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Poles elect members of the Senate and the Sejm. Votes are also cast in a referendum on migration, the removal of the border wall between Belarus and Poland, and the retirement age.
2023-10-15

A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences Polish–Belarusian activist Andrzej Poczobut to eight years in prison for criticising president Alexander Lukashenko.
2023-02-8

A Polish national who was wounded during a terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France, dies of his injuries, raising the death toll to five.
2018-12-16

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose film "The Last Emperor" won nine Oscars, dies of lung cancer.
2018-11-26

Patti Smith performs in place of Bob Dylan in the Nobel Prize for Literature ceremony.
2016-12-11

Polish film director and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award Andrzej Wajda dies at the age of 90.
2016-10-10

New research has suggested lung cancer patients could benefit from the use of statin drugs. Dr. Chris Cardwell, Ph.D., and researchers at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland found lung cancer patients who used statins within a year of diagnosis had a reduced risk of death from the disease, the American Association for Cancer Research reported. To make their finding, the research team looked at data on about 14,000 patients who were newly diagnosed with lung cancer between the years of 1998 and 2009 and were a part of the English cancer registry.
2015-05-2

British author Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, dies at the age of 94.
2013-11-17

Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 13 people killed and up to 50 people injured.
2012-03-3

1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election.
2010-09-25