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Pole vaulter EJ Obiena nahigitan ang dating record

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 07:33 PM

Nahigitan ng Pinoy pole vaulter na si EJ Obiena ang kaniyang dating record.  Read more »

Poland to vaccinate 12-year-olds, join EU COVID certificate scheme

Reuters
Posted at Jun 01 09:45 PM

WARSAW - Poland will offer COVID-19 vaccinations to children aged 12-15 from June 7 and is also joining an EU certificate scheme to make travel easier, ministers said on Tuesday. Read more »

'Like New Year's Eve': Polish bars celebrate midnight reopening

Reuters
Posted at May 15 07:33 PM

WARSAW - Champagne corks popped at the stroke of midnight on Friday as bars and restaurants in Poland opened their outdoor terraces for the first time in over six months and many Poles went out to celebrate. Read more »

Mummy-to-be: Pregnant embalmed body identified in Poland

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 30 05:41 AM

"This is the first known case of a pregnant embalmed body," an article on the Journal of Archaeological Science said. Read more »

Nakasabit na akala'y ibon o bayawak sa isang puno sa Poland, tinapay pala

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 15 12:30 PM

Nagulantang ang mga animal welfare inspector sa Poland nang malamang ang inakalang mapanganib na hayop na nakasabit sa isang puno sa Warsaw ay tinapay pala.   Read more »

Polish doctors torn over mental health as grounds to bypass near-total abortion ban

Joanna Plucinska and Kuba Stezycki, Reuters
Posted at Mar 20 04:50 PM

Polish law now considers only incest, rape or a threat to a mother's life and health as valid grounds to terminate a pregnancy. Read more »

Poland declares partial lockdown as virus cases spike

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 18 08:15 AM

WARSAW - Poland will go into a three-week partial lockdown from Saturday, with people encouraged to stay home and many shops and facilities closed to stem a rising tide of coronavirus cases. Read more »

'Can I afford it?' Workers fear squeeze from green energy transition

Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Feb 18 12:21 PM

In Poland - and wealthier European countries such as Germany - the need to move away from coal is affecting large geographical areas, said Patrizia Kraft, energy policy coordinator for the German Trade Union Confederation.   Read more »

Celebrity vaccinations cause outrage in Poland

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 04 09:07 PM

Poland, which like much of Europe began its vaccination campaign on December 27, is currently only supposed to be vaccinating medical workers under a government plan. Read more »

The size of a matchbox, a rare mouse deer is born on camera in Poland

Reuters
Posted at Dec 02 01:44 AM

WARSAW - A zoo in Wroclaw, Poland has captured the birth of a tiny mouse deer on camera for the first time ever, in a hopeful moment for the highly endangered species originating from the Philippines. Read more »

Poland finds 8 coronavirus cases in farmed mink

Reuters
Posted at Nov 24 11:41 PM

Poland, a major producer of mink fur, started coronavirus tests among its farmed mink and checks on workers this month after a mutated virus was found in farmed mink in Denmark, leading to a nationwide cull there. Read more »

Abortion protests attempting to 'destroy' Poland: ruling party

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 04:51 AM

WARSAW - The influential leader of Poland's ruling party on Tuesday criticized protests against a near-total ban on abortion as an attempt to "destroy" the nation and rallied party members to defend Catholic churches. Read more »

Poland curbs public gatherings, shuts bars as coronavirus cases climb

Reuters
Posted at Oct 23 11:59 PM

Poland will close restaurants and bars for two weeks and limit public gatherings to five people, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, after new coronavirus infections hit a daily record of more than 13,600. Read more »

Top Polish court to rule on abortions for birth defects

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 22 01:58 PM

Poland's constitutional court will on Thursday look into a bid to tighten the devout Catholic country's abortion law, which is already one of Europe's most restrictive.  Read more »

Gym dubs itself 'Church of the Healthy Body' to bypass virus restrictions

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 20 12:34 PM

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish gym has dubbed itself a church in a bid to stay open under new anti-virus restrictions that have seen the fitness industry scramble for creative loopholes.  Read more »

WWII bomb goes off in Poland during defusal op

Stanislaw Waszak and Anna Maria Jakubek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 03:53 AM

The device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb" -- was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945. Read more »

Massive WWII 'earthquake bomb' found near Baltic Sea

Stanislaw Waszak, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 02:03 PM

The five-ton device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb - was designed to explode underground next to a target, triggering shock waves that would cause destruction. The bomb is six meters (19 feet) long and has 2.4 tons of explosives. Read more »

Dutch cyclist Jakobsen to have two operations to rebuild his face

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 02 08:07 AM

LIEGE, Belgium - Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen, who smashed his head in a life-threatening crash at the Tour of Poland at the beginning of August, said on Thursday that he will have facial reconstruction surgery. Jakobsen was thrown into and over a barrier at 80 kilometers an hour (50mph) as he raced elbow-to-elbow with fellow Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen on the opening stage in Katowice. Read more »

The name's Bond, seriously: 007's namesake found in Polish Cold War archives

Reuters
Posted at Sep 24 04:45 AM

WARSAW - Poles were left shaken and stirred by news that a suspected British agent called James Bond was on Her Majesty's secret service in the country in the 1960s, after the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) posted about him on social media. Read more »

In Poland, a football club where everyone knows your name

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 08:10 PM

It may not be the best football club in Poland, or the oldest, or the most illustrious, but Graniczni Krowica has still made a name for itself -- literally. Half of the players share a last name. Read more »