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Bodies of five miners missing for over a year found

Rescuers have located the bodies of five of the seven miners missing since a deadly blast hit the Pniowek mine in April last year.

Teenager arrested for plotting suicide bomb attack in Poland

Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has arrested an eighteen-year-old who was planning a terrorist attack on a state office building in Poland with the use of an explosive belt, PAP has learned.

Police detain two for setting fire to WW2 explosives

Two men have been detained by police on suspicion of detonating a piece of World War Two ordnance by putting it in a pot and setting fire to it.

Mysterious forest blast could be WW2 explosives say police

An explosion that rocked a forest in central Poland on Sunday evening could have been caused by World War II explosives, police told PAP on Monday.

Kraków woman who quit her job to help in Ukraine vows to return after losing her leg in a bomb attack

Following Russia’s invasion in February 2022, special educator Grażyna Sławińska decided to quit her desk job and travel to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv to offer her assistance.

Five convicted of attacks on shops with Polish goods in Netherlands

A Dutch court on Friday sentenced five men to prison for planting explosives in supermarkets selling Polish products.

He’s feline fine! Kitten found hiding in closet three days after explosion tears house apart

The 1.5-year-old cat named Miluś was spotted amongst the rubble three days after a gas explosion ripped through the building of the Evangelical-Augsburg Parish in Katowice.

Two dead, four hurt in Katowice presbytery blast

A 69 year-old woman and her 41-year-old daughter died and four people were injured, including two children, in a suspected gas explosion that ripped apart a Protestant presbytery in Katowice on Friday.

Two now confirmed dead in Katowice blast

The death toll from a suspected gas explosion that ripped apart a Protestant church building in Katowice has risen to two after rescuers found another body.

One dead in house explosion in Katowice

Firefighters have recovered a body from the rubble of a protestant parish building that exploded in the Polish southern city of Katowice on Friday morning.

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Most expensive coin ever sold in Poland is auctioned for jaw-dropping PLN 3.24 million in just one minute

Considered one of the rarest royal coins in the world, the legendary 50-ducat coin of Zygmunt III Vaza minted at the Crown Mint in Bydgoszcz went for a staggering PLN 3.24 million in the lightning-fast audition at the Raffles Hotel in Warsaw.

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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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