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EU comes to aid of Poland over WWII row with Russia

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Judges and lawyers from across Europe, many of them dressed in their judicial robes, march silently in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. The rally was a show of solidarity with Polish judges, who are protesting a bill that would allow the government to fire judges whose rulings they don't like. The legislation has been denounced by the European Union and the United Nations. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Judges from across Europe march to defend Polish peers

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In this Thursday Jan. 9, 2020 photo Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland. Following fall elections, Speaker Tomasz Grodzki, from the centrist opposition, has become the only politician with any real power to put up roadblocks to the populist ruling party as it seeks to exert full control of the judicial system. A prominent surgeon, Grodzki is using that role as much as he can, angering the government, which has been seeking to discredit him with claims he took bribes as a doctor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish Senate speaker pushes back against bribe allegations

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Law experts from the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, right, are meeting with Poland's Senate Spokesman Tomasz Grodzki, third left, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 to discuss a controversial draft law by the ruling party that curbs judicial independence, just days before the Senate takes the draft on. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

European legal experts eye Poland’s new law limiting judges

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Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, and Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz attend the 12th annual Epiphany procession in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas, marks the day the three kings visited Christ. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president boycotts Holocaust remembrance in Israel

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

The U.S Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher speaks with Krzysztof Szczerski, an adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda during the annual Armed Forces review during a national holiday, in Katowice, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. Large crowds turned out for the celebration which this year included a fly-over by two U.S. F-15 fighter jets. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) ** FILE **

Georgette Mosbacher, U.S. ambassador, defends Poland from false Russian WWII claims

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. (Christian Hartmann, Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about outbreak of WWII

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Russian ambassador to Poland summoned for Putin WWII remarks

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This undated handout photo provided by Poland's Supreme Audit Office shows an official photograph of the office's president, Marian Banas. Poland's ruling right-wing party begins its second term caught up in a crisis over Banas, who faces allegations of wrongdoing but refuses to resign and cannot easily be removed from his job. (Marek Brzeziński/Supreme Audit Office via AP)

Polish govt hostage to compromised official who won’t go

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold a rally to protest against changes to Poland's judiciary planned by the ruling Law and Justice party near the building of parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish lawmakers OK disciplining judges; EU decries move

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold a rally to protest against changes to Poland's judiciary planned by the ruling Law and Justice party near the building of parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish parliament debates law that would muzzle judges

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Demonstrators hold a rally to protest against changes to Poland's judiciary planned by the ruling Law and Justice party near the building of parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Mass protests erupt across Poland over plan to punish judges

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Stabbing suspect extradited from Poland to Chicago, charged

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Polish gov’t defends law to ‘discipline’ judges, amid outcry

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Polish school director fired over terror attack exercise

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki lay grave lights with candles at the Auschwitz monument during their visit at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. Merkel attends an event in occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Auschwitz Foundation. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland wants to buy site of WWII Nazi death camp in Austria

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The Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. The Turow lignite coal mine in Poland has an impact on the environment and communities near the border of three neighboring countries, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. Plans to further expand the huge open pit mine have caused alarm among residents who fear things might get even worse. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Massive Polish coal mine sparks international dispute

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

4 bodies found, 4 people missing in gas blast in Poland

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Poland says it foiled $517 million cocaine smuggling plan

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Rescuers looking for 8 people after gas explosion in Poland

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