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World Cup views from Tokyo, Group H: Japan, Colombia, Senegal and Poland
Japan-based supporters of Group H teams fighting it out for the ultimate prize at the FIFA World Cup speak to The Japan Times.
Poland's largest power provider abandons nuclear project for Baltic Sea wind farms
Poland's largest power group PGE has abandoned its leading role in plans to build the country's first nuclear power station as it focuses on new wind farms in the Baltic Sea, two sources said. Two other sources said state-run refiner PKN Orlen could take on ...
Polish victims of World War II should be able to claim €440 billion ($543 billion) from Germany in World War II damages, the head of a parliamentary commission said Thursday. Arkadiusz Mularczyk of the nationalist ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) based the figure, which ...
Four die and 20 hurt in building collapse after explosion in Poland
Four people died and about 20 were injured in an apartment building collapse in Poznan, western Poland, most likely to have been caused by a gas explosion, state-run news agency PAP said on Sunday. The explosion on Sunday morning destroyed four of 18 apartments in ...
A Polish campaign group is suing an Argentinian newspaper it says breached a new law that makes it a criminal offense to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. In what appeared to be the first legal action under the so-called Holocaust law, just hours ...
Shivering Europe hopes for weekend respite as deep freeze persists
Europe's deep freeze, which has cost more than 60 lives over the past week, continued to wreak havoc early Saturday as the shivering continent awaited a sliver of weekend respite from a brutal Siberian cold front. After heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards lashed Europe, conditions ...
Seventy-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — the infamous Nazi death camp that has come to symbolize the Holocaust — Poles are still struggling to understand their own role in Germany's wartime genocide of European Jews on Polish soil. A bill passed this week ...
No institutionalized participation by Poland in the Holocaust: president
Poland's president said Monday that there was no institutionalized participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took "wicked" actions against Jewish neighbors. President Andrzej Duda said that he would never allow Poland and Poles in general to be ...
Clues to cause of Chopin's death found in his well-preserved heart
The heart of Frederic Chopin, among the world's most cherished musical virtuosos, may finally have revealed the cause of his untimely death. The prolific 19th-century Polish-French pianist and composer died at the age of 39 of what had long been believed to be tuberculosis. However, in ...
North and Central Europe wind storm leaves at least six dead, freighter aground
Strong winds battered Northern and Central Europe on Sunday, killing at least six people in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, with authorities watching for oil leaks from a huge freighter that ran aground in the North Sea. Four victims in Poland and the Czech ...
At least five people killed as strong winds batter Central Europe
At least five people died and several were injured Sunday as high winds knocked down trees, left homes without electricity and caused widespread travel chaos across much of Central Europe. Two people died in Poland as a result of the strong winds, including a man ...
NATO opens counterespionage hub in Krakow as Russia tensions heat up
NATO opened a counterespionage hub in Poland on Thursday aimed at expanding the alliance's intelligence-gathering capabilities amid tensions with Russia, a senior Polish official said. The new facility in the southern city of Krakow is focused on "developing the basic norms, principles and activities" for ...
