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Netflix plans Polish orginal content in an attempt to move away from home market

Netflix Inc is expanding its Polish service to include more content subtitled or dubbed in Polish and plans to produce local shows before the end of the decade as the U.S. service seeks more subscribers away from its home market.

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Pope Francis to young: Try politics, activism; don't be couch potato

Pope Francis challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a sprawling Polish meadow to reject being a "couch potato" who retreats into video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world.

Priest and govt supporters 'exorcise' newspaper in Poland

A priest and some 50 supporters of Poland's ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party have sought to "exorcise" leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza.

Under pressure over CIA jail, Poland sends out mixed messages

WARSAW (Reuters) - This month's acknowledgment by Poland's former president that he allowed the CIA to operate a secret interrogation centre throws the Polish government's appeal against a European court ruling on the jail into disarray.

Insight: After U.S. torture report, Poland asks what its leaders knew

WARSAW (Reuters) - The disclosure of details about the CIA's brutal interrogation programme could provide new leads for Polish prosecutors investigating how much Poland's leaders at the time knew about a secret jail the agency was running in a Polish forest. Prompted by a U.S

Cameroon army frees 16 hostages, including Polish priest

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A Cameroonian army operation has freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who were abducted by rebels from Central African Republic last month, Cameroon's government said on Wednesday.

Presidents of Israel, Poland tour new museum on Jewish history

WARSAW (Reuters) - The presidents of Israel and Poland together took a guided tour of a new museum of Jewish life on Tuesday that tells the story of how Poland was for centuries home to a flourishing Jewish community before becoming a graveyard for Jews in World War Two. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin, and their wives, walked side by side through the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, where the main exhibition opened on Tuesday. Poland is associated with Auschwitz, Treblinka and other death camps on its soil where Nazi Germany exterminated millions of Jews.

Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland - Polish ex-minister

WARSAW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland's parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published by the U.S. Politico website. According to Sikorski, who until September served as Poland's Foreign Minister, Putin made the proposal during Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's visit to Moscow in 2008

Warsaw says Russian ban on Polish produce is revenge for EU sanctions

MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) - Russia announced a ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from Poland on Wednesday and said it could extend it to the entire EU, a move Warsaw called Kremlin retaliation for new Western sanctions over Ukraine imposed on Russia a day earlier. Moscow, which buys more than 2 billion euros worth of EU fruit and vegetables a year making it by far the biggest export market for the produce, said the ban was for sanitary reasons and denied a link to the sanctions. Moscow has frequently been accused in the past of using food safety inspections to restrict trade from countries with which it has political disputes.