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Extraordinary moment polar bear is filmed swimming after adult reindeer, before dragging it ashore and devouring it during two hour feast

The remarkable video which is being hailed as the world’s first sighting of a polar bear hunting a reindeer, was captured by Polish scientists at the Polish Polar Base in Norway. Dorota Kidawa

VIDEO: The remarkable video which is being hailed as the world’s first sighting of a polar bear hunting a reindeer, was captured by Polish scientists at the Polish Polar Base in Norway. The scientists say reindeers could be becoming a staple diet for the bears as a result of climate change.

Goodbye to all that: travel highlights from the year just gone

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Webber unravels incredible story of a Bolshevik-fighting polar bear adopted by Polish battalion

​Whilst strolling around an old fort in Modlin, Webber encounters the little-known story of a Baśka Murmańska, a polar bear adopted by a Polish battalion that had been fighting the Bolsheviks in Northern Russia.​

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Poland sparks Russian anger as it begins changing Kaliningrad road signs to Królewiec

Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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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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