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Police bust one-million-a-day illegal cigarette factory

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The Central Investigation Bureau (CBSP) has shut down a counterfeit cigarette production facility in south western Poland that could turn out up to a million cigarettes a day.

Russian leaders must answer for war crimes in Ukraine says minister

Russia's leaders must be held accountable for war crimes committed in Ukraine, a Polish deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Former Nazi typist aged 97 found guilty of WWII murders

Irmgard Furchner was given a two-year suspended sentence by the district court in the German town of Itzehoe after being convicted under juvenile law owing to the fact that she was only 18 years old at the time of the crimes.

Polish teenager killed by peer in the United Kingdom

A Polish 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed with a knife by another teenager in Gateshead, northeast England, Gateshead police said on Wednesday.

Third Pole arrested in Dutch crime reporter's murder

A 30-year-old Pole has been arrested in Poland on suspicion of involvement in last July's assassination of a popular Dutch investigative journalist Peter de Vries, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday.

Man faces 189 criminal charges

A man from central Poland will go on trial for 189 cases of armed robbery and theft dating back to 1999, the National Prosecution announced on Friday.

The Witch of Łódź: Harrowing new biography reveals horrifying details of sadistic guard at ‘little Auschwitz’ concentration camp for children

In the first biography ever to be written about Eugenia Pol, who went under the name Genowefa Pohl during the war, author Błażej Torański spent several years in the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Łódź analysing thousands of pages of trial files, testimonies and photographs.

NBP submits notification on suspicion of committing a crime by Donald Tusk

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) on Thursday informed PAP that it plans to notify prosecutor of suspected crime committed by Donald Tusk and Tomasz Siemoniak of the oppositionist Civic Platform (PO).

Pole arrested in de Vries killing

A 27-year-old Pole has been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of masterminding last July's assassination of popular Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries.

Polish minister downplays ambassador’s comments about Poland

A Polish deputy foreign minister has played down comments made by Ukraine's ambassador to Germany that belittled crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles during World War II.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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