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Poland remembers the Warsaw Rising Created: 01.08.2008 08:20 Today marks the 64th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Rising of 1944, the biggest operation organised and executed by a partisan organisation in WWII. In the Uprising, lasting 63 days, 18,000 insurgents were killed and 25,000 wounded. Losses among the civilians amounted to 180,000 people. Much of the capital was razed to the ground and left in ruins. The battle began on August 1, 1944, as part of a nation-wide rebellion, Operation Tempest. and was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army reached the city...

The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a non-profit undertaking in order to present the war and post-war history of Warsaw, it's destruction and reconstruction The exhibition THE CITY OF PHOENIX - WAR*SAW EVERYTHING is a collection of 28 photomontages, where photos from the Warsaw Uprising have been morphed with modern day photos of the exact same places.

In Memory of Irena Sendlerowa 1910-2008 Irena Sendler passed away on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 8:00 am CEST in Warsaw, Poland. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, May 15th at noon CEST in Warsaw. Memorial services are planned in numerous places, including Fort Scott, KS. The life of Irena Sendler was one of great testimony, one of courage and love, one of respect for all people, regardless of race, religion and creed. She passed away peacefully, knowing that her message goes on. Our hearts and prayers go out to her worldwide family. She is gone, but will...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said. Israel's Holocaust remembrance authority, Yad Vashem, said in a statement that it mourned her death. The web portal of Poland's leading daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, said Sendler, 98, died in Plocka Street hospital early on Monday. The hospital declined to comment on the report. Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said: "Irena Sendler's courageous activities rescuing Jews during the Holocaust serve as...

LODZ, Poland (AP) - Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw ghetto by a handful of scrappy, poorly armed Jews against the Nazi army, becomes emotional when he speaks of the fighters he led. "I remember them all—boys and girls—220 altogether, not too many to remember their faces, their names," says the 89-year-old doctor, who still works in a Lodz hospital. Edelman will lay a wreath in their honor at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto on Saturday, the 65th anniversary of the uprising. The Nazis walled off the ghetto in November...

Poland's Jewish leaders envision modern skyscraper in historic Warsaw Ghetto By Vanessa Gera ASSOCIATED PRESS 7:55 a.m. November 1, 2007 WARSAW, Poland – Poland's Jewish leaders have unveiled plans for a glass skyscraper in a neighborhood that was the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The building – projected to rise 680 feet high – would tower over the elegant Nozyk synagogue, Warsaw's only remaining synagogue, dramatically altering the look of the historic neighborhood. The skyscraper would include a new house of prayer, a kosher restaurant and vast commercial space, giving Warsaw's growing Jewish community a place...

BOSTON (AP) - An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a 92-year-old retired factory worker because he lied about his part in the Nazi destruction of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto in 1943, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Immigration Judge Wayne R. Iskra ordered Vladas Zajanckauskas sent to his native Lithuania, according to a news release from Alice S. Fisher, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division. Zajanckauskas' lawyer, Thomas Butters, did not immediately return a call Thursday seeking comment. The deportation order, issued Aug. 2 and delivered to the Department of Justice on Tuesday, comes more than two years...

Aug 1, 2007, 12:31 GMT Warsaw - Memorial ceremonies across Poland Wednesday marked the 63rd anniversary of the tragic Warsaw Uprising of Polish Home Army (AK) partisans against occupying Nazi German forces, bent on systematically destroying the Polish capital and its population during World War Two. 'It is very difficult to suffer such a great loss, but Poland would be weaker today if not for the Warsaw Uprising,' Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told reporters after a ceremonial changing of the guard at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Fought in a bid to secure Poland's post-war independence, the Warsaw...

Warsaw ghetto uprising anniversary 19.04.2007 Today is the 64th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and went on thru mid-May the same year. The ghetto established by the Germans in Warsaw in 1940 was home to about 4 hundred thousand Jews. Because of massive deportations of Jews to the Nazi death camps, but also by famine, diseases and the inhuman conditions in the overcrowded district, the number of inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto continued to drop. The April 1943 uprising was an attempt to resist the annihilation of the ghetto by...

Poland Through Foreign Eyes 6 April 2007 Warsaw is like a heart; foreigners circulate through it like blood. With every heartbeat, a new group of expats come into the city and another group leaves. But still, there are some that come and stay here for longer. Some have come here because of business opportunities or contracts, others for family or love. These people have observed how Poland really is, and how it has changed throughout the years. Living here for longer than six months or a year can really change someone's perspective on this place. Below are four stories of...

German Church's comparison of Israel to Nazis clear anti-Semitic expression BERLIN: How much chutzpa, insensitivity, and foolishness is there in a person that dares compare the situation of the Palestinians in the Territories to the state of the Jews at the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II? This is even more so when we are talking about the leaders of Germany's Catholic Church. Nobody is attempting to claim the living conditions of Palestinians in the Territories are ideal, but nobody has a right to exaggerate the descriptions of those difficult conditions to the point of comparing the Nazis' systematic imprisonment...

Warsaw's new archbishop, Stanislaw W. Wielgus, caught in Eastern Europe's widening witch hunt for former Communist secret police informers, admitted Friday that he had collaborated with the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, or Security Service, known as the S.B. "Before you today, I confess to the mistake committed by me years ago, just as I have confessed to the Holy Father," Bishop Wielgus said in an open letter to Polish Catholics. "By the fact of this entanglement, I have damaged the church." He said he compounded that damage by denying "facts of this cooperation" in recent days. Bishop Wielgus insisted, however, that he...

<p>Poland's foreign minister on Tuesday summoned the United States ambassador to answer allegations that a high-ranking U.S. diplomat overstepped his bounds in a private conversation with an aide to the prime minister.</p> <p>Anna Fotyga was to meet with U.S. Ambassador Victor Ashe Tuesday evening to clarify comments made by Ashe's chief deputy during talks with a senior government official, ministry spokesman Andrzej Sados said.</p>

Former Polish aristocrats sue CIA over alleged seizure of Warsaw home $275M suit launched by Canadian family says U.S. conspired with Communists Bob Weber, The Canadian Press Published: Sunday, October 29, 2006 MONTREAL - A Canadian family of one time Polish aristocrats has claimed in court that the CIA conspired with Poland's former Communist regime to imprison their father and acquire his stately home for the U.S. Embassy. The Cold War may be history, but John Czetwertynski's blue eyes still flash with anger and his slight accent thickens when he discusses the $275-million lawsuit filed in a New York court...

Brig. Gen. Shaukat, left, and Maj. Gen. Khalid Wynne of Pakistan chat during a social event at the 3rd annual Coalition Conference on Thursday, Oct. 5 in Warsaw, Poland. Although Pakistan is not a member of the coalition, Pakistani military officials were invited to Warsaw to share in the updates given on the progress in Iraq. BAGHDAD - For the last plane full of generals, military staff and dignitaries from half a dozen countries returning to Iraq to resume the fight, the 3rd annual Coalition Conference in Warsaw ended with a Friday afternoon trip down Airport Road. After three days...

1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising The Germans have crushed a rebellion in Warsaw led by the Polish Home Army. Street fighting began on 1 August as Soviet troops were heard battling on the outskirts of the Polish capital. After 63 days of struggle and little outside help, the Polish Home Army surrendered to the Germans after a ceasefire at 2200 local time yesterday. Resistance groups had used the sewers to travel from one part of the city to another and send messages. Much of the supplies that were dropped by the RAF and US Air Force landed on enemy...

Warsaw commemorates fall of its tragic 1944 Uprising 02.10.2006 October 2nd marks the anniversary of the fall of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After two months of bloody fighting against prevailing Nazi ground and air units, the Warsaw insurgents capitulated. Following the complete forced evacuation of its inhabitants, Warsaw was burned and turned into a sea of rubble at the revengeful orders of Adolf Hitler. The heavy resistance took the toll of 18 thousand soldiers of the underground Home Army (AK) and 180 thousand civilian lives. Their tragic struggle had been witnessed by the Soviet Red Army standing idly across...

PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski will make his first visit to Washington On September 13 where he will meet with vice president Dick Cheney, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the chairman of House of Representatives and the head of the Energetics Department. He will not, however, be meeting with President Bush. Polish diplomats have attempted to set up a meeting with the US President. US officials have explained that he simply has no time due to the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, November election campaign and ONZ's general assembly. Former Polish PM Leszek Miller and Marek Belka both met with president Bush in the...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish admirers of Ronald Reagan plan to raise a statue of the former U.S president in Warsaw, where he is revered for his role in the downfall of communism in Europe. The 3.5-meter (3.8-yard) stone-and-bronze statue will stand across from the U.S. Embassy, the head of the group raising money for the memorial said on Monday. The group includes Poles living in Poland, Canada and the United States. "Reagan was the person who defeated the communists and opened the way for freedom in Poland," Janusz Dorosiewicz said. "The statue is a way for his legacy to live...

Warsaw has mermaid's breast covered on Miss World poster WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A white scarf was discretely added over an artist's depiction of a mermaid with an exposed breast on a poster advertising the 2006 Miss World contest, after officials in Warsaw's conservative administration deemed it too suggestive, the artist's agent said Wednesday. Rafal Olbinski obligingly placed a white scarf with the Miss World inscription across the offending body part, said his agent, Piotr Reichel. He "agreed to make the change at the request from the Warsaw promotion office," the agent added. This year's Miss World contest is to...

Nobel prize winner Grass admits serving in Nazi SS Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:37 PM BST BERLIN (Reuters) - Nobel prize-winning German author Guenter Grass has admitted for the first time that he served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi troops. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Grass, 78, said he volunteered for submarine service towards the end of World War Two. He was called up instead to serve in the Waffen-SS in the eastern city of Dresden. The author, best known for his first novel "The Tin Drum" and an active supporter of Germany's Social Democratic...

Polite Warsaw 05.07.2006 Warsaw may not be one of the safest places in the world to live in but at least its residents are among the most polite people, shows a survey conducted worldwide by the Reader’s Digest monthly. This report by Michal Zajac. The research was carried out in 35 countries and its goal was to check how courteous people living in different parts of the globe are in everyday situations. Anna Esden-Tempska, editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest Poland, explains how people’s behaviour and manners were tested for the sake of the survey. ‘We created three types of simple situations...

Preparations are under way for the first Polish March for Life and Family. The event is scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 4, 2006 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. All family-friendly individuals and organizations and invited to participate in the initiative organized by two pro-family NGOs, Fundacja Pro and Stowarzyszenie Kultury Chrzescijanskiej im. Ks. Piotra Skargi (Polish branch of TFP). If your pro-family/pro-life organization would like to send a letter of support to be read out to the participants of the Warsaw rally, published on our webpage and/or reprinted in some of our materials, you are most welcome...

Pope pays tribute to Warsaw ghetto uprising Benedict XVI pays tribute Thursday to heroes of 1943 ghetto uprising at Warsaw commemoration site; some attendees disappointed Pope's car 'just passed by monument without slowing' During a detour from his route taking him from Warsaw’s Okecie airport to St. John’s Cathedral in the center of the Polish capital, Benedict’s popemobile drove past the imposing monument to the heroes of the uprising, in a residential quarter built on the site of the former ghetto. As he passed, shortly after arriving in Warsaw, the German-born pope made a sign of blessing. A crowd of...

Pope Benedict celebrates Mass for 270,000 in rain-soaked Warsaw square WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Pope Benedict celebrated Mass for an estimated 270,000 people Friday in a rain-soaked Warsaw square where his predecessor, John Paul II, inspired Poland's Solidarity movement against communist rule during his historic 1979 visit. In his sermon, Benedict challenged moral relativism, or the view that there are no absolute values, and defended the church's unchanging traditional beliefs. In remarks read in Polish by an aide, Benedict warned the faithful against those "seeking to falsify the Word of Christ and to remove from the Gospel those truths which...

Polish Jewish Museum A Tough Sell Here Some philanthropists dismissive of historical institution on site of Warsaw Ghetto. Steve Lipman - Staff Writer Victor Markowicz, a Siberian-born philanthropist who grew up in Poland and later moved to the United States, spends much of his time these days asking fellow Jewish philanthropists in the U.S. to contribute to a Jewish museum to be built in Warsaw in the next few years. Markowicz’s friends, in turn, ask him something: “Why in Warsaw? Why in Poland?” Many American Jews — born here or in the Old Country — support the idea of a...

Poland marks 63rd anniversary of WWII Warsaw ghetto uprising Canadian Press Radek Sikorski and religious leaders of Poland's Jewish community, flanked by Jewish Second World War veterans, laid flowers and prayed Tuesday to mark the 63rd anniversary of the doomed Warsaw ghetto uprising. Several dozen officials and local residents also lit candles and said the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, at the monument to the heroes of the ghetto struggle during observances held on the eve of the anniversary. On April 19, 1943, hundreds of young Jewish fighters took up arms in the first major act of armed...

Warsaw teems with flowers, nightlife, friendly people By John Bordsen Charlotte (N.C.) Observer What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit. Brendan Ian Burke is Executive English Editor of The Warsaw Voice newspaper. The New Jersey native, 35, has lived in Poland five years. Q. We've read stories and seen footage about how terrible this winter has been in Eastern Europe. What's your take on it? A. In the past, winters were pretty mild...

Warsaw, Poland, police shut gay club Coalition occupied Le Madame to keep it open By Leslie Feinberg Published Apr 15, 2006 12:59 PM Polish police carried out a final dawn raid against Warsaw’s Le Madame gay bar on March 31, ending a week-long occupation of the club by an ad hoc coalition of movement forces. Earlier that week, on Monday, police had blockaded the bar and tried to force the more than 200 people inside to leave. The Warsaw City Council had reportedly ordered the establishment shut down, once and for all. But those inside refused to budge. Instead, they...

Warsaw looks back, ahead Polish city proves vibrant, affordable By Beth D'Addono, Globe Correspondent | March 8, 2006 WARSAW -- When Danuta Mieloch wants an upscale, energetic getaway from her busy Rescue Rittenhouse spa business in Philadelphia, she doesn't jet off to London or Paris. She heads to Warsaw, the capital of her native Poland. ''It's the most happening place in Eastern Europe, and Americans don't really know about it," said Mieloch, who came to America 15 years ago. ''The bars and restaurants are fabulous, the shopping is great, and the city is very young and vibrant. And best of...

Warsaw marks Holocaust with empty streetcar Friday, January 27, 2006 Page A12 Warsaw -- An empty streetcar bearing the Star of David instead of a number rolled silently through the streets of the Polish capital yesterday to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The streetcar is identical to one that in the 1940s travelled through the Warsaw ghetto, once a thriving Jewish community that was annihilated by Poland's Nazi occupiers during the Second World War. The project is part of events marking the first international commemoration day for victims of the Holocaust, which officially takes place today.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wondered whether to be outraged or amused on Monday over leaked remarks by Britain's ambassador to Warsaw, ridiculing the Polish government's stance on the European Union budget. A tongue-in-cheek e-mail sent by Ambassador Charles Crawford to senior British officials was published by the Sunday Times, just days before Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a tough task of selling his budget compromise at an EU summit. In the e-mail, Crawford uses blunt language to mock EU critics of Blair's budget proposals, at one point calling his host country "rude and ungrateful" and making a passionate argument for...

Slide Show >> They came from around the world, young men with handles like SnapDragon and Bladerunner attacking computing problems so complex that even experienced coders could only stare at the screen in bewilderment. Only one mastered the final algorithm problem: Eryk Kopczynski, a.k.a. Eryx, a reticent Warsaw University student who wears his long hair in a ponytail and says his life's ambition is to "discover some interesting notion." Kopczynski's triumph in this year's TopCoder Open, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, was no fluke. He was following in the footsteps of a slew of computing geniuses to emerge from the...

Warsaw rising BY CHAD NEIGHBOR It is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city that rarely entrances visitors at first sight, but has superb restaurants, museums and parks. It is a busy commercial centre, the nation's largest, but relies increasingly on the service industry. The river running through it sees little traffic now but offers welcome neuks of refuge. The residents are resilient and unusually friendly for big-city folk. Now if that sounds a lot like Glasgow, consider that we are talking about a city that was 84 per cent destroyed by the Germans in the Second World War. And here's a happier...

Unknown gay group claims behind bomb hoax in Warsaw Warsaw, Poland 20 October 2005 04:30 An unknown gay rights group claimed it planted a dozen fake bombs around Warsaw that paralysed the Polish capital on Thursday, three days before the second round of a presidential election. "You paralyse our life, we'll paralyse yours," a lengthy e-mail sent to media groups in Warsaw said, referring among other issues to a ban on a gay pride parade by Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski, who is running on the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party's ticket in Sunday's vote against Donald Tusk of the...

BETRAYAL: THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW on The History Channel(R) September 25th from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Warsaw Uprising was the largest and perhaps most heroic underground campaign of World War II. It was also one of the most desperate and little known battles of the war. Yet even as the Poles rose up against the Germans in the heart of Warsaw, they were callously betrayed. Not by their enemies but by their allies. They were promised help that never came, so they took matters into their own hands. In the summer...

Warsaw Jewish festival. Jewish song and dance ensembles from around the world are taking part in a festival of Jewish culture in Warsaw. The four day event will also showcase Jewish cooking events, and a workshop on the ABC’s of Yiddish, the dying language of East European Jews. The organizers' idea is to bring Warsaw’s pre-war Jewish quarter back to life with outdoor song , dance and theatre performances during the second annual festival of Jewish culture under the title “The Warsaw of Singer”. Last year the festival was organized on the 100 birthday of Polish born Yiddish author and...

Warsaw Rising remembered Poles are commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a massive liberation drive against the overwhelming Nazi German forces. The Polish Resistance launched the rising on August 1 1944 with the hope of seizing Warsaw from the Nazis ahead of the Soviet army which was marching westwards, threatening to impose a communist system on Poland. The outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising was recreated at an open air show with, among other things, fierce fighting for Nazi SS barracks in the Wola district. For most Poles, that doomed rising, which cost the lives of 200,000 Varsovians, is...

Warsaw's Stalin-era skyscraper, the Palace of Culture and Science, is 50 years old on Friday. But the gift from Josef Stalin to then communist Poland is also one of the country's most controversial buildings, the BBC's Adam Easton reports. It was a gift that nobody wanted. For decades it was hated because it was the symbol of Soviet domination of the country. It was designed by Russian architect Lev Rudniev in classic socialist realist style. Inside, it is full of marble and ornate chandeliers, but outside its stone-clad walls are home to dozens of statues of muscle-bound worker heroes with...

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Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein Overshadowed in the Western press by the G8 summit of leading industrialized nations and the complications to it caused by the London transit bombings, another summit -- the July 5 meetings in Astana, Kazakhstan of the heads of government of the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (S.C.O.) -- promised to have greater geostrategic significance than the more widely reported events. Created with its present membership of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in 2001, the origins of the S.C.O. date back to 1996 when Beijing initiated the Shanghai Five, which included...

Warsaw's Jewish heritage remembered By Jan Repa BBC Europe analyst A design by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma has been chosen for a new Jewish museum to be built in Warsaw. The Finns beat an international field of architects, including the likes of Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman and Zvi Hecker. Work is scheduled to start next year, with a view to opening in 2008. According to the sponsors, this is not meant to be another Holocaust museum, but mainly a celebration of centuries of Jewish life in Poland: a complex and vibrant community virtually wiped out during the...

Polish gay ban ires Europe's Greens Big News Network Wednesday 22nd June, 2005 (UPI) Poland's human rights record has come under fire in the European Parliament after the mayor of Warsaw banned this year's gay pride rally. Although some 3,000 demonstrators went ahead with the march anyway, members of the Green party are threatening Poland with a censure vote claiming the country had betrayed its commitment to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights. Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski of the conservative and populist Law and Justice party and a front-runner in this fall's presidential election, banned the Warsaw Parade for...

Clashes as gay paraders defy ban by Warsaw mayor 2 hours. WARSAW (AFP) - A march by more than 2,000 homosexuals through the Polish capital in defiance of a ban by the mayor degenerated into violence as marchers clashed with right-wing extremists. The clashes, in which at least three people were injured including a policeman and about 10 arrested, occured towards the end of the gay parade through Warsaw, for which police were out in force, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Warsaw's right-wing Mayor Lech Kaczynski had banned the parade on Friday, on the grounds that the application...

About 2,500 gay rights campaigners have marched in the Polish capital, Warsaw, defying a ban by the city's mayor. The marchers carried rainbow flags and banners with slogans including "A gay is not a paedophile" and "Law and justice for all". There were isolated clashes as opponents threw eggs and shouted insults. About 10 people were arrested. Mayor Lech Kaczynski, favourite to win October's presidential vote, had banned the parade for a second year running. The marchers were joined by a number of politicians, including Deputy Prime Minister Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka and two German MPs from the Green Party, Claudia Roth...

Homosexual Activists Lobby EU to Force Poland to Allow Gay Pride Parade WARSAW, June 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following on news of a second consecutive ban imposed by the Warsaw mayor against holding a “gay pride” parade, homosexual activists have asked the European parliament to intercede. Mayor Lech Kaczynski imposed the ban this year for the second time. In response, the Warsaw Pride organizers sent out a press release stating that they have decided to oppose the ban by illegally holding the parade anyway, June 11. “Last year’s ban of the Equality Parade . . . was an action aimed...

Gays defy Warsaw mayor's ban. Warsaw’s Equality Parade has been ban for the second time in a row by Warsaw authorities. Last year Warsaw’s Mayor Lech Kaczynski , a member of PIS - the right wing law and justice party banned the event in fear of clashes as Polish Nationalist also intended to stage counter demonstrations. But this year’s ban was imposed for strictly administrative reasons, according to deputy Warsaw Mayor W³adys³aw Stasiak. ‘According to the law about roads the organizers of this parade simply haven’t delivered all documents which were necessary to fulfill all legal rules.’ Earlier this month...

Human rights groups protest Gay Pride ban. The Warsaw Mayor has come under pressure from MEPs and human rights groups to allow a gay pride parade to take place in Warsaw, June 11. Bogdan Zaryn reports. The far-right also intend to stage demonstrations opposing the parade. Just like last year, city authorities claim that this situation could pose a security risk for Warsaw residents and therefore may ban the gay rights activists parade for the second year in a row. Plans of banning the equality parade for the second time in as many years has angered MEPs in Brussels, and...

There will be no gay parade in the capital of Poland. City's president Lech Kaczynski officialy issued a negative decission that bans gay parade which was to take place on 11th June. The official reasons for banning the parade are "problems with traffic" which would be an inevitable result of the parade, however it is absolutely clear that the president banned the march because of his negative stance towards "agressive promotion of sexual anormalities". In one of the interviews he said, that he would also ban a "heterosexual parade" if the marchers would explicitly and immoraly promote their sexual behaviors.

In Warsaw, polish cardiologists operated a new-born boy, weighting just 640 g (about 1,3 lbs), who is said to be the smallest patient in the world, that ever had a hearth surgery. Yesterday, at 10am, after an operation that lasted 2 days the doctors could finally turn off the respirator. "He has an incredible will of life" - said nurses that are now taking care of the little boy. Marcinek had a very serious heart disease (his aorta was too thin). After he was born he was immeadietly transported to Medical Academy Hospital that specializes itself in such operations. His...