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Poland pleased with Nato Madrid summit decisions - president for BBC

Speaking in Madrid following the conclusion of the summit, Andrzej Duda said he was happy with the Alliance's changing its position towards Russia, with Nato now openly calling Russia an "aggressor state" in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Mateusz Marek/PAP

Poland is satisfied with the outcomes of last week’s Nato summit, the Polish president has told the BBC.

Poland is third largest donor of military aid to Ukraine states BBC report

In terms of the biggest donors of military aid to Ukraine, Poland has committed the third highest amount, behind the US and the UK, according to an analysis published by the BBC on Friday.

Putin weaponising Ukraine’s crops, Polish PM tells BBC

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.

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Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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