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Military parade on Polish Armed Forces Day to be held in Katowice

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This year's military parade on Polish Armed Forces Day on August 15 will be held in Katowice, southern Poland, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday, adding that the "Faithful to Poland" parade will commemorate the centenary of the 1st Silesian Uprising.

Final talks on US military presence likely during president's US visit

Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said on Wednesday it is highly likely that during President Andrzej Duda's trip to the USA in June, talks will be held finalising the first stage of the process of increasing the US military presence in Poland.

President hands standard to Representative Honour Guard Regiment

You are from the best-drilled and organised formations in the world," Polish President Andrzej Duda told soldiers of the country's Representative Honour Guard of the Armed Forces during a standard-giving ceremony on Sunday.

President Duda for raising Poland's presence in demilitarised zone

President Andrzej Duda has an idea to strengthen Poland's presence in the Korean Demilitarised Zone, head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) Pawel Soloch said on Tuesday.

Poles find WWII British submarine lost in 1940

A Polish team looking for the wreckage of a Second World War Polish submarine accidentally came across the wreckage of British WWII submarine HMS Narwhal in spring last year. Now they plan to meet families of the crew members.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

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