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Putin weaponising Ukraine’s crops, Polish PM tells BBC

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Vladimir Putin has turned Ukrainian grain into a tool to blackmail the rest of the world, Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, has told the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Putin may use chemical weapons, Polish president warns

Russian President Vladimir Putin may resort to a chemical weapons attack as his plan to quickly capture Ukraine has failed, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has told the BBC.

Secret WWII radio disguised as an ELECTRIC STOVE found under Warsaw apartment floorboards

Disguised as an electric stove, the Phillips radio was discovered under a removable floor tile below an old wardrobe at the address used by legendary underground courier Jan Karski.

BBC names Oleśnica artist one of the world’s 100 most “inspiring and influential women” for her baby ‘therapy’ dolls.

Barbara Smolińska was chosen alongside acclaimed authors, Nobel Prize winners and a female Prime Minister for the lifelike dolls. Stunning in their detail, the ‘reborn sugar babies’ have won a raft of admirers, not least among women dealing with loss or trauma.

Russia tries to destabilise EU, Polish PM tells BBC

Russia is using various methods to destabilise the European Union and to stir up its ultimate collapse, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, told global broadcaster BBC World.

PM warns of Russian attempts to destabilise region

Poland's prime minister has said in an interview with BBC that a migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, a build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine and soaring gas prices are all part of Kremlin plans to destabilise central Europe.

UK journalist’s new book seeks to challenge western media’s preconceived views of Poland

Warsaw-based freelance journalist Jo Harper said his motivation for his book ‘Our Man in Warszawa: How the West Misread Poland’ came from him being “fed up of reading the same kind of analysis of Poland in British and American media. The book was an attempt to fill in the gaps, redress the imbalance and make the story broader.”

Marcin Dorociński woos fans in Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit, but who is he?

The series which was only released a week ago has already shot to the top of Netflix’s most watched charts and has fans around the world scrambling to find out more about the 47-year-old actor who plays nemesis Vasily Borgov.

Food champ does it again! Damian Wawrzyniak named one of world’s most influential chefs SECOND time in a row

Rubbing shoulders with household names such as Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson, as well as global superstars such as José Andrés and Andrew Zimmern, the Polish chef was ranked in an international study conducted by Just Food magazine using Twitter statistics gathered from the GlobalData Influencer platform.

BBC presents programme on only black insurgent in 1944 Warsaw Uprising

BBC, on Saturday, presented a programme about August Agboola Browne, a Nigeria-born jazz musician, thought to have been the only black participant in the Polish defence war in September 1939 and the only black participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

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Acting royalty wins internet hearts after adopting dog run over by Russian tank

Janusz Chabior and his actress wife  Agata Wątróbska took in the adorable pooch called Henio after finding him in a Polish shelter where he had been sent from Ukraine.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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