Leaders Remember Auschwitz Victims 4 February 2010 Poland's political leaders, Israel's Prime Minister and 150 former prisoners gathered at the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in southern Poland Jan. 27 to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
Morąg to Host Patriots 4 February 2010 Morąg, a town of 14,000 in the northeastern Warmia-Mazuria province, has been chosen to host a battery of American Patriot ground-to-air missiles and the troops necessary to maintain them that will be deployed to Poland under an agreement with the U.S. government.
Tusk Gives Up Presidential Bid By W.Ż. 4 February 2010 Prime Minister Donald Tusk, leader of the governing Civic Platform (PO) party, Jan. 28 announced he would not run in this fall's presidential election, causing widespread surprise.
High-Stakes Battle in Gambling Probe 4 February 2010 Emotions are running high as a special parliamentary commission investigates a scandal involving prominent politicians of the ruling Civic Platform (PO) party, who allegedly lobbied illegally for businessmen operating casinos and video arcades.
Gangster Dies, Mystery Remains 13 January 2010 Artur Zirajewski, an ex-mobster and witness in a case involving the 1998 assassination of national police chief Gen. Marek Papała, died suddenly at a detention center in the northern city of Gdańsk Jan. 3.
Gosiewski Quits Key Job 13 January 2010 Former regional development minister Grażyna Gęsicka unexpectedly replaced Przemysław Gosiewski as head of the parliamentary caucus of the opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) Jan. 6.
Russian Spy Nabbed 13 January 2010 Polish officials Jan. 5 revealed that a Russian spy had been arrested in Poland at the beginning of February last year. When apprehended, the spy had communications equipment on him, officials said.
Kempa, Wassermann Back on Commission 13 January 2010 The ruling Civic Platform (PO) party Jan. 8 suffered its biggest defeat in parliament since it won the elections in 2007 and formed a government coalition with the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL). Despite PO's concentrated efforts to prevent Beata Kempa and Zbigniew Wassermann, two deputies from the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, from rejoining the special parliamentary commission investigating the so-called gambling scandal, the lower house of parliament decided both deputies should sit on the committee.
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