"I have made it clear what I consider the red lines for any amendments to the bills on the National Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court. I have said that I would not permit a return to the solutions I rejected in July," President Andrzej Duda said during his visit in Vietnam. During a press conference, he commented on amendments introduced by Law and Justice (PiS) to his bills on the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) and the Supreme Court (SN).

Poland has repeatedly breached a European Union court ruling banning logging in the Bialowieza forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site, environmentalists said on Tuesday.

The president of the European Parliament said on Monday he would ask Poland's prime minister to ensure the security of Polish members of the assembly after a far-right protest staged a symbolic hanging of the politicians.

I will watch how these amendments are made. There are two my representatives in the Sejm - the President Andrzej Duda said on Suday in TVN24's "Kawa na Ławę", commenting on his proposed bills on the National Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court, which from his office were sent to the Sejm last week. "I think my proposals are not in breach of the Constitution and that they are very good solutions" - said the President.

Polish lawmakers approved legislation on Friday to gradually force all but the smallest shops to close on most Sundays from March 2018 in a move backed by the powerful Catholic church.

Poland's ruling party lawmakers gave preliminary approval on Friday to two bills allowing parliament and the president to replace top judges, plans the opposition and the European Commission denounced as a threat to the rule of law.

A bill sponsored by Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party will undermine the fairness of elections, opposition deputies said in parliament on Thursday.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Poland's plans to overhaul the judiciary remained a cause for concern though there were a decreasing number of subjects where the two countries did not see eye-to-eye.

Success-starved Poland will be banking on the goals of top striker Robert Lewandowski to make up for lost time when they make their first World Cup appearance in 12 years.

Plans to overhaul Poland's judiciary would end the country's status as a democratic state based on the rule of law and should be scrapped, more than two dozen rights groups and non-governmental organisations said in a petition on Wednesday.

“Creating divisions in the European Union will weaken it,” President Andrzej Duda said in Athens. In his view, involving national parliaments in the debate on the future of the EU is a solution worth considering.

The European Union's top court said on Monday Poland would be fined 100,000 euros a day if it did not stop large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

“A single tweet with complete diagnosis,” the president of the Nowoczesna caucus Katarzyna Lubnauer told TVN24's Fakty po Faktach, commenting on a tweet by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk. “He came to the conclusion that this is the moment to speak courageously about what's happening,” she added.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday he was alarmed by the similarity of policies pursued by Poland's right-wing government to what he described as "Kremlin's plan".

Ukraine has summoned the Polish ambassador in Kiev after Poland denied entry to a Ukrainian official in an escalation of a diplomatic spat over the two neighbours' troubled past.

The U.S. State Department approved a possible $10.5 billion sale of Raytheon Co's Patriot missile defense system to Poland, the Pentagon said on Friday.

South Africa's Justice Minister Michael Masutha on Friday denied parole to the killer of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, saying he had not expressed remorse for the murder.

Stanisław Piotrowicz, a man that has become one of the faces of Law and Justice’s judicial revolution played a more important role in the communist judiciary than he admits, as claimed by those who worked with him back then. They talk about his career in the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) and at the prosecutor’s office. This career, contrary to what Piotrowicz himself declares, did not end at the time of martial law, about the introduction of which, by the way, he had no objections back then. Material of the “Czarno na białym” show.

A deeply moving exhibition of archives documenting the life and annihilation of Jews by Nazi Germany in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two goes on public display in Poland on Thursday.

The European Commission on Wednesday voiced fresh concerns over Poland's plans to reform its courts and EU lawmakers accused Warsaw of promoting intolerance, reflecting deep fears for the rule of law in the country.