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More than 40kg of marijuana and hashish were confiscated by officers of the Police Central Investigation Bureau (CBŚP) of Gdańsk and of Gdynia Customs Chamber. Almost 21.5kg of marijuana According to the police, the drugs were being smuggled from Spain, part of them in a double bottom of a
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Since March 2015 it has been possible for Poles to name their children however they please, as long as it is not offensive. Some parents came up with very strange name ideas. Do I look like a Beelzebub to you? Kurtyzana (courtesan), Eutanazja (euthanasia), Guantanamera, Borowik (boletus mushroom), Żyraf (giraffe)
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Female prisoners of the German concentration camp in Ravensbruck did not want the world to forget about them. They managed to secretly pass information about the actual life in the camp, and this correspondence has just been donated to the Lublin Museum. One of Krystyna Czyż’s letters They felt
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Mexico City, Bangkok and Jakarta – the first three of the most congested cities in the world, according to the latest ranking by TomTom. On the list there is also a Polish accent. The city of Łódź ranks five. How much time do you spend in traffic jams every day? This
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Six people, including two leaders of an organised criminal group, have been arrested by the Łódź Police Central Bureau of Investigation (CBŚP). They were selling home heating gas as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Instead of a driving car, a heated one. By passing natural gas as LPG the fraudsters managed
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The Polish government undermines the rule of law, and The European Commission should pursue enforcement action against the government of Poland under the Article 7 of the EU treaty, according to the joint letter of international non-governmental organisations addressed to the EC. Will the Polish govt break from the
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Last night a dozen masked persons attacked the guests of the Chmury (clouds) club in Praga North in Warsaw. The place was completely demolished. The demolished Chmury club The incident took place on Wednesday, February 15th, at approximately 22.40. Some masked people dressed in dark colours began to throw
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Last night two men were riding a quad on a frozen lake in Banie, West Pomerania. The ice broke and they both went under water. This is where you should ride a quad The accident occurred on Tuesday evening around 7pm. Four fire squads and a group of divers from
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Composer Krzysztof Penderecki received a Grammy Award in the Choral Music category for his “Penderecki conducts Penderecki” album. The awards ceremony took place last night in Los Angeles. Krzysztof Penderecki It was the 59th ceremony of the Grammy Awards. Among the nominees were two Polish artists – composer Krzysztof Penderecki and
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At the end of October last year, Tom Hanks surprised his Polish fans by posting a picture of himself posing next to a Fiat 126p. He was then in Budapest, saw quite a lot of those tiny cars and decided to take some pictures. An example of Fiat 126p Fiat
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Seeing strange driving manoeuvres of the car in front, a driver decided to stop it. His suspicions were correct, something was clearly wrong – the woman behind the wheel was drunk. As it soon turned out, she was a prosecutor from Wrzesnia. She had more than 2.5 per mille of
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A judge of the Appeal Court in Wrocław is suspected of shoplifting in one of the electronic equipment stores. He was supposedly carrying items worth more than 2 thousand zloty. The authorities of the court, after viewing the evidence, decided to immediately suspend him. Will he sentence himself to prison?