Polish immigrants in the UK went on strike today; some also donated blood and others held a rally outside Parliament all in an effort to highlight their own perceived lack of value by fellow residents of their host nation. The
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Conservative Andrzej Duda was sworn in as Poland’s new president Thursday, bringing political change to the nation’s top office. However, confusion surrounded the absence from the ceremony of European Union leader and former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.
Britain’s largest Polish-language newspaper has backed plans for a nationwide-one day walkout by migrant workers this month. Fed up of being unfairly cast as “benefit scrounging immigrants”, hard working Polish immigrants are threatening to strike. Upset by anti-migration rhetoric in the
Lord Weidenfeld, an influential British publisher who was helped by Christians to escape Nazi-occupied Austria during his youth, has set up a fund to help save Syrian and Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
In an act which has been branded “shameful”, pro-abortion campaigners are stepping up their campaign to deliver abortions to women in countries where the practice is illegal by flying abortion pills into Poland via drone. The “abortion drone” will make
Poland’s Law and Justice Party may seek another round of renegotiations will the European Union if they win the country’s parliamentary elections in October this year. The party – which sits with David Cameron’s Conservative Party in the European Parliament
Almost 1,500 passengers scheduled to fly with Polish state-owned airline LOT had their flights canceled after unknown hackers attacked the airline’s computers.
A new report from CIS Monday warns against adding Poland to the list of visa waiver countries — or countries whose citizens are allowed to enter the U.S. without visas when visiting for short periods of time — due to the risk of visa overstays.
The US will take a decision soon to store heavy weapons including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in Poland, the Polish defence minister says.
The Polish government has built six unmanned watchtowers overlooking the frontier along the Russia-Poland border.
The Council of Europe’s ‘European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance‘ (ECRI) published critical reports this week calling for action in Hungary and Poland to fight prejudice within their borders. Although often cited as victims of intolerance in the UK it has been shown that
Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old Polish President-Elect and a practicing Catholic, recently made a pilgrimage to the National Shrine at Czestowocha to pray for divine guidance as he prepares to lead his country.
The island of Cuba has been rightly seen as the last major stronghold of real Marxism in the world, but as Communism loses its grip, the long atheistic winter seems to be giving way to a springtime of spirituality. When Cuban
Unseeded German Annika Beck, ranked #83, defeated 14th seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round at the French Open, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish voters have sent a strong signal that they are unhappy with the country’s direction, apparently unseating a president despite the country’s years of fast economic growth and unprecedented stability.
The Ukrainian government is under fire after President Petro Poroshenko signed a bill that bans all Communism and Nazi symbols. He also signed a law that honors and recognizes militias that worked with the Germans in World War II. The United States Holocaust Museum lashed out at the decision.
Polish officials refused to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biker gang the Night Wolves to enter the country. The gang is currently on their “victory ride” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The Polish government demanded American toy company Mattel remove “Nazi Poland” from their popular game Apples to Apples. The company issued an apology over social media.
FBI Director James Comey has prompted the U.S. Ambassador to Poland to issue an apology to that nation for remarks in which he implied that Poland was partially to blame for the Holocaust, and not exclusively a victim of Nazi Germany during its occupation.
A Russian biker gang with close ties to President Vladimir Putin, the Night Wolves, announced a victory ride from Moscow to Berlin to celebrate VE Day. The trip is almost 3,750 miles and will pass through Poland, Czech Republic, and Austria. Polish authorities lashed out at the journey, which celebrates the Soviet military.
BIALYSTOK, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of residents turned out in eastern Poland on Tuesday to greet a convoy of U.S. troops that is driving through eastern Europe, a region worried that the conflict in Ukraine threatens its security.
Renegotiation of the EU treaties is “mission impossible”, according to the man tasked with brokering the negotiations. But he has promised to help Prime Minister David Cameron during the talks as Cameron is “obviously pro-European”. Donald Tusk, the President of
KALISZ, Poland — For evidence of how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has jangled nerves and provoked anxiety across Eastern Europe, look no farther than the drill held the other day by the Shooters Association.
An agreement between the Governments of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine on creating a joint military brigade has successfully passed the first legislative stage in the Lithuanian Parliament (the Seimas).
NATO member Poland has announced plans to send Polish military personnel to Ukraine to help train the Ukrainian military in their fight against Russian-backed troops in the east.
Pop singer Katy Perry took some time away from the music Wednesday to pay a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, where more than one million people were murdered in the Holocaust of the Second World War.
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, NATO’s deputy commander of forces in Europe, told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute that Moscow’s ambitions on Ukraine are “an obvious existential threat to our whole being.”
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Former Hollywood director Roman Polanski will attend a court hearing next week in Poland where a request for his extradition to the United States will be examined.
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Tuesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The Nazis who ran the execution site were responsible for the slaughter of over one million people within a five-year timespan, with the vast majority of them being Jews. In Auschwitz alone, from 1940-1945, the Nazis killed roughly six-hundred people per day, twenty-five per hour, one every 144 seconds.
Officials in Poland have been asked to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States, where he has been wanted on charges of having sex with a minor since 1978.
Better late than never.
MAINZ, Germany, Dec. 16 (UPI) — A 93-year-old former SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp will face trial next year on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, a German court ruled. The court said there is enough evidence
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, 81, who fled the United States in 1978 the night before he was to be sentenced for statutory rape, wants to return, and his attorneys, including Alan M. Dershowitz, filed suit on Monday, accusing district attorneys
LODZ, Poland (Reuters) – The European Union has given Poland more than 100 million euros ($125 million) to build at least three “ghost” airports in places where there are not enough passengers to keep them in business. The result is
All hail Jean-Claude Juncker, the man who would be King of Europe. Or already is, depending on your interpretation of the divine rights of monarchs and the gift of absolute power. On Thursday the European Commission president warned the UK
A new report by the Pew Research Center shows Pope Francis enjoying broad popularity throughout the world, with a median approval rating of 60 percent across 43 nations surveyed. The report was released Thursday and offers a global view of
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday honoured Holocaust victims at Nazi Germany’s notorious wartime Auschwitz death camp, now a museum in southern Poland. Cameron walked through the camp’s infamous wrought-iron “Arbeit macht frei” (work makes you free) entrance gate before
A Romani Gypsy who came to Britain in the first days of relaxed visa rules this year has thanked English taxpayers for unwittingly paying for his new house back in Romania, for which he is siphoning off £60,000 worth of
