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Polish FM calls on EU to demand int'l investigation into Navalny affair

Rau said that one of the subjects of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers was the poisoning attempt on Navalny. Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP

The EU should demand from the Russian government an "internationalisation" of the investigation into an attempt to poison Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said in Berlin on Friday.

Former transport minister detained on corruption charges

Poland's former Transport Minister Sławomir N. (last name withheld) was detained on Monday on charges of corruption, leading an organised crime group and money laundering, PAP was told by a spokesperson for the district prosecution in Warsaw.

Duda latest victim of Russian pranksters in call pretending to be UN chief

Russian hoaxers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov published the 11-minute recording of the call onto YouTube on Tuesday. The President, whose office has confirmed the recording is genuine, is the latest in a long list targeted by the duo including Boris Johnson, Elton John, Prince Harry and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.

Stockholm museum to return 16th-century painting after finding it was stolen at end of war

After painstakingly piecing together the provenance of the Lamentation of Christ by the School of Lucas Cranach the Elder, officials said they are now certain that it was stolen from Poland in the wake of World War Two.

Cops seize over 3 tonnes of cocaine worth more than 3 billion PLN hidden inside barrels of pineapple pulp

Officers found over 144 barrels containing the drug after it had travelled from Ecuador to Hamburg and then by road to Gdynia. Three men in their 60s and 70s have now been charged and held for questioning.

Issues around faulty masks from China being dealt with – dep minister

The matter of defective masks from China will be investigated by the Chinese government and the producers of the masks, said Deputy Minister of Health Janusz Cieszynski at a press conference on Friday.

American woman says she is Pole who went missing 26 years ago after being kidnapped and SOLD by her dad

Monika Bielawska was one-years-old when she disappeared from outside a pharmacy in Legnica. Now, a 27-year-old American woman searching for her real parents after discovering she was adopted says SHE is Monika.

New book shines light on forgotten Polish Nazi hunter who brought Auschwitz commandant to trial

TFN talks to Filip Gańczak, author of a history of Jan Sehn, the man who prosecuted some of history’s most infamous Nazis.

Investigation uncovers web of Russian agents behind string of bomb threats

The investigation found that the emails were linked to three servers based in St. Petersburg, which, according to the investigating journalists, have been used in the past to spread disinformation around the world.

Poland’s most outstanding WWII flying ace sentenced to death by Stalinist kangaroo court 70 years ago today

Dubbed ‘Flying Death’ by the Germans, Stanisław Skalski saw action in Poland following the outbreak of war, later becoming the first Pole to command an RAF squadron. Miraculously avoiding death twice, after the war it seemed his luck had run out when he was arrested by the secret police on trumped up charges of espionage, tortured for over a year and then sentenced to be executed. But again, he survived.

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Jerzy Skolimowski's ‘emotional’ road movie about a melancholic donkey is nominated for 2023 Oscars

Chosen alongside All Quiet on the Western Front, Santiago Mitre's Argentina 1985, and the Banshees of Inisherin, Skolimowski’s film is billed as a dark exploration of humanity, technology and nature.

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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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