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Over 1,400 Belarusians have asked for help in Poland since August

Agnieszka Golias, a Border Guard spokeswoman said 241,000 Belarusians had entered Poland from Belarus, and 265,000 had gone in the opposite direction between August 18 and December 13. Jacek Turczyk/PAP

Over 1,400 Belarusians sought help and protection in Poland between August 18 and December 13, according to new figures from the Polish Border Guard.

Polish, Lithuanian PMs reopen mutual border

Polish and Lithuanian PMs, Mateusz Morawiecki and Saulius Skvernelis on Friday morning officially reopened the border between the two countries.

Two Algerians found hiding under semi-trailer truck in Poland

The Polish Border Guard seized in Raba Wyzna (southern Poland) two Algerians who came from Bosnia and Herzegovina hidden under a semi-trailer truck. The men, aged 37 and 39, left Algeria a year and a half ago to seek a better place to live.

The invisible drone: unmanned aircraft that has chameleon camouflage takes to the skies

The revolutionary drone could be used to secretly monitor criminals.

Border checks prolonged until May 13 - ministry

Checks on Poland's borders have been prolonged until May 13 in light of the continuing coronavirus epidemic, the Polish Interior Ministry informed PAP on Wednesday.

Polish security forces detain Lebanese terrorist suspect

Poland's Border Guard and Internal Security Agency (ABW) detained, on April 16, a Lebanese citizen suspected of terrorist activities, the spokesperson of the Minister-Special Services Coordinator, Stanisław Żaryn, said on Monday.

Over 5,200 Polish soldiers mobilised against coronavirus- minister

Nearly 5,235 soldiers and Polish Army employees as well as 835 military units will be engaged in operations aimed at implementing tougher measures to halt the coronavirus's spread in Poland, Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak tweeted on Wednesday.

Poland notifies EC of traffic running smoothly at borders

Polish authorities on Friday presented further information to the European Commission (EC) that traffic across its borders, including the Polish-German border, was running smoothly, a European Union source revealed to PAP.

Army to support efforts of Border Guard - National Security Bureau head

Subunits of the Polish armed forces will support Border Guard activities, the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), Paweł Soloch, told PAP on Saturday.

Ukrainian stopped at border with EUR 500,000 and USD 240,000 cash

A Ukrainian national was caught at the Polish-Ukrainian border on Saturday night trying to take out of Poland an undeclared cash sum of EUR 500,000 and almost USD 240,000, the Ukrainian Border Guard announced on Sunday.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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