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Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters

Israel leaked video of Gulf ministers at anti-Iran meet: reports

One clip reportedly showed Bahrain’s foreign minister saying Iran poses a ‘more toxic challenge’ to the region than Israel.

15 Feb 2019 - 9:55pm 1

US Vice-President Mike Pence visits Polish and US soldiers at the 1st Airlift Base in Warsaw on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

Mike Pence praises Poland for ‘protecting telecoms sector from China’

14 Feb 2019 - 6:29am 15

US Vice-President Mike Pence (centre, in suit and tie) and his wife Karen Pence pose with soldiers at the 1st Airlift Base in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 during a three-day visit of the US Vice President to Poland. Photo: AFP

US, Poland launch Middle East conference despite uncertain aims

14 Feb 2019 - 2:21am 3

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25 Jan 2019 - 7:03pm 106

An undated photo of former Huawei executive “Weijing W.”, who has been arrested on spying charges in Poland. Photo: wnp.pl

Huawei executive arrested in Poland declares he is not a Chinese spy

23 Jan 2019 - 8:16pm 21

Gdansk’s Mayor Pawel Adamowicz in October 2018. Photo: Reuters

Polish mayor Pawel Adamowicz dies after stabbing at charity event

15 Jan 2019 - 5:48am

Analysts said Europe may find common ground with the US over concerns about China. Photo: Reuters

Huawei spy case threatens China’s drive to win over Eastern Europe

14 Jan 2019 - 11:11pm 26

The attacker holds up a a knife and shouts after stabbing Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz. Photo: Reuters

Man with knife stabs mayor in heart at charity event

14 Jan 2019 - 10:20pm

A Chinese Huawei employee identified as Weijing W has been detained in Poland on suspicion of spying. Photo: Wnp.pl

Arrest of Huawei exec in Polish ‘spy’ case leaves China ‘gravely concerned’

12 Jan 2019 - 8:05am 137

A Chinese national has been arrested in Poland over allegations of spying. Photo: Alamy

Chinese Huawei employee arrested on spying charge in Poland

12 Jan 2019 - 8:10am 24

Five teenage girls die in fire at Polish ‘escape room’, where players are deliberately locked in

Five teen girls die in fire at ‘escape room’, where players are locked in

5 Jan 2019 - 8:54pm 4

COP24 president Michal Kurtyka jumps at the end of the final session of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, southern Poland, on December 15, 2018. Photo: AFP

Nations agree to milestone rulebook for Paris climate treaty

16 Dec 2018 - 9:31pm

People carry Polish flags and burn flares as they walk past the Poniatowski Bridge during a march marking the 100th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw. Photo: Reuters

Poland holds centenary parade alongside far-right march

12 Nov 2018 - 4:55am 1

The labourer claims he endured 12-hour working days in unsafe conditions and had much of his earnings seized

North Korean sues Dutch shipbuilder over forced labour claims

8 Nov 2018 - 8:39pm 4

Poland’s former PM and current European Council President Donald Tusk testifies before the investigative commission on the Amber Gold Ponzi scheme in Warsaw on November 5, 2018. Photo: EPA

Poland’s Tusk caught up in probe into pyramid scheme

5 Nov 2018 - 6:48pm

Warsaw city mayor candidate from the main opposition party Civic Platform, Rafal Trzaskowski speaks to supporters after first exit polls indicating him as the winner are announced in Warsaw. Photo: AP Photo

Exit poll: Polish populists make some gains in local votes

22 Oct 2018 - 4:33am

A file photo of the main gate at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo: EPA

Israeli teen fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial

16 Oct 2018 - 7:34pm

Polish President Andrzej Duda wants a permanent US military presence to deter Russia

Poland’s cunning plan to get a US military base? Call it ‘Fort Trump’

19 Sep 2018 - 9:35pm

Contestant in Mister Gay Europe 2018 take part in a gay pride parade on the streets of Poznan on August 11, 2018. Photo: AFP

Mr Gay Europe 2018 crowned in Poland, despite protests

12 Aug 2018 - 10:07pm 1

Biotrem manufactures edible tableware and cutlery — including plates, bowls and cups — that solve a big environmental problem: Styrofoam, plastic and paper waste generated by consumers. The Warsaw-based company makes its edible plates and bowls from wheat bran. Photo: Biotrem

What’s for dinner? Your plate in the edible tableware era

21 May 2018 - 3:00pm

Truck overturns and spills tonnes of liquid chocolate over Polish highway

Truck overturns and spills tonnes of liquid chocolate over Polish highway

10 May 2018 - 8:32pm

Collapse could have been caused by a gas explosion

Four killed, 24 injured after block of flats partially collapses

5 Mar 2018 - 11:10am 2

People walk past the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ gate at the former German concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo: AP

Polish official accuses Jews of ‘passivity’ during Holocaust

10 Feb 2018 - 10:16pm 5

Participants in the yearly March of the Living walk between barbed wire fences in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, on April 24, 2017. Jews from Israel and around the world marched the route from Auschwitz to Birkenau to commemorate Holocaust victims. A law recently passed by the Polish legislature would make it a crime to refer to such camps as “Polish”. Photo: AP

Poland’s Holocaust law is about much more than anti-Semitism

6 Feb 2018 - 3:23pm

Visitors to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews look at exhibits from the second world war. Poland and Israel are locked in a bitter dispute over Poland's new legislation that regulates Holocaust speech. Photo: AP

With anti-Semitism on the rise, will Poland scrap Holocaust bill?

4 Feb 2018 - 10:54pm

Polish climber Tomasz Mackiewicz died earlier this week after beating the famous Himalayan ‘killer mountain’ Nanga Parbat. Mackiewicz (seen in January 2014 on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan) has been remembered as a free spirit who lived an extraordinary live. Photo: Forum/Michal Obrycki via Reuters

Friends remember Polish climber left to die on Pakistan’s ‘killer mountain’

3 Feb 2018 - 6:55am 3

Two neo-Nazis burn a swastika in undercover footage recorded in Poland on April 20, 2017. The country – which was invaded, occupied and prutalised by Nazi Germany – has reacted in horror at the newly aired footage. Screengrab: TVN24

Video of Polish Nazis burning swastikas leads to demands for crackdown

23 Jan 2018 - 8:08pm 1

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans. Photo: Reuters

Poland may face unprecedented EU sanctions to uphold rule of law

20 Dec 2017 - 9:30pm

Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. Poland’s state-run news agency PAP said the government banned Spencer from entering 26 countries in Europe’s visa-free Schengen area for five years. Photo: AP

American white nationalist banned by 26 European nations

23 Nov 2017 - 3:51am

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