Saturday, November 16, 2024

Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent home

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get help, using her phone to translate a plea and show it to Japanese police as she tried to avoid being forced onto a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent home

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get help, using her phone to translate a plea and show it to Japanese police as she tried to avoid being forced onto a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent home

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get help, using her phone to translate a plea and show it to Japanese police as she tried to avoid being forced onto a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent home

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get help, using her phone to translate a plea and show it to Japanese police as she tried to avoid being forced onto a …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Belarus runner showed Japanese police plea for help on phone

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who criticized her coaches at the Tokyo Games said Thursday that she showed police a translated plea for help on her phone as she tried to avoid being put on a plane home, where she feared reprisals from an authoritarian government.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Belarus sprinter: Grandmother advised her not to return home

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals at home after criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games said Thursday that her grandmother advised her not to return to Belarus but she urged her fellow citizens “not to be afraid.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Historic Warsaw store, seeking rebirth, hit by pandemic

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Jablkowski Brothers Department Store was once a Warsaw landmark that revolutionized shopping and brought goods to a modernizing society in the early 20th century. But unlike Harrods in London and other Western counterparts, the business was forced into bankruptcy and seized by Poland's communist regime …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Historic Warsaw store, seeking rebirth, hit by pandemic

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Jablkowski Brothers Department Store was once a Warsaw landmark that revolutionized shopping and brought goods to a modernizing society in the early 20th century. But unlike Harrods in London and other Western counterparts, the business was forced into bankruptcy and seized by Poland's communist regime …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Historic Warsaw store, seeking rebirth, hit by pandemic

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Jablkowski Brothers Department Store was once a Warsaw landmark that revolutionized shopping and brought goods to a modernizing society in the early 20th century. But unlike Harrods in London and other Western counterparts, the business was forced into bankruptcy and seized by Poland's communist regime …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Holocaust scholars ordered to apologize in Polish libel case

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work that suggested he helped kill Jews during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Holocaust scholars ordered to apologize in Polish libel case

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work that suggested he helped kill Jews during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Holocaust scholars ordered to apologize in Polish libel case

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work that suggested he helped kill Jews during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Poland: 3 on trial over LGBT sign on posters of revered icon

PLOCK, Poland (AP) — Three human rights activists went on trial Wednesday in Poland for alleged desecration and offending religious sentiment by adding the LGBT rights movement's rainbow symbol to posters of a revered Roman Catholic icon and publicly displaying the altered image, including on garbage bins and mobile toilets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Desecration trial opens over LGBT rainbow put on Polish icon

PLOCK, Poland (AP) — Three human rights activists went on trial Wednesday in Poland for alleged desecration and offending religious sentiment by adding the LGBT rights movement's rainbow symbol to posters of a revered Roman Catholic icon and publicly displaying the altered image, including on garbage bins and mobile toilets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Poland, Hungary PMs meet over EU budget veto strategy

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and Hungary have declared openness to new proposals from the European Union regarding the bloc's next budget and major coronavirus pandemic aid package that they are threatening to veto because it draws a link between bloc funding and members’ adherence to democratic standards.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Poland, Hungary PMs meet over EU budget veto strategy

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and Hungary have declared openness to new proposals from the European Union regarding the bloc's next budget and major coronavirus pandemic aid package that they are threatening to veto because it draws a link between bloc funding and members’ adherence to democratic standards.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Polish PM says he's told Merkel of plan to veto EU budget

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister on Friday said he had confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Warsaw is ready to block the EU's huge budget and recovery package because it's linked to democratic standards in member states.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Polish PM says he's told Merkel of plan to veto EU budget

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister on Friday said he had confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Warsaw is ready to block the EU's huge budget and recovery package because it's linked to democratic standards in member states.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Polish PM says he's told Merkel of plan to veto EU budget

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister on Friday said he had confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Warsaw is ready to block the EU's huge budget and recovery package because it's linked to democratic standards in member states.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Polish PM says he's told Merkel of plan to veto EU budget

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister on Friday said he had confirmed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Warsaw is ready to block the EU's huge budget and recovery package because it's linked to democratic standards in member states.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Hungary, Poland uphold their veto to EU money mechanism

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The leaders of Hungary and Poland vowed Thursday to uphold their veto of the European Union’s next budget — and its massive pandemic relief fund — saying a mechanism that ties payment of funds to rule of law principles risks derailing the bloc.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Venezuelan Olympian delivers food to support family

LODZ, Poland (AP) — Back home in Venezuela, Ruben Limardo Gascon is hailed as a national hero for winning a gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Venezuelan Olympian delivers food to support family

LODZ, Poland (AP) — Back home in Venezuela, Ruben Limardo Gascon is hailed as a national hero for winning a gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Venezuelan Olympian delivers food to support family

LODZ, Poland (AP) — Back home in Venezuela, Ruben Limardo Gascon is hailed as a national hero for winning a gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Venezuelan Olympian delivers food to support family

LODZ, Poland (AP) — Back home in Venezuela, Ruben Limardo Gascon is hailed as a national hero for winning a gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Polish bishops defend John Paul II after McCarrick report

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish bishops defended St. John Paul II on Friday against evidence that he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians, seeking to salvage a papal legacy that has been badly tarnished by his inaction on clergy sexual abuse.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Clashes at Poland's Independence Day far-right march

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police used tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with far-right supporters Wednesday during an annual Independence Day march attended by thousands in Warsaw that went ahead despite a ban on public gatherings due to the pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland delays implementing abortion ruling amid protests

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s right-wing government is delaying the publication and implementation of a high court ruling that tightens the abortion law and that has triggered almost two weeks of nationwide protests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

In solidarity, Poles buy flowers to help struggling vendors

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Driven by new solidarity, Poles have been buying armloads of chrysanthemums to help out flower vendors who unexpectedly faced bankruptcy when the government ordered all cemeteries locked due to COVID-19 during a traditional memorial weekend.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland seizes communist-era security files headed for US

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Customs officials at Warsaw airport have discovered and seized valuable historical documents and recordings from 1967-68, of Poland’s communist-era security, in two packages destined for the U.S., authorities said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Polish PM calls for stop to mass protests as pandemic rages

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister appealed Thursday for a stop, amid a huge spike in the country’s coronavirus infections, to a week of angry protests against a high court ruling that tightens already strict abortion laws.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Angry women block traffic across Poland over abortion ban

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women’s rights activists and many thousands of supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland on Monday, defying pandemic restrictions to express their fury at a top court decision that tightens the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Women's groups lead more protests over Poland abortion law

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Women’s rights activists and thousands of their supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland Monday, despite pandemic restrictions, after a top court tightened the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poles vent fury at court's further restrictions on abortions

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of protesters vented fury across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poles vent fury at court's further restrictions on abortions

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of protesters vented fury across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poles vent fury at new ban on abortions of defective fetuses

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Throngs of protesters vented anger Friday across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland's top court rules out abortions due to fetal defects

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are among the strictest in Europe.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland's top court rules out abortions due to fetal defects

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are among the strictest in Europe.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland's top court rules out abortions for birth defects

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top court has ruled that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland faces restriction upgrade, but no lockdown, PM says

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister signaled Wednesday that the whole country faces being placed on the highest restriction level short of a full lockdown, as health authorities registered a record in new confirmed COVID-19 infections.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Poland heralds virus strategy protecting both lives and jobs

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister on Wednesday outlined a “middle of the road” strategy of defending people’s health and lives while also protecting the economy and jobs in the country's fight against COVID-19.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

WWII bomb explodes as it is made safe in Poland, no injuries

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A British World War II giant Tallboy bomb exploded while being made safe underwater by Navy sappers in northwestern Poland on Tuesday. No one was injured.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Norway grants asylum to fugitive Pole, raising controversy

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Norway has granted asylum to a Polish man who had fled prison term for fraud and forging of documents, but says the prison term was a form of political persecution under Poland's right-wing government.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Poles split over govt plan to exit domestic violence treaty

Poles are bitterly divided over steps being taken by the right-wing government to exit the Istanbul Convention, a European treaty against domestic violence, claiming it promotes gender “ideology” and links violence to religion
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and “Shutter Island,” died Sunday. He was 86.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Poland's idle restaurants send free food to medical 'heroes'

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A popular Warsaw entertainment center looks empty and closed amid a government ordered shutdown from the coronavirus, but inside, cook Bozena Legowska is busy.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Poland's idle restaurants send free food to medical 'heroes'

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A popular Warsaw entertainment center looks empty and closed amid a government ordered shutdown from the coronavirus, but inside, cook Bozena Legowska is busy.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Poland's idle restaurants send free food to medical 'heroes'

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A popular Warsaw entertainment center looks empty and closed amid a government ordered shutdown from the coronavirus, but inside, cook Bozena Legowska is busy.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Monroe photos on auction in Poland

WARSAW, Poland - Who doesn't want a picture of Marilyn Monroe?
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Polish leader among dead in jet crash

SMOLENSK, Russia - An aging Russian airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and members of his country's military, political and church elites crashed in thick fog Saturday as it took them to a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Polish military officers by Soviet secret …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO