After struggling with huge health issues, severe pain and creeping sense of resignation, Poland's Maria Andrejczyk won an Olympic silver medal in the women's javelin in Tokyo on Friday. Her 64.61-metre throw was second only to China's Liu Shiying's gold-winning launch of 66.34 metres.

"Fourth wave of COVID-19 epidemic is slowly gaining momentum" - Health Ministry spokesperson Wojciech Andrusiewicz told TVN24 on Friday. He also said that, according to ministry estimations, the wave was expected to peak between September and October. "If we don't keep vaccinating, we must brace for a peak of up to 15,000 infections daily," he cautioned.

"The United Right is a great value and, in my opinion, it would be worth to continue this project until the end of term, but not at all cost," said Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin. Later on Friday, the leader of a junior coalition partner, the Accord party, informed that he appointed Anna Kornecka, former deputy development minister freshly dismissed by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, as his plenipotentiary for investments and the Green Deal.

Poland's Aleksandra Mirosław smashed the women's world speed climbing record on Friday to win the first leg of the three-event Olympic final on Friday, as the competition that made its Games debut this week draws to a close.

Poland's Dawid Tomala cruised to victory in the Olympic men's 50km race walk with a dominant performance over the second half of the race in Sapporo on Friday, reaching the top of the podium in just his second completed race of the distance.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki dismissed Anna Kornecka as undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Economic Development, Labour and Technology. The decision has met with criticism from her colleagues from the Accord party, as well as opposition politicians.

In her first press conference after coming to Poland, where she has been granted a humanitarian visa, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said on Thursday she was not planning to return to Belarus in fear of repressions.

An aircraft carrying Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya landed at Warsaw Chopin airport on Wednesday evening. Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz reassured on Thursday that the athlete "is and will be in a safe place, free of any danger".

Delay in the process of granting licence to TVN24 channel by National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) raises serious concerns regarding respect for the petitioner's rights, as well as a thorough and proper functioning of the Council as a constitutional body - the Commissioner of Human Rights Marcin Wiącek wrote in a letter to the KRRiT chief Witold Kołodziejski.

President Joe Biden picked Mark Brzezinski, a Democratic-aligned foreign policy official with ties to Poland, as his ambassador to the European country regarded as a key Western bulwark against Russia.

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya landed on Wednesday in Poland to take refuge after defying an order to return early to her authoritarian homeland from the Tokyo Olympics.

A draft amendment to Poland's Broadcasting Act, the so-called lex TVN, has drawn attention of U.S. senators who have issued a bipartisan statement regarding the issue. In their view, the legislation proposed by the ruling PiS party "would infringe on a free, independent media and jeopardize U.S. media investments in Poland".

Supreme Audit Office President Marian Banaś has asked the parliament speaker to dismiss his deputy Tadeusz Dziuba and notified the prosecutor's office about possible failure to fulfill his duties.

Poland's Wojciech Nowicki won the men's hammer throw with a personal best of 82.52 metres on Wednesday, while his compatriot Paweł Fajdek avoided another Olympic disappointment by picking up the bronze.

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo aboard a flight to Vienna on Wednesday, less than 72 hours after refusing her team's orders to return home.

Someone placed three little cats inside a cardboard box and then threw the box to a waste container. Employees of a waste disposal company saved them from dying. The kittens are now waiting for new owners in an animal shelter in Łódź, while the local City Guard cautions that abandoning animals could be interpreted as cruelty against them.

A 4-year-old stuck his head in between two concrete pillars at the observation deck located at the 30th floor of Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science. The boy couldn't take his head out from the trap and so fire service arrived to the rescue. The firemen used vegetable oil to set him free.

Poland's Anita Włodarczyk won a third straight Olympic gold on Tuesday, dominating the women's hammer throw final and further cementing her status as the greatest of all time in the event.

Anti-vaxxers entered a child care home in Aleksandrów Kujawski. A group of four men were angry that the pupils were being vaccinated against COVID-19. "They didn't want to talk with me. They just came to intimidate and attack me. This was a traumatic experience," said the director of the facility. She notified the police about the incident. The anti-vaxxers filed a complaint of their own, claiming the children were being vaccinated without caregivers' consent.

Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz informed told TVN24 on Tuesday that Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya remained at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo. "She is safe and plans to fly to Poland," Przydacz said. "Great feeling for a diplomat to try to help someone who is in urgent need of support," Poland's ambassador to Japan Paweł Milewski said in a Twitter post to which he attached a photo of himself and the athlete. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also commented on Tsimanouskaya's case.

The European Union said an effort to repatriate a Belarusian athlete from the Tokyo Olympics was further evidence of "brutal repression" by President Alexander Lukashenko and it welcomed Poland's decision to grant her a humanitarian visa.

A CCTV camera in Nowy Dwór Gdański caught a woman throwing a small bag into a river. Children playing in the park heard terrifying meowing and alarmed adults. Shortly after, the cameras recorded another woman stepping in the water and saving the kittens.

At night between Sunday and Monday, an unknown perpetrator set fire to a building hosting sanitary inspection and vaccination point in the city of Zamość. "It was an act of terror," Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Monday, whereas PM Morawiecki called the incident an act of banditry.

Financial rewards that the gold-winning Polish mixed relay team are to cash in have been revealed. The Polish Olympic Committee told to eurosport.pl that athletes who started in the semifinal and the final would receive the equal shares. Exact bonuses for the coaches have not been disclosed yet.

A Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has filed a request for a humanitarian visa in Poland. "Obviously, it will be granted to her," Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz told TVN24. He added that the 24-year-old was safe in the Polish Embassy in Tokyo.

At a meeting in the Warsaw Rising Museum on Friday, President Andrzej Duda addressed the veterans of the insurgence. "It's always a great honour for me to be here with you, to be able to shake your precious and wonderful hands. To be able to hand in state decorations to the insurgents, and to those who work everyday to solidify Polish independence, and to solidify and preserve this memory, so incredibly important," said the president.

The only such event for sailing fans - Żagle 2021 - began on Friday in the city of Szczecin. Incredible sailing ships will be available to admire and visit for the whole weekend. Visitors can expect plenty of other attractions.

A Warsaw court has revoked a prosecutor's office's decision not to launch an inquiry into alleged pressuring of Supreme Audit Office auditors by this institution's Vice-President Tadeusz Dziuba, according to a court order seen by tvn24.pl. According to the court, prosecutor's office's decision was "premature", as the investigators should have questioned the former PiS politician, as well as the other Vice-President of NIK, Małgorzata Motylow.

President Andrzej Duda has responded to the letter from the First President of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska. In the letter, Poland's Chief Justice commented on the situation the country's justice system has found itself after the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. "Everything suggests that legislative changes are needed," he said.

Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro on Thursday asked its Constitutional Tribunal to examine whether an article of the European Convention on Human Rights breaches the constitution, deepening an international row over the country's judicial reforms.