The U.S. Department of State has published an annual report on human rights practices across the globe. The situation in Poland in 2023 has been summarized on 45 pages. The document points out, among other things, reports of discrimination of women, danger to the independence of courts and media freedom, and excessive use of force by the police.

Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections, officials said on Wednesday (April 24), as Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Poles to vote in a ballot he labelled one of the most important in decades.

Polish lawmakers will start debating on Wednesday (April 24) plans to repair the functioning of the Constitutional Tribunal following changes made by the previous nationalist government that critics say have undermined the court's independence.

"Air defence is critical and the UK wants to support Poland and work closely with you to do that," British PM Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday (April 23) at a joint press conference in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk. Sunak added that the UK would send RAF Typhoon fighter jets to bolster security of Polish airspace.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday (April 23) he would lift defence spending to 2.5% of GDP to reach 87 billion pounds ($108 billion) a year by 2030, saying Britain could not be complacent when the world was at its most dangerous since the Cold War. Speaking in Warsaw alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Sunak also pledged to increase Britain's military support for Ukraine by 500 million pounds to take its total for this financial year to 3 billion pounds.

The captain of a PLL LOT flight between Warsaw and Kraków proposed to a flight attendant on board. The Polish carrier has posted a video of the unusual engagement on social media.

A group of Jarosław Kaczyński's security guards were employed with the Military Police whilst working for the leader of the then ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) - Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk told TVN24 on Tuesday (April 23). The Civic Coalition MP was commenting on the partial findings of an audit in the Ministry of National Defence.

President Andrzej Duda said on Monday (April 22) he would meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk to discuss Poland's potential participation in NATO nuclear sharing arrangements. Earlier that day, Tusk said he wanted to better understand what motivated Duda to declare Poland's readiness to host nuclear weapons.

A Spanish soldier was killed in an accident on Monday (April 22) during NATO Saber Strike 2024 military exercise held in Bemowo Piskie in the northeast of Poland. "We honor his memory!" - Poland's defence ministry said in condolences published on X.

The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) will be replaced with the Central Bureau for Combating Corruption (CBZK), announced the coordinator of Poland's special services, Tomasz Siemoniak. PM Donald Tusk, an outspoken critic of the CBA, said later on Monday (April 22) he wanted a "reliable, apolitical police that would fight corruption, but primarily keep a close watch on the government, not the opposition".

I'm eagerly waiting to meet with President Andrzej Duda. I'd like to understand all circumstances that lead him to make such a declaration, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday (April 22). President Duda had declared in an interview Poland was ready to host nuclear weapons as part of NATO's nuclear sharing program. Tusk also told a press conference that Tuesday's visit to Warsaw by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was part of Poland's plan to rebuild its security position in Europe.

Church bells and sirens sounded at noon on Friday (April 19) in Warsaw to mark the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The insurgency was the largest act of armed Jewish resistance during World War II and the first urban uprising against the Germans in occupied Europe.

Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Leonid Volkov, an exiled top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Polish and Lithuanian police said on Friday (April 19). Lithuanian authorities informed that the detained men were both Polish citizens and had been detained on April 3 in Warsaw. Polish PM Donald Tusk said on social media later on Friday that Poland had also detained a Belarusian citizen working for Russia who was suspected of ordering the attack.

Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny suffered a fractured nose in last weekend's derby draw with Torino but is unlikely to be seen wearing a protective mask on his return to action, with the Pole preferring to leave them for Zorro.

In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Poland's President Andrzej Duda said that the world "is facing multiple global crises that have significant impact on infrastructure systems". He argued, however, that advancement of said systems could be a good way to respond to the crises at hand. "Our goal should be to prevent crises, not just react to them," the president added.

Mariusz Kamiński, a former interior minister and Law and Justice (PiS) MP, and his former deputy at the ministry, Maciej Wąsik, heard criminal charges for participating in parliamentary work despite having been issued a court ban on holding public office. Both politicians refused to acknowledge the charges and dismissed them as "political repression" carried out by the current government.

"If all the words that were said in the last years here in Brussels about common defence, could be changed into bullets and rocket launchers, Europe would have become the strongest power in the world. And the safest place," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X on Thursday (April 18), during the first day of a special European Council summit in Brussels.

Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed Ukraine and the Middle East with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a meeting in New York on Wednesday at which the former U.S. president said he was "behind Poland all the way".

Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday (April 17) that he would meet privately with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his visit to New York.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been listed by the Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. Tusk received a written laudation from the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Time's Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs wrote that the list includes people who "most changed the stories that define the past year".

Warsaw police are looking for the person or persons responsible for destroying an apiary kept on the premises of the Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów. "Twenty bee families lived here. Three of them are already gone. The condition of the rest is yet to be determined," the museum said in a statement.

The maximum power price for Polish households will be set at 500 zlotys ($123) per megawatt-hour (MWh) for the second half of 2024, according to a draft bill posted on the government's website late on Tuesday (April 16), up from 412 zlotys per MWh currently.

Polish Border Guard officers and soldiers safeguarding the Polish-Belarusian border found an Ethopian woman who had given birth to a little girl just hours before. The mother and the newborn were both taken to a hospital in Hajnówka.

Poland's core inflation in March 2024 dropped to 4.6% year on year, compared to 5.4% y/y in February - the National Bank of Poland said in a statement released on Tuesday (April 16). The core inflation measure is used to show inflation net of food and energy prices.

Polish President Andrzej Duda may meet Donald Trump during a visit to New York this week, he said on Tuesday (April 16), as European leaders prepare for the possibility of the Republican's return to the White House.

Surveillance with the use of Pegasus spyware in 2017-2022 targeted 578 persons - according to information the Prosecutor General's office has sent to the parliament. The highest number of people spied on with Pegasus was recorded in 2021, when 162 persons were under surveillance.

Renowned Polish sociologist and political scientist, Professor Jadwiga Staniszkis, has passed away at the age of 81.

Professor Zbigniew Mikołejko has passed away at the age of 72. He was a distinguished philosopher, historian of religion and ideas, essayist and poet.

The goosander (Mergus merganser) is a protected bird species which in Warsaw can be found practically only in Łazienki Park. Right after hatching out, chicks follow their mothers and head towards Vistula River. Although the whole path is not very long, it does include a very difficult obstacle for the birds to surmount - the busy Czerniakowska Street. This year's first brave goosander mother successfully lead her offspring across the road. As every year, city services helped the birds migrate safely.