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England's Harry Maguire, second right, celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the World Cup 2022 group I qualifying soccer match between England and Poland at Wembley stadium in London, England, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (Catherine Ivill, Pool via AP)

Maguire nets after Stones’ mistake, England beats Poland 2-1

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Polish officer to hold US V Corps post under exchange deal

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$FILE - In this file photo taken on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 a woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The European Union is referring Poland to Europe’s top court over long-standing concerns about respect for the rule of law and the independence of the country’s Supreme Court judges. The bloc’s executive commission had previously warned Poland that it might go to the European Court of Justice if the government did not take action to fix the problems. The EU’s justice commissioner on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 called the court referral “a crucial step” in the infraction process against Poland. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)$

EU takes Poland to court over judicial independence concerns

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Poland's Grzegorz Krychowiak, right falls in front of Hungary's Laszlo Kleinheisler during the World Cup 2022 group I qualifying soccer match between Hungary and Poland at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungry Thursday March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Poland’s Krychowiak could play v England after negative test

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 20, 2021 file photo, few people walk on the streets after Poland reintroduced a partial nationwide lockdown on Saturday to curb a sudden spike in new COVID-19 cases, in Warsaw, Poland. Many regions in Central Europe and the Balkans are facing one of the most difficult moments since the coronavirus pandemic struck over a year ago. Poland recorded its highest daily number of new coronavirus infections Wednesday March 24, 2021, as hospitals buckled under a new surge. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland orders stricter pandemic measures for Easter period

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, June 28, 2020 file photo, President Andrzej Duda addressees supporters after voting ended in the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland. A Polish writer is being threatened with up to three years of imprisonment for calling the nation's president a “moron” on social media. The writer, Jakub Zulczyk, had criticized the manner in which Polish President Andrzej Duda — a close ally of former President Donald Trump — had reacted to the electoral victory of President Joe Biden last year. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File) **FILE**

Polish writer facing prison for calling president ‘moron’

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland, Hungary file complaint at EU court over budget rule

By VANESA GERA - Associated Press

People take part in a protest on International Women's Day in Warsaw, Poland, Monday March 8, 2021. Women’s rights activists in Poland marked International Women’s Day on Monday caught between reasons to celebrate and a heavy sense that they are facing a long battle ahead. This year’s Women’s Day, which is being marked with protests, comes after a near total ban on abortion took effect in January in the historically Roman Catholic country, a step that had long been been sought by the conservative ruling party, Law and Justice. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish women mark Women’s Day protesting abortion ban

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Peace Corps at 60: Service changed lives of local volunteers

By RICK DANDES and The (Sunbury) Daily Item - Associated Press

Head of Poland’s Shakespeare theater, Jerzy Limon, dies

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Polish LGBT rights activists gather outside a court which acquitted three women who faced trial on accusations of desecration, in Plock, Poland, Tuesday March 2, 2021. A Polish court has acquitted three activists who had been accused of desecration for adding the LGBT rainbow to images of a revered Roman Catholic icon. In posters that they put up in protest in their city of Plock, the activists used the rainbow in place of halos on a revered image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish court acquits activists who put LGBT rainbow on icon

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

EU court: Poland’s judicial rules could violate EU law

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Warsaw opens murder probe into fate of 2 Poles in Mexico

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, file photo, medical workers move a covid-19 patient into an ambulance at a hospital overrun by the covid pandemic in Cheb, Czech Republic. The Czech government has decided to further tighten restrictive measures amid a surge of a highly contagious coronavirus variant in one of the hardest-hit European Union's nations. At the same time, the worsening situation has forced the Cabinet to abandon for now its plans to reopen all stores as soon as next week. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)

Virus surges anew in central Europe in face of new variants

By KAREL JANICEK and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Prime ministers from central Europe Igor Matovic of Slovakia, left; Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland, center; The Czech Republic's Andrej Babis, second right and Viktor Orban of Hungary, right, with European Council President Charles Michel, second left, taking a family photo following a news conference at a meeting marking 30 years of central Europe's informal body of cooperation called the Visegrad Group, at a conference center in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

This file photo from Jan.29.2021 shows Marta Lempart, a key leader of the Polish Women's Strike, in Warsaw, Poland. Lempart has been charged with criminal felonies for her role in organizing mass protests during a pandemic. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)

Women’s rights activist charged for role in Polish protests

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. A Warsaw court is scheduled to deliver a verdict Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in a closely watched libel case in which Polish national dignity and the independence of Holocaust research are said to be at stake. (AP Photo, file)

Yad Vashem concerned over Polish case against researchers

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Central Europe leaders focus on vaccination, nuclear energy

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Independent broadcaster TVN shows a black screen and a message: &quot;Your favorite programming was supposed to be here,&quot; in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 10, 2021. Independent media outlets in Poland suspended news coverage and other broadcasts Wednesday to protest a planned new advertising tax that they view as an attempt by the right-wing government to undermine press freedoms.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Independent Polish media suspend coverage to protest ad tax

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Germany mulls shape of memorial to Polish victims of WWII

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