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File—File picture taken June 28, 2020 shows Poland's President Andrzej Duda casting his vote during presidential election in Krakow, Poland. Duda was tested positive on Corona. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzal, file)

Poland’s president has coronavirus, apologizes to contacts

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

A woman, wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, walks along Cinquantenaire park in an autumn day in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo stopped short Friday of imposing another full lockdown, as the country did in March, but introduced a series of new restrictive measures as the number of COVID-19 related hospital admissions and deaths continue to soar. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: New outbreak delays easing of rules in Melbourne

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Police grab a poster while protesters gathered before the house of Poland's ruling conservative party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski to protest a decision by the Constitutional Court, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Poland’s top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are among the strictest in Europe. Defying the pandemic-related ban on gatherings, the protesters chanted for the government to resign. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles vent fury at court’s further restrictions on abortions

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

An ambulance brings a COVID-19 patient to a specialized hospital in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. Poland is seeing a sharp spike in new cases daily of coronavirus infections, filling up hospital beds. Poland's government is transforming the National Stadium in Warsaw into a field hospital to handle the surging number of people infected with the coronavirus, and expects it to be operational within days, officials said. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland faces restriction upgrade, but no lockdown, PM says

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Adam Bodnar, the outgoing Human Rights Commission for Poland, speaks to The Associated Press from his office in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. Bodnar has been a defender of individual rights in Poland during his five years in office. Now the populist ruling party is seeking to take control of the institution, one of the last remaining institutions it does not yet control.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish court ruling to determine fate of human rights office

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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FILE - This Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo aerial view, made from an hot air balloon, shows the National Stadium, in Warsaw, Poland. Poland’s government is transforming the National Stadium in Warsaw into a field hospital to handle the surging number of patients infecting with the coronavirus. A government spokesman said Monday, Oct. 19, 2020 that the stadium will have room for 500 patients and will be equipped with oxygen therapy for those who need it. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland turning National Stadium into COVID-19 field hospital

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019 file photo, the head of Poland's Catholic Church Archbishop Wojciech Polak, right, addresses the media during a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. Pope Francis on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 permanently removed a Polish bishop who was kicked out of his diocese a few months ago pending a Vatican investigation into allegations he covered up cases of sexual abuse by his priests. The resignation of Edward Janiak as bishop of Kalisz suggests the Vatican was able to substantiate at least some elements of the accusations made in a documentary about sex abuse in Poland that has rocked the country’s influential Catholic hierarchy. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Pope removes Polish bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up

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FILE - In this May 2, 2018, file photo, director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, &quot;Based on a True Story,&quot; in Krakow, Poland. Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust. (AP Photo/File)

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

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WWII bomb explodes underwater in Poland, no injuries

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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Human rights body fears ‘paralysis’ of Polish ombudsman

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 file photo, Board member of an NGO organization that monitors racism and xenophobia, Rafal Gawel, stands in his office in Warsaw, Poland shortly after it was raided by the police who seized computers. Norway has granted asylum to a Polish man who had fled prison term for fraud and forging of documents, but says the prison term was a form of political persecution under Poland's right-wing government. Observers say that Rafal Gawel's case is the first time political asylum has been granted to a Pole in more then 30 years since communism was ousted from Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Norway grants asylum to fugitive Pole, raising controversy

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Women with and without anti-coronavirus masks pass by an ambulance team wearing anti-COVID-19 outfits at a hospital in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Poland's government has announced the entire country a yellow zone after the number of new registered case of coronavirus infection spiked to almost 4,300 on Thursday. The yellow zone rules take effect Saturday and will require Poles to wear masks in all public spaces, also in the open air. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish minister-designate broke virus rules, tested positive

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Poland amends budget to include COVID-caused deficit

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The leader of the Polish ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski,signs the coalition document in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. The three parties in Poland's conservative coalition government signed a new coalition agreement on Saturday, putting aside disagreements. But they gave no details, leaving lingering uncertainty about how the Cabinet will look in practice after an expected reshuffle.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

New Polish education minister tests positive for coronavirus

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People hold a protest rally in front of Poland's Education Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, against the appointment of a new education minister Przemyslaw Czarnek. Czarnek has said that LGBT people "are not equal to normal people." LGBT rights are the focus of a growing culture clash in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Under fire over LGBT rights, Polish leader blames activist

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

File-In this file photo from July 24, 2020, women dressed to evoke the feminist dystopian story &quot;The Handmaid's Tale&quot; carry out a symbolic protest after a government minister threatened to pull the country out of an international convention aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic violence. The treaty is known as the Istanbul Convention and is the work of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental human rights body. A delegation from the organization has been in Poland this week to assess Poland's adherence to the treaty. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)

Poles hold ‘constructive’ talks on domestic violence treaty

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press