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A television presenter with Poland’s state broadcaster has apologised for the years of “shameful words” directed at LGBTQ+ people, in a moment hailed by a prominent rights campaigner as the closing of a chapter in Polish society. Bart Staszewski, an activist and film-maker, said the apology made to him live on air on Sunday showed the transformation of a broadcaster that served as a mouthpiece for the Law and Justice (PiS) party during its time in power. Looking directly into the camera, Szeląg said: “For many years in Poland, shameful words have been directed at numerous individuals because they chose...

Poland’s new government is moving to limit freedom of speech and actively penalize so-called hate speech, a move that has been associated with stifling dissent and limiting opposition to issues surrounding mass immigration, religion, and LGBT issues in other European countries. ... Deputy Minister Śmiszek announced this week legislative changes to introduce criminal responsibility for what his party considers hate speech against homosexuals. --- "The time has come to ban disgusting, homophobic, discriminatory statements in the public sphere,” declared Śmiszek, who is openly homosexual. Meanwhile, the European Parliament is calling on EU leaders to include incitement to hatred and hate...

President Emmanuel Macron's government raising the terrorism threat to its highest level last Sunday night in response to the Moscow terrorist attack. Officials in Moscow drawing links between the deadly Crocus City Hall attack and Ukraine and nations allied to Ukraine... Foreign soldiers coming to Paris this summer to provide security at the Summer Olympics that begin on July 26th. Poland announcing a military contingent... The head teacher of a school in Paris resigned his position fearing for his life... On Wednesday Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talking a controversial scheme to deal with a spiraling budget deficit. ' Attal appeared...

On 24 March 2024, a passenger at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE) claimed she had a bomb in her bag, leading to the delay of a flight to Yerevan in Armenia, reported Inkerman. Also on 24 March 2024, the London shopping centre in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg was evacuated over a bomb threat. • During the early morning hours around 0500 hours local time, Russia launched missiles at various locations in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv and Lviv. • In Lviv, near the Polish border, around 20 missiles and 7 Shahed-type drones had been launched, with explosions recorded in Stryi,...

... “Polish and allied aircraft have been activated, which may result in increased noise levels, especially in the south-eastern part of the country,” it said. It later said Russia had violated Poland’s airspace with a cruise missile which “entered Polish space near the town of Oserdow (Lublin Voivodeship) and stayed there for 39 seconds”. “During the entire flight, it was observed by military radar systems,” it added. Poland said on Sunday it would demand an explanation from Moscow over the missile, which went 2km into Polish airspace, moving at a speed of almost 800 km/hour.

Poland scrambled fighter jets to protect Polish airspace during Russia's drone and missile attack against Ukraine on March 24, the Polish Air Force's Operational Command reported on X. "All necessary procedures aimed at ensuring the safety of Polish airspace have been activated, and the Operational Command of the Polish Air Force is monitoring the situation continuously," the Polish Air Force wrote on X. Poland, a NATO member, made the decision to mobilize fighter jets on the morning of March 24, as Russian forces launched another large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine. Russia launched drone and missile attacks on different oblasts across...

About a month ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to public and stated that Kiev forces had lost a grand total of 30 thousand troops in the war. It was a shame to see how the world’s MSM sheepishly accepted these figures, that everyone knew were not accurate in the least. Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu had put the number of Ukrainian losses at over 600 thousand – and apparently the real numbers may be an order of magnitude greater. A high-ranking Polish general has just gone on the public record saying that Ukrainian losses in its confrontation with the...

Israeli attacks on targets in the Damascus, Syria area... In Poland tonight an emergency landing for a US MQ-9 Reaper drone... The US military launching attacks in Yemen today... Cuba is blaming the United States for street protests over electricity cuts... Attorneys for President Trump filing an appeal to disqualify Atlanta Democrat prosecutor Fani Willis... Word that officials from Israel will go to Washington to talk about a potential Israeli military operations... The US Supreme Court heard arguments today on lower court rulings against the Biden Administration colluding with social media companies... Idaho medical conglomerate St. Luke's Hospital continuing to...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland’s president on Monday called on other members of the NATO alliance to raise their spending on defense to 3% of their gross domestic product as Russia puts its economy on a war footing and pushes forward with its invasion of Ukraine. President Andrzej Duda made his call both in remarks in Warsaw and in a piece published by The Washington Post. His appeal came on the eve of a visit to the White House, where U.S. President Joe Biden will receive both him and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday. “Russia´s imperialistic ambitions and...

Poland's foreign minister says the presence of NATO forces “is not unthinkable” and that he appreciates the French president for not ruling out that idea. Radek Sikorski made the observation during a discussion marking the 25th anniversary of Poland's NATO membership in the Polish parliament on Friday, and the Foreign Ministry tweeted the comments later in English. Last month French President Emmanuel Macron said the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine could not be ruled out, a comment that prompted an outcry from other leaders.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a major blunder while delivering an address in Warsaw, Poland. While speaking at a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Trudeau stated, “Russia must win the war.” The prime minister of Canada quickly noticed his mistake and said “Sorry, Ukraine must win this war against Russia.” Per WION: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embarrassed himself big time on Monday (Feb 26) as he said, “Russia must win the war,” during an address in Warsaw, Poland. However, he immediately corrected himself and said he meant to say “Ukraine must win this war...

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that Kyiv's allies have not reached an agreement to send troops to Ukraine, as French President Emmanuel Macron had previously suggested.Source: Duda, after an informal summit on support for Ukraine in Paris, quoted by the AP news agencyDetails: Duda said that the hottest debate was over whether to send troops to Ukraine and "no agreement was reached regarding this issue.""Opinions differ here, but there [have been] no such decisions," he said.

A copper dagger more than 4,000 years old was found in a forest near the town of Jarosław on the San River in south-eastern Poland. This discovery is the oldest dagger made of metal found in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship.In the 3rd millennium BC, objects made of copper were extremely rare in the area, Dr Elżbieta Sieradzka-Burghardt, an archaeologist from the Jarosław museum, told PAP.This valuable object, dating back over 4,000 years, was discovered last November by Piotr Gorlach of the Jarosław Historical and Exploration Association, who – with the permission of the Podkarpacie Regional Historical Monument Conservator in Przemyśl –...

A Ukrainian–Polish dispute over cheap imports of agricultural products from Ukraine escalates as Polish farmers block border crossings into Poland to protest the unfair competition and EU’s climate change measures, both endangering their livelihood. Polish farmers have stepped up their protests this week by blocking almost all traffic with Ukraine. Farmers across Europe have been demonstrating against constraints placed on them by European Union measures to tackle climate change, as well as unfair competition, particularly from Ukraine after the EU waived duties on Ukrainian food imports to help Ukraine after Russia invaded it.

The US Army in Europe and Africa is spending its budget to train Ukrainian soldiers... In Stockholm, Sweden a gas smell incident at the headquarters of the Swedish Security Service... Russian authorities report a fire at metallurgical plant...may have been caused by a drone... ...balloon tracked over the Western United States... Two Mississippi National Guard members killed in a helicopter crash... A New York jury finding the National Rifle Association and its longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for lavish spending... President Trump calling for 'immediate action" in Alabama to reverse...Supreme Court decision affirming the humanity... An investigator for President Donald...

Sergey Antonov, the head of the Russian Committee-2024 association, has submitted a request to the Russian Investigative Committee demanding the prosecution of President Vladimir Putin for the rehabilitation of Nazism. The request was prompted by an interview Putin gave to American journalist Tucker Carlson, in which the Russian leader commented on the events of World War II. Antonov believes that Putin's statements represent "a denial of facts established by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis countries, and an approval of crimes stated in said judgment."...

@DaveAtherton20 Today's feel good video. This is the Polish-Belarus border where 3rd world migrants, many Middle Eastern, gathered to enter the EU. The water cannon is supremely effective.

1. Poland cooperated/collaborated with Hitler’s Germany.Before World War II, Polish diplomacy tried to keep good neighbourly relations with Germany. Poland’s entering into any sort of military alliance with Hitler was out of question. In the period between the First and Second World Wars, Poland found itself between two aggressive neighbours: Germany and Russia, neither of which practically recognized Polish nation’s right to have an independent state. In 1934, in Berlin, the German–Polish declaration of non-aggression was signed, which was intended to guarantee the settling of disputes by peaceful means. Even before that, in 1932, a similar non-aggression pact was signed...

... The Russian president argued that Poland was to blame for Hitler's decision to invade, claiming the Warsaw "went too far" by balking at the annexation of part of its territory. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski suggested in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday that Putin was "paranoid" and called it "shocking" that Carlson "enabled" the Russian president by giving him a platform to spread his false claims and rhetoric. Sikorski .. also noted that Hitler was joined in invading Poland by the Soviet Union, which was an ally to Nazi Germany for nearly the first two years...

Uncertainty expressed by Polish President Andrzej Duda over whether Ukraine was able to retake Crimea has prompted a stern reaction. Poland has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since the start of the war, pledging aid and equipment for Kyiv's goals against Russian aggression; these include recapturing all of the peninsula Vladimir Putin illegally seized in 2014. Duda has previously said that all of Ukraine including Crimea must be liberated and, in August, added that whether Kyiv can retain the peninsula was key to preserving the world order. In an interview with YouTube Channel Zero, Duda said he believed that...