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TheNews.pl - Poland, 11 minutes ago / Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, who has been on a hunger strike for 15 days in protest against the totalitarian regime in Havana, has asked Walesa to lay flowers on his grave.
Namibia News, Mar 07, 2010 / Glenn talks about Lech Walesa interview, health care.
TheNews.pl - Poland, Feb 19, 2010 / Former Polish president and Solidarity icon Lech Walesa announced he is ready to mediate in Belarus on the issue of the repressed Polish minority there.
The News-Herald - Willoughby OH, Feb 19, 2010 / Five years ago when I was in Warsaw for an international press meeting, one of the evening dinner addresses was given by the legendary Lech Walesa, the "little electrician" and founder of the Solidarity trade union that started the ball moving that finally knocked over the Soviet Union.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh PA, Feb 14, 2010 / Jaromir Jagr and I are battling over a story I've written.
Peninsula, Feb 12, 2010 / Poland's veteran pro-democracy leader Lech Walesa threw his weight yesterday behind the speaker of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, to become the country's next president.
ABC News, 19 minutes ago/ A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation's relentless security threat.
The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA, 27 minutes ago/ Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.
The Scotsman - Edinburgh - Lothian - UK, 2 hours 56 minutes ago/ IT HAS been heralded from all quarters as potentially the most exciting season in Formula 1 history, and now it is time for the 2010 campaign to live up to its billing.
ABC News, 9 hours 57 minutes ago/ President Obama postponed a planned trip to Asia today in order to stay in Washington during what looks to be the final showdown on the passage of a health care reform bill.
Houston Chronicle - Houston TX, 3 hours 47 minutes ago/ A debt crisis in that sun-splashed Aegean country has lately threatened the stability of the European Union and its powerful currency, the euro.
Lech Wałęsa (IPA:; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician and trade-union and human-rights activist.
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