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Poland's prime minister celebrates after his party wins a string of cities in mayoral votes
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed satisfaction on Monday after a series of candidates supported by his party won weekend races for mayor. Candidates from his pro-European Union centrist Civic Coalition, or running with the party's backing, won in a...
Polish voters choose mayors in hundreds of cities in runoff election
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish voters on Sunday chose mayors in hundreds of cities and towns where no candidate won outright in the first round of local election voting two weeks ago. Mayors were chosen in a total of 748 places, including in the cities of Krakow, Poznan, Rzeszow and...
2 suspects detained in Poland for attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Two men have been detained in Poland on suspicion that they attacked Russian activist Leonid Volkov — an ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny — on the orders of foreign intelligence services, officials said Friday. Polish Prime Minister...
Polish lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish lawmakers voted Friday to move forward with proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, which has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe. Members of the lower house of parliament, the...
Conservative opposition leads Prime Minister Tusk's party in Poland's local races, exit poll says
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exit poll released after Poland's local and regional elections Sunday showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU party trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland for eight years until December. But the socially liberal mayor of Warsaw, a Tusk ally,...
Israeli ambassador, summoned by Poland in protest, apologizes for death of Polish aid worker
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy foreign minister handed a diplomatic note on Friday to Israel’s ambassador protesting the killing of a Polish aid worker in an attack earlier this week on a convoy of aid workers in Gaza. After the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej...
Russian ambassador is a no-show after Poland summons him over a missile that entered its airspace
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Russian ambassador to Poland did not show up Monday for a meeting at the Polish Foreign Ministry where he had been summoned because of a Russian cruise missile that violated Polish airspace on the weekend, the Polish ministry's spokesman said. Russian...
A young Belarusian woman who died after attack in Warsaw is laid to rest
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw was laid to rest Thursday, with both loved ones and strangers turning out to mourn the loss of a young woman who had sought a better future in Poland. Lizaveta Hertsen, 25, was...
An alert Polish taxi driver averts a scam in which an elderly woman could have lost about $36,000
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An alert tax driver prevented a scam in which an elderly woman would have lost the equivalent of about $36,000 for a phony bailout of relatives from jail, police in southeastern Poland said. According to a police statement, a caller in the city of Rzeszow...
AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
March 1–7, 2024 Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny is laid to rest in Moscow, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the EPP Congress in Bucharest, as Polish farmers demonstrate in Warsaw against changes to EU agriculture policies. Kylian Mbappe controls...
