Thousands march in Poland’s capital demanding LGBT equality.
Thousands marched through central Warsaw on Saturday in a "Equality Parade" demanding an end to discrimination against the LGBT community, amid what activists claim is...
Warsaw dedicates a monument to a hidden archive recording Holocaust atrocities.
A coalition of Jewish groups has unveiled a memorial commemorating the location where a community of Jewish writers and feminists buried an array of content...
Activists say Polish women seeking abortion panic as restrictions take effect
Polish women with scheduled abortions are calling advice services in panic, activists said, as Poland’s government put into effect a ruling banning terminations of pregnancies...
Polish diplomat in Istanbul rescued hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust
Rychlewicz never applied for recognition for his actions or advertised them, according to the report. Turkish Jews join to blessing prayers of Mi Sheberah by...
Polish government vows to introduce new bill to end ritual slaughter
Puda did not explain the reason for the decision, but he seemed to suggest that the original legislation was not restrictive enough on ritual slaughter,...
Abortion rights protests block city streets across Poland
Tens of thousands of Poles blocked city streets in cars, on bicycles and on foot on Monday on the fifth day of protests against a...
Polish protesters disrupt church services over near-total abortion ban
Thousands of activists disrupted church services across Poland on Sunday, chanting during mass and spraying slogans on walls to protest against a court ruling that...
Polish woman’s quest for abortion exposes conflicted society
In April, in the midst of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Poland, Katarzyna found out that the baby she was carrying had a severe genetic...
Antisemitic Polish priest banned by a well-known Canadian parish
“We are grateful to the archbishop and his diocese for taking this principled and very important step to recognize that there are just some people...
Poland proposes billion-euro EU fund for Belarus
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the EU must offer Belarus significant support after meeting Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis PETRAS MALUKAS AFP Poland on...
Poles divided 40 years after birth of Solidarity
Lech Walesa was carried on fellow dockworkers' shoulders after signing a 1980 pact with Poland's Communist leadership LEHTIKUVA/AFP/File Forty years after the Solidarity movement united...
Poland calls Lukashenko’s words unacceptable as relations become tense
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s comments that Warsaw may be plotting to seize part of the country if its political crisis worsened are unacceptable, Krzysztof Szczerski,...
Marijuana test for stressed-out Warsaw Zoo elephants
There are around 400,000 African elephants in the wild today MONIRUL BHUIYAN AFP/File The Warsaw zoo said Wednesday it will start giving its elephants medical...
Polish nationalists and LGBT activists face off in Warsaw
A pro-LGBT demonstrator waves a rainbow flag as Polish nationalists gather to protest against what they call "LGBT aggression" on Polish society, in Warsaw, Poland...
Pompeo meets Polish leaders, signs defense pact, discusses Belarus
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish Minister of Defence Mariusz Blaszczak pose for a picture after they signed the...
Protest as LGBT activist jailed for 2 months in Poland
Police officers remove LGBT activists from blocking the road to a police vehicle transporting detained gay-right activist Margo in Warsaw, Poland JANEK SKARZYNSKI AFP Polish...
US to have permanent troop presence in Poland as defense pact agreed
The United States will establish a permanent military presence in Poland as it deploys around 1,000 additional US troops there, Poland's Defense Ministry said on...
Heightening EU frictions, Poland queries pact on violence against women
Poland’s highest constitutional court is to scrutinize a European pact on violence against women, the prime minister said on Thursday, after a cabinet member said...
Poland to quit treaty on violence against women, minister says
FILE PHOTO: Zbigniew Ziobro signs documents after being designated as Minister of Justice, at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File...
Ambiguous conditions on EU deal set to embolden Hungary and Poland
The European Union’s agreement on a coronavirus recovery fund is likely to embolden nationalist leaders in Poland and Hungary because it sets no mechanism for...
Poland’s foreign minister signals he may quit
FILE PHOTO: Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz of Poland during news conference with his Finnish counterpart in Helsinki, Finland February 13, 2020. Lehtikuva/Emmi Korhonen/via REUTERS WARSAW...
Poland to propose limits on foreign media soon, Kaczynski says
FILE PHOTO: Andrzej Duda of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), is seen on television screens at a shopping mall in Warsaw May 21, 2015....
U.S. ambassador says EU criticism of Poland ‘overblown’
The U.S. ambassador to Poland said the European Union’s criticism of Poland’s adherence to democracy is “overblown”, as Warsaw faces cuts to EU budget funds...
Polish ‘LGBT-free’ town weighs risk of losing EU funds
Surrounded by fields of roses and lavender in tranquil eastern Poland, some residents of the village of Konskowola feel the European Union may be trying...
Why Duda’s re-election as Polish president,may cause deeper EU rifts
Polish President Andrzej Duda has won five more years in power on a socially conservative, religious platform in a closely fought election that makes renewed...
Hungarian government congratulates Duda on Polish election victory
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday congratulated Andrzej Duda on his victory in Polish presidential elections, posting a photo of himself and his political...
Polish President Duda wins election, new battles with EU loom
Polish President Andrzej Duda has won five more years in power on a deeply conservative platform after a closely fought election that is likely to...
Turnout is high in Poland’s close presidential vote
Turnout was high for Poland’s knife-edge presidential election on Sunday, likely reflecting strong feelings on both sides of a deep political divide in a vote...