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Former Polish president Lech Wałęsa in hospital with heart trouble  

Lech Wałęsa The former Polish president Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that helped overthrow communism, has been taken to hospital with heart problems.

His son, Jarosław Wałęsa, said on Saturday his father was feeling “unfortunately weak”. The former president was being treated in the heart disease ward of the Gdańsk University clinic, in his home city. On Thursday, the 73-year-old former Solidarity movement leader was booed by government-supporting crowds. Read more HERE.

Published on 09/07/2017 @ 14h25  |
At least 23 Egyptian soldiers killed in attack on Sinai checkpoint  

Photo purporting to show attack on military checkpoint in el-Barth. Militants killed at least 23 soldiers and injured dozens more in a car explosion and gun attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint in the north-eastern Sinai peninsula, officials have said.

Among those killed in the attack on Friday – the deadliest on the country’s military this year – were five officers, including a high-ranking special forces colonel, Ahmed el-Mansi, according to security officials. The assault started when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint at a military compound. Read more HERE.

Published on 09/07/2017 @ 13h53  |