Poland's Interim President Bronislaw Komorowski has won a runoff election against Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of former President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in April.
Interim President Bronislaw Komorowski wins Poland's runoff election. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
Official results from Poland's presidential runoff weren't expected until Monday, but exit polls gave interim President Bronislaw Komorowski a slight lead over challenger Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late president.
Poland is getting back on its feet after suffering an extraordinary few months of tragedy.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen looks at where Poland is today, and how it has recovered from recent tragedies.
Poland's presidential election produced no clear winner Sunday, official results showed, so the top two candidates will face each other in a runoff.
Poles are set to vote Sunday for a new president, following the death of President Lech Kaczinski in a plane crash in April.
Pilots were warned of potential danger at least eight times in about 30 seconds before a Polish jet crashed in Russia in April, killing President Lech Kaczynski and about 100 others.
Russian and Polish aviation experts have ruled out any emergency or equipment malfunction as the cause of the crash of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane in Russia last month, killing him and 95 other top Polish officials and dignitaries.
The acting president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, speaks at the funeral of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski.
Poland will hold elections on June 20 to elect a successor to Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash earlier this month, the press office of the country's parliament said Wednesday.
CNN iReporter Malgosia Minta shares Poland's sadness after the president, other top officials die in a plane crash.
Poland's first couple was laid to rest on Sunday, marking the end of a journey filled with grief for the central European nation.
Numerous world leaders were forced to cancel plans to travel to Poland for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski on Sunday, as volcanic ash from Iceland continued to ground flights to and from Europe.
An ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano was projected to snarl international travel for a third straight day, as flight cancellations and airspace restrictions stretched into Sunday.
World leaders' plans to reach Poland this weekend for the funeral of President Lech Kaczynski were in limbo as volcanic ash from Iceland continued to ground flights to and from Europe.
Thousands of mourners gather in Warsaw, Poland, to remember their president and 95 others who died in a plane crash.
Polish legislators were planning Wednesday to hold a June election to choose a successor to President Lech Kaczynski, whose death in an air crash is generating unprecedented scenes of public grief.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the return of the body of Lech Kaczynski and the investigation of the fatal plane crash.
Experts say the deaths of senior military chiefs in Saturday's plane crash could have more serious implications for Poland than the loss of the country's president.
World leaders, agencies and officials mourned the death of Polish president Lech Kaczynski who was killed in a plane crash early Saturday.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski was likely killed when his plane crashed at a western Russian airport.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane, which crashed Saturday in western Russia, killing Kaczynski and scores of other people, was overhauled last year, according to the general director of the company that performed the service.
The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia over the weekend, returned to tributes in his homeland Sunday afternoon.
The tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and Poland's political and military elite among the trees of the Katyn Forest is surreal, given that in those same woods, thousands of Polish prisoners of war were murdered by Joseph Stalin's secret police.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sends a commission to investigate the crash that killed Poland's president and others.
The Polish president on Saturday signed his country's ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, aimed at streamlining the workings of the European Union.
The outgoing head of the U.S. missile defense agency said he'll tell President-elect Barack Obama's transition team that missile defenses are workable and working in tests.
CNN's Matthew Chance is in Moscow, where the Kremlin offers a cool reception to Barack Obama's victory.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has made "no commitment" to plans for a missile defense program in eastern Europe, despite a report on the Polish president's Web site, an Obama adviser said Saturday.
Moscow's regional threats ended up making Poland more resolved to embrace the controversial U.S. missile shield
The Irish "No" toward the Lisbon Treaty leaves leaders struggling for a way out. CNN's Robin Oakley reports.
President Bush will travel to the Vatican Saturday for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI and bilateral meetings with Italian leaders, as his weeklong European tour moves south to the Mediterranean.
A 34-year-old man seriously injured in the roof collapse at a Polish exhibition hall died Monday, bringing the total number of deaths to 67.
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