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Poland holds 1st Chopin contest on historical instruments

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The Aug. 10, 2017 photo shows Ukrainian activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska,left, and her husband Bartosz Kramek during an anti-government protest in Warsaw, Poland. They hold white roses, a symbol of protest against the Polish ruling party and behind them a banner reads: &quot;Freedom, Equality, Democracy.&quot; Poland has used its power as a European Union member to have Kozlovska banned from the entire Schengen passport-free zone, saying she poses a threat to security. But the Warsaw government has given few details explaining the move, and critics are accusing it of abusing its power to intimidate civil society and the country's large Ukrainian minority. (Lyudmyla Kozlovska via AP)

Poland bans Ukraine activist from Europe, raising questions

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

A visitor looks at a photograph documenting Jewish life in Poland from the 1970s, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. A new photo exhibition in Warsaw documents more than 40 years of Jewish life in Poland _ from the 1970s, when it appeared that Jewish life was on the verge of extinction, to an unexpected revival in the years following the fall of communism. The exhibition, “Re-Generation,” features dozens of black-and-white images taken by American photographer Chuck Fishman. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Photo exhibit documents revival of Polish Jewish life

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Warsaw residents stop by the monument to the 1944 Warsaw Rising against the occupying Nazis in memory of some 18,000 resistance fighters who fell in the struggle against the German forces and some 180,000 civilians who perished 74 years ago,in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland honors fighters, victims of Warsaw’s 1944 revolt

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

EU court says extraditions to Poland affected by legal fight

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Protesters hold up a European and a Polish flag as they gather in front of Poland's Supreme Court building in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, July 4, 2018 to support the court's president, Malgorzata Gersdorf, as she arrived for work, saying she was defending the rule of law, in defiance of a new law that is forcing her and many other of the court's judges to retire while their terms are still running. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s isolation deepens as Supreme Court law takes effect

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

A visitor examines a display at the Polish Vodka Museum, a new museum that will open next week, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The museum is devoted solely to Polish vodka, a national tradition of more than 500 years and one of the country's best-known exports. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

New Polish vodka museum in Warsaw celebrates national drink

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Pope Francis celebrates the Holy Mass as he pays a visit to the town of Ostia, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, June 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Poland’s Catholic Church bucks Pope Francis’ liberal embrace

By Karol Bulski and Austin Davis — Special to The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Jan. 12, 2017, welcomed in Zagan, Poland, first U.S. troops are arriving at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of the deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) ** FILE **

Poland wants permanent U.S. military base, willing to pay $2 billion for it: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Kentucky sheriff: Man fatally shoots other man then himself

Associated Press

A taxi in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 26, 2018.Russia's Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was summoned Monday to Poland's Foreign Ministry and said he will stay in Warsaw in the coming weeks, but &quot;we will see&quot; about other embassy employees.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

US, allies band together to expel Russians over spy case

By JOSH LEDERMAN and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Protesters march through the downtown, as they demonstrate against efforts by the nation's conservative leaders to tighten Poland's already restrictive abortion law, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, March 23, 2018. The banner reads : Women's Strike. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Protests erupt in Poland over plan to tighten abortion law

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Bearing witness

By JOHN MATUSZAK - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 photo a woman examines an old metal milk bottle at a Holocaust exhibition at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Letters and other eyewitness accounts of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto _ records of a community destroyed in the Holocaust _ have gone on display for the first time. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Letters and milk jug: Warsaw Ghetto archive goes on display

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Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge signs a book of condolence in the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof near the town of Sztutowo, 30 kilometers east of the city of Gdansk, Poland, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. The British royal couple is in Poland with their children on a goodwill visit intended to seal friendly ties after Britain leaves the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Prince William, Kate visit WWII camp, Gdansk on Poland trip

By CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks while having lunch with services members in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Trump had a second, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit it Germany. White House spokesman Sean Spicer says that Trump and Putin spoke during a world leaders’ dinner at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg earlier this month.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russian hack scandal bloated by Trump’s enemies

By Peter Morici

President Donald Trump delivers a speech at Krasinski Square, Warsaw. Associated Press photo

Donald Trump’s Poland visit given biased media coverage

By Robert Knight

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in Krasinski Square, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

The Latest: Trump prepares for meeting with Putin

Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in Krasinski Square, back dropped by the monument commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Donald Trump diverges from Vladimir Putin before first meeting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in Krasinski Square, back dropped by the monument commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Trump speech takes place at famed Warsaw Uprising monument

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press