A road police patrol stopped a driver for speeding on the S8 expressway near Zambrów (Podlaskie province). Although he was issued a ticket for his offence, three days later, he send an email to the local police station in which he thanked the officers for professionalism and praised their service.

"The aim of changes to the constitution is introducing an cast-iron guarantee that Poland's potential decision to leave the EU would be possible only through a referendum, or by a two-thirds majority in the Sejm and the Senate" - Civic Platform (PO) leader Donald Tusk said, announcing Civic Coalition's draft changes to the country's fundamental act.

The European Commission may approve in November EU-funded national recovery plans of Poland and Hungary, but will set conditions linked to respecting the rule of law for the release of EU funds, EU officials said.

Eight Supreme Court Justices have announced they will not be taking part in the court's board meetings, until "the Disciplinary Chamber fully ceases to operate, and thereby the CJEU ruling is actually implemented". The controversial Disciplinary Chamber is still adjudicating, despite the ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho will miss their Europa League match against Legia Warsaw later on Thursday after the Nigeria international was denied entry to Poland due to an issue with his travel documents, manager Brendan Rodgers said.

Remains of Wehrmacht soldiers and a WWII-era bunker have been discovered at a construction site at Spokojna street in Lublin. However, archeologists still haven't left the site, as nearby they have found much older graves, dating back centuries. One person was laid face down, another with a robe folded at their feet.

A group of migrants, including women with little children, who entered Polish territory have been pushed back to the border with Belarus. TVN24 reporters have been trying to determine where exactly: either to the border crossing, or forest, or to a particular town or village. The Border Guard only informed that they have been escorted back "to state border line". At the same time, the service refuses to share detailed information, citing the regulations in place under the state of emergency. According to Amnesty International, Poland carried out an "unlawful pushback".

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal will make its third attempt on Thursday to rule on whether the country's constitution or European law takes precedence, a verdict critics say Warsaw may be using as a bargaining chip in a row with Brussels.

A ticket office clerk is said to have refused to sell a ticket to a disabled man, as he was planning to travel without a caretaker, having only 5 minutes to change trains. Police officers from Grudziądz came to the rescue. Not only did they help the man to buy the ticket, but also assisted him in entering the train, and made sure he would receive help at later stages of his journey.

A woman from Jawor (Dolnośląskie province) notified the police that in the corridor of the tenement building she lived in, stood a wooden cage with a frightened monkey inside. It turned out that the animal had been stolen from a local mini zoo a few days before. Bubuś, as this was the macaque's name, has safely returned to its owner. The police are now looking for the monkey thief.

A group of migrants, including women and children, have been sent back to the border with Belarus. A spokesperson for Podlaskie branch of Border Guard said a "procedure in line with the ordinance" was followed in their case. "This is a glaring violation of children's rights, a consent for harm and suffering of children enshrined in an ordinance," said Mirosława Kątna, chairwoman of the Committee for the Protection of Children’s Rights.

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.