"Poland supports Ukraine every day. We believe it's not only in Ukraine's interest to defend itself and keep its sovereignty, but it's also in our interest - of Poland and the whole free world," Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Friday at a Bucharest Nine summit held in the capital city of Romania.

Tekla Juniewicz celebrates her 116th birthday on Friday (June 10). She was born in Austro-Hungary in 1906, eight years before the outbreak of the First World War. That same year the construction of the Panama Canal was underway, the first plane flight was carried out in Europe, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie gave her first lecture at the Sorbonne. Currently, Tekla Juniewicz is the oldest living woman in Poland and the second living person in the world.

French Open champion Iga Świątek will skip next week's Berlin Open WTA 500 tournament due to a shoulder issue, but the world number one said on Friday that she hopes to be fully fit for Wimbledon starting later this month.

NATO forces conducted live-fire air defence exercises in Poland on Thursday (June 9) to test their readiness to respond to aircraft, drone and missile attacks.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday (June 10) that Poland has confirmed the country's first case of monkeypox.

In Thursday's vote, Poland's lower house of parliament rejected 23 out of 29 amendments to the bill on the Supreme Court, suggested by the upper house. Among the rejected provisions are all key amendments regarding revoking of rulings issued by the contested Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court. The bill will now be sent over to the president, who may either sign it into law, refuse to sign it, or aks the Constitutional Tribunal to issue an opinion.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution in a vote on Thursday (June 9) expressing concern with the fact that the EU Commission had approved Poland's National Recovery Plan on June 1. Among the main reasons for said concern, the MEPs mentioned "existing and continued breaches of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary" in Poland.

Poland's Monetary Policy Council has raised the main reference interest rate by 75 basis points again in order to mitigate the effects of galloping inflation. The reference rate will therefore increase from 5.25% to 6%, a level previously recorded in 2008.

A 35-year-old miner died in an accident in the Bogdanka coal mine in eastern Poland early on Wednesday, a police spokesperson said. A prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into the deadly accident.

Poland was ranked 22nd out of 27 European Union member states in the European Sovereignty Index, released on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations and Stiftung Mercator. "With the lowest overall scores of the EU’s five largest members, Poland performs especially poorly in technology, climate, migration, and health," the experts said in the report.

A refugee from Ukraine arrived in Warsaw together with her sister, but already after a few hours in the city she got lost. City Guard officers found her in the middle of the night in Bielany district. It turned out the woman suffered from dysmnesia.

The National Day of Silesian Uprisings has been added to the calendar of Polish public holidays. President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed a bill in that regard into law. The holiday is to be celebrated on June 20. As the Chancellery of the President informed earlier, it will not be a bank holiday.

A debate on Poland's National Recovery Plan was held in the European Parliament on Tuesday (June 7). In her speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that approval of the plan was "linked in particular to clear commitments by Poland on the independence of the judiciary". "Let me reassure you that no money will be disbursed, until these reforms are undertaken," EU executive chief added.

Three days after winning Roland Garros for the second time in her career, WTA leader Iga Świątek on Tuesday met with reporters in Polish city of Lublin.

A Polish court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from the country's Human Rights Ombudsman against oil company PKN Orlen's takeover of newspaper publisher Polska Press, the court said, confirming an earlier report by state-run news agency PAP.

"What we are doing together today will have very important consequences for the future generations. Never before have we had such a unique possibility to build Polish-American brotherhood," U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski said on Tuesday at a press conference in the Port of Gdynia. American destroyer USS Gravely has docked in this northern Polish city.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski signed an ordinance on Friday expanding the catalogue of information collected by medical personnel regarding patients by allergies, blood type and pregnancy among other things. The said change has been raising controversy for some time now, with the opposition and some NGOs sounding the alarm in fear that the government's aim is to introduce a "pregnancy register". "We're not creating any registers, but only extending the system of reporting based on European Commission recommendations. Only medics will have access to the data," Health Ministry spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz assured. Civic Platform chairman Donald Tusk stressed on Monday that "Polish women need care, not control".

The Maritime Office in Gdynia informed that the works aimed to renourish the beach in the Orłowo district have begun. The beach was destroyed by sea storms in winter this year. The cost of sand replenishment has been estimated at approximately 4.5 million zlotys.

A house in which Maria Skłodowska-Curie used to spend summers with her husband Pierre Curie has been purchased by Kulczyk Foundation. Built in the late 19th century, the house that once belonged to the Polish double Nobel Prize laureate, which has 120 square metres and is surrounded by a garden, has been placed on the French heritage sites list. Once the building has been renovated, it will host the House of Sisterhood, a place where exceptional women from across Europe will be meeting and working together.

Iga Świątek said she felt lucky when she won her first French Open title in 2020 but the world number one credits hard work for her second Grand Slam title on the Parisian clay.

A resident of the Mościce district in the city of Tarnów (Lesser Poland Voivodeship) called the police after his 9-year-old son had brought an object resembling a missile. It later turned out that it was indeed an unexploded ordnance from the WWII period.

Since the beginning of war in Ukraine, Polish Border Guard cleared nearly 3.8 million people entering the country from Ukraine. Approximately 22,500 people entered Poland from Ukraine on Thursday alone, the Border Guard said on Friday. Poland was the European Union country that in March granted temporary protection to the highest number of Ukrainians fleeing war, while other countries have since increased how many people they are sheltering, EU data showed on Friday.

Iga Świątek is one step away from a second French Open title in three years but the world number one will face a unique challenge on Saturday in teenager Coco Gauff in a tournament that often proved unpredictable.

A hedgehog was only centimetres from certain death under car wheels but, thanks to a quick reaction by one of the drivers, the animal survived. Shortly after, a woman picked the hedgehog up and took him to a safe spot. The rescue mission was backed up by a car hauler driver. The whole incident, that took place in Warsaw's Gocław neighbourhood, was captured on dashcam video.

"Please wish every other party such good cooperation between its leaders like we have," Poland's former prime minister Donald Tusk told TVN24. He was referring to his relations with his party colleague and Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. In Tusk's opinion, Trzaskowski should become Poland's new president.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude to Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, who are the only diplomats who haven't left Kiev for 99 days of Russian invasion into Ukraine.

More work needs to be done on the rule of law in Poland, the European Commission president said on Thursday (June 2) during a visit to Warsaw after Brussels approved billions of euros in COVID-19 economic recovery funds for the country.

Iga Świątek continued her march towards a second French Open title in three years when she demolished Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-2 6-1 to reach the final and extend her winning streak to a jaw-dropping 34 on Thursday.