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FILE - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk talks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House after meeting with President Joe Biden Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Washington. Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday, May 10, 2024 announced changes in his Cabinet to replace four ministers running for the European Parliament next month. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Poland arrests sabotage suspects and warns of potential hostile acts by Russia

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says three people recently have been arrested on suspicion of links to foreign-sponsored sabotage.
 
A woman wipes away a tear in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 outside a shopping center destroyed in a weekend fire. A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland's Vietnamese community. People lost entire livelihoods and say they don't know how they will manage to make a living. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Shopping complex fire inflicts tragedy on Vietnamese community in Poland

 
FILE - Members of a group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum are seen in Bialowieza, Poland, on May 28, 2023. Refugee rights activists on Monday May 13, 2024 criticized Poland's pro-European Union government for plans to toughen measures along the border with Belarus and for continuing a policy initiated by the previous populist government of pushing migrants back across the border there. (AP Photo/Agnieszka Sadowska, File)

Polish activists criticize Tusk’s government for tough border policies and migrant pushbacks

 
Polish farmers and other protesters gather in downtown Warsaw to protest the European Union's climate policies and Poland's pro-EU government, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish farmers march in Warsaw against EU climate policies and the country’s pro-EU leader

 
FILE - Poland's deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz attends the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 13, 2023. Poland's Defense Minister said Thursday, May 9, 2024, that since early in Russia's war against Ukraine he has kept an emergency backpack ready, drawing detractors who said his comments did not send a reassuring message about the country's safety. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish defense minister fends off criticism after he says he keeps an emergency backpack ready

 

EU seeks to end dispute with Poland and agrees on use of Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine

European Affairs Ministers agreed Tuesday to back the European Commission’s proposal to end its 6-year dispute with member state Poland, saying Prime Minister Donald Tusk has initiated the necessary changes to reverse what the bloc called the previous government’s backsliding on democratic principles. EU Ministers also reached an agreement to use the profits earned from frozen Russian assets to provide military support to Ukraine and help rebuild the war-torn country.
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Poland invests $2.5 billion into fortifying border with Russia and Belarus

Poland’s prime minister says it is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus.
 

Poland puts judge who defected to Belarus on wanted list, opening way to international warrant

Poland’s prosecutors say they have put a controversial judge who fled to autocratic Belarus on a wanted list, a step toward entering him on an international arrest warrant on espionege allegations.
 

Poland’s prime minister vows to strengthen security at EU border with Belarus

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has visited the country’s border with Belarus and stressed that Poland will do more to strengthen security along its entire eastern frontier.
 

Poland lifts immunity of a judge who defected to Belarus, paving way for an arrest warrant

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A disciplinary court in Poland on Thursday lifted the immunity of a judge who fled the country to neighboring Belarus, an autocratic ally of Russia, paving the way for an international arrest warrant for him on espionage allegations.
 
FILE - Members of a group of some 30 migrants seeking asylum are seen in Bialowieza, Poland, on Sunday, 28 May 2023. Poland’s defense minister said Thursday that the metal barrier against illegal migration on border with Bealrus is being strengthened and plans are being made to reinforce the security of border with Russia. (AP Photo/Agnieszka Sadowska, File)

Poland is strengthening its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration

Poland’s defense minister says his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration.
 
Bayern's Thomas Mueller, centre, reacts with referee during the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)

Bayern offside is latest Champions League controversy for ref Marciniak after cup final successes

It has been a challenging season in the Champions League for the 2022 World Cup final referee Szymon Marciniak and his support officials from Poland.
 

Poland detains and questions Russian man who illegally crossed from Belarus

Poland’s security officials say that a 41-year-old man from Russia has been detained and is being questioned after illegally crossing in from Russia’s ally Belarus.
 
FILE - Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski addresses reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024. Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Monday, May 6, after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there. Sikorski described the judge as a traitor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s Tusk calls secret services meeting to address judge’s defection to Belarus

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is calling a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian influence.
 
FILE - This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground in Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the military will hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons – the first time such exercise was publicly announced by Moscow. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Belarus launches nuclear drills a day after Russia announces them amid tensions with West

Belarus has launched drills involving missiles and warplanes capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons.
 

Suspected bugging equipment in room where Polish Cabinet was to meet said to be an old sound system

A Polish official said bugging devices were found in a room where the Polish Cabinet was scheduled to meet, but another official later said the equipment was part of an old sound system in the building.
 
FILE - Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski addresses reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024. Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Monday, May 6, after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there. Sikorski described the judge as a traitor. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish prosecutors open investigation into judge who fled to autocratic Belarus

Polish prosecutors say they have opened an investigation after a Polish judge fled to the autocratic state of Belarus and asked for protection there.
 

The EU’s executive decides to end legal standoff with Poland over democracy concerns

The European Union’s executive has decided to end its 6-year dispute with member state Poland. It says Prime Minister Donald Tusk has initiated the necessary changes to reverse what the bloc called the previous government’s backsliding on democratic principles.
 
Fire damage is visible on the façade of the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The synagogue was attacked with firebombs in the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw synagogue attacked at night with 3 firebombs, no injuries reported

Poland’s chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs during the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt.
 
FILE - A multicolor 10 Polish Zloty coin marking Poland entering the European Union is presented by the National Bank of Poland in Warsaw, on April 14, 2004. The finance minister in Poland’s pro-European Union government says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency. The finance minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland joining the eurozone, the currency union of 20 EU members, is not justified at this time. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)

Poland is still not ready to adopt the euro, its finance minister says

Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency.
 
Poland's President Andrej Duda speaks during a joint media conference with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda during the Lithuanian-Polish Brave Griffin 24/II military exercise near the Suwalki Gap close to the Polish border at the Dirmiskes village, Alytus district west of the capital Vilnius in Lithuania on Friday, April 26, 2024. The week-long military exercise which started April 22, is to test a defense scenario on the bilateral so-called “Orsha” plan to defend the Suwałki Gap, a corridor of almost 100 kilometers (62 miles) between the two NATO members Poland and Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Polish and Lithuanian leaders oversee military drills along their shared border

Polish President Andrzej Duda says “a potential aggressor must see our readiness” as he and his Lithuanian counterpart monitored a joint military drill along their shared border.
 
CORRECTS LOCATION TO BAKHMUT IN PHOTO DETAILS - A Ukrainian serviceman from Code 9.2 unit known by call sign Mamay attaches drop bomb to a drone in the trenches at the frontline, few kilometres from Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukraine is putting pressure on fighting-age men outside the country as it tries to replenish forces

Ukraine is seeking to reverse the drain of potential soldiers from the country. It has announced that men of conscription age will no longer be able to renew their passports from outside the country.
 
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski delivers a speech to the parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday April 25, 2024. Sikorski told the parliament that the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union, laying out the government's vision at a historically crucial moment with war across the border in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland lays claim to a leadership role in Europe as Russia’s war threatens stability

Poland’s foreign minister has called on NATO to increase its defense preparedness and said his government wants to be at the center of decision-making in the European Union, seeking to reestablish the country as a reliable international partner as the war in Ukraine rages across the border.
 
FILE - Human rights lawyer Adam Bodnar hands out flyers to morning commuters as he runs in his first election, for a seat in the Senate with the opposition Civic Coalition, in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2023. Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people under the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told the lawmakers that speaking as both a citizen and as prosecutor general, he found the scale of the surveillance to be “shocking and depressing.” (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s prosecutor general says previous government used spyware against hundreds of people

Poland’s prosecutor general has told the parliament that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial.
 
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, visit the Armourd Brigade barracks in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

UK puts its defense industry on ‘war footing’ and gives Ukraine $620 million in new military aid

The U.K. prime minister says the country is putting its defense industry on a “war footing” by increasing defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade.
 

Poland’s leader says his country is ready to host NATO members’ nuclear weapons to counter Russia

Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliances’s other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus.
 
FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacts during his and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting with students in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk is celebrating a victory on Monday April 22, 2024 after a series of candidates supported by his party won weekend races for mayor. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Poland’s prime minister celebrates after his party wins a string of cities in mayoral votes

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has expressed satisfaction after a series of candidates supported by his party won weekend races for mayor.
 
Polish voters take part in a local runoff election in Lomianki, near Warsaw, Poland on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Voters are choosing mayors who did not win outright in the first round of the election two weeks earlier. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish voters choose mayors in hundreds of cities in runoff election

Polish voters have chosen mayors in hundreds of cities and towns where no candidate won outright in the first round of local election voting two weeks ago.
 
FILE - Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced on Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

2 suspects detained in Poland for attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania

Officials say that two Polish citizens have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on the orders of foreign intelligence services.
 
FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures during a press conference with Finland's President Alexander Stubb, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Poland's prosecutors say that a Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to assist an alleged plot by Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Poland arrests man suspected of spying for Russia to aid Zelenskyy assassination plot

Poland’s prosecutors say that a Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to assist an alleged plot by Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Poland’s president becomes the latest leader to visit Donald Trump as allies eye a possible return

Former President Donald Trump met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda. It’s the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term.
 
FILE - President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda walk from the Oval Office for a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 24, 2020, in Washington. Trump is set to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda in New York as Trump's criminal trial takes a one-day break. Their planned dinner Wednesday comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility Trump might win the White House in November. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump will meet with Polish President Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

Donald Trump is set to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda in New York as Trump’s criminal trial takes a one-day break.
 

EU releases blocked funds of $6.7 billion to Poland as part of its post-pandemic recovery package

The European Union has disbursed about $6.7 billion to Poland as a part of the 27-nation bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund, the biggest single transfer ever to the country.
 
Anti-abortion demonstrators march in support of every conceived life and against steps taken by the new government to liberalize Poland's strict law and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week, in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Last week, Poland's parliament, which is dominated by the liberal and pro-European Union ruling coalition, voted to approve further detailed work on four proposals to lift the near-ban on abortions. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opponents of abortion march against recent steps to liberalize strict law

Thousands of Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the predominantly Catholic nation’s strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week.
 
FILE - Friends and residents gather to place candles and flowers in honor of Damian Soból, a Polish food aid worker who was killed with six other World Central Kitchen workers by Israeli airstrike in Gaza this week, in Soból's hometown of Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. World Central Kitchen and a few other aid groups suspended operations in Gaza, after seven aid workers were killed by airstrikes. Yet despite the danger, many of the largest organizations barely slowed down. Hunger has become commonplace in Gaza amid the war with Israel, and U.N. officials warn that famine is increasingly likely in northern Gaza. (AP Photo, File)

Poland calls aid worker’s killing in Gaza a murder, wants further investigation

Poland’s government is calling the killing of a Polish aid worker by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza a murder, and is demanding support from Israel in its own investigation into the case.
 
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