US secretary of state John Kerry will visit Poland on 5 November, the only European capital on a nine-day trip, which includes seven capitals of northern Africa and the Middle East.
Poland's foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Thursday afternoon that Kerry's visit "will be an opportunity for serious talks...
Solidarity activist and the first non-communist prime minister in central and eastern Europe since the end of World War II, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, has died. He was 86 years old.
Mazowiecki, born in Plock central Poland in 1927, became prime minister of Poland after the historic Round Table talks and elections...
Just under half of respondents have told an opinion pollster they do not know who to believe as to the cause of the April 2010 Smolensk air disaster.
The poll by TNS Polska found that 45 percent answered "don't know" when questioned as to what caused the plane crash which...
A 97-year-old Polish woman and her late husband were honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Institute on Friday as 'righteous gentiles.'
Bronislawa Golonka and her husband Jan provided shelter to a five-person Jewish family on a farm near Bochnia, southern Poland, during the German occupation of Poland.
Max Halpern, one of the children saved...
Kraków has been named a UNESCO City of Literature, the seventh holder of the prestigious title alongside Edinburgh, Melbourne, Iowa City, Dublin, Reykjavik, and Norwich in England. UNESCO’s City of Literature program is part of the organization’s Creative Cities Network.
The announcement by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, marks the crowning...
A group of 115 passengers who survived a miraculous emergency landing at Warsaw's Chopin Airport in November 2011 are seeking damages in a US court. The applicants are being represented by three legal offices from the US, Great Britain and Poland.
Jolanta Budzowska, who is representing the Polish claimants, is not...
Prosecutors have dismissed earlier reports that a bomb caused the fire last Wednesday that damaged part of a mosque in Gdansk, northern Poland.
On Monday morning, RMF FM radio claimed that a source at the prosecutor's office said that a detonation device was found at the site.
However, locals prosecutors have...
The first hearing brought by former captives who allege that they were held at a CIA black site in Poland will begin at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 2 and 3 December.
The case has been brought to court by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah,...
A group of local politicians failed in a bid to recall Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after referendum turnout, Sunday, was around two percent short of making the vote valid.
The TNS Polska pollster is reporting a turnout of 27.2 percent, with 389,000 voters, or 29.1 percent, needed to recall...
Father Wojciech Gil, accused of molesting minors in the Dominican Republic, has said that he is innocent of the charges made against him and will pray for his accusers.
"I know that I did not do anything wrong in relation to these children," the 36 year-old Gil has told the...
