At least 15 people have now died in flooding caused by Storm Boris in central and eastern Europe, with many countries bracing for more torrential rain. The flooding has been the worst central Europe has seen in at least two decades, authorities said on Monday. Border areas between the Czech…
Missile and drone attack on Lviv, close to border with the NATO member, kills at least seven people. NATO-member Poland has scrambled aircraft as Russia launched air strikes on Ukraine‘s western city of Lviv close to its border. Polish and “allied” aircraft were scrambled overnight on Tuesday as Russia launched…
A bald, bearded man carrying two backpacks walked down the stairs of a plane before he extended his right hand in a greeting. His black T-shirt had an image of a stormtrooper, a soldier from George Lucas’s Star Wars movies. Below the character, there were four words: “Your empire needs…
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Paul Whelan, a former US marine, as well as prominent Russian opposition politicians and activists who had been jailed for criticising the full-scale invasion of…
As the war enters its 859th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Fighting Russian attacks on the central Ukrainian city of Nikopol killed two women aged 61 and 86, and wounded nine other people, according to regional Governor Serhiy Lysak. The…
The attack comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the globe in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war. Poland’s political leaders have condemned a firebomb attack on a synagogue in Warsaw. The Nozyk Synagogue in the capital was attacked with three firebombs early on Wednesday. The building sustained minimal…
Polish farmers end blockade at the Ukraine border, after months of protests over cheap imports. Polish farmers have called off their protest at the last border crossing with Ukraine, lifting a blockade that has dragged on for months, soured bilateral relations and buffeted Ukraine’s trade. Truckers in Poland began blocking…
Prosecutors say Polish national is suspected of supplying information to Russian military intelligence. A man has been arrested in Poland on allegations of being ready to spy on behalf of Russia’s military intelligence in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Polish prosecutors have said. The Polish national,…
Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in the European Union. Lawmakers in Poland have begun debating changes to the country’s harsh abortion laws that had grown more restrictive during eight years of conservative nationalist governments. Liberalising access to abortion has been a central campaign promise of Prime Minister…
Israel’s ambassador has sparked outrage for accusing Poles of anti-Semitism following the killing of seven aid workers. A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Poland and Israel following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and…
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