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South African arrested for 3 months after ammunition found in luggage

Warsaw's Chopin Airport was evacuated on Monday after the Border Guard detained the South African who had been carrying a grenade and four pieces of ammunition. Darek Delmanowicz/PAP

A Warsaw court decided to arrest for three months a South African national who was planning to leave Warsaw's Chopin Airport with four pieces of ammunition and a grenade in his luggage, PAP learnt on Wednesday.

Mama Bush – Dorota Kozarzewska

Meet Dorota Kozarzewska, a bush guide and expedition organiser who has been taking Polish and international tourists on safaris for over twenty years.

South African delegation grounded in Warsaw leaves Poland

A South African presidential delegation, which was stuck at Warsaw airport after it decided to stay on board rather than leave without their guns, has left for Pretoria.

Polish immigrant sentenced to life in South Africa released on parole

A court in South Africa decided on Monday to release on parole Janusz Waluś, a Polish immigrant, who was responsible for the assassination of a communist anti-apartheid activist in 1993.

Minister announces new pandemic restrictions

Poland will introduce a batch of new sanitary restrictions in connection with the appearance of a new strain of the Covid-19 virus, the Polish health minister announced on Monday.

South African sausage king looking to ‘revolutionise’ Poland’s street food scene

Setting up his website due to popular demand, the 32-year-old found orders for his homemade pork bangers, boerwors (farmers’ sausage) biltong and meat and vegetarian pies went through the roof during lockdown as news of his delicious foods spread. Now he has opened a food truck, the first of a planned fleet across the country, and with growing demand both online and offline has started negotiations for his own production kitchen.

Poland's Meronk second in European Golf Tour South African Open

Adrian Meronk has placed second at the European Golf Tour Alfred Dunhill Championship played at the Leopard Creek golf course, South Africa.

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Culture | History

‘Tarantino-style western’ about Kościuszko Uprising wins coveted Golden Lion award for best film at Gdynia film festival

VIDEO: Dubbed a ‘Tarantino-esque Western in 18th century Poland’, the film’s compelling blend of grotesque violence and black humour is set against the tumultuous backdrop of Poland in 1794, when Tadeusz Kościuszko, the eponymous 'Kos', returns to Poland to with a freed slave to rally support among the peasantry for his insurrection against the Russians.

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  • Polish authorities have 'lost control' of relations with Ukraine says Tusk
  • Poland's EU cohesion funds stalled until conditions met says commissioner

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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