Polish Police Clash With Protesters On National Holiday

WARSAW (Reuters) - Riot police in the Polish capital used truncheons on Sunday to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete after a parade to mark the national holiday turned violent.

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