A train carrying former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and his supporters was prevented from leaving a railway station in Poland for Ukraine on Sunday, deepening a standoff between Saakashvili and Ukrainian authorities. Saakashvili intended to return to Ukraine despite being stripped of Ukrainian citizenship by ...
Germany's entry alongside France into a battle between the European Commission and Poland over the rule of law increases the likelihood of unprecedented EU action to punish Warsaw. German Chancellor Angela Merkel abandoned her usual public restraint last week by criticizing Poland's governing Law and ...
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law a bill giving the justice minister the power to hire and fire the heads of ordinary courts, one of three bills passed by parliament as part of the Law and Justice (PiS) party's flagship judicial ...
U.S. President Donald Trump will learn this week whether he gets a second chance to make a first impression as he returns to Europe and has his first encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump's first visit to the continent in May stirred anxieties among his ...
President Donald Trump will use fast-growing supplies of U.S. natural gas as a political tool when he meets in Warsaw on Thursday with leaders of a dozen countries that are captive to Russia for their energy needs. In recent years, Moscow has cut off gas ...
Instead of a hello, the head of the Esperanto association in the Polish city of Bialystok opts for "saluton," a sign that the universal language created by Ludwik Zamenhof is alive and well a century after the Jewish doctor's death. "Zamenhof created Esperanto as a ...
Polish prosecutors Saturday said they had pressed charges against 11 people who slaughtered a lamb and then stripped naked at the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The unprecedented stunt, carried out Friday in front of the camp's "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you ...
A Polish woman has become the first foreign female professional shogi player after a victory last month boosted her ranking.
Poland will start obstructing European Union business and "play a rough game" in Brussels after the bloc angered Warsaw by reappointing Donald Tusk as head of the European Council, the foreign minister said. Tusk, Poland's former prime minister and a long-standing rival of current Prime ...
"I stood here just after the end of the war," Polish film director Andrzej Wajda said. "I was only 19 years old. The entire area was flattened, just rubble. The Stare Miasto (Old Town) was one big gaping pit that I stared into." He was ...
A Polish woman has become the first foreign female professional shogi (Japanese chess) player after pulling off a big win in a tournament on Monday, fulfilling her dream of turning pro. Karolina Styczynska, a 25-year-old native of Warsaw and graduate student at Yamanashi Gakuin University, ...
Poles on Sunday got their first — and possibly last — glimpse of a new Museum of the Second World War, a project slammed by Poland's rightwing government as underplaying the country's harrowing wartime fate. Conceived by EU President Donald Tusk during his time as ...
