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Armed cops raid strip bars across Poland and seize gang members accused of drugging and fleecing clients

Twenty-two people suspected of being gang members of the organized criminal group behind the clubs were detained. CBŚP

In a coordinated swoop in cities across Poland, over 500 officers stormed the Cocomo chain of clubs seizing documents, phones and computers. They also confiscated items worth 1.2 million PLN in the form of cash, cars luxury watches and  jewellery.

New Covid vaccine and drug in Poland in December, official says

A new Covid vaccine and Molnupravir, an oral medicine for treating the disease, could be available in Poland in December, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.

Poland orders Covid-19 drugs in bid to save more lives

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday that Poland has already placed orders for Covid-19 drugs that are not yet in circulation and are still awaiting European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval.

Police officers to drive BMW confiscated from drug gang

Police officers in Gdansk can now drive around in a BMW once owned by drug dealers thanks to the provisions of a new Covid law, national prosecutors said.

Cops bust multi-million drug smuggling gang in joint Spanish raid

A special task force set up to investigate the gang said they may have smuggled as much as 1.2 tonnes of marijuana worth almost PLN 24 million (EUR 5.3 million) from Spain into Poland as well as Italy, Belgium, Germany and the UK.

Supermarket staff find 30 mln PLN worth of cocaine in banana delivery

The boxes of bananas and the cocaine, which was packed in small green packages, were sent to Carrefour outlets in Warsaw from the firm’s main supply warehouse in Rawa Mazowiecka.

US pharma firm Acadia buys Polish drug rights in EUR 102-mln deal

US pharmaceutical company Acadia has purchased the exclusive rights to the development of a new neuropsychiatric drug from the Polish company Adamed in a deal worth above PLN 470 million (EUR 102 million).

Poland's new Virtual Research Institute to work on new drugs

Poland's first Virtual Research Institute (WIB) will work on the development of new drugs, mainly those to fight cancer, Deputy PM and Development, Labour and Technology Minister Jaroslaw Gowin said at an event which launched the institute on Friday.

Take it easy: the story of the man who invented Valium

The son of a Polish pharmacist Leo Sternbach changed the pharmaceutical world.

Here it is! Lublin firm says it has world's first effective treatment for COVID-19

The drug, made by fractionating the plasma of people who were recovering from Covid-19 or who had it asymptomatically, contains anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulins that can fight and neutralise the deadly virus.

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Auschwitz museum launches fascinating photo album to coincide with 75th anniversary

Opened on the initiative of former prisoners on 2 July, 1947, the history of the museum has now been documented in the new album divided into six sections and entitled  '75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial'.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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