Poland has reinstated border controls with neighboring Germany and Lithuania in response to similar measures imposed by Berlin.
The changes, which Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced last week, came into effect on Monday.
"We remain (...)
The world's oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time.
The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old.
Archaeologists say it was (...)
Authorities in Poland say around 30,000 people were left with no electricity on Friday after strong winds broke trees and tore down power lines.
It follows extreme weather events across the country, particularly in the southern region, where heavy (...)
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said he would ask parliament to hold a vote of confidence in his coalition government after his ally, the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, lost Sunday's presidential runoff.
Conservative Karol Nawrocki (...)
Conservative Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count.
Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a very tight race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%.
The close (...)
Svitlana says her daughter loved her school in Poland.
"Even when we moved to another area, she didn't want to change schools," says the 31-year-old Ukrainian mother. "She liked it so much. There was no bullying."
Now she says the atmosphere at the (...)
Denmark's foreign minister says he will summon the US ambassador to address a report that Washington's spy agencies have been told to focus on Greenland amid Donald Trump's threats to take over the island.
"It worries me greatly because we do not (...)
A woman has been killed in an ax attack at the University of Warsaw in Poland, police say.
A man was severely injured in Wednesday's attack, they said.
A 22-year-old Polish man has been arrested. His motives remain unclear.
The university described (...)
Friedrich Merz narrowly lost the first round of voting Tuesday to become Germany's next chancellor, in a surprise setback for the CDU party leader.
Merz, who's been the favorite to become chancellor since his party won the federal election in (...)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday proposed that Turkey take an active role in initiating peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
At a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Tusk said both Turkey (...)
Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is facing serious charges and potential prison time after Polish prosecutors charged him over his involvement in attempting to organize presidential elections by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The current (...)
At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by an object zooming through the air in flames.
"I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack," Simon Eriksson, a (...)
Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski dismissed the idea of a common European army, emphasizing that European nations should focus on strengthening their individual national militaries instead.
In an interview with state-run TVP World on (...)
Sections of a major Australian highway have been washed away, as flooding in Queensland worsens.
The torrential rainfall in the state's north has claimed one life so far and forced thousands to flee their homes, with communities in Townsville, (...)
Their numbers are dwindling but the voices of the Auschwitz survivors remain powerful.
"We were stripped of all humanity," said Leon Weintraub, 99, the oldest of four who spoke beside the notorious Death Gate at the Birkenau extermination (...)
World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Britain's monarch King Charles, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French (...)
NATO has taken over air defenses in Poland from the US just days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a NATO spokesman, with questions looming about the incoming administration's approach to the alliance and to (...)
Poland gears up to take over presidency of the European Union as the controversial Hungarian term comes to an end.
The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the 27 member states once every six months.
The country in the (...)
The western Rust has premiered in Poland, three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot and killed on set in New Mexico.
Organizers of Poland's Camerimage International Film Festival said the screening was a tribute to the (...)
A series of parcel fires targeting courier companies in Poland, Germany and the UK were dry runs aimed at sabotaging flights to the US and Canada, Polish prosecutors say.
Katarzyna Calow-Jaszewska revealed late last month that four people had been (...)
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that he kept a "death squad" to crack down on crime while mayor of one of the country's largest cities.
In his first testimony before an official investigation on his so-called war on drugs, (...)
Poland announced it would tighten its visa regulations following a probe by state auditors who found that under the previous government, the country's consulates in Asia and Africa took thousands of euros in exchange for work visas.
The new rules (...)
Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger among its European neighbors.
From Monday, as well as (...)
Sandbags are being prepared in Austria, reservoirs have been emptied in the Czech Republic and flash floods are expected in Poland, as forecasters warn of days of "potentially catastrophic" rainfall.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said there (...)
