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Polish priest raising world’s largest Jesus statue (AP)

November 5th, 2010

Workers struggling against wind to assemble a crane that is to lift 32-ton head and shoulders to top a giant concrete and metal statue of Jesus in Swiebodzin, western Poland, Friday, Nov.5, 2010. The 108 feet (33 meters) statue is to be the world's tallest and is supposed to attract pilgrims and boost business in the town. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - Step aside, Rio de Janeiro. This town is building a Jesus bigger than yours. A Polish priest is on the verge of realizing his dream of erecting what…

German police: 12 dead in crash of Polish bus (AP)

September 26th, 2010

The wreckage of a bus that carried Polish tourists stands on the highway after it crashed in Schoenefeld east of Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. German police say at least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in the accident. (AP Photo/dapd, Timur Emek)AP - At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a bus carrying Polish tourists crashed on the highway southeast of Berlin, police said.


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Polish police remove cross defenders amid dispute (AP)

August 14th, 2010

AP - Polish police say they have removed a group of protesters from around a large cross memorializing the late President Lech Kaczynski in the heart of the capital to…

Polish court orders Mossad spy suspect extradited (AP)

July 7th, 2010

Hiding his face, Israeli citizen Uri Brodsky is escorted by anti-terrorists to a court session in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday July 5, 2010. The court is to decide whether Brodsky, an alleged Mossad agent, should be extradited to Germany on a European Arrest Warrant in connection to a Hamas leader's slaying. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A Polish court has ordered the extradition to Germany of an Israeli man suspected of being a Mossad agent involved in the slaying of a Hamas operative.


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Komorowski declared winner in Polish election (AP)

July 5th, 2010

Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski greets supporters after exit polls indicate him to be the possible winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Poland’s state electoral commission officially declared Bronislaw Komorowski the country’s new president.


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Komorowski win strengthens Polish government (AP)

July 5th, 2010

Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski greets supporters after exit polls indicate him to be the possible winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - Bronislaw Komorowski’s all-but-certain victory offered Poland’s pro-business governing party an opportunity but also a challenge Monday as it prepared to govern without the obstacle of a hostile president.


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Exit polls: Komorowski takes Polish presidency (AP)

July 4th, 2010

Bronislaw Komorowski, parliament speaker and acting president, and his wife Anna greet supporters after acknowledging the exit polls of the presidential election runoff in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, July 4, 2010. Exit polls in Poland's presidential election show Komorowski with a very slight edge over the late president's identical twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with official results not expected until Monday. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Interim president Bronislaw Komorowski appeared to have held off a last-minute surge from the identical twin brother of the late president, who died in an April plane crash…

Runoff looms in Polish presidential election (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of Poland's Law and Justice Party speaks at his party election headquarters for his supporters after acknowledging exit polls for the early Presidential elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A somber election season in Poland was prolonged by two weeks Sunday when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczynski, the president killed…

Komorowski leading Kaczynski in Polish election (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski killed in a plane crash, is accompanied by his brother's grand daughter Eva to vote in the presidential election in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010. Poles are voting Sunday to choose Lech Kaczynski's successor. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Exit polls in Poland’s presidential election Sunday show that the interim president and parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski is leading Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the brother of the president killed in…

Polish election candidate visits his twin’s tomb (AP)

June 18th, 2010

AP - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a leading candidate in Poland’s presidential election, interrupted the last day of campaigning Friday to visit the grave of his identical twin — the leader whose…

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