At a press briefing on Tuesday, spokesman for Poland's special services minister-coordinator, Stanisław Żaryn, informed that a Belarusian Deputy Chairman of the State Border Committee General Major Roman Podlinev was identified among the people who stormed Polish border on November 16. "He looked like a person sent there to carry out some sort of supervisory, control mission," Żaryn added.

Hundreds of dinosaur footprints, so well-preserved that even the scaly skin can be seen, have been found in Poland, giving an insight into a complex ecosystem around 200 million years ago, geologists said.

Five members the Left parliamentary club have decided to leave the alliance and launch a Polish Socialist Party parliamentary circle. The group includes Deputy Speaker of the Senate Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka, senator Wojciech Konieczny, as well as MPs Joanna Senyszyn, Robert Kwiatkowski and Andrzej Rozenek.

A Polish woman has tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in China, Poland's health ministry said on Tuesday, after Chinese media reported that the first case on the country's mainland had been detected in a Pole.

In recent weeks, the media reported on former business of current Deputy Minister of Sport and Tourism Łukasz Mejza, which is thought to have been offering expensive and scientifically unapproved therapies to people with incurable diseases. Mejza denies the news, and has just gone on vacation. According to the latest poll by Kantar for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24, 68% of those asked think Mejza should be dismissed from his office.

The Czech Republic will hold off on sending up to 150 soldiers for now to help Poland protect its border with Belarus after the migrant situation stabilised, the Czech defence minister said on Monday.

The United Right coalition still enjoys the highest voter support, but opposition parties grow stronger, according to the latest poll by Kantar conducted for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24. If the election were held soon, the ruling party would win 31% of votes, and a total of six parties would win seats in the parliament.

During the weekend of miracles, or the 2021 finale of the Noble Gift charity, more than 17,000 families have received material support. "We see tears and emotion when people receive their packages," a volunteer says.

Volunteers from Families Without Borders group from Poland's Tricity are preparing Christman gifts for children placed in a centre for foreigners near Grudziądz. Although gifts are still coming in, there's already plenty of boxes ready, filled with toys, books, wireless earphones, and many other things which may bring some joy and prove useful to the kids.

Firefighters from Rzeczyca (Lubelskie Voivodeship) were called to a very unsual task. They had to remove a tree which fell on a house. However, it wasn't the wind which caused the willow to fall, but... beavers.

Poland's foreign minister on Friday reiterated Poland's opposition to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and its expectations for reparations for World War Two, as Germany's new head of diplomacy visited Warsaw for the first time.

An inspection at Bielański Hospital in Warsaw is to take place in December. Voivedeship obstetrics and gynaecology consultant has asked the facility to provide its register of preganacy terminations, rejected abortion requests, and stillbirths. Health Ministry says the it's "a standard, routine control, not related to any particular medical case".

By filing an official indictment against Stefan W. at the court- the killer of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz - Gdańsk District Prosecutor's Office has ended a lenghty investigation into the tragedy. The mayor was brutally slain during a public event in January, 2019.

At December's meeting Poland's Monetary Policy Council (RPP) has decided to increase interest rates for the third time in a row. Inflation in Poland has reached the highest levels in 20 years. Poland's central bank chief Adam Glapiński said at a press conference on Thursday that the last increase of interest rates was "very significant", but added there was "still room for further increases".

At Podzamcze residential estate in Wałbrzych (Lower Silesian Voivodeship), a hunter was shooting wild boar in the middle of the day, without prior notice and no safety measures. According to local residents, children could see animals dying in pain. The hunter was hired by the city, but the authorities stress that he "should have taken completely different measures", and promised to inspect its own prodecures. Wałbrzych Mayor has notified the prosecutor's office about the incident.

Britain will send 140 military engineers to Poland this month to provide support at its border with Belarus, the Ministry of Defence said, in response to what it termed pressures from "irregular migration".

Poland's prime minister said on Thursday he would call on Germany's newly appointed Chancellor Olaf Scholz to oppose the start-up of Nord Stream 2, as Warsaw seeks to stop the gas pipeline it says will be used against Europe by Russia.

A letter in a bottle from 40 years back has been found during demolition of old facilities at Karaś Reservoir in Lubsko, (Lubuskie Voivodeship). A sheet of paper with a few sentences was hidden by members of the crew which constructed the object in 1980s.

Polish police have detained a Ukrainian driver who carried nine Iraqi citizens in his car. He was caught after a police chase in Treszczotki village (Podlaskie Voivodeship).

Polish Air Force F-16s intercepted a Russian IL-20 reconeissance plane - NATO Air Command informed. The fighter jets, currently deployed to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania on enhanced Air Policing, launched their first Alpha Scramble above the Baltic Sea.

The Czech government on Wednesday approved the deployment of up to 150 soldiers to help Poland stop the flow of migrants seeking entry from Belarus, a crisis the European Union has accused Minsk of engineering.

During his visit to the Silesia region, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was asked if his wife would disclose her assets. The question, which the government chief decided to ignore, comes after TVN24 and tvn24.pl have revealed the history of land purchased in 2002. The Left alliance demanded Iwona Morawiecka's assets be made publically known.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Sport Minister Łukasz Mejza commented on the latest revelations regarding his person. "In recent days, we have been dealing with the biggest political attack after '89," he said.

In a letter to Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has asked how Poland intends to ensure the effective implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled on November 24 that Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Convention, in some instances, was not compatible with the Polish Constitution.

NATO is prepared to reinforce its eastern flank, should Russia take action in Ukraine - said U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Julianne Smith in an interview for TVN24 correspondent in Brussels Maciej Sokołowski. She added that "Vladimir Putin does not have a veto over future rounds of enlargement" of the NATO. Ambassador Smith also touched upon Joe Biden's talks with the Russian president, as well as the situation on Poland's border with Belarus.

Business owners from Kuźnica municipality (Podlaskie Voivodeship) ask the state for support. In September, due to the migrant crisis at the Belarus border, a state of emergency was introduced in the area, which lasted for two months. Recently, a ban on entering the area has been imposed by the government. "We want someone to hear us, as we're in a very difficult situation. Our businesses grinded to a halt, we have no source of income," they alarm.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced at a press conference on Tuesday that members of three professions - medics, teachers, and all uniformed services - will have a duty to get vaccinated starting March 1.

Fewer migrants are trying to cross the frontier between Poland and Belarus, but the Polish Border Guard told journalists visiting the previously off-limits border zone on Monday that it still faces provocations from Belarusian forces.

Polish prime minister's wife, Iwona Morawiecka, has earned over 14 million zlotys on selling famous plots of land in Wrocław, which she had bought with her husband in 2002 for 700,000 zlotys - according to a notarial act seen by TVN24 and tvn24.pl. Morawiecka promised two years ago that if the city wanted to construct a road on this plot, she would sell the needed part for a price specified in the deed, taking inflation into account, and donate the received sum to charity. The property was bought for 14.9 million zlotys by a company established 10 months prior to the transaction.