Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:19 AM EDT
Testifying at the trial of Poland's last Communist leader, Former Polish President Lech Walesa suggested Wednesday that the Soviet system was responsible for the killing of protesting shipyard workers in 1970, rather than individuals.
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Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:20 PM EDT
Prosecutors have charged 12 people in connection with the deadly 2006 winter roof collapse that killed 65 people at an exhibition hall in southern Poland.
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:36 PM EDT
Time to shop until you drop across the Atlantic, the U.S. embassy says. In an unusual appeal, the United States is enticing Poles to visit and spend money this summer in hopes of propping up its faltering economy. The campaign comes as the Polish currency hit a historic high — reaching 2.1194 zloty to the dollar on Monday.
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:24 PM EDT
The Warsaw Uprising museum said Monday that it is trying to track down former residents of the Polish capital removed from their homes by the Nazis during the 1944 revolt.
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Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:50 PM EDT
Polish prosecutors have decided not to charge a Roman Catholic priest accused of making anti-Semitic comments, and the country's Jewish community on Friday called the decision a setback.
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