ON one side of Tumski Bridge in Wroclaw, in southwest Poland, the Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Baptist hovers agelessly over Ostrow Tumski, the city’s oldest quarter. Nearby, a boot-sized brass ...

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The worst floods to hit central Europe in at least two decades have left a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland, spreading mud and debris in towns, destroying bridges, submerging cars and ...

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Soldiers and firefighters used sandbags to reinforce river embankments and delivered food and drinking water to cut-off communities as the worst flooding in years moved Tuesday ...

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Wroclaw, Poland's fourth-largest city, is better known as Festung (or Fortress) Breslau. Largely destroyed during the war when German troops in Breslau were besieged by Russians, the capital of Lower ...