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Polish president sends condolences to Indonesia

A view of suspected parts of the missing Sriwijaya Air jetliner found in the water off Jakarta, at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, 10 January 2021. MAST IRHAM/PAP/EPA

Polish President Andrzej Duda has sent a condolence message to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo in connection with a tragic air disaster and two landslides in that country.

Isle away the hours: YouTube star spends lockdown stranded on remote island off the Somali coast

The island of Socotra has few people and little contact with the outside world.

Survival Island: Warsaw architect wins international comp to save locals on SINKING islands

Marcin Kitala’s vision of inter-locking, pentagonal-shaped platforms has been met with acclaim for its creative approach to a looming tragedy that could see the islands swallowed by the ocean within just fifty years.

Arm forces: disabled man powers his way across Iceland in epic hand-bike challenge

Dariusz Sobczak covered over 500 kilometres and braved atrocious weather to cross the island.

No way, no plague: was Poland once an island of immunity?

TFN examines the facts around the claims that Poland was once free of the deadly Black Death.

Snow joke! Norwegian island could SPLIT IN TWO warns Polish Arctic scientist

The Norwegian-owned Island of Spitsbergen has a population of just over 2,500 people. Now scientists at the Stanisław Siedlecki Polish Polar Station say they and the island, the largest in the Svalbard archipelago which borders the Arctic Ocean, are under threat as global warming threatens to rip it in half.

City employs sheep to help birds lay eggs

It may seem Baaa-my, but city council officials have populated an island on Warsaw’s Wisła river with around 70 sheep and goats as ‘natural lawnmowers’ to help prepare the area for the birds’ new breeding season.

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WWII artefacts found in hidden bunker at Warsaw Ghetto building site secretly ‘smuggled’ out of Poland

The director of the Shem Olam Institute in Israel which took the artefacts said: “The task of transferring the tefillin was done secretly but under the noses of the authorities.” Warsaw City Hall says it is now investigating and added it was “a crime” to not report valuable and historical items found at construction sites.

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  • Poles less optimistic about employment prospects - survey

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Moving on down the line: how a narrow-gauge railway staved off economic death to become the heart of a community

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