WARSAW, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Poland's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former employees of the Communist-era secret police can challenge government rules that automatically cut their pensions, ...

John Paul was shot and seriously wounded on May 13, 1981, in St. Peter's Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk. But it has been suggested that larger political motives may have been behind the attack, ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A doctor says that Poland’s last communist leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, has been hospitalized due to heart problems. Spokesman for Warsaw’s Military Medical Institute, Col.

Thirty years after Poland's election that heralded the peaceful demise of the entire Soviet bloc, anti-communist icon Lech Walesa on Tuesday warned against the dangers of demagoguery, populism and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A modern art museum ...

Warsaw, Poland, is a living museum of economic systems. It's a city where concrete reliefs of stoic factory workers decorate a building that now houses a Kentucky Fried Chicken, where a Soviet-era ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Czeslaw Kiszczak, who as interior minister in communist Poland in the 1980s helped oversee the imposition of martial law and the crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity trade ...

Poland's last communist leader, a highly divisive figure in the country, died Sunday at the age of 90 from cancer, The Associated Press reported. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was best known for his 1981 ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A modern art museum designed by American architect Thomas Phifer opens its doors in the Polish capital Friday — a minimalist, light-filled structure that is meant to be a symbol ...