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May 2000Rank of Bangladesh and Poland among countries accounting for the largest number of U.N. peacekeepers deployed last fall: 2,1
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United Nations (N.Y.C.)

June 2, 2007A Polish man who had been comatose since Communist rule awoke.
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BBC

January 24, 2007Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish reporter and author of several acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Soccer War, died.
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BBC

July 10, 2006 Poland's president appointed his twin brother to serve as prime minister.
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Bloomberg

January 30, 2006In southern Poland, 66 people were crushed to death when an exhibition hall collapsed during an international pigeon fanciers' fair.
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The New York Times

January 3, 2006 Russia shut down a natural-gas pipeline to Ukraine; as a result, natural-gas supplies were diminished in Hungary, France, Italy, Poland, and Germany.
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BBC News

September 24, 2005In Poland an 18-month-old child ran over three family members with a car.
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Reuters

August 27, 2005 Europe, previously burning, was flooding. Floods killed 33 people in Romania, and parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Poland were under water.
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BBC News

January 29, 2005World leaders gathered in Poland to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where Dick Cheney was criticized for wearing a green parka with fur trim instead of the more somber black coats everyone else had on.
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The Chicago Sun Times

January 20, 2005A poll of thousands of people in 21 countries revealed that just 26 percent consider Bush a positive global force. Three quarters of respondents in France and Germany and 64 percent of Britons felt that U.S. actions would have a negative impact on the world, and for the first time it appeared that an international dislike of Bush is metamorphosing into a dislike of Americans in general. The three countries that approved of Bush's reelection were the Philippines, Poland, and India.
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The Guardian

November 18, 2004Strong winds killed seven in Poland.
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Disaster Relief

October 20, 2004Two Polish doctors and two ambulance workers were charged with murder for killing patients in exchange for kickbacks from funeral homes.
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Associated Press

October 16, 2004 Poland said that it will begin reducing its forces in Iraq next year.
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New York Times

March 19, 2004The president of Poland acknowledged publicly that the United States "deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. "We were taken for a ride," he said.
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Agence France-Presse

July 16, 2003A German tourist was arrested for trying to steal a crematorium door from a former Nazi death camp in Poland.
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Associated Press

July 3, 2003 Poland's foreign minister admitted that his country sent troops to Iraq because it wanted to obtain direct access to Iraqi oil supplies.
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BBC

May 22, 2001Former president Bill Clinton was struck by a raw egg in Poland.

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