Polish inmates may build stadiums
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Poland considers using 20,000 prisoners to help build venues for the Euro 2012 football tournament.
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BRUSSELS, Nov. 28 -- Most days, the skies are quiet over the Szymany airport, a mothballed runway in rural Poland. So the airport director took note when strangers showed up on at least six occasions in 2002 and 2003, offering to pay large sums of cash to land planes from faraway places such as...
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Once the scene of the Solidarity strikes which broke the back of communism, a new investment seeks to turn Poland's Gdansk shipyards into Eastern Europe's answer to the London docklands.
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells for inmates.
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ESFAHAN, Iran -- The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well outside the city to a flat stretch of desert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by antiaircraft artillery emplacements and a large metal fence topped with barbed wire.
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Poland is in no rush to decide on  hosting a U.S. anti-missile base before American elections as a  change of guard at the White House could scuttle the project,  Poland's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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Number of terrorist prisoners held in England and Wales expected to increase tenfold over next 10 years.
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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised UEFA officials to speed up tardy preparations for the Euro 2012 finals that Poland and partner Ukraine are due to co-host.
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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The Italian government said on Thursday that six stadiums could open for matches with fans in attendance, while others would not be allowed to open their terraces to spectators pending new security improvements.
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The best architectual minds have come to Arizona to feast their eyes on Cardinals Stadium, but it's air conditioning - and hopefully, soon - winning - that will keep the fans coming back.
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Thousands of people hold rival demonstrations in Warsaw for and against the Polish government.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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The U.S. prison camp for terror suspects is taking on a look of permanence as the mission marks its third year Tuesday, with plans for a new &#36;25 million prison facility, &#36;1.7 million psychiatric wing and a permanent guard force.
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Negotiators voiced optimism Thursday that they could reach agreement for Poland to host part of a U.S. missile defense system. A Polish official said a deal could come in the next several months.
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Poland's prime minister said Tuesday that his country has moved closer to hosting a U.S. missile defense facility after President Bush's visit last week.