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Zofia Posmysz, a Polish World War II-era resistance fighter who survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and who later became a journalist and novelist, has died at 98.

A bus has skidded from a highway in northern Croatia, and police say at least 11 people were killed

Domestic cats have a harmful impact on biodiversity given the number of birds and mammals they hunt and kill, a top scientists says.

A respected Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an “invasive alien species,” citing the damage they cause to birds and other wildlife.

Justyna Wydrzynska faces up to three years in prison for giving abortion pills to a pregnant woman, an act that is illegal under Poland's strict abortion laws.

The presidents of NATO members Poland and Lithuania have voiced confidence that allied troops can fully safeguard a strategically vital corridor, which links their countries, between Russian ally Belarus and a Russian Baltic Sea exclave.

A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union, authorities say a new steel wall along Poland's border with Belarus has been finished.

He met with with Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, at the Ukrainian-Polish border post.

He met with with Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, at the Ukrainian-Polish border post.

Polish and Ukraine government officials say they plan to put on public display in Warsaw damaged or burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles captured by Ukrainian forces during the war.

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MONDAY, 20 JUNE, 2022, 13:17 Polish border guards have noticed a provocation by Belarusian soldiers who have been trying to tunnel under a newly erected fence at the border. The Polish border guards tweeted about this, posting a photo, European Pravda reports.

Russia is stopping grain leaving Ukrainian ports, sparking warnings tens of millions risk famine.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed into law regulations replacing the controversial body disciplining judges with a new accountability panel.

The European Commission chief says the disbursement of pandemic recovery funds to Poland depends on the government's ensuring of judicial independence.

Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered this when they fled the war in their home country and crossed the Polish border.

Organisers are putting the finishing touches to their plans ahead of the four-day bank holiday.

Mateusz Morawiecki also warned that only the Russian leader would be “happy” with a UK-EU trade war.

Millions of people have fled Ukraine since the war started, but not all are Ukrainian. And some citizens of African countries have found that the doors of Europe are much less open to them.

A Polish Nobel Prize-winning author says that Russia presents a threat to the “free world” and its attack on neighboring Ukraine had echoes of the Second World War

A Polish Nobel Prize-winning author says that Russia presents a threat to the “free world” and its attack on neighboring Ukraine has had echoes of the Second World War.

A Polish Nobel Prize-winning author on Sunday called Russia a threat to the “free world,” saying its attack on neighboring Ukraine had echoes of the Second World War. Olga Tokarczuk, known for her humanist themes and playful, subversive streak, spoke at a writers festival in Jerusalem. “The Poles share the Ukrainian feeling of danger that Russia presents to the free world,” Tokarczuk said, adding that the Polish government had warned about the risk presented by Russian aggression for years.

He was called to aid an SUV with a flat on I-84 only to find that a passenger was former Polish President Lech Walesa.

A former Polish dissident and human rights activist who is editor-in-chief of one of Eastern Europe’s most popular newspapers, has won one of Spain’s most prestigious awards

Courtesy photosMission trip volunteers arrive at the train station in Przemysl, a Polish border town to Ukraine where they helped refugees eat, rest and register for admission into a new country. “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. “Yours are the eyes through which he looks with

Nowhere is the challenge of abandoning Russian oil clearer than in the refinery town, Schwedt.

Poland has taken in millions of Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war, but patience is fraying. And some are more welcome than others.

A prominent Polish lawyer who has represented leading political opposition figures and was treated as a suspect in a politically sensitive case has been cleared by a court.

Poland’s air navigation agency says it has agreed to implement all of the demands of the country’s air traffic controllers’ union.

Poland’s government has announced plans to drastically reduce flights at Warsaw’s two airports starting Sunday if talks with air traffic controllers demanding better working conditions fail.

Despite the war continuing, some Ukrainians are now going back to their homeland.

“No nation is doomed for failure or destined to live in captivity,” the journalist and historian Adam Michnik says.

The war in Ukraine and the ensuing economic sanctions imposed on Russia will be a far bigger "game-changer" for Europe's economy and markets than Covid, according to Dutch bank ING.

The mayor of Warsaw says a disputed compound administered by Russia’s diplomatic mission is being taken over by the city and will be made available to the Ukrainian community.

A disputed compound in the Polish capital of Warsaw administered by Russia’s diplomatic mission is being taken over by the city and will be made available to the Ukrainian community, the mayor said Monday. Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski was at the site early Monday and said a bailiff had entered the two apparently empty, fenced buildings, nicknamed “Spyville” by Warsaw residents, to check on their condition and to mark them as seized by the city. Trzaskowski said Warsaw was getting back the compound “unlawfully” occupied by Russia.

Egypt’s state-owned MENA news agency has reported that at least three people including two Polish tourists were killed when a bus crashed on a highway near the Red Sea

Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation

Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk is among six finalists for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.

Refugees streaming across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.

Boris Johnson says mass graves being found was "sickening" and those responsible must be held to account.

In a struggle between Russian authoritarianism and Western freedom, Poland is an imperfect carrier of the democratic torch.

President Joe Biden used his speech in Poland's capital to forcefully denounce Russia's Vladimir Putin, but Biden seemed to have a more subtle message for his Polish hosts.

President Biden was meeting with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw on Saturday as the war in neighboring Ukraine appeared to be at a critical juncture.

The Pentagon said Russia has halted ground operations toward Kyiv, instead focusing attacks on the eastern Donbas region.

The state-controlled news agency Tass reported that Putin asked loyalist conductor Valery Gergiev to consider the idea of merging Moscow’s Bolshoi and its St. Petersburg rival.

The fight: Russia — which has launched more than 1,000 missiles so far — is increasingly relying on “dumb” bombs to wear cities and civilians down. Russia’s assault on Ukraine has been extensive with strikes and attacks across the entire country, and Russia has been accused of committing war crimes. The weapons: Ukraine is making use weapons like Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones from the United States and other allies to combat the superior numbers and heavier weaponry of the Russian military. Oil prices: Sanctions on Russia are helping gas prices hit new highs. In Russia: Putin has locked down the flow of information within Russia, where the war isn’t even being called a war.

"This morning, by the way, there were phosphorus bombs. Phosphorus Russian bombs. Adults were killed again and children were killed again,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a virtual address to NATO leaders on Thursday.

Western countries have offered Ukrainians fleeing violence a warmer embrace than other categories of refugees. The United Nations said Thursday they should apply the same approach to other displaced people.

The president met with U.S. service members from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed in Poland who are working with allies on deterrence efforts on NATO’s eastern flank.

Mariupol city council said that based on eyewitness accounts, it appeared about 300 people had died in the attack. It did not provide details on how it had arrived at the figure.

As part of the effort, the United States will increase liquefied natural gas exports to Europe by at least 15 billion cubic meters this year with the aim of providing larger shipments in the future, the White House said.

President Joe Biden’s visit to Poland as his final stop in Europe this week offers a chance to underscore the U.S. commitment to protect a key NATO member on Ukraine’s doorstep.

Hoping to restore at least some normalcy after fleeing the war in Ukraine, thousands of refugees waited in long lines in the Polish capital of Warsaw to receive local identification papers that will allow them to move on with their lives.

Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th century masterpiece “Portrait of a Lady” has sold for the equivalent of $3.4 million at a Warsaw auction, becoming the most expensive artwork ever bought on the Polish art market, the auction house said.

Lviv lies not far from the Polish border and well behind the front lines, but it and the surrounding area have not been spared Russia's attacks.

Lviv lies not far from the Polish border and well behind the front lines, but it and the surrounding area have not been spared Russia's attacks.

Ukraine's president will address Congress by video, as the US offers greater military assistance.

The prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia have arrived by train to Kyiv and met with President Volodymy Zelenskyy in a show of support for Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president says Russians who give themselves up will be treated "as people, decently".

Russia has asked China for weapons in its war against Ukraine, according to U.S. officials. But the U.S. has threatened to sanction China if they help President Vladimir Putin. Margaret Brennan has the latest.

As Poland takes in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, officials fear that systems being arranged to aid them may crash.

The Ukrainian military is facing a dramatic escalation in the conflict with Russia after a missile attack on a military base not far from the Polish border. Charlie D'Agata reports.

Anxiety grows in Poland, where many fear Russia is on a dangerous expansionist path. History shows the Poles have every reason to be afraid.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a speech via video teleconference to the Polish Parliament on the 23rd anniversary of Poland's accession to NATO. Zelensky says Ukraine and Poland are fighting "together" and thanks the Polish people for welcoming Ukrainian refugees.

Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front line humanitarian worker dealing with the rush of refugees from Ukraine. And some onlookers have been surprised by his response, too.

Vice President Kamala Harris also announced $50 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Israeli novelist David Grossman are both in the running a second time for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.

Vice President Harris expressed outrage over the bombing Wednesday of the maternity hospital, as well as other attacks on civilians.

Vice President Harris expressed outrage over the bombing Wednesday of the maternity hospital, as well as other attacks on civilians.

Harris is visiting Poland and Romania amid Ukraine war to reassure allies worried they might be next in Russia’s crosshairs. Warsaw's eagerness to provide planes to fight in Ukraine -- an idea the U.S. opposes -- has suddenly made the diplomatic mission more sensitive.

The Pentagon is rejecting a Polish plan to provide Ukraine with MiG fighter jets by transferring them through a U.S. base in Germany.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stepped briefly from Poland and into Ukraine on Saturday for a meeting with Ukraine's foreign minister.

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Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbor to hide a little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home during World War II.

Poland’s chief auditor says he plans to audit the state’s supervision of the secret services following revelations of illegal surveillance of government critics with powerful spyware.

A Polish Senate commission has opened an investigation into the use of powerful spyware against government critics.

A Polish opposition senator whose phone was hacked with advanced spyware has filed a civil suit against Poland’s ruling party leader.

Amnesty International says it has independently confirmed that an Israeli company's powerful spyware was used to hack a Polish senator when he was running the opposition’s 2019 parliamentary election campaign.

When the Polish Olympic athlete Jolanta Ogar-Hill and her wife decided to have a baby, it was obvious to them both that Poland would not be the place to bring up their child.

Poles flocked to city centers across the country to defend a U.S.-owned television network that is being targeted by the right-wing government.

The top adviser to the European Union’s highest court says the principle of linking the bloc’s budget disbursements to respect for rule of law is compatible with the bloc’s laws and that a challenge by Hungary and Poland should be dismissed.

A Polish imam recited prayers over the tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy.

Polish forces at the border with Belarus used water cannons and tear gas against stone-throwing migrants, as Warsaw accused Belarusian authorities of giving smoke grenades and other weapons to those trying to cross the frontier.

Maciej Szczęsnowicz cried when he saw migrants at the border for the first time, hungry and exhausted from the ordeal of being stuck while trying to enter from Belarus.

Thousands have marched in Warsaw to mark Poland’s Independence Day, led by far-right groups calling for strong borders, while its troops blocked hundreds of new attempts by migrants to enter the country illegally from neighboring Belarus.

Poland reinforced its border with Belarus with more riot police, a day after groups of migrants tried to storm through a razor-wire fence on the eastern frontier where thousands have camped on the Belarusian side in the tense standoff.

Poland’s foreign ministry says it summoned a Belarusian diplomat over an “intrusion” into Polish territory of “uniformed individuals armed with long guns.”.

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it’s clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA.

Large protests are being held across Poland to show support for the country's membership in the European Union.

A peeling portrait of Polish piano composer Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market hung modestly in a private house in Poland for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century.

Soldiers with a NATO-led peacekeeping mission are keeping watch at the Kosovo-Serbia border after the two countries reached a deal to deescalate a dispute over vehicle license plates.

Polish political leaders have attended the beatification of two revered figures of the Catholic church in a Warsaw church.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she finds it unacceptable that refugees are being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

Poland’s parliament has upheld the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure.

A top European Union official has condemned Belarus and expressed support for Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has declared a state of emergency in areas along Poland's border with Belarus.

Poland’s constitutional court has reopened but then recessed its proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European Union law has primacy in the country.

An appellate court in Poland has rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars in a case that has been closely watched.

Poland is facing a more difficult relationship with two of its key allies after lawmakers passed two bills which the government had been warned to drop.

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