Warsaw - Some 100 people protested outside the Israeli embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for an end to "killing civilians" after three days of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

"What's happening in Gaza now is not a war against Hamas, it's a genocide against a people who've been kept imprisoned for the past two years," said a Palestinian protester who declined to give his name. "They're bombing mosques. They're bombing hospitals. Is this democracy?"

Warsaw - The Polish government of Premier Donald Tusk pushed through a controversial pension reform law in parliament Friday over the opposition of President Lech Kaczynski.

Using the votes of the governing parites of the PO and PSL and with the support of the leftist opposition SLD, Tusk passed the law with 285 votes, 8 more than the three-fifths supported needed to overcame a presidential veto.

The bill was opposed by 160 deputies, chiefly from the nationalist- conservative PiS led by the president's twin brother, Jaroslav Kacyznski.

With the Sejm's approval, the new pension system law can take effect on January 1.

Warsaw - A Polish bus company is telling the city of Gdansk to pay up after citing 10,000 zloty (3,520 dollars) in losses resulting from traffic jams delaying the company's operations, the daily Wyborcza reported on Thursday.

Buses were stuck in traffic for up to an hour and a half during road renovations, Planetobus owner Jakub Sachse told the daily, and work was delayed for two months.

"I want to make officials realize that there are also social costs," Sachse said. "I hope that with upcoming large-scale renovations, one of the criteria for picking a bid won't be the lowest price but also quick completion time."

Warsaw - Polish airline LOT could boost its ties with German carrier Lufthansa after ending the year up to 200 million zlotys (70 million dollars) in the red, Puls Biznesu reported on Thursday.

"The sector is plunging into a recession. Small carriers are feeling it the most. Acquisitions are slowly marginalizing the role of alliances," the head of PLL LOT, Dariusz Nowak, told the daily.

Nowak said Lufthansa is now the most active, and cited its interest in privatizing SAS Scandinavian Airlines.

Gdansk  - Tourists visiting Poland's Baltic coast often snap photos at the gates of Gdansk's shipyard, famous as the site where Lech Walesa founded the Solidarity trade union and helped topple the country's communist regime.

Today the gates are adorned with plastic flowers, posters of John Paul II and flags bearing the red "Solidarnosc" logo. A kiosk nearby sells postcards of the iconic union leader and t-shirts saying, "God, Honor, Nation."

But past the gates, inside the vast industrial complex of workshops and storehouses, much has remained the same since the 1980s: From the grimy rotary phones in the lobby to the rusty equipment that slows production and forces Polish workers to Norway for better pay.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed to the opposition Wednesday to work towards a change in the constitution that would enable Poland to enter the eurozone by 2012.

Poland would need to alter its constitution to allow the European Central Bank to be a monetary authority in the country. Currently the constitution gives the National Bank sole power to distribute money

Tusk has been working to sway Poland's euro-sceptic Law and Justice party, whose support is needed to change the constitution.