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Polish FM denies complicity in cash-for-visas affair

Rau said Polish prosecutors were looking into irregularities concerning the issuance of about 200 documents, which he compared to the 2 million visas Poland had issued over the last 30 months, of which more than 1.5 million were granted to Ukrainians and Belarusians. Marian Zubrzycki/PAP

Zbigniew Rau, Poland's foreign minister, has said he does not feel complicit in a cash-for-visas affair gripping the government, saying it is not a scandal and that he is not considering resigning over the matter.

Police discover body of a third newborn in Kaszuby murder case

A 20-year-old woman has been charged with murder after the discovery of the bodies of three new-born children in the basement of a house in the northern village of Czerniki.

Seven people charged in visa issuing scandal

Polish prosecutors have brought charges against seven people in a visa issuance scandal that cost a deputy foreign minister his job.

Poland wants to participate in probe launched into rape of Pole says PM

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said that Poland will ask Germany to immediately allow Polish prosecutors to take part in an inquiry into the rape of a young male Pole in Munich.

Today’s news round-up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Deaths of Polish mother, son on Baltic ferry probed as murder case

The case involving a Polish mother and her son, who died after falling overboard from a ferry in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, is now being classified as a murder probe.

Today’s news round-up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Today’s news round-up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
Culture | History

‘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.

The first report:

  • Polish farmers cannot pay for Russia's war says PM
  • Court bans justice minister from commenting on Agnieszka Holland
  • EC approves Orlen takeover of Turmol fuel station chain in Austria
  • Polish authorities have 'lost control' of relations with Ukraine says Tusk
  • Poland's EU cohesion funds stalled until conditions met says commissioner

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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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