Europe Poland Women's rights activists used red paint to protest against a government plan to register every pregnancy in a national database while parliament debates a new proposal to further restrict abortion
Europe Poland Fearing an anti-Semitic backlash, some local Jews have joined with residents and environmental activists to reject the municipality's plans to build a memorial museum next to the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp
Europe Poland The Arctowski research station on King George Island, dubbed "informal embassy in Antarctica", is being renovated to continue scientific research; founded in 1977, sea waters have intruded up to a meter from main building
Europe Poland The European Union's Court of Justice has ruled that the country will have to pay a fine of €1 million per day until it agrees to change its judicial reform, in particular by blocking the operation of the Supreme Court's disciplinary chamber
Europe Poland Nine out of ten Polish teenagers feel happy at home, in both urban and rural areas, according to a new survey commissioned by the Children's Ombudsman
Europe Poland Polish expert Jacek Bartosiak, founder of the think tank Strategy and Future, has joined forces with Hungarian-born US geopolitical forecaster George Friedman to write a book on geopolitics in space
Europe Poland The 18th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition - the most important musical event in the country - starts today at the Warsaw Philharmonic with the selections of the 164 qualified pianists postponed for the pandemic
Europe Poland In his speech at the UN High Level Dialogue on Energy, President Duda said the country will double its current renewable energy production by 2030
Europe Poland Public broadcaster Polish Radio has launched a special interactive website, "Lem Galaxy", to honor of the science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, born a century ago
Europe Poland A new treasure of 13 silver denier coins minted in the 9th century during the Carolingian Empire has been unearthed by archaeologists near the village of Biskupiec Pomorski in the north east
Europe Poland A fence will be built after an influx of migrants on the border with Belarus, whose authorities have been accused of driving dozens of migrants into Polish territory
Europe Poland A new media law has been passed: it is seen by opponents as an attempt to silence a television channel critical of the government, which instead calls it necessary to stop hostile foreign powers taking control of its stations
Europe Poland Volunteers from all over the country gathered in Zakopane, the country's most popular mountain resort, to clean up its surroundings as part of the annual 'Clean Tatra Mountains' initiative