. Screengrab: TVN24

Video of Polish Nazis burning swastikas leads to demands for crackdown

23 Jan 2018 - 8:08pm 1

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans. Photo: Reuters

Poland may face unprecedented EU sanctions to uphold rule of law

20 Dec 2017 - 9:30pm

Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. Poland’s state-run news agency PAP said the government banned Spencer from entering 26 countries in Europe’s visa-free Schengen area for five years. Photo: AP

American white nationalist banned by 26 European nations

23 Nov 2017 - 3:51am

EU chief accuses Polish government of working for Russian interests

EU chief accuses Polish government of working for Russia

20 Nov 2017 - 1:51am 1

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‘Multiply like rabbits’, Polish government tells citizens

8 Nov 2017 - 11:21pm 3

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8 Oct 2017 - 10:09pm

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