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Sunday 30th November 2014
A new advert by Amnesty International made
the polish headlines this week due to its shock value and a general
unwillingness to ratify it.
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The controversial ad has still to be ratified
Controversial leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party
Jaroslaw Kaczynski spoke out this week stating that the country’s recent
local elections had been fixed.
The failure of a newly-installed vote counting system caused
mayhem this week following last Sunday’s local elections and nearly 120
hours after the close of polls, a final result was still not known.
Former The Smiths frontman and musician Morrissey caused
something of an uproar this week after storming offstage after only 30
minutes into a concert in Warsaw.
Popular children’s character Winnie the Pooh and his friends
have been banned from a children’s playground in the small town of
Tuszyn after it was deemed he was “too controversial” by local
councillors.
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R Gajdowski just read Winnie poo-pooed by council and said
"I thought all the village idiots lived in the United States. Apparently not."
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