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Poland ready to send doctors to help jailed Saakashvili

On Monday, Piotr Mueller, the Polish government spokesman, told a news conference in Warsaw that the medical care of the former Georgian president "is raising serious doubts in the international community." Paweł Supernak/PAP

Polish medics are prepared to travel to Georgia to provide medical assistance to the former Georgian leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, whose medical condition has deteriorated since imprisonment, a government spokesman in Warsaw said on Monday.

Canadian troops to aid Ukrainian war refugees in Poland

A 100-soldier unit of the Canadian armed forces will relocate to Poland to aid Ukrainian war refugees, the Canadian defence minister said on Thursday.

EU needs relocation scheme for Ukrainian patients, minister says

Poland has proposed an EU scheme for the relocation of Ukrainian refugees requiring medical aid from Poland to other EU countries, the Polish health minister said on Tuesday in Brussels.

Warsaw opens refugee reception point

A reception centre for war refugees from Ukraine has opened at Warsaw's Western Bus Terminal.

Protesters demand humanitarian treatment of migrants at Belarus border

A protest was held in the eastern Polish Podlaskie province on Saturday calling for humanitarian and medical organisations to be granted access to operate in an area adjacent to the border with Belarus that is under a state of emergency.

Medical aid from Poland arrives in Vietnam

An airplane carrying nearly 8 tonnes of humanitarian aid landed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Saturday morning, as part of Poland's help for a country facing an increasingly difficult epidemiological situation, the Polish embassy in Hanoi has said.

Motion submitted to Euro court on foreigners on border with Belarus

Attorneys for 32 foreigners trapped in an area between the Polish and Belarusian borders have applied to the European Court of Human Rights for it to grant them protection under international law and to demand that the Polish authorities provide them with food and medical assistance.

Polish NGO “working harder than ever” to protect most vulnerable in war-torn countries from COVID-19

One of Poland’s biggest NGOs, Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH, Polska Akcja Humanitarna), has gone into overdrive in its mission to save the lives of those living in countries blighted by war.

Solidarity Union inspiration for today's epidemic aid - PM

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki voiced pride on Monday in Poland's medical aid mission in Lombardy, Italy. Morawiecki wrote on Facebook that Poland's 1980s Solidarity Union inspired its will to aid others in face of today's coronavirus epidemic.

Kraków doctors travel to Madagascar on medical aid mission

Seven doctors from the southern Polish city of Kraków will leave for Madagascar on October 20, where they will help patients at a hospital in the second biggest city, Antsirabe. They will take with them PLN 17,000's worth (EUR 3,900) of medical equipment.

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‘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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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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