Poland news headlines

He stood still until he felt it was safe, then walked through the store after closing time, authorities said.

From the decision to beatify an entire family, to the declaration an unbaptised baby was baptised in its "mother's blood", it's a move without precedent in the history of the Church.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has warned the move will change the balance of power in Europe.

Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries are headed to Greece to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heatwave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 40 degrees.

Dozens of dead cats have been found to have had the disease in Poland.

A priceless 16th-century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during World War II and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw said.

The artist has declared photography competitions aren't ready to deal with the new technology.

From challenging investigations into civil war and environmental decline, to the inspiring and serene moments that can only be captured through a camera: these are the best photographs of the year, as chosen by Sony's judges.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of deeper military and economic cooperation on a state visit to Poland as the neighbours sought to forge a tighter relationship in defiance of Russia's full-scale war.

From hearts to words, airline pilots and those behind the controls of smaller planes sometimes fly unusual routes to create radar patterns, with ships also able to create fun designs.

US President Joe Biden marked a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine by celebrating the strength and resilience of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people.

A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted for her role in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust, in what could be the final trial of its kind.

Poland's police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk was hospitalized with minor injuries on Wednesday after a gift that he had received in Ukraine suddenly exploded, according to a government statement.

Same pranksters have previously embarrassed European politicians including Macron and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as Elton John and Prince Harry with similar hoax calls.

Ukrainian authorities say they've found dozens of bodies bearing signs of torture since the liberation of Kherson.

It comes as the US says it is "unlikely" the missile was fired from Russia.

Polish and NATO investigators believe the weapon behind the blast was probably launched in Ukraine.

After Poland confirmed "Russian-made missiles" landed within its borders, the nation is now looking at triggering Article 5 of the NATO treaty. Here are the nations involved and what that could mean.

The US has pledged to defend every NATO nation from Russian attacks. This is how it may respond.

Authorities say Ukraine likely launched the Soviet-era projectile as it fended off a Russian air assault that savaged its power grid.

As Russia pounds Ukraine, with shelling around a nuclear power plant and repeated Russian threats to use a nuclear weapon, the Polish government ordered an inventory of the 62,000 air raid shelters in the country.

The actor's visit to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during WWII, was his first and came as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.

The Swedish national seismic network said one of the explosions was equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.

Hundreds of volunteers are working to help collect dead fish.

Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazi 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.

The Polish president has said that to end the conflict, Ukraine did not need to submit to conditions given by Russia.

Officials in Poland and Bulgaria said today Russia is suspending their countries' natural gas deliveries after they refused to pay for their supplies in Russian rubles.

Ukraine's military intelligence head says Russian President Vladimir Putin could be looking to carve Ukraine in two – like North and South Korea.

President Joe Biden delivered a forceful and highly personal condemnation of Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday

On his final day in Europe, President Joe Biden sought to reassure Poland that the United States would defend against any attacks by Russia

President Joe Biden’s visit to Poland on Friday gave him a chance to underscore the US commitment to protect a key NATO member.

According to the UNHCR, about 1.8 million refugees — roughly the population of the Polish capital of Warsaw — have ended up in Poland.

Peter Paul Rubens' 17th century masterpiece Portrait of a Lady has sold for the equivalent of $4.5 million at a Warsaw auction, becoming the most expensive artwork ever bought on the Polish art market

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday embraced calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of civilians, including a maternity hospital.

The Pentagon has rejected a surprise announcement from Poland that it would give the United States its MiG-29 fighter jets for use by Ukraine.

In a private video call with American lawmakers over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a "desperate" plea to the US to help Kyiv get more warplanes to fight Russia's invasion and retain control of its airspace.

A Ukrainian sailor who tried to sink a superyacht allegedly belonging to a Russian arms tycoon was on his way to his native Kyiv on Monday, determined to join the fight against invading forces there.

The United Nations' refugee agency says the latest count of Ukrainians arriving in neighbouring countries now exceeds 200,000.

Dragging suitcases and carrying children, tens of thousands of Ukrainians rushed to the borders on Saturday as invading Russian troops pressed their advance into Ukraine, moving toward the country's capital of Kyiv.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has left Australian parents unsure how they will reach their baby, who has been born by surrogate in Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne confirms Australia's remaining diplomatic staff in the city of Lviv will leave Ukraine and move to eastern Poland and Romania.

US President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from North Carolina to Poland and Germany this week and sending part of an infantry Stryker squadron of roughly 1,000 troops based in Germany to Romania, a senior administration official said

Israeli archaeologists have detailed the "heartbreaking" discovery of three Jewish pendants at a former Nazi extermination camp in Poland.

Italian Catholic and Jewish leaders on Tuesday condemned as outrageous an episode in which right-wing extremists put a flag with a swastika on a coffin outside a church after a religious funeral and gave Nazi salutes

As many as 1000 desperate and increasingly frustrated migrants are still staked out near the border crossing.

Russia sent paratroopers to Belarus on Friday, in a show of support for its ally amid tensions over migrants and refugees amassing on the Belarus-Poland border, but two of the Russian soldiers were killed in a parachute accident.

A court in Poland convicted a man on Monday of instigating a murder in 2002 and participating in subsequent cannibalism. They handed him a 25-year prison term

Reports mount of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban, fuelling fears they will return Afghanistan to repressive rule imposed when they were last in power.

The Pfizer vaccines shipped from Poland have been approved for Australians by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that more than half of the new doses will be sent direct to NSW.