Polish police arrested five people suspected of being responsible for running a web platform that has been used to launch cyberattacks around the world, European policing agency Europol said on Friday (August 11).

Nearly 14,000 people had to be evacuated on Friday as sappers extracted and secured a WWII-era bomb in the eastern city of Lublin. The unexploded ordnance had been found by a construction worker during ground work.

The Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk commented on the first question of the national referendum planned by the ruling PiS party. Tusk used a photograph of a laughing CEO of Poland's oil giant Orlen - Daniel Obajtek.

Poles will vote on whether they support the privatisation of state companies, Poland's ruling party leader Jarosław Kaczyński said on Friday (August 11), as he announced the first question in a number of referendums likely to be held on the same day as parliamentary elections.

Iga Świątek overcame a lengthy rain delay and a stern test from Karolina Muchova to seal a 6-1 4-6 6-4 victory at the Canadian Open that will assure the Pole retains her number one ranking when the U.S. Open warm-up event concludes.

In an interview for "The Washington Post", Poland's President Andrzej Duda said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is dreaming of restoring the Russian Empire. He stressed that Russia must be stopped now in Ukraine "so that it does not come to pass, as it did in World War I and World War II, that American soldiers have to shed their blood and to lose their lives in Europe to restore peace and liberty to the world". Duda also said he would push the White House to make sure Ukraine gets invited to NATO during next year's summit in Washington.

Ukraine's top diplomat said on Thursday (August 10) he is confident his country's dispute with Poland over grain can be resolved and told Polish farmers that their common enemy was Russian President Putin.

A Polish Army helicopter crew have reported that the fuse in one of the missiles is missing - the General Command of Polish Armed Forces informed on Thursday (August 10). The military authorities reassured the fuse has in-built safety features and does not pose danger to anyone. "This doesn't happen too often, because it's not that simple. It's not that such fuses are attached, they are screwed in," Polish Navy Reserve Commander Maksymilian Dura told TVN24. He added that "saying that it isn't dangerous is quite strange, because the role of this fuse, the role of this triggering element is precisely to be dangerous".

Poland is planning to move up to 10,000 additional troops to the border with Belarus to support the Border Guard, Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said on Thursday (August 10). The minister also told public radio that Poland would accept Germany's offer to keep by the end of the year the three German Patriot units stationed at its eastern border .

World number one Iga Świątek overcame an early test before running away with a 7-6(6) 6-2 victory over Czech Karolina Pliskova in Montreal on Wednesday (August 9) to reach the third round of the Canadian Open.

We are ready to provide support to Slovenia. Polish military engineers can build a pontoon bridge in a location pointed by the Slovenian authorities. A reconnaissance group is already under way - Poland's MOD chief Mariusz Błaszczak said on Wednesday (August 9). The EU will make at least 400 million euros available to Slovenia after devastating floods there killed at least six people and affected tens of thousands of households, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Hundreds of opponents of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko marched through the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of their unsuccessful attempt to unseat him in an election they say was rigged.

A Polish astronaut will take part in a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) - Poland's Minister of Economic Development and Technology Waldemar Buda announced on Wednesday (August 9). Later on, Buda said on the X social media platform that Poland will put forward Sławosz Uznański as candidate for the mission. The first-ever, and so far the only one, Polish astronaut in space was Mirosław Hermaszewski.

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday (August 9) published a joint statement by the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish foreign ministers marking the third anniversary of illegitimate presidential elections in Belarus.

Poland will send 2,000 troops to its frontier with Belarus, the deputy interior minister told state-run news agency PAP on Wednesday (August 9), twice the number requested by the Border Guard, to stem illegal crossings and maintain stability. Germany has offered to extend the deployment of three Patriot air defence units in Poland until the end of 2023, the defence ministry in Berlin said on Tuesday. Polish MOD confirmed on Wednesday it has received the German offer.

Poland's health minister has been dismissed, the prime minister said on Tuesday (August 8), after he provoked outrage by revealing details of a prescription a doctor who appeared in a TV news report critical of the health ministry had written for himself.

Poland will hold a parliamentary election on Oct. 15, the president said on Tuesday, a vote that will determine Warsaw's relations with the European Union at a time when it faces rising tensions on its eastern border.

President Andrzej Duda has asked the PKW (the National Electoral Commission) to issue its opinion regarding October 15 as the proposed date of parliamentary election - the TVN24 reporter Agata Adamek has unofficially learned. The PKW chairman Sylwester Marciniak told the Polish Press Agency the PKW has sent its opinion regarding the election date to the Chancellery of the President. However, he did not reveal the proposed date.

Poland's defence ministry has agreed to send additional troops to the border with Belarus following a request from the Border Guard service, state-run news agency PAP reported on Tuesday.

Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Tuesday that it had restored the Druzhba oil pipeline to full functionality as expected, after a leak had been discovered.

Doctor Piotr Pisula, whose personal information was published on social media by Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, informed he has filed a pre-trial call addressed to the minister urging him to issue an apology and donate 100,000 zlotys to Palium Hospice in Poznań. Minister Niedzielski rejected the accusation and reassured that no laws had been broken by him.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian sprinter who defected at the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, has been cleared by World Athletics to compete for Poland after it waived the normal three-year waiting period for nationality changes.

Polish families will receive a 60% increase in child benefit payments from next January, under a policy the ruling nationalists hope will help win them a third term in office in a national election due this autumn. "The greatest support for development in the future is the family," President Andrzej Duda said after he signed the bill increasing the benefit into law.

Poland's Border Guard has asked the defence ministry to send another 1,000 troops to the border with Belarus, the deputy interior minister said on Monday, amid an increase in attempts to illegally cross the frontier.

The Command of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed on Monday (August 7) the commander of this formation Lieutenant General Serhiy Naiev met with Operational Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Lieutenant General Tomasz Piotrowski. According to Ukrinform, the two generals discussed Wagner Group presence in Belarus and the use of various types of foreign weapons.

Exiled opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko met in Poland on Sunday, on the eve of the third anniversary of their unsuccessful post-election protests, to display unity and plan strategy including the issuance of "New Belarus" passports. The Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus, and the Coordination Council held a conference in Warsaw, while the Belarusian diaspora and Belarusian minority in Poland organized a march in Białystok.

Poland's Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak spoke over the phone on Friday (August 4) with U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III. According to Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Austin underscored U.S. support for Poland's response to the violation of Polish airspace by Belarusian helicopters. "Our commitments and obligations as members of the Alliance are clear – we jointly take care of our security. We are Allies," Błaszczak said on Twitter.

The European Commission announced in a statement on Friday (August 4) it has approved Polish scheme to support companies in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years added to his jail term on Friday in a criminal case that he and his supporters said had been trumped up to keep him behind bars and out of politics for even longer. Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday (August 4) that it "strongly condemns the verdict against the Russian oppositionist".

Poland's former foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz said that, in the context of Polish-Ukrainian relations, Poland pursues "a policy of hyenas and jackals". His comment has met with a response from his predecessor in office, current PiS MEP Witold Waszczykowski. "And this guy replaced me! Was it worth it?" - Waszczykowski said on Twitter. In an interview with TVN24, he argued that Poland has its interest and it should pursue it. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau issued a statement regarding Czaputowicz's words.