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Platini seeks reassurance on Euro 2012

UEFA president Michel Platini is to meet officials from the Polish and Ukrainian Football Associations this week amid growing unease about the respective countries' ability to host Euro 2012. After dubbing Euro 2008 the...

UEFA's Platini in Poland for crunch Euro 2012 talks (AFP)

by Jonathan Fowler Wed Jul 2, 6:13 AM ET WARSAW (AFP) - UEFA chief Michel Platini arrived in Poland Wednesday for crunch talks with the country's leaders, amid concerns over slack preparations for Euro 2012 by the Poles and...

Did British double agent Kim Philby murder Polish war hero General Sikorski?

General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's wartime government in exile, died 65 years ago this month when his plane plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. A British inquiry in 1943 found that the crash was caused by the...

Did British double agent Kim Philby murder Polish war hero General Sikorski?

By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin A Second World War murder mystery featuring Winston Churchill, the British double agent Kim Philby and Joseph Stalin could be solved after the Polish government called for the body of a...

Polish report: Hand-over of province stopped due to terror threat

Warsaw - A ceremony slated for Monday to hand Iraqis control of security in Diwaniyah province was cancelled due to worries about a terror attack, the Polish Press Agency reported. The agency cited sources close to coalition...

Euro 2008 in Quotes

If you didn’t see all of the Euro 2008 tournament then you can get a decent picture of what it was like by looking at some of the quotes made by the people taking part, and measuring what they said against the actual reality....

Walesa loses temper over spy allegations

Warsaw - Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa lost his temper during a radio interview on Friday and told reporters to go to hell amid allegations he had been a communist spy. Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize and became a hero...

20. After Euro flop, Poles back in spotlight for Euro 2012

As the dust settles on Poland's failed Euro 2008 campaign, attention here is shifting back to the next European championships, with the Poles and their Ukrainian co-hosts facing concerns over slack preparations for the football...

Fear colouring the Spanish outlook ahead of Russia tie

Is it any wonder the Spanish never win anything? After fearing they were jinxed by the date, June 22, they have now found a reason to believe they will probably lose to Russia tonight. The answer? The colour of their jerseys.

Lech Walesa fights claims that he was secret police informant

Lech Walesa, Poland's Nobel Prize-winning former president, was at the centre of an explosive political row yesterday following publication of a book which claims that the ex-Solidarity trade union leader worked as a secret...