Poland
Anti-LGBT rhetoric stokes tensions in eastern Europe | World news
In a recent survey, Poles were asked to identify what they felt to be the biggest threats facing them in the 21st century, choosing from options such as the climate crisis, renewed aggression from Russia and a possible economic downturn. Among men under 40, the most popular answer was “the LGBT movement and gender ideology”. …
World on Fire: Britain’s Poles hope war drama will help reclaim their past | Television & radio
On a Saturday night, a large and expectant audience turned up to a preview screening of the BBC’s seven-part war drama World on Fire at a Polish community centre in west London. After decades of waiting to see their country’s second world war story told, Polish Londoners gathered to see whether the producers had succeeded …
Election results give hope to opposition in Poland and Hungary | World news
A narrower-than-expected win for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and a serious setback for Hungary’s governing Fidesz show eastern Europe’s illiberal nationalist parties are not entirely invincible, analysts and commentators have said. “It looks like this may be a small step in the right direction – but it’s clear the opposition still has …
Poland election: Governing party claims victory after exit poll
Image copyright Reuters Image caption PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski (c) and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki celebrated in Warsaw Poland’s governing Law and Justice party (PiS) has claimed victory in Sunday’s general election. An exit poll gave the conservative nationalist party 43.6% of the vote, enough to take a majority in the lower house of parliament. …
US, Poland sign joint document on 5G technology cooperation
The U.S. and Poland signed an agreement Monday to cooperate on new 5G technology as concerns grow about Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Vice President Mike Pence and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed the deal in Warsaw, where Pence is filling in for President Donald Trump, who scrapped his trip at the last minute because …
Vice President Pence heads to Poland for 80th anniversary of World War 2, but the issue of Jewish property stolen by Nazis remains unresolved
WARSAW — Vice President Pence touches down in Warsaw this weekend to attend a Sunday ceremony marking 80 years since Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, the spark for a conflict that wreaked devastation across Europe. But there is one legacy of World War II that Pence’s hosts are anxious to skirt during his visit. Poland …
Lightning strikes kill five and injure 100 in Poland and Slovakia | World news
At least five people, including two children, have died and more than 100 have been injured during a sudden thunderstorm in Poland and Slovakia’s Tatra mountains, according to rescuers. Most of the victims were in Poland, where lightning struck a metal cross atop Mount Giewont as well as a metal chain near the summit, according …
Dozens of rescuers try to save two trapped cavers in Poland | World news
More than two dozen rescue workers are battling to save two cavers trapped in a cavern in the Tatra mountains in Poland after a narrow tunnel flooded with water. A representative of the rescue service said on Sunday it had not yet been possible to establish contact with the two cavers and that concern was …
The struggle for LGBT equality: Pride meets prejudice in Poland | World news
We set off from the Arsenal gallery in a small group of about 20 people, first through Białystok’s Branicki Palace gardens, where a “family picnic” is in full swing, organised by the Law and Justice party local authorities as a contrast to the Pride march. There are bouncy castles, but what there’s most of is …