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Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government who masterminded state propaganda and censorship has died.

The former head of the German Federal Intelligence Service claims Russia stood “to gain the most” from sabotaging Russian gas pipelines to Germany bypassing Ukraine and Poland.

The Italy result marks a new high point for the broader right, which has been in a back-and-forth battle with the lib-left since 2016.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it cannot rule out “sabotage” as the cause of significant damage to the Nord Stream pipeline network that carries gas from Russia to Germany.

American officials visited Poland to celebrate a new initiative called “Liberty Road,” aimed at remembering the nations’ shared sacrifice.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland´s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new – albeit unfinished – canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia´s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

The head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has claimed that Germany owes his country cash reparations for Germany’s actions in the Second World War, claiming that Poland suffered as much as 1.3 trillion euros of damage.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s westernmost Baltic region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.

The head of Poland’s central bank has claimed that Germany is eyeing up ways of seizing territory lost to Poland after the end of the Second World War.

The Irish government’s decision to spend around €1 billion on migrants in 2022 is “outrageous”, a populist leader within the country has said.

The Polish government has reported that it has seen a new surge of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa attempt to cross into the country illegally from Belarus, claiming the migrants first fly to Russia.

A pro-migrant NGO called on the German government to stop deporting migrants to neighbouring Poland, arguing the country treats them poorly.

A group of Polish lawmakers presented Germany with a proposal to lease the country’s nuclear power plants, which are set to be shut down.

WARSAW, Poland — Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazis during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits.

Polish graves and the Christian iconography surrounding them have been desecrated in the multicultural city of Manchester, England. 

Prosecutors in Poland questioned witnesses after a 31-year-old man allegedly placed powerful explosives in a busy downtown area of Warsaw.

Poland is among the staunchest allies of Ukraine against Russian aggression, but the violence between 1942 and 1945 is a point of contention.

Israel and Poland have agreed to restore ambassadors, essentially ending a political spat that began a year ago after Warsaw passed a bill limiting Jews from reclaiming property lost in the Holocaust.

Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.

A plan proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to see grain exported from Ukraine has had holes poked in it by Poland.

Border guard has completed the first section on the Belarus border, and the govt said it will end the state of emergency in the area. 

BERLIN (AP) – Poland’s president has sharply criticized phone calls the leaders of France and Germany had with Vladimir Putin, saying the conversations serve only to legitimize the Russian leader.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing the prospect of a no-confidence vote over providing aid to conservative Poland.

The EU border agency has said more Ukrainian refugees are returning to their country than leaving it despite the ongoing conflict with Russia. 

A Dutch court is examining evidence of the fatal shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was brazenly gunned down almost a year ago.

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has met with representatives of both Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, including the CEO of the latter, in order to discuss alleged Russian “disinformation” on the two platforms.

A shortage of gas triggered by Russia could leave six million without power, the govt asks coal stations it ordered close to remain open. 

Germany rejected suggestions it is reneging on a promise to provide Poland with tanks to make up for those that Warsaw delivered to Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland’s president travelled to Kyiv to support the country’s European Union aspirations, becoming the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the war.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has promised to give military aid to both Finland and Sweden if either country is attacked.

Natural gas prices rose after Russia said it would no longer send supplies to Europe via a pipeline through Poland, citing new sanctions.

The Russian ambassador to Poland was surrounded by protesters and dashed with blood-like paint during a WW2 commemorative event.

Russia has halted all gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria after demanding ‘unfriendly’ nations pay for energy in rubles, not dollars.

South Korean military police on Monday detained a South Korean Marine upon his arrival back into the country that day from eastern Europe, where he allegedly attempted to travel to Ukraine to fight for the nation in its latest war with Russia, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released figures claiming that over five million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion in February. According to the UNHCR, a total of 5,034,439 Ukrainians have fled