Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination lawsPolish state has ‘blood on its hands’ after death of woman refused an abortionProtests are under way across Poland after the death of a 37-year-old woman this week who was refused an abortion, a year since the country introduced one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.

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Protests flare across Poland after death of young mother denied an abortion

Roman Haller owes his life to a 20-year-old housekeeper. He was conceived in the basement of a home in Poland where his parents and 10 other Jews hid out during World War II. It wasn’t just any house. It belonged to a Nazi officer, and it was his housekeeper who smuggled the Jews to the basement and took care of them in secret. 





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A Nazi officer’s housekeeper hid 12 Jews in the basement. All of them made it out alive.

Family says young mother’s health deteriorated rapidly after the twins she was carrying died a week apart in the womb

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Polish state has ‘blood on its hands’ after death of woman refused an abortion

Poland has started building a US$394 million wall on its eastern border intended to block migrants pushed by Belarus, in what the European Union calls a 'hybrid attack,' from crossing illegally into EU territory.

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Poland starts building wall on border with Belarus

A new Polish foundation has been created that will distribute grants globally to groups that come up with novel ways to fight indifference to hatred and discrimination.

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 Two more Poles have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the notoriously powerful spyware from Israel’s NSO Group: an agrarian political leader at odds with Poland's right-wing government and the co-author of a book about the head of Poland's secret services.

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Two more Poles identified as victims of hacking with spyware

A Polish news broadcaster reported that a LOT Polish airlines plane was struck by lightning on Thursday, prompting the plane to return to Warsaw.TVN24 quoted a passenger who said that passengers about the Dreamliner airplane experienced a moment of terror but that nobody was harmed and the plane landed safely.

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Polish LOT plane struck by lightning, forced to land

By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW - A top Polish court was to discuss on Wednesday whether a continent-wide human rights court had the power to question local judges' legitimacy in a case that could deepen the nationalist government's standoff with Europe. In power since 2015, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has clashed with European institutions over issues from judicial

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Hearing on Polish judges could deepen standoff with Europe

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