Sources: BBC
Nineteen people, including six children, are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Szczecin, Poland. 2024-03-1
Ten people are killed and eight others are injured by two tornadoes in Yancheng and Suqian in Jiangsu, China. 2023-09-19
At the NATO summit, U.S. President Joe Biden announces that a new permanent U.S. military base will be established in Poland - the 5th Army's Headquarters - which has had a forward command post in the city of Poznań since last year. Poland's government has long requested such a base. 2022-06-29
The Constitutional Tribunal, the highest court in Poland, declares that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) may not control the validity of the appointment of any judges in Poland. The Tribunal also wrote in its opinion that Poland is not obliged to implement four ECHR court rulings which found that the parties were denied a right to fair trial, as the relevant provision violates the Constitution of Poland when applied to control the judges' appointment. 2022-03-10
Russia demands that NATO end all military activity in Eastern Europe and never admit Ukraine as a member of the military alliance, saying that it wants a legally binding guarantee to end further eastward NATO expansion. Other demands include a Russian veto on Ukrainian membership in NATO, the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe, and the withdrawal of multinational NATO battalions from Poland and the Baltics. 2021-12-17
Belarus declares the Polish free-to-air television channel Belsat TV an "extremist organisation", which could result in its employees and viewers facing up to seven years in prison. The network is banned in Belarus, though its viewers have continued to access it via the internet and VPNs. 2021-11-3
Poland reports 17,260 new cases in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total since November, and it subsequently brings the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,828,313. 2021-03-10
Poland takes over the rotating Presidency of the United Nations Security Council. 2018-05-1
Nine people are killed after a train crash in Bratoszewice in Poland. 2012-07-30
Poland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. 2011-07-1