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Polish President Andrzej Duda waves to supporters as he campaigns for a second term in Serock, Poland, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Duda is the frontrunner ahead of the election on Sunday, June 28, but is not expected to reach the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright. That will require a runoff two weeks later in which he is expected to face off against Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a very close race.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Populist Polish president faces tough reelection challenge

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 2020, file photo, a picture of a former American soldier is displayed at the former U.S. army Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. In vowing to pull thousands of U.S. troops from Germany, President Donald Trump is following a pattern of disruptive moves against allies that have dismayed many of his fellow Republicans. Trump has consistently promised to bring American troops home, dismissing the conventional view that a far-flung U.S. military presence, while costly, pays off in the long run by ensuring stability for global trade. Earlier this week he said the 34,500 U.S. troops in Germany would be reduced to 25,000. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Trump: Poland to get some US troops withdrawn from Germany

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Flim director Kim Deog-Young speaks during an interview at the exhibition hall for Korean War in Seoul, South Korea Friday, May 29, 2020. His film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” — referring to North Korea's founder and wartime leader — will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary the Korean War's start. The three-year conflict destroyed much of North and South Korea, killed more than 1 million people and orphaned an estimated 100,000 children.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

New film tells tale of North Korean orphans sent to Europe

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

File -- In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 file photo U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda, leave at the end of a joint press conference, in Warsaw, Poland. Trump and Duda will meet at the White House on June 24, four days ahead of a presidential election in Poland in which Duda, a conservative, is seeking reelection. The meeting is expected to give Duda a boost, and is seen by some as election interference. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)

LGBT groups criticize Trump for hosting Polish president

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Yury Chikhanchin, head of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Poland says Putin falsifies history to weaken Western allies

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

File -- In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 file photo U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaks next to Poland's President Andrzej Duda, at the end of a joint press conference, in Warsaw, Poland. Trump and Duda will meet at the White House on June 24, four days ahead of a presidential election in Poland in which Duda, a conservative, is seeking reelection. The meeting is expected to give Duda a boost, and is seen by some as election interference. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)

Polish leader’s Trump card: a pre-election U.S. invite

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda waves as he campaigns ahead of a presidential election later in this month, in Plonsk, Poland, on Tuesday June 16, 2020. Duda is ahead of nine other candidates, but he is not expected to get the 50% needed in the June 28 balloting to avoid a runoff. He is considered most likely to face off in a second round on July 12 against Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

LGBT activist ends meeting with Polish president in protest

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020 file photo, Poland's President Andrzej Duda campaigns for his re-election in Warsaw, Poland. Poland's parliament speaker says the postponed presidential election will take place June 28. The election was originally planned for May 10 but the coronavirus pandemic forced the conservative government to put it off. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

EU official criticizes Polish campaign targeting LGBT people

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, speaks about the challenges of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (Alessandro della Valle/Keystone via AP)

Andrzej Duda, Poland president: LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020 file photo, Poland's President Andrzej Duda campaigns for his re-election in Warsaw, Poland. Poland's parliament speaker says the postponed presidential election will take place June 28. The election was originally planned for May 10 but the coronavirus pandemic forced the conservative government to put it off. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish president calls LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Polish opposition sees double standards in distancing rules

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Polish WWII pilot Jerzy Glowczewski, 97, dies of coronavirus

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Brothers Alexander Feingold, left, and Joseph Feingold look at photo of themselves as boys in Joseph's apartment in New York on June 8, 2015. Joseph Feingold died at age 97 of complications from the new coronavirus, four weeks after his brother Alexander, 95, died of pneumonia at the same New York hospital. The brothers were Polish-born Holocaust survivors who had a difficult relationship shaped by the trauma of the war and the loss of their beloved mother and younger brother in Treblinka. The pandemic that gripped New York prevented a final farewell. (Raphaela Neihausen via AP)

Lives Lost: Brothers who survived Holocaust die weeks apart

By VANESSA GERA and RANDY HERSCHAFT - Associated Press

Poland's ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, center, wearing masks, pray at the monument to the late President Lech Kaczynski, the party leader's twin, killed with 95 others in a plane crash April 10, 2010 in Russia, in Warsaw, Poland Sunday, May 10, 2020. Poland was to hold presidential election Sunday but the anti-coronavirus lockdown and political infighting made it impossible and there is no voting. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s presidential election to be held within 74 days

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, right, and deputy Prime Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz, wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus, talk in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, ahead of the debate on the postal presidential election that is scheduled for Sunday The ruling party wants the election in May, the Senate is calling for a state of natural disaster that would allow for postponement by three months. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland may hold postponed presidential election on July 12

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Construction to start of gas pipeline from Norway to Poland

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FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 19, 2020, Poland's President Andrzej Duda, center, campaigning for his re-election in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish government’s determination to move forward with the May 10, presidential election during the coronavirus pandemic by making it an all-postal vote is creating anxiety and anger, and critics say the plan threatens public health and democracy in Poland.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s ex-leaders to boycott May presidential election

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FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki arrives for a press conference during a V-4 summit in Prague, Czech Republic. Morawiecki said Wednesday April 29, 2020, that Poland's presidential election must be held in May despite the coronavirus pandemic, but the May 10 date of the vote may be pushed back by a week or two. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, FILE)

Polish leader insists on May vote, even if delayed slightly

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File - In this file photo taken Feb. 15, 2020, in Warsaw, Poland are seen Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, with wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, campaigning for Duda's re-election in May 10 national vote. The Polish government’s determination to move forward with the May 10, presidential election during the coronavirus pandemic by making it an all-postal vote, though critics say the plan threatens public health and democracy in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Former EU head Tusk appeals for boycott of Poland’s election

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Polish soccer league plans to restart on May 29

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