Warsaw - A hotel in Cyprus is demanding more than 10,000 euros (12,595 dollars) for damages caused by two conservative Polish MPs who allegedly rode drunk on golf carts during their stay at the property last month, local media reported on Thursday.

Karol Karski and Lukasz Zbonikowski - of the centre-right Law and Justice party - caused 10,140 euros in damages when they "got drunk" and "drove two cars in an unlawful way," the hotel's lawyers wrote in a letter to the Polish parliament and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Karski denied the charges and said someone wants to "trick" him out of money.

Warsaw - Some 200 youths from more than 20 nations visited the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on Tuesday as part of an event marking the 25th anniversary of Lech Walesa receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

"For us Russians this is important, because we suffered because of Soviet totalitarianism," Julia Malyszowa of Moscow told the Polish Press Agency. "We must now know as much as possible about history. For Russians it's essential, to fight today for democracy."

Warsaw - AIDS sufferers in Poland face discrimination, while Poles' knowledge of the disease is "still scandalously low," officials said Monday - World AIDS Day.

"Carrying HIV in Poland is still connected with shame," Polish Radio quoted Janusz Majchrzak of the Plus Network, which helps AIDS patients, as saying.

"We live in the 21st century, but Poles' knowledge of AIDS and HIV is still scandalously low."

According to research, many Poles think the disease effects only drug addicts and homosexuals, the daily Dziennik reported.

Warsaw - Some 50 people blocked a pedestrian crossing at the Polish-Ukrainian border Monday in protest over new European Union regulations that limit how many cigarettes can be brought across the border.

The new regulations took effect at midnight, and allow a maximum of two packs of cigarettes allowed through the crossing.

The protesters are mainly people who have made a living bringing over cheap cigarettes from Ukraine to sell them in Poland, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP.

The protesters say they are demanding changes in regulations and will continue their action for at least a week, PAP reported.

Warsaw - Polish researchers launched a probe on Tuesday into the 1943 death of World War II General Wladyslaw Sikorski, hoping to determine if it was an accident or possible Soviet-planned assassination.

Sikorski's coffin was taken out of its sarcophagus from a crypt in a Krakow cathedral, and was later to be transported for DNA and medical tests. Results are expected in about a month.

Sikorski died on July 1943 while returning from a troop inspection in the Middle East. The Royal Air Force plane crashed into the sea minutes after take-off from Gibraltar.

Warsaw  - Poland's capital on Wednesday marked the completion of a massive restoration project that marks the borders of the former Jewish Ghetto that was walled in by Nazis occupiers during World War II.

The mayor of Warsaw, along with the minister of culture, inaugurated the project that included 21 new information points along the boundaries of the former Jewish Ghetto. The project also placed a beige line, labeled "Ghetto Wall," along the city streets that outlined the furthest reaches of the Ghetto's borders.

The line snakes along sidewalks and around apartments and offices, broken only when it reaches roads or tram lines.