Poland’s president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended. The new law says that people who posses, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols could be fined or be imprisoned for up two years. The new law has drawn criticism from left-wing lawmakers... 

Polish authorities will rebury the remains of more than 2,100 people, mostly German civilians, recently exhumed from a World War II mass grave found in northeastern Poland. “Their remains will be transferred to Glinna, near Szczecin … the reburial ceremony will take place August 14,” said Andrzej Przewoznik, head of Poland’s Council for the Preservation of the Memory of Struggles...