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Migrants queue to receive hot food at a logistics center at the checkpoint logistics center "Bruzgi" at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Dec. 22, 2021. Poland’s conservative governing party was hoping to make migration a key campaign theme ahead of the country’s national election. But not like this. The Law and Justice party is being rocked by reports that Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes, opening the door for migrants to enter the European Union. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Poland is shaken by reports that consular officials took bribes to help migrants enter Europe and US
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Fri,09/15/23-11:10PM , 101 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s conservative governing party was hoping to make migration a key campaign theme ahead of the country’s national election.
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Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki talks to journalists as he arrives for the third EU-CELAC summit in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum if they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan. The prime minister announced the referendum question Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in a new video published on social media as his conservative party seeks to stave off a challenge from the political opposition. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

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Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want 'thousands of illegal immigrants'
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Sun,08/13/23-2:29AM , 145 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power in an October parliamentary election.
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Recapping the revolt in Russia, through the words of 4 presidents and a mutinous warlord
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Wed,06/28/23-11:09PM , 111 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Civil war. An evil that must be stopped. Fratricide. A bug about to be squashed.
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People take part in Poland's yearly Pride parade, known as the Equality Parade, in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday June 17, 2023. This year's event was dedicated to transgender rights, which are facing a backlash in many countries. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Parents take on struggle for trans rights for their kids and others in conservative Poland
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Tue,06/20/23-10:09PM , 99 Reads
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The parents stood by side-by-side wearing signs offering free hugs at Warsaw's Pride celebration last weekend. One after another, young gay and transgender people accepted the warm embrace of other people's parents.
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