Five nuns lost the trail in a nature reserve in Susiec municipality (Lubelskie province). When they realised that they won't be able to find the way back, they called the police.

The European Union will tighten visa rules for Belarusian state officials, Europe's migration commissioner said on Wednesday, in retaliation for what she called Minsk's aggressive effort to destabilise the bloc by pushing in irregular migrants. Poland's Ambassador to the EU Andrzej Sadoś told members states on Wednesday that pressure caused by illegal migration wasn't expected to drop, but rather keep on mounting. Furthermore, he said that Belarusian drones were violating Poland's airspace to track movement of Polish Border Guards.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday said he will ask parliament to extend the state of emergency along Poland's border with Belarus for another 60 days, citing an ongoing influx of migrants.

A porcupine was talking regular walks through the streets of Bielsk Podlaski. It was finally caught in the basement of a parish. When animal welfare volunteers were about to take the porcupine with them, it felt threatened and started to shoot its quills at them. One of the women was wounded in the leg.

The Polish government will ask the president to extend a state of emergency on the Belarus border by 60 days, a spokesman said on Tuesday, due to a surge in migration that Warsaw blames on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

The Czech Republic and Poland have made more progress towards solving a dispute over one of Poland's largest lignite mines, Czech Environment Minister Richard Brabec said on Monday.

A man was talking a walk in a forest in Załęcze (Dolnośląskie province) when he saw a snake. He immediately notified proper authorities about this unusual encounter. It turned out that he met a boa constrictor.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Monday the country saw a developing trend in COVID infections, while countries of Western Europe had the peak of the fourth wave already behind them. According to the minister, Poland could reach a level of 1,000 daily infections by the end of September. "We've also assumed that there would be approx. 5,000 daily cases by the end of October," Niedzielski added.

Three Polish regional councils voted on Monday to repeal motions declaring their provinces "LGBT-free zones," state-run news agency PAP reported, after the European Union threatened to withdraw funding.

A court in Szczecin has sentenced the prime suspect in a murder and cannibalism case for 25 years in prison. The judge found Robert M. guilty of masterminding a murder of an unknown man nearly 20 years ago. Three other men were also accused of eating part of the victim's body, but the court had discontinued the inquiry due to a statute of limitations.

Poland's interior minister said on Monday he will recommend extending the state of emergency on the Belarus border by 60 days, after Warsaw said many of those crossing the border posed a threat to national security.

The first successful lung transplantation in Ukraine has been carried out by doctors who studied at the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze. During the operation they were assisted by fellow-surgeons from Poland.

Researchers from the Museum of Polish Children - Victims of Totalitarianism in Łódź have discovered shocking letters written by children - prisoners of a concentration camp inside the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. The museum director Ireneusz Maj said at a press conference on Friday that "it is an exceptional finding, because only 11 such letters from this camp have been found".

Young people in Warsaw and 20 other major Polish cities take part in the Youth Strike for Climate on Friday. They warn against climate change consequences and demand "just energy transition". Similar demonstrations are held in other countries as well.

The EU executive expressed concern on Friday over the plight of migrants stuck on the Polish-Belarusian border and urged Warsaw to allow the bloc's joint frontier force Frontex to provide assistance in policing the area.

An Iraqi migrant died after crossing into Poland from Belarus, Polish officials said on Friday, the fifth such death in the border area in the past week amid a surge in illegal migration across the European Union's eastern frontier.

Chairman of the Accord party Jarosław Gowin has declared readiness to join talks on changes in the constitution, proposed by Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk. "We propose concrete provision, which have been drafted already 10 years ago. I will address party leaders, so we could begin a cross-party work on this project," he announced.

The European Union's executive said on Thursday that risks to media freedom in Poland persisted despite a decision by the Polish regulator to extend a broadcasting licence for TVN24, a U.S. Discovery-owned news channel critical of Warsaw.

An intervention hostel for LGBT+ people has been opened in Warsaw, city's Deputy Mayor Aldona Machnowska-Góra informed. For the next three years it will be managed by Lambda Warszawa Association. A special hotline for people in need of help from the hostel has also been launched.

A pregnant woman in Kozienice didn't make it on time to the hospital. She started to give birth in a car parked in front of the facility. A police officer patrolling the area helped her to deliver.

Poland's broadcasting regulator on Wednesday extended an operating licence for the popular U.S.-owned, anti-government news channel TVN24, but questioned if it had the right to continue operating, asking the government for legal clarity.

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on Wednesday adjourned its sitting on whether the country's constitution or European Union treaties take precedence. An EU commissioner said earlier the challenge was holding up the release of EU funds to Warsaw.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have called for an immediate access to migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border, in order to provide them with medical assistance, food, water and shelter. The organisations stressed that "asylum-seekers and migrants should never be used by States to achieve political ends".

A 51-year-old resident of Lublin was released from police detention on Saturday evening. Earlier on he has been charged with stealing two sculptures - a dwarf and a lizard - from the Old Town in Zamość (Lublin province). The latter stood on a window sill next to another lizard figurine. The first one didn't even return to its place, when the other went missing. It was found on Sunday on the 51-year-old.

The Ministry of Health informed on Wednesday about 882 new coronavirus cases and the death of 20 COVID patients. Since the start of the pandemic, Poland has reported 2,899,888 infections and 75,523 COVID-related deaths.

"The court ordered the flag be returned immediately. The judge explained that the for the purposes of the inquiry, which is to determine whether the "Women's Strike" logo desecrated the flag, the police could have made a photographic documentation," says attorney Bartosz Obrębski, who filed a complaint at the court on last year's police intervention in Warsaw.

Poland's Prime Minister's Office informed on Tuesday that registration for a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine for people over 50 and healthcare employees would be launched on September 24. The government also reminded that registration for a third vaccine shot for people with immunodeficiencies has been open since September 1.

Poland's National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) once again hasn't issued its decision regarding licence extension for TVN24 - KRRiT spokesperson Teresa Brykczyńska informed on Tuesday.

The European Commission tried convince Polish government to allow Frontex to help with the crisis at the border with Belarus - TVN24 correspondent in Brussels Maciej Sokołowski has learned. Lithuania and Latvia have already agreed to do so.

Poland's Turów open-pit lignite mine and power plant will continue to operate despite Europe's top court ordering the government to pay a daily fine for operating, Poland's prime minister said on Tuesday.