Sappers have secured an unexploded artillery shell found by a group of children in Bełżec (Lublin Voivodeship). Unaware of the danger, the kids carried it in front of the block where they live. Most likely, the unexploded ordnance comes from the WWII era.

Fourteen perioperative nurses from the National Oncology Institute (NIO) remain on sick leaves. Eleven of their colleagues who still come to work have been assigned to emergency surgeries and those most urgent planned ones. "We are forced to call off 20 surgeries a day and the patients will have to wait at least until next week," says NIO spokesperson Mariusz Gierej. Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Tuesday said the ministry was monitoring the situation and the NIO director was working on new rules of renumeration for employees.

Iga Świątek was given a mighty scare by little-known Jule Niemeier on Monday before the Polish top seed finally handed the 108th-ranked German a 2-6 6-4 6-0 reality check in the fourth round of the U.S. Open.

Poland's National Media Council on Monday dismissed Jacek Kurski as head of Polish public television TVP and replaced him with Mateusz Matyszkowicz. "I confirm that due to a decision of my political environment, in agreement with me, I have ceased to TVP Chairman," Kurski said on Twitter.

Poland will order 48 more AHS Krab self-propelled howitzers and 36 accompanying vehicles from local arms producer Huta Stalowa Wola for 3.8 billion zlotys ($797 million), National Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said on Monday.

Problems with global energy sector were the main topic of Sunday's telephone talks between Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and United States Vice President Kamala Harris - Polish PM's office and Morawiecki himself informed. "The Vice President recognized Poland’s generosity and leadership in hosting millions of Ukrainian refugees and providing critical humanitarian assistance," the White House said in a statement at its website.

A very peculiar passenger entered a Warsaw city bus line 116 on Thursday (September 1), but shortly after was "asked" to leave, as it was - literally - a black sheep. The animal and its owner boarded the bus at Krakowskie Przedmieście, but managed to travel only to the next stop.

Entrepreneurs in Poland are forced to close down their businesses due to spike in consumer prices and increasing costs of utilities. "Prices are soaring and no wonder people have no money to eat in a restaurant. Unfortunately, Polish restaurant owners are additionally burdened with the costs of energy, electricity, gas and food products we use to prepare dishes for our guests," says Grzegorz, who is shutting down his place in Wrocław. The cost of running his restaurant has increased by 18,500 zlotys within a month last year.

World number one Iga Świątek chipped away at American Sloane Stephens' defensive play to roll into the third round of the U.S. Open 6-3 6-2 on Thursday on her Arthur Ashe Stadium debut.

Poland estimates its World War Two losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion), the leader of the country's ruling nationalists said on Thursday, and he said Warsaw would officially demand reparations.

Inflation in August, 2022, was 16.1% in a year on year comparison - Poland's statistical office Statistics Poland informed on Wednesday (August 31). Experts expected consumer prices increase at 15.4% year on year.

U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski recorded a video on the Day of Solidarity and Freedom, celebrated in Poland on August 31 to commemorate the anniversary of the August Agreements. "In this dangerous moment for Europe and the world, we need solidarity. Solidarity which you - the Poles - know and understand so well," the ambassador said in his address to the Poles.

Poland celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the signing of the so-called August Agreements which led to the establishment of Solidarity - the first trade union in communist states of the Eastern Bloc. One of the central figures of those events - Poland's former president Lech Wałęsa - announced he would not take part in this year's commemorations due to health problems.

Iga Świątek crushed Italy's Jasmine Paolini 6-3 6-0 on Tuesday to set up a highly-anticipated second-round showdown with 2017 champion Sloane Stephens at the U.S. Open.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday rebuffed a call by Poland for the EU to temporarily suspend its emissions trading system (ETS) to help rein in high power prices. Eight European Union countries bordering the Baltic Sea - including Poland - have agreed to increase offshore wind power generation capacity sevenfold by 2030.

Athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who defected from Belarus during the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, has said in an Instagram post that she had been awarded Polish citizenship.

The government has adopted a draft budget for 2023 - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a press conference after Tuesday's session of the Council of Ministers. "This an ambitious budget for difficult times," Morawiecki added.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Paris on Monday (August 29) to discuss developments in the Ukraine crisis. Morawiecki also took part in a meeting with MEDEF - the leading network of entrepreneurs in France.

A monument commemorating 12,000 Jews killed during WWII has been unveiled in Poland's southern city of Nowy Sącz (Lesser Poland Voivodeship). The monument is located at the newly created Shoah Victims Memorial Square.

Journalist and a Union of Poles in Belarus activist Andrzej Poczobut said in a letter he wrote in prison he was waiting for a court ruling and expecting to be sent to a penal colony. The letter was published on Monday by Viasna Human Rights Centre, on Telegram Messenger banned by Belarusian regime ran by president Alexander Lukashenko.

European judges' associations challenged in European Union's General Court a decision to approve Poland's recovery and resilience plan, they said in a statement on Sunday.

Robert Lewandowski scored his second consecutive brace as Barcelona breezed past Real Valladolid with a comfortable 4-0 LaLiga victory on Sunday.

"We are ready for any eventuality and we hope nothing happens –

The oldest Polish woman - Wanda Szajowska - died at home in Kraków on Friday at the age of 111, her friend Maciej Krzyżanowski told Polish Press Agency (PAP). Szajowska was probably the oldest female pianist in the world.

Polish chemical firm Grupa Azoty's ATTP.WA  Pulawy ZAPP.WA unit is producing carbon dioxide at less than a third of nominal capacity as high natural gas prices hit profitability, a group spokesperson told Reuters on Friday.

A new gas pipeline between Poland and Slovakia officially commissioned on Friday will boost energy security in Europe, the prime ministers of Poland and Slovakia said.

Poland striker Arkadiusz Milik has joined Juventus on a one-year loan from Ligue 1 side Olympique Marseille, the Serie A club said on Friday.

The war in Ukraine has been going on for six months now. "As a society, we've got exhausted by helping, but it's no surprise as we've been helping in an extreme situation for half a year and helping in a very intensive way," spokesperson for Polish Humanitarian Action Helena Krajewska told TVN24 on Thursday (August 25). "There's still plenty of tasks to complete," she stressed, adding that winter would be the biggest upcoming problem.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday he would visit Paris on Monday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, defence cooperation and energy issues with French President Emmanuel Macron.