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 ...

Poland's top political leaders on Sunday, Sept. 12, attended the beatification of two revered figures of the Catholic Church — a cardinal who led the Polish church's resistance to communism and a ...

SOPOT, Poland (Reuters) - When Jacek Krawczyk was growing up in then-communist Poland, the government was happy to train him in karate and acrobatics. He did not imagine that one day he would become a ...

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 (Reuters) - General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader who imposed martial law to crush the Solidarity movement only to hand over power less than a decade later, died aged 90 ...

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 ...

Top officials on Sunday are paying tribute to Polish post-WWII resistance fighters who suffered brutal repression at the hands of the country’s former communist authorities.

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 A Polish priest denied Monday that he intentionally collaborated with communist authorities in the 1980s while close to Pope John Paul II's entourage, but he apologized to anyone he may ...