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Poland inches closer to access European Union aid with this first step

Poland EU aid: The bill cleared its first hurdle on Friday after the ruling party secured a majority in parliament to push on with the legislation.

Poland EU aid: Polish parliament takes first step to back bill accessing EU aid.(REUTERS)

Published on Jan 13, 2023 04:25 PM IST

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This unusual Ukrainian gift accidentally fired by Poland police chief, injured

Jaroslaw Szymczyk: The explosion took place on Wednesday and damaged a ceiling in the building while Jaroslaw Szymczyk and two others suffered injuries.

Poland Grenade Incident: Poland's police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk is seen.

Published on Dec 18, 2022 02:59 PM IST

ByMallika Soni

Mbappe shatters Pele's epic World Cup feat, levels Messi with stunning double

With the double against Poland, who had their skipper Robert Lewandowski as their goal scorer in the match, Mbappe broke a plethora of record in World Cup.

Updated on Dec 04, 2022 10:59 PM IST

France vs Poland Football Live Streaming FIFA World Cup 2022 Match Today

France vs Poland Football Live Streaming FIFA World Cup 2022 Schedule Today: France face Poland in their Round of 16 match, in Qatar on Sunday. Find here live streaming, when and where to watch details of FRA vs POL Football WC Match Today.

France vs Poland FIFA World Cup 2022 Live Streaming: France face Poland in the Round of 16.(AFP)

Published on Dec 04, 2022 06:06 PM IST

Messi misses penalty but Argentina beat Poland in style

Goals from Mac Allister and Alvarez helps Argentina top group. They will meet Australia in round of 16. Poland will play France

Argentina players 'celebrate after teammate Alexis Mac Allister scoring their side's opening goal during the FIFA World Cup group C match between Poland and Argentina at the Stadium 974 in Doha.(AP)

Published on Dec 01, 2022 03:06 AM IST

ByDhiman Sarkar

FIFA World Cup 2022 Schedule Today: How to watch matches of France, Argentina

FIFA World Cup 2022 Schedule Today: Follow here when and where to watch, live streaming details of Tunisia vs France, Australia vs Denmark, Poland vs Argentina, Saudi Arabia football matches.

FIFA World Cup Live Streaming: Argentina face Poland for qualification to the Round of 16.(AP)

Published on Nov 30, 2022 09:54 AM IST

Lewandowski scores in 2-0 win as Saudi Arabia pay the penalty

Argentina slayers Saudi Arabia miss a big chance to equalise before Poland’s star striker scores his first goal in a World Cup game to seal an important victory in Group C

Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring his side's 2nd goal during the FIFA World Cup group C match between Poland and Saudi Arabia, at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan.(AP)

Updated on Nov 26, 2022 10:55 PM IST

ByN Ananthanarayanan

FIFA World Cup: How Argentina's qualification chances stand after POL beat KSA?

Argentina now stands on the thin ice after Poland beat Saudi Arabia to take the top spot in Group C points table.

Updated on Nov 26, 2022 10:07 PM IST

Russian pranksters pose as France's Macron, trick Poland's president, again

Andrzej Duda's office said that he was put through last week to a person claiming to be France’s president Emmanuel Macron.

Andrzej Duda: Polish President Andrzej Duda is seen. (Reuters)

Published on Nov 23, 2022 10:08 AM IST

ByMallika Soni

Poland proposes putting German missiles near border with Ukraine

Poland Strikes: Germany has offered Warsaw the Patriot missile defence system to help it to secure its airspace.

Police officers work at the site after explosions in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland.(Reuters)

Published on Nov 21, 2022 03:47 PM IST

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That's not evidence: Joe Biden on Zelensky's Poland strikes' denial

Poland Missile Strike: NATO ambassadors held emergency talks on Wednesday to respond to Tuesday's blast.

Poland Missile Strike: US president Joe Biden is seen.(AP)

Published on Nov 17, 2022 11:23 AM IST

ByMallika Soni

Global tension rises as missile lands in Poland

Poland has said that a missile strike that killed two people in its territory close to the border with Ukraine was “not an intentional attack”, and was likely to have come from Ukrainian air defence systems, narrowly averting a geopolitical crisis that could have led to a direct conflict between the West and Russia.

Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and President Joe Biden in a late-night huddle. (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 17, 2022 06:04 AM IST

ByPrashant Jha, Washington

Poland, NATO say missile landing wasn't Russian attack

The preliminary findings came after U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western backers of Ukraine had thrown their weight behind the investigation and amid repeated assertions from Russia that it didn't fire the missile.

Police officers work at the site after explosions in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.(REUTERS)

Published on Nov 16, 2022 05:46 PM IST

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Poland blast caused by Ukraine forces firing at incoming Russian missile: Report

Russia has denied that its missiles hit the Polish territory, saying “statements by Polish media and officials…are a deliberate provocation aimed at escalating the situation.”

Przewodow: Police officers gather outside a grain depot in Przewodow, eastern Poland, on Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022 where the Polish Foreign Ministry said that a Russian-made missile fell and killed two people. (AP)

Updated on Nov 16, 2022 10:58 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Poland blast: What NATO's Articles 4 & 5 say as Russia blamed for missile strike

NATO chief Jens Stolenberg is expected to chair a meeting on Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium at the request of Poland on the basis of the organisation's Article 4.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attend an emergency meeting of global leaders after an alleged Russian missile blast in Poland, in Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Updated on Nov 16, 2022 07:51 AM IST

BySharangee Dutta, New Delhi

Russian missiles cross into Poland during strike: Report

Polish media reported that two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine.

Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller speaks to media after a meeting of the security committee in connection with the missile attack on the territory of Poland, in Warsaw, Poland.(REUTERS)

Published on Nov 16, 2022 03:00 AM IST

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Poland military on alert after ‘Russian-made missile’ kills two | Top updates

The White House also said it could not confirm reports coming out of Poland and was working with the Polish government to gather more information.

Updated on Nov 16, 2022 05:59 AM IST

ByHT News Desk, New Delhi

Pentagon 'looking into' reports Russian missiles hit inside Poland

Poland borders Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded on February 24, and has welcomed thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the fighting.

Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder.(AP)

Published on Nov 16, 2022 01:32 AM IST

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'Alcohol causing low birth rate in women': Polish leader's words trigger debate

Kaczynski, leader of the populist ruling party, Law and Justice, made his remark on the weekend as he travels around the country seeking to rally support for his party ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.

FILE - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling party Law and Justice, speaks at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday Oct. 26, 2021. Poland’s ruling party leader has triggered anger and mockery by claiming that the country’s low birthrate is partly caused by overconsumption of alcohol by young women. Opposition politicians and many other critics accused Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a 73-year-old lifelong bachelor, of being out of touch. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)(AP)

Updated on Nov 07, 2022 07:34 PM IST

AP | | Posted by Nisha Anand

Poland building wall along border with Russia. Here's why

The move comes as Warsaw suspects that Russia plans to facilitate illegal border crossings by Asian and African migrants.

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is seen.(AP)

Published on Nov 02, 2022 02:40 PM IST

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Poland chooses US firm to build first nuclear power plant

Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said late Friday that Poland's nuclear energy project will use the “reliable, safe technology” of Westinghouse Electric Company.

Published on Oct 29, 2022 12:31 PM IST

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Polish operator detects leak in pipeline that carries oil from Russia to Europe

Druzhba Pipeline: The discovery of the leak, which PERN said it found on Tuesday evening, comes as Europe faces a severe energy crisis.

Druzhba Pipeline: Storage tanks are seen at the Mero central oil tank farm, which moves crude through the Druzhba oil pipeline, near Nelahozeves, Czech Republic,(Reuters)

Published on Oct 12, 2022 12:32 PM IST

Reuters |

Ukraine crisis: Polish ambassador hails India’s efforts to end war

The recent “sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines” should be seen in the “context of the Russian war and [President Vladimir] Putin’s determination to achieve success”, Polish ambassador Adam Burakowski said.

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Updated on Oct 10, 2022 07:01 AM IST

ByRezaul H Laskar, New Delhi

People in this country are burning trash to stay warm this winter

Poland: Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s fuel supplies. In Poland, some households are hoarding garbage to replace their coal.

Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, near Belchatow, Poland.(Reuters)

Published on Oct 06, 2022 03:11 PM IST

Bloomberg |

Poland opens new canal for ships to sail from Baltic Sea to Vistula Lagoon ports

Poland's new sea waterway shortens the Baltic-to-Elblag route by some 100 kilometers. The canal cuts across the Vistula Spit, east of Gdansk, to allow ships to sail from the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Gdansk to Elblag and smaller ports of the lagoon

A general view of the new shipping canal through the Vistula Spit in Skowronki, Poland(Michał Ryniak/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS)

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Updated on Sep 18, 2022 08:04 PM IST

AP | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz, Warsaw, Poland

‘Pure astonishment’: Female ‘vampire’ skeleton in Poland shocks researchers

Female Vampire Skeleton Poland: ‘Pure astonishment’: Female ‘vampire’ skeleton in Poland shocks researchers

Female Vampire Skeleton Poland: The research team was led by Professor Dariusz Polinski.(Representational)

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Updated on Sep 09, 2022 12:14 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Indian called 'parasite, genociding our race' in Poland; ‘Stop invading’: Watch

The video emerges amid back-to-back hate incidents targetting Indians in the United States. This, however, took place in Poland but the attacker in the video identified him as an American and a ‘White'.

A video of an Indian being abused at Warshaw's Atrium Reduta Shopping Centre in Poland by an American is going viral.

Published on Sep 03, 2022 05:50 AM IST

ByPoulomi Ghosh

German-Polish history schoolbook project attracts criticism

A German-Polish history book series was launched to bring the countries closer together. The latest edition, however, has not been accredited in Poland.

The latest edition, Volume 4, of the German-Polish history schoolbook has not been accredited in Poland.(Stefan Sauer/dpa/picture-alliance )

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Published on Jul 10, 2022 11:01 AM IST

ByDeutsche Welle, Delhi

Poland to end Russian oil imports; Germany warns on gas

Poland, which has taken in millions of Ukrainian refugees, has taken the lead in the European Union on swiftly cutting off Russian fossil fuels.

A train with refugees fleeing Ukraine crosses the border in Medyka, Poland.(AP)

Published on Mar 30, 2022 05:37 PM IST

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