Category Archives: WARSAW, Poland

EU’s Tusk queried in Poland over his past policy as premier

Posted on June 17, 2019 by FOX News

Top European Union official Donald Tusk is being questioned by a panel in his native Poland that is investigating cases of large-scale tax evasion during the time when he was the country's prime minister.

Search for stunt pilot after plane plunges into Polish river

Posted on June 15, 2019 by FOX News

A rescue operation is underway in central Poland for the pilot of a small stunt plane that plunged into the Vistula river during a performance at an air show.

Vatican investigator of child sex abuse meets Polish bishops

Posted on June 14, 2019 by FOX News

The Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, is meeting Poland's Catholic bishops to share his experience in tracking crimes, after the Polish church admitted knowledge of hundreds of cases of abuse of minors by priests.

Poland: Ex-aide found guilty in crash that killed president

Posted on June 13, 2019 by FOX News

A court in Poland has found a former government official guilty of negligence in the 2010 airplane flight to Russia that ended in a crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others.

Poland: Statue of priest accused of abuse removed

Posted on June 12, 2019 by FOX News

A statue featuring a Polish priest suspected of child sex abuse was removed from the grounds of a major Catholic pilgrimage site in central Poland, days ahead of a meeting between Polish bishops and the Vatican's sex crimes investigator.

Polish businessman requests pardon from president

Posted on June 10, 2019 by FOX News

A Polish newspaper says a businessman who had fled the country for Spain after being sentenced to a 2-1/2-year prison term for illegally eavesdropping on politicians has asked to be pardoned by President Andrzej Duda.

Catholic priest in hospital after knife attack in Poland

Posted on June 10, 2019 by FOX News

Authorities in Poland say that a Roman Catholic priest is hospitalized in serious condition after a man attacked him with a knife.

Poland: Cars collide with truck, killing 6 and injuring 11

Posted on June 9, 2019 by FOX News

Polish media are reporting that a collision involving six cars and a truck on a highway in western Poland killed six people and injured 11 others.

Blaze engulfs upper floors of Warsaw high-rise; no one hurt

Posted on June 8, 2019 by FOX News

Polish firefighters have worked overnight to put out a huge blaze that broke out on the upper floors of a high-rise building under construction in downtown Warsaw.

Spain extradites Pole convicted of recording govt talks

Posted on June 7, 2019 by FOX News

Polish police say a businessman who fled to Spain after being convicted in an illegal eavesdropping case that led to the fall of a Polish government has been extradited to Poland.

Polish court backs citizenship for LGBT couple’s child

Posted on June 5, 2019 by FOX News

A court in Poland has upheld the groundbreaking registration of a child raised by a same-sex couple.

Poland bestows honor on controversial British philosopher

Posted on June 4, 2019 by FOX News

Poland's president has bestowed a prestigious state honor on a conservative English philosopher who has stirred controversy at home with comments about homosexuality, Islamophobia and Jews.

Poland’s democracy anniversary marred by political divisions

Posted on June 4, 2019 by FOX News

Poland is celebrating 30 years since elections that ended communist rule in the country — but political leaders are divided over that legacy.

Poland: Cabinet reshuffled after some ministers win EU seats

Posted on June 4, 2019 by FOX News

Poland's president has sworn in new members of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's Cabinet after several government ministers won mandates to the European Parliament.

Poland’s leaders campaign to save wild cows from slaughter

Posted on May 31, 2019 by FOX News

Poland's ruling party leader and the president have weighed in to save the lives of a herd of some 180 cows and bulls that went feral after years of neglect and were ordered slaughtered.

Polish government reshuffle expected following EU elections

Posted on May 30, 2019 by FOX News

The spokesman for Polish President Andrzej Duda says there will be a major government reshuffle sometime next week following the election of several ministers to the European Parliament.

Polish advocate for church victims resigns in scandal

Posted on May 30, 2019 by FOX News

The founder and head of a Polish organization dedicated to helping victims of pedophile priests has resigned after allegations surfaced that he tried to extort money from a victim and demanded money from the producers of a documentary about clerical abuse.

City rents lodgings for parents of Poland’s first sextuplets

Posted on May 28, 2019 by FOX News

The city of Krakow has rented a two-bedroom apartment for the parents of Poland's first sextuplets, to help them stay close to the hospitalized babies.

2 men get prison for Auschwitz slain sheep protest

Posted on May 28, 2019 by FOX News

A Polish court has sentenced two Belarusian men to prison for organizing a 2017 stunt in which young adults stripped naked at Auschwitz and chained themselves together to the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate as one man slaughtered a sheep.

Polish police: masked teenager injures 2 in primary school

Posted on May 27, 2019 by FOX News

Polish police say a girl and a woman have been hurt when a masked man entered a primary school in central Poland and threw firecrackers.