Polish soldiers were building a fence on the border with Belarus on Thursday, as the European Union's largest eastern member takes steps to curb illegal border crossings despite criticism that some migrants are being treated inhumanely.

The European Court of Human Rights asked the Polish and Latvian governments on Wednesday to intervene to help migrants camped on the Belarus border.

The platform structure, sheds and stairs leading to it have been renovated. Not only is the first step of the stairs one meter above the ground, but there is also no point in walking up the platform as trains ceased to stop at the station over a decade ago. Then what's the point of the renovation? "It's meant to preserve the history of railways in the urban space," said the spokesperson for PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe.

People who threatened a Łódź doctor Tomasz Karauda, who promotes the COVID-19 vaccination programme, may be facing even up to five years in prison. "I've been promised death, my family too, we've been likened to Nazis," said the doctor, who has now been placed under police protection.

A spokesperson for Polish Border Guard said on Friday that migrants camping out at the border with Belarus were on the Belarusian side. She added the Belarusian guards promised to offer them help if needed. Attorney representing the migrants, Mikołaj Pietrzak demanded a procedure of granting the migrants international protection be launched as soon as possible. The demand was also shouted out through a loudspeaker.

Poland will evacuate 300 Afghan citizens who worked with NATO - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Friday. "We will first take them to Poland, and then to other NATO states," he explained. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg thanked Poland for taking part in the evacuation of the Afghan people from the country now controlled by the Taliban.

Maria Andrejczyk's big heart has been appreciated. Olympic silver winner in javelin auctioned off her medal for charity. The charitable cause was quickly achieved, while the company which won the auction said Andrejczyk would keep her trophy.

Dozens of migrants camp out at the Polish-Belarusian border in Usnarz Górny. One of the Afghans is said to have recorded a video he later sent to his cousin, in which he claims that the Polish police has stopped them in the town and taken them back to the border. The police denied the allegation. "I strenuously deny, no such thing had taken place," said Tomasz Krupa, spokesman for Podlasie police.

A Polish regional council voted on Thursday to remain an "LGBT-free zone" despite a warning from the European Union that it could lose funding, but its head said the declaration of the zone had been misunderstood and could be rewritten.

Evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan, in which Poland is also involved, is in progress. Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said on Thursday that the last two Polish citizens left Kabul in the afternoon.

This was meant to be a cleanup effort. A farmer from the Lubusz province only wanted to remove rocks from his field. Suddenly, mysterious objects started to appear from underground. History experts have no doubt that his findings are "extremely rare".

A stork landed on top of a tall chimney and fell inside the 15-metre structure. Luckily for the bird, residents of the Marcinowice village saw the situation and called fire service for help.

Poland has sent more than 900 troops to help secure its border with Belarus, its defence minister said on Wednesday, after a surge in illegal border crossings.

Cezary Kulesza has been chosen as the new chairman of Poland's Football Association (PZPN). He has replaced Zbigniew Boniek, who after two terms in office has been named honorary chairman. In the vote, Kulesza won 92 votes, whereas his rival Marek Koźmiński - 23.

Poland has evacuated around 50 people from Afghanistan, a deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday, part of an international effort to get diplomats and other civilians out of the country after Taliban insurgents seized the capital.

During decluttering of a basement, employees of a cultural centre in Warsaw's Wola district have found a 1976 painting by Poland's eminent painter Edward Dwurnik. "Technical staff told us that these things were to be thrown out. Among them was a Dwurnik painting from the "Slawoszyno" series, and we stood dumbfounded," said the director of the facility. Now, together with the artist's daughter, the culture centre plans an exhibition of other works in the series of those painted in Kaszuby.

The chief of U.S. diplomacy Antony Blinken issued a statement in which he said the U.S. "deeply regret" that Poland's President Andrzej Duda had signed amendments to the Code of Administrative Procedure. He praised, on the other hand, the president's words about commitment to the freedom of speech.

"Two Polish women, one of them with her husband, were evacuated from Afghanistan in a flight organised by an allied country. One journalist refused to board the plane, but we will try to convince her to return in a Polish aircraft," Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz informed on Tuesday. PM Morawiecki said that Polish military aircraft were on route to Kabul to help in the evacuation.

Poland will dismantle a judges' disciplinary chamber as part of wider judiciary reforms in coming months, the government said on Tuesday after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the disciplinary mechanism undercuts EU law.

Poland will send 650,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine on Tuesday, the minister in charge of the Polish vaccination drive told state news agency PAP.

In response to unjustified actions by the State of Israel, Poland's ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland until further notice. A decision regarding the permanent level of diplomatic representation in Israel will be made in the coming days - Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Monday.

Completely reckless behaviour at the Giewont peak in the Tatra Mountains. A video sent to us via Kontakt24 platform, shows a tourist who climbed on the top of the huge metal cross. "I will never go there again, precisely because of people behaving this way," says the author of the recording.

Poland will send its response to the European Commission about a contested disciplinary chamber for judges by the end of the day, the prime minister said on Monday, amid a deepening row over the rule of law.

TVN Management Board has issued a statement regarding the National Broadcasting Council's delay of the decision on the TVN24 license renewal.

A dispatch officer of Gliwice Police on Thursday received a call from a woman driving her 10-year-old son for a heart transplant. She said they needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible, but got stuck in a traffic jam on the A4 highway.

A hero of Warsaw Uprising and a renowned architect Professor Julian Eugeniusz Kulski has died at the age of 92, the Kulski Foundation informed on Friday. Having moved to the United States in 1949, Kulski became "an informal advocate of Polish affairs". He was

Borussia Dortmund's Erling Haaland, Paris St Germain's Kylian Mbappe and Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski have made UEFA's shortlist for the best men's forward in the Champions League last season, European soccer's governing body said on Friday.

Archeologists are examining Ledniczka - an island neighbouring the island of Ostrów Lednicki, where once stood a palatium, home of Duke Mieszko I. It has been confirmed that bridges once connected the two islands. The scientists hope to find abutments.

Poland's gross domestic product (GDP) in volume terms seasonally unadjusted was higher by 10.9% in the 2nd quarter of 2021 year-to-year against 8.3% decrease in the corresponding period of 2020 - according to a flash estimate issued by Statistics Poland (GUS).

Discovery, Inc. is to charge the government of Poland with violations to the US-Poland bilateral investment treaty.