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Polish soldiers captured another one from the list of most wanted. Captured Abdul Manan was questioned and handed over to the Afghan authorities. Manan was caught during a nighttime special forces operation in Andar district. According to the press service of the Polish Military Contingent he is responsible for the killings of Afghans cooperating with the military and police, as well as attacks on Afghan forces and coalition troops. "We managed to locate him by actions of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and the operation was attended by an independent air-assault group." "He was totally surprised" In addition to completely surprised...

Jerzy Popieluszko will be beatified on the 6 June in Warsaw, Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz announced at a special press conference on Monday. Fr. Popieluszko taught us to fight evil with good, says metropolitan archbishop Kazimierz Nycz. “We need him as a patron. The people of culture and science need him, so they defend the border between good and evil. The people of politics and public life, the people of work, of the Church and of Poland, young and old, our whole nation needs him. We believe that this patron is an important role model also outside of Poland,” Nycz said....

A quarter of Germans believe there were at least some positive aspects to Nazi rule, a poll showed today. The finding comes after a popular talk show host was fired for praising Nazi Germany’s attitude toward motherhood. Germans were asked whether National Socialism had some “good sides (such as) the construction of the highway system, the elimination of unemployment, the low criminality rate (and) the encouragement of the family”. A quarter of those who responded said “yes” – but 70% said “no”. Stern magazine commissioned the survey after Germany’s NDR public broadcaster fired talk show host Eva Herman last month...

Demographers confirm it. In 2006, for the first time in ten years, Poland had a positive natural growth. 374 thousand babies were born, which is 10 per cent more than the year before. All the statistics seem to suggest that 2007 will be even better. Gynecologist Ewa Ślizień - Kuczapska works in one of the major Warsaw hospitals. "We have never before had so many ladies pregnant. There are many young women, but also more mature ones, also with different health problems, in vitro clients and of course some of the women already have four or five children and they...