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Anaconda 2010 gets to grips in Baltic Sea 04.10.2010 Anaconda 2010 military exercise by Poland’s armed forces has begun on the Baltic Sea.
Taliban victim receives posthumous honour 04.10.2010 Piotr Stanczak, a geologist who was captured and murdered by the Taliban while in Pakistan, has posthumously received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta from President Komorowski.
Pygmy hippo christened ‘Euforio’ 04.10.2010 The pygmy hippopotamus born in mid-August in Wrocław Zoo, southwest Poland, was christened this Sunday with the name Euforio, selected out of some 400 entries submitted in a nation-wide competition.
Sex charged mayor bids for re-election 04.10.2010 Czeslaw Malkowski, former mayor of the northern city of Olsztyn wants to run in the local elections even though he is under investigation for sexual abuse of employees.
Poland goes to war on ‘smart drugs’ 04.10.2010 Over 900 shops selling so-called “legal highs” or “smart drugs” have been closed down in Poland as the government intensifies its war on what it sees as a new threat to the nation’s youth.
Poland’s top literary prize goes to playwright 04.10.2010 Nasza Klasa (Our Class) a drama by Tadeusz Słobodzianek has won the 2010 NIKE Award, the first time this prestigious literary award, established in 1997, has gone to a play.
Liberal rebel quits ruling Civic Platform 03.10.2010 Prominent Civic Platform politician Janusz Palikot announced on Saturday that he will be leaving the ruling party on 6 December and setting up his own, more liberal political movement.
Chopin gives us solidarity, says Wałęsa 02.10.2010 “Chopin can bring us together,” Lech Wałęsa has said, as the International Chopin Competition begins in Warsaw this weekend.
Cops steal guns to sell to other cops 01.10.2010 Four policemen from the southern region of Silesia have been charged with stealing 100 guns, ammunition and bullet-proof vests, allegedly to sell them on to other policemen.
Sikorski - ‘Is Kaczynski on drugs?’ 01.10.2010 Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski wondered yesterday if leader of the Law and Justice party Jarosław Kaczyński “was on drugs” after he sent a letter to ambassadors warning of “Russian imperialism”.
Summer’s just ended but snow is already on Tatra mountains 30.09.2010 Ten centimetres of snow are being reported on the peak of Kasprowy Wierch in the Tatra mountains, where the temperature has dropped to minus 5 degrees Celsius.
Mass redundancies at public broadcaster 30.09.2010 Over 300 employees of the public broadcaster TVP will be made redundant.
Stanislaw Lem leads Polish satellite poll 30.09.2010 The late science fiction author Stanisław Lem is favourite to have the first Polish satellite named after him.
Warsaw metro construction halted due to WW II ruins 30.09.2010 The construction of the second line of the Warsaw Metro system has been suspended due to the discovery of ruins of pre-WW II buildings.
Maverick politician alienates himself from party? 30.09.2010 Head of the Civic Platform parliamentary club, Tomasz Tomczykiewicz believes that even though maverick politician Janusz Palikot is still formally a member of the party, he has alienated himself from its ranks.
Transplant boy needs second liver 30.09.2010 Six year-old Tomek, who was poisoned with mushrooms in the summer, needs a second liver transplant, says a spokesman at the children’s centre in Warsaw.

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