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More Polish women travel abroad for abortions after law change

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The number of women with pregnancy complications leaving Poland for an abortion has increased substantially following a near complete ban on abortion in the country.

Polish mother of five found murdered in England

British police have detained a man in connection with the murder of a Polish woman in Cambridgeshire in eastern England.

Łódź firm comes up with world’s first eco-friendly tights

VIDEO: Hosiery manufacturers Gabriella premiered its ‘Now!’ line of tights made entirely of recycled fibres as part of its vision to transform the industry, starting with its own company.

Women's movement prepares abortion bill

The leader of Women’s Strike, the organisation that has spearheaded mass abortion protests, has said that Poland faces a “nightmare moment” when a near-total ban on abortion “becomes a fact”.

The woman that was known as King – on this day, Poland’s last female monarch was crowned

Notoriously unlucky in love, TFN explores the lonely life of Anna Jagiellon, the last of the great Jagiellonian dynasty.

Coronavirus mum-in-a-coma gives birth to baby girl

The baby named Amelka was delivered via caesarean section two weeks ago at the University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw where the mother, who was unaware she had given birth, is now said to be recovering.

How about TAT! Women make up 70 percent of all tattoos in Poland

Of the 900,000 tattoos done every year in Poland, 70 percent of those going under the needle are women. TFN finds out more…

Furious abortion protestors bring capital to gridlock as thousands hit the streets to demand “My body, My choice!”

Crowds of women blocked Warsaw's key thoroughfares and other Polish cities mirrored the capital's demonstrations in the fifth day of protests against Thursday's Constitutional Tribunal ruling that put a near-total ban on abortion in Poland.

‘She escaped from a death camp by hiding under dead bodies:’ UK newspaper readers uncover extraordinary past of local woman known fondly as ‘Polish Anna’

After a local newspaper published a series of photos inviting readers to share their memories of ‘Polish Anna’, no one expected it would set in motion a train of online sleuthing which revealed her shocking wartime ordeal as a slave labourer in Nazi Germany and the destruction of her village in Poland as part of Hitler’s Lebensraum plan to exterminate Poles from the Zamość region.

Docs remove massive 30-kilo tumour from woman’s stomach after she complained of ‘putting on weight’

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES! The record-breaking operation took eight doctors 90 minutes to complete after the 25-year-old woman was taken in at the St. Maximilian Hospital in Oświęcim.

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Abandoned amphitheatre to be transformed into eco-friendly ‘honey garden’ for bees

Unique to Poland, and possibly the world, the 3 million PLN project in Poznań will see former seating areas replaced by flowerbeds specifically intended to attract bees, and will be further embellished by nectar-bearing trees, sculptures, viewing points, water cascades and subtle lighting purposefully designed so as not to interfere with their activities.

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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

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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