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Poland has launched its first signals intelligence (SIGINT) ship, one of two ordered from Swedish defence firm Saab and constructed in the Polish port of Gdańsk. The vessels will strengthen naval ...

Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has proposed an entry ban for people from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa. It says this would help stop ...

The Polish government has criticised the actions of self-proclaimed “citizen patrols” that have gathered on the German border with the aim of preventing the return of migrants who have illegally ...

Poland has announced that it will reintroduce controls on its borders with Germany and Lithuania to prevent the “uncontrolled flow of migrants”.

Poland’s justice minister has criticised the leniency of Babcia Kasia’s conviction, contrasting it to the prison sentence received by a nationalist.

The world’s oldest known boomerang, which was found in a cave in Poland, is even older than previously thought. It was carved from a mammoth tusk around 40,000 years ago, according to a newly ...

The longstanding head of Poland’s Catholic Information Agency (KAI) – a news service established by the church – has resigned from his position in protest against what he says are efforts by the ...

Self-declared “citizen patrols” – some of them hundreds strong – have gathered on the Polish side of the border with Germany to oppose returns of migrants whom the German authorities have found to ...

A guide dog called Melisa stole the show at a university graduation ceremony in Poland, receiving an honorary diploma and a round of applause as she joined more than 120 students completing their ...

Prosecutors have charged a husband and wife with defrauding Bełchatów, the largest coal power plant in Europe, out of more than 21 million zloty (€5 million) by supplying the station with what they ...