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Poland votes against EU combustion engine ban

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Poland voted against an EU Council directive banning the sale of new petrol-fuelled vehicles after 2035, a Polish government official wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

Polish sports unions call for ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes

Polish sports unions have signed a declaration calling for the continuation of sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian sportspeople following Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

Russian and Belarusian Olympic ban needs discussions says foreign min

The Polish foreign minister has said that a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from next year's Olympics should be discussed as there can be no return to “business as usual.”

Poland backs Olympic ban for Russian and Belarusians athletes

The Baltic states and Poland oppose the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics, even under a neutral flag, the Latvian foreign minister has said.

After Russian coal ban, Poland faces substantial deficit

Poland will have to compensate for a shortfall of up 8 million tonnes of hard coal after the country decided to ban Russian coal owing to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Jacek Sasin, the state assets minister, has said.

Most Poles favour banning energy resource purchases from Russia

The vast majority of Poles believe that Poland should stop buying Russian coal, gas or oil, a new poll shows.

Polish government decides to curb ties with Russia

The Polish cabinet has adopted a package of bills that will scale down Warsaw's relations with Moscow owing to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the government spokesman has said.

Russia bans flights from Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria

Russia has said it is closing its airspace to flights from Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in response to similar measures introduced by these countries due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this week.

Poland bans Russian air carriers from entering its airspace

From midnight on Friday, a ban has come into force on flights in Polish airspace of planes used by Russian carriers, the Civil Aviation Authority (ULC) has announced.

Polish far-right party banned by Facebook

Facebook has blocked the account of Confederation, a Polish far-right party with 11 MPs, for repeated breaches of its rules on hate speech, and disinformation about Covid-19.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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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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