Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Lech Walesa former President of Poland, speaks after being awarded withthe "Golden Medal for services to reconciliation and ...

Lech Walesa, the legendaryfounder of Poland's Solidarity movement, said Tuesday that he has quit the trade union he founded and led. Walesa said he plans to stay away from events marking the 26th ...

WARSAW – Former Polish President Lech Walesa said as turned 80 on Friday that he is supporting opposition leader Donald Tusk's effort to oust Poland's conservative government in the country's ...

Lech Walesa, the hero of the Solidarity movement and former president now adrift in this political backwater, sat back in his office atop this city's historic Green Gate to reminisce about another ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Lech Walesa former President of Poland, speaks after being awarded withthe "Golden Medal for services to reconciliation and ...

Other Facts:His father was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Sent his wife to accept his Nobel Prize, as he feared he would not be allowed to return to Poland. Timeline: 1961-1965 - Works as a ...

A San Francisco supervisor said he’s open to reconsidering the name of Lech Walesa Street following homophobic comments made by the Polish democratic leader and union organizer who toppled his country ...

Seized documents show that Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa was a paid informant for Poland's communist-era secret security service, officials said Thursday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

WARSAW, Poland – A Polish court ruled Thursday that Lech Walesa, the anti-communist dissident and former president of Poland, must apologize to the head of Poland's ruling party in a slander case.

Solidarity hero Lech Walesa is flying to New York to show his support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters. “How could I not respond,” Walesa told a Polish newspaper Wednesday. “The thousands of ...

He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with ...