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Poland's Defense Ministry says Patriot missile batteries acquired from the U.S. last year have been deployed to the capital city Warsaw as part of military exercise.

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Twitter will start charging developers to get access to its API, a vital tool on the platform that powers popular services like TweetDelete and software bots.

President Biden may end up meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an upcoming trip to Poland that some have speculated could coincide with the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion.

The Polish ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has made a donation to the Ukrainian army to settle a defamation case with a political rival

The Polish ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has made a donation for the needs of the Ukrainian army to settle a defamation case with a political rival.

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The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

It’s good that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is finally giving Ukraine tanks. Now let’s admit what it took to get there.

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 78 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.

Friday marks 78 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

Firefighters in southern Poland say that seven people have been injured and one is missing after an explosion demolished half of an old Evangelical parish house in Katowice

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners have commemorated the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's indecision has earned him criticism both nationally and internationally.

A museum in northwest Spain has returned two 15th-century paintings to Polish officials after it was determined that they were looted by the forces of Nazi Germany during World War II

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday his country will export more than a dozen of its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. The move follows weeks of pressure from western allies.

The decision expected from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz would end months of debate among Western allies and could help to shift the balance on the battlefield.

Financial documents that were mistakenly uploaded from bankrupt crypto firm BlockFi show a $1.2 billion relationship with FTX and Alameda Research.

The Biden administration is planning to announce a decision to send Abram M-1 tanks to Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.

In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode. The decision could be announced as soon as Wednesday, though it could take months or years for the tanks to be delivered. U.S. officials said details are still being worked out.

Germany is under increasing pressure from Ukraine and some NATO allies, including Poland, to sign off on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.

In the wake of intense pressure from its allies, Germany appears to be inching toward approving deliveries of high-tech Leopard 2 main battle tanks that Ukraine and its biggest Western backers hope will boost Kyiv’s fight against Russian invaders

In the wake of intense pressure from its allies, Germany appears to be inching toward approving deliveries of high-tech Leopard 2 main battle tanks that Ukraine and its biggest Western backers hope will boost Kyiv’s fight against Russian invaders.

Following intense pressure from its allies, Germany appears to be inching toward approving deliveries of high-tech Leopard 2 main battle tanks that Ukraine and its biggest Western backers hope will boost Kyiv’s fight against Russian invaders. Over the weekend German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Berlin would not get in the way if Poland — arguably Ukraine's most vocal supporter among European Union neighbors — wants to ship Leopard 2 tanks from its arsenal across the border into Ukraine.

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Western allies including Poland and Germany remain in a standoff as Ukraine asks for tanks to aid in the fight against Russia in eastern Ukraine.

Poland said Monday that it will ask Germany for permission to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine as it continues to fight against Russia's invasion.

Poland's prime minister says his government will ask Germany for permission to send some of the Polish army’s Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine “will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks,” adding that the “war started by Russia does not allow delays.”

Even as Western allies announced a massive new military aid package to Ukraine, the spotlight has lingered on the German-made battle tank, which Germany has been reluctant to provide.

Poland’s prime minister and the nation’s security official say that foreign divers rescued from near a key port where they had no authorization to be posed no threat to vital infrastructure or public safety

Polish authorities are investigating after the men, who were let go, offered an "unnatural" explanation for their late-night dive in rough seas.

The United Nations cultural organization is training law enforcement and judiciary officials from countries on Ukraine’s western borders seeking to prevent the trafficking of looted cultural objects from Ukraine amid Russia’s war against its neighbor

In Poland, “The Death of John Paul II” divides audiences and highlights the career of an inventive young stage director.

Police in northern Poland are facing questions over why they released without detailed interrogation three divers rescued from near a key oil port, where they had no authorization to be

Poland's prime minister has requested a security review of strategic infrastructure after three foreign divers were rescued from near a key oil port where they had no authorization to be.

Poland's prime minister said Thursday that the country was reviewing the supervision of its gas and oil installations and other strategic locations after a weekend incident in which three foreign divers had to be rescued from near a key oil port where they had no authorization to be. Premier Mateusz Morawiecki also said he had requested the secret security services to produce a detailed report on the incident. Police in northern Poland are facing questions over why they released the three divers rescued from near the Gdansk oil port without conducting a detailed interrogation of them.

Warsaw’s Jewish history museum on Wednesday presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection. The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews described the discovery of negatives with some 20 never-seen images as important discovery. The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a Polish firefighter, Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski, as the Nazi Germans were brutally crushing the uprising of 1943.

FTX management updated its estimated asset recoveries to $5.5 billion, and offered a new breakdown of over $400 million worth of missing assets.

Gen. Mark Milley spent a couple hours with Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top officer in the Ukrainian military.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has slammed his Russian counterpart, saying Vladimir Putin is behaving like a tyrant and colonialist by invading Ukraine.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz seems to have finally figured out the Ukrainians need battle tanks to defeat the Russians. Eventually, they’ll need fighter jets too.

Taylor Dudley, 35, was taken into custody by Russian border patrol nine months ago when he crossed the border from Poland.

Poland’s lawmakers have voted to approve a new law on judicial accountability that the government hopes will meet European Union expectations and help unfreeze billions of euros in pandemic recovery funds for the country.

Bodies subjected to “overkill” were thought to have been used in ritualistic offerings, researchers wrote.

An U.S. Navy veteran from Michigan who was detained in Russia for 9 months has been released after months of negotiations, CNN reports. Taylor Dudley, 35, of Lansing, was released from Russian custody on Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Russia-Poland Bagrationovsk-Bezledy border crossing, his family’s spokesperson told CNN. It was the result of more than six months of negotiations by The Richardson Center for Global Engagement with help from Steve Menzies Global Foundation, Hostage U.S., and the James Foley Foundation. Dudley was detained by Russian border patrol police in April 2022 after crossing from Poland in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave, the report said. He was in Poland attending a music festival; it’s unclear why he crossed the border.

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and Germany this month amid rising antisemitism.

Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the European Union nation has decided to send a company of Leopard tanks to help neighboring Ukraine in the war with invading Russia.

Local officials in central Poland say that a recent discovery of objects that were most probably hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II is a rare and precious discovery

Officials in central Poland say the recent discovery of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II has provided a rare and precious find.

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Media reports say about 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been uncovered during house renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland

About 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been uncovered during house renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland, media reports said Sunday. History experts say that the objects include Hanukkah menorahs and items used in daily life, TVN24 reported. The office's experts said on Facebook last week that the objects will be handed over to the city’s Archaeology Museum.

For nine days in December, the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow, Poland, examined neighboring Ukraine in a variety of plays.

Meteorologists and climatologists expressed alarm over the unseasonably warm winter weather.

Frances Tiafoe beat Britain’s Daniel Evans 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 to move the United States into the United Cup mixed teams tournament semifinals.

New regulations in Poland require specialized police to go through training with grenade launchers

Poland's conservative prime minister has surprisingly spoken in favor of the death penalty and admitted he doesn't share the view of the Roman Catholic Church on the matter.

In Europe, aid groups and volunteers are grappling with how to sustain aid to Ukrainian refugees in the year ahead, with new hardships as winter sets in.

Krzysztof Szczerski, Poland's Ambassador to the United Nations, believes that Western attempts to allow the Russian President to save face will completely kill off the international order that was established after World War II.

After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike its neighbors. Those bonds strengthened with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Longtime President Alexander Lukashenko has allowed Belarus to be used as a staging ground, while avoiding sending his own troops to take part in the war. The tight embrace is payback after Russian President Vladimir Putin bankrolled his government for many years and came to Lukashenko’s aid follow

For years, the European Union failed to muster an effective response as Hungary and Poland challenged the bloc’s democratic norms. In a radical shift, the EU is now wielding its funding in a bid to reverse the erosion of the rule of law in its two wayward members, essentially withholding a combined €138 billion ($147 billion) of financing from them. The two states have taken some steps back toward the fold, though it’s unclear whether they will get in line.

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The French and Polish defense ministers have agreed to a deal under which France will provide Poland with two observation satellites and a receiving station.

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U.S. officials say the Biden administration is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian missiles.

Iga Swiatek has won the WTA Player of the Year award for the first time.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country's defense minister have taken delivery of a first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea, hailing the swift implementation of a deal signed in the summer in the face of the war in neighboring Ukraine.

France defender Jules Kounde was told by a match official to remove two gold chains he was wearing during the defending World Cup champions' match against Poland.

Kylian Mbappé scored two goals and set up another for Olivier Giroud to give France a 3-1 victory over Poland and a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals.

The high drama of split-screen tension during simultaneous matches in the final set of World Cup group games is now a thing of the past.

A Ukrainian official says Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six European countries have received packages containing animals’ eyes in recent days.

Europe’s largest security organization has opened a two-day meeting in Poland with strong denunciations of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Lionel Messi will grace the World Cup stage at least one more time.

Poland’s Supreme Court has reinstated a judge who was suspended for two years.

Hundreds of people have protested outside the house of Poland’s ruling party leader to voice anger at what's widely seen as the erosion of women’s rights under the conservative government and the leader's recent remark about women using alcohol.

Robert Lewandowski finally scored at the World Cup.

The World Cup is drawing record viewership to Spanish-language broadcasts on Telemundo and Peacock.

Poland’s government says an anti-missile system which Germany offered to send to Poland should instead go to Ukraine.

The fall of the Berlin Wall more than 30 years ago symbolized hope for cooperation with Moscow.

The U.S. and its Western allies clashed with Russia at the U.N. Security Council over responsibility for a deadly missile strike in Poland near the Ukrainian border.

The top U.S. military officer says he tried to reach out to his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of the missile explosions in Poland, but wasn’t able to get through.

NATO envoys are gathering for emergency talks after Poland said that a Russian-made missile fell on its territory, killing two people, and U.S. President Joe Biden and his allies promised support for an investigation.

Asian shares are mostly lower as investors experience jitters over global risks after Poland said a Russian-made missile killed two people there.

NATO's chief and the president of Poland say there are no indications that a missile that fell on Polish farmland and killed two people was a deliberate attack.

Poland says a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people.

President Joe Biden says it was “unlikely” that a missile that killed two in NATO-ally Poland was fired from Russia.

Poland and Germany have announced separate takeovers of natural gas companies that had links to Russian energy giant Gazprom.

The son of World War II Auschwitz death camp hero Witold Pilecki is seeking millions in compensation from Poland's government for his father's post-war arrest and his 1948 execution by the communist authorities of the time.

Opposition politicians in Poland have criticized police for detaining anti-fascist activists but not reacting to the appearance of a Nazi-era symbol during a nationalist march.

Tens of thousands of people in Warsaw have marched peacefully in a yearly Independence Day march organized by Polish nationalist groups.

A Polish court has acquitted three men who in 2019 toppled a statue of a late priest suspected of sexually abusing minors.

Poland’s ruling party leader has triggered anger and mockery by claiming that the country’s low birthrate is partly caused by overconsumption of alcohol by young women.

Aryna Sabalenka has stunned top-ranked Iga Swiatek to reach the championship of the WTA Finals.

Fourteen million Ukrainians have now been displaced due to Vladimir Putin’s war.

Poland says it has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse to build its first nuclear power plant.

Poland has dismantled four communist-era monuments honoring Red Army soldiers, in a renewed drive to remove symbols of Moscow's post-World War II domination and to stress its condemnation of Moscow's war on neighboring Ukraine.

Poland’s culture minister has rejected speculation that a rare book given to Pope Francis by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this week might have been looted from Poland during World War II.

Fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear power installations and Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have reawakened nuclear fears in Europe.

Poland's top opposition leader has called on the country’s ruling party to fully clarify the facts surrounding an eight-year-old affair involving the illegal recordings of top politicians and coal imports from Russia.