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  Weimar Triangle key to increased EU influence?

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 A reinvigorated Weimar Triangle, which President Komorowski says is one of his key goals, gives Poland an opportunity to shape the future of EU policy, former foreign minister Dariusz Rosati tells Polish Radio.
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  Pole murdered by mentally-ill American husband

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Polish citizen Ilona Njus has been shot dead by her husband Jeffrey M. Njus in Tigard, Oregon in spite of her mother’s efforts to save her.
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  Call for Indian maharaja to be given state honour

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Lecturers from the Centre for Polish-Asian Studies at Warsaw University wants President Komorowski to honour an Indian maharaja who cared for close to 1000 Polish children during WW II.
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  Warsaw Rising Exhibit in Germany

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 An exhibition devoted to the Warsaw Rising of 1944 has opened in Berlin.
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  Polish Greens protest French Roma expulsions

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 A dozen or so people staged a picket in front of the French Embassy in Warsaw, Thursday, against the forced expulsions of Roma from France.
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  Reviving Weimar Triangle a priority, says Komorowski

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 After a meeting with President Sarkozy in Paris, Thursday, Bronislaw Komorowski confirmed that a three-way summit between Poland, France and Germany would be organised for late this year, or early 2011.
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  Polish troops apprehend Taliban leader

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Polish troops in Afghanistan have detained four insurgents, including a top Taliban commander in the south eastern Ghazni province.
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  Polish tribute at Mednoje mass graves site

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 Ceremonies are held marking the 10th anniversary of the Polish War Memorial Cemetery in Mednoje, the site of mass graves of Poles killed by the Soviets during WW II.
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  Poland and Russia in Kaliningrad talks

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 Polish and Russian heads of diplomacy are meeting in Warsaw to discuss the draft of an agreement on trans border-traffic with the Kaliningrad region which borders Poland.
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  President - Poland can’t afford war in Afghanistan

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 UPDATED - After his meeting with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Wednesday evening in Brussels, President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland’s involvement in Afghanistan was taking away vital funds for defence modernisation.