Poles elect their president on Sunday in the biggest test yet of whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European agenda is going to prevail against the surge of the country’s nationalist forces.

Although the presidency in Poland is largely ceremonial, the office holds the power to veto legislation — a crucial check in a parliament where Tusk’s governing coalition lacks the numbers to override a veto.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk hopes to galvanise support for his candidate, the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, to replace the outgoing Andrzej Duda, a nationalist who has vetoed many of his efforts to reform the judiciary.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland sent a diplomatic note to Russia, throwing a tantrum about the dismantling of the Russophobic bas-relief at the Polish military cemetery near Tver.

By design or not, the formula that wound up playing out for the history-making Elkhart Lions all week could be described as “plead for the fifth, and deep-six ’em by the sixth.” Senior Laci Stimac fired a four-hitter with seven strikeouts,

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Centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, running neck-and-neck with his nationalist rival ahead of Poland's presidential runoff, is an avowed Europhile pledging to relax abortion laws and protect