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Oct 31, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAW A report published Wednesday by a special commission investigating Russian and Belarusian interference in Polish affairs has recommended investigations into leading opposition figures.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAWPoland will close the Russian Consulate in Poznan and expel diplomats for sabotage attempts by Moscow, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said Tuesday. "I have information that Russia is behind sabotage operations in Poland and allied countries," Sikorski told reporters in Warsaw.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAWThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw on Monday downplayed local media reports that Berlin had sent back 40,000 irregular migrants who had entered Germany by crossing Poland’s border.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced proposals on Saturday to reform the European Union’s asylum procedures, including a temporary suspension of the right to asylum, as part of a broader plan to strengthen Poland's borders and control migration.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAWUkrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk was released Wednesday after being detained at Krakow airport in southern Poland. A video on social media showed Usyk being detained and handcuffed by security forces at the airport. The 37-year-old was released after what he referred to as a "misunderstanding," but gave no further details.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAWAfter a meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday, the Polish and Finnish presidents said the two countries intend to cooperate more closely in military security, support for Ukraine, and other areas. Polish President Andrzej Duda stressed how important it is for NATO to have Finland as a member. "Finland decided to join NATO (in April 2023). It will take part in the Dragon and Anakoda exercises with us. We would like to cooperate as closely as possible.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
timeturk.com | Jo Harper
By Jo HarperWARSAW (AA) - The decision by Germany to start controls on all land borders is unacceptable, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
“Such actions are unacceptable from the Polish perspective,” Tusk said on Tuesday in Warsaw at a meeting of heads of Polish diplomatic missions.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAW Activists from the far-right Confederation party on Thursday morning protested in front of the parliament building in Warsaw, accusing the Polish government of supporting Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia, saying it is Kyiv's war, not theirs. Confederation leaders Janusz Korwin-Mikke Grzegorz Braun held up a banner at the protest, demanding that Prime Minister Donald Tusk be held accountable for "treason," the online news outlet Onet reported.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAW Polish women's rights groups in Warsaw on Tuesday protested the parliament's rejection of a bill aimed at changing the country's restrictive abortion law. Several women's groups organized the protest on the day of the final session of parliament, or Sejm, before the summer recess began.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
aa.com.tr | Jo Harper
WARSAWEuropean countries must prepare for a new US defense strategy regardless of the results of the US presidential election in November, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski said Tuesday. In an interview with Politico, Sikorski said: “Europe has no other choice than to prepare for a change in responsibility for defense.
