Military dogs receive army ranks as Poland recognizes their service in protecting human life

NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland (AP) — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history. The group was made up of a German shepherd, a Dutch shepherd and two Belgian Malinois. The dogs —...

Officials say a troubled and delayed Baltic high-speed rail project still set for completion by 2030

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Saturday they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network. Set to link the...

Poland charges 3 Belarusian officials with diverting a plane to Minsk in 2021 to arrest a dissident

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors on Friday charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane while in flight three years ago and violating the freedom of 132 people on board as they sought to arrest a dissident. The three officials...

Poland holds a state burial for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II massacres

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland held a state burial Monday for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II mass executions, whose remains were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of Death in the country’s north, decades after their deaths. The observances in the...

Poland marks the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion at the start of World War II

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's leaders stressed the need for a strong defense in the face of war in neighboring Ukraine and redress as they led solemn ceremonies early Sunday to mark the 85th anniversary of German Nazi forces invading and bombing Polish territory at the start of World War II. ...

Polish electoral body says former ruling party violated campaign rules, imposes penalty

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's electoral authority said Thursday that the former governing nationalist conservative party violated campaign funding rules in the 2023 parliamentary vote, and imposed a penalty worth millions of dollars that would undercut the party's resources for next year's...

Poland's government plans record defense spending in its 2025 budget

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's budget proposal for 2025 includes record defense spending of 187 billion zlotys ($48.7 billion), officials said Wednesday. Prime Minister Donald Tusk presented the main points of next year's budget for the nation, which borders war-torn Ukraine and...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says 2025 state budget will include “record high” spending on defense

6 Polish students and a lecturer freed from detention in Nigeria, foreign ministry in Warsaw says

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Six Polish students and a lecturer from the Warsaw University who were detained in Nigeria during protests there have been released, the Polish foreign ministry said Wednesday. They are in good health and will be returning home this week. The ministry's...

Tusk says he doesn't have the votes in parliament to liberalize Poland's strict abortion law

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has acknowledged that he does not have the backing in parliament to change the country's abortion law, which is among the most restrictive in all of Europe. Tusk, a centrist, took power in December at the head of a coalition...