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Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine's Lugansk region on 24 February 2022. Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP

Poland

Nearly 875,000 refugees have fled Ukraine conflict: UN

By AFP

In all, 874,026 people have fled across the country's borders, according to the website of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem, on 25 May 2021. Picture: Ronen Zvulun/AFP

    US sends remaining diplomats in Ukraine to Poland 'for safety reasons': Blinken

    Earlier, the Kremlin leader recognised the independence of two rebel-held areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk areas of Ukraine. He then instructed his defense ministry to assume a "peacekeeping" role in the separatist regions.

    169 days ago
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    European Union court to deliver key rule of law judgment

    The EU's highest court will rule on Wednesday on whether European Union funds can be slashed for member states flouting democratic standards.

    175 days ago
  • FILE:  US military convoy. Picture: AFP.

    More US troops land in Poland to deter 'war aims': General

    Paratroopers from the US army's 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg in the United States landed at around 1300 GMT at Rzeszow Airport in southeast Poland on a US Air Force Boeing C-17.

    185 days ago
  • FILE: Flag of Belarus. Picture: commons.wikimedia.org

    Belarus denies 'unfounded' Polish accusations on migrants

    The Belarusian defence ministry denied allegations from Warsaw that Minsk was co-ordinating a wave of migrants attempting to cross into neighbouring EU member state Poland.

    274 days ago
  • FILE: Flag of Belarus. Picture: commons.wikimedia.org

    Poland plans 353-million-euro wall on Belarus border

    The EU has said the influx has been deliberately engineered by the Belarusian regime as a way of retaliating against EU sanctions.

    300 days ago
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    Brussels slams Polish bill, urges EU media freedom act

    On Wednesday, Polish MPs voted in favour of the new law that critics say would curb media freedom by preventing companies from countries outside Europe holding a controlling stake in media outlets.

    363 days ago
  • Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya poses with t-shirt with the lettering reading 'I just want to run' during a press conference on 5 August 2021 in Warsaw, one day after her arrival in Poland. Picture: AFP

    Belarus Olympic athlete 'happy to be in safety' in Poland

    The 24-year-old athlete has been at the centre of a diplomatic drama in the middle of the Games since seeking the protection of Tokyo 2020 staff on Sunday, saying her team was trying to bundle her onto a plane after she publicly criticised her coaches.

    369 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters hold a banner reading "Bishop, Hiding Pedophilia is a Crime" and a map reading "Map of Church Pedophilia in Poland" with 255 documented cases of sexual abuse of minors by the country's Catholic priests, during a protest against alleged child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Warsaw on 7 October 2018, demanding the church to 
stop protecting paedophile priests. Picture: Janek SKARZYNSKI/AFP

    Polish Catholic Church reports hundreds of abuse claims

    From July 2018 through the end of last year, the church received reports of 368 cases of sexual abuse, of which some occurred decades ago while others were recent.

    407 days ago
  • The European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels. Picture: AFP

    EU tells five countries to codify anti-racism law

    Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland and Sweden were told to"fully transpose" into national law the EU rules that criminalise "serious manifestations of racism and xenophobia".

    537 days ago
  • The Holocaust. Picture: Supplied

    Holocaust researchers in the dock in Poland

    The researchers co-edited a book called 'Night Without End' that documented cases of complicity of Catholic Poles in the genocide of Jews during the Nazi German occupation in World War II.

    549 days ago
  • The so called 'Gate of Death' at the museum in former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, Poland in July 2020. Picture: Wojtek RADWANSKI/AFP

    Germany charges Nazi camp secretary with complicity in murders

    The 95-year-old accused had worked at the Stutthof camp near what was Danzig, now Gdansk, in then Nazi-occupied Poland.

    551 days ago
  • The complex, named Deepspot, even includes a small wreck for scuba and free divers to explore. Picture: AFP.

    World's deepest diving pool opens in Poland

    It has 8,000 cubic metres of water - more than 20 times the amount in an ordinary 25-metre pool.

    625 days ago
  • Demonstrators protest with banners and placards against tightening Poland's already restrictive abortion law in Warsaw on 28 October 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Poles rally for abortion rights in Warsaw

    Mass protests began last week when Poland's Constitutional Court ruled that an existing law allowing the abortion of damaged foetuses was "incompatible" with the constitution.

    648 days ago
  • Players vie for the ball as supporters watch from the stands during the national championship's football match between DVTK and Mezokovesd in the DVTK stadium in Miskolc town, Hungary, on 30 May 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Postcards from the edge: Snapshots of European football's return

    From plastic fans in Poland, to virtual fans in Denmark, drive-in spectators in the Czech Republic and a title coronation in Serbia, AFP takes a look at a weekend of football in times of the coronavirus.

    800 days ago
  • The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Picture: AFP

    Rise of populists in Europe resembles eve of WW2, warns London mayor

    'People are trying to divide communities using the language of hate, scapegoating people because of their sexual orientation, because of their ethnic origin, because of their faith, or because of who they are.'

    1074 days ago
  • Copies of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child parts One and Two at a bookstore in London on 31 July 2016. Picture: Reuters.

    Outcry over Harry Potter book burning by priests in Poland

    Three priests burned books and other items they regarded as sacrilegious, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling’s famed Harry Potter series of fantasy novels.

    1225 days ago
  • FILE: Copies of the book 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' are displayed on the day of its release at a bookstore in Hong Kong on 31 July 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Catholic priests burn Harry Potter books in Poland

    Launched in 1997, the 'Harry Potter' series of books spins an epic tale of good and evil focused on the adventures of the eponymous bespectacled young wizard as he struggles against the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.

    1227 days ago
  • Late Polish mayor Pawel Adamowicz. Picture: @AdamowiczPawel/Twitter

    In tears and shock, Poland bids farewell to murdered mayor

    Around 3,500 people, including President Andrzej Duda and EU Council President Donald Tusk, attended the ceremony at St Mary's Church.

    1299 days ago
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