A funny scene occurred during Lukashenko's meeting with Belarusian pioneers yesterday. The dictator instructed children on how to open bottles. He even gave a demonstration, accompanied by applause.
Oliwia Toborek advanced to the final of the World Boxing Championships in Istanbul, beating the Australian Jessica Bagley 3:2 in the semi-final of the 81kg class. On Wednesday evening Lidia Fidura (+81kg) also appeared in the semi-final, and her rival was the titled Turkish Sennur Demir.
Not only has Poland a chance to cope with the food crisis but also to increase the level of meat exports, said Lech Kołakowski, secretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, during a conference of the Association of Butchers and Cured Meat Producers. Despite the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the Polish meat industry achieved record results in the first quarter of this year.
“I understand the privilege of wearing the badge, and the only time I'll put my head down is to kiss it. America is home and that's who I'm going to represent,” Gabriel Slonina wrote on Twitter. The talented goalkeeper was called up to the Polish national football team by Czesław Michniewicz. The coach repeatedly contacted the young talented player. After he had been called up to the senior Polish national team, Slonina decided that he prefered the USA.
Donald Tusk is continuing his tour of Poland, during which he is making shocking statements right and left. This time he is spinning a vision of what will happen as soon as he comes to power - he announces the "restoration of the legal status quo without legal acts", but instead... by physical force? Because there was a statement about "a few brave people" and "being led out of the building".
Today, on the route, let's have our eyes and minds open - not only to the beauty of nature but also to the traces of history and the lessons that come from it - said on Wednesday in Cassino, before the start of the trekking along the Historic Route of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Piotr Gliński.
On the 76th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Monte Cassino, ceremonies were held today at the Polish war cemetery on the hill. A mass was celebrated, and wreaths were laid. The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Italy and San Marino, Anna Maria Anders, daughter of General Władysław Anders, was also present. It was under his leadership that the soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps played a crucial role in the battle.
Since the 19th century, historians have been trying to establish a list of the most important battles in world history. The first of them was Edward Shepherd Creasy, who in the middle of the 19th century created a list of, in his opinion, 15 key clashes. This was supplemented after World War I by three battles by Edgar Vincent D'Abernon. D'Abernon is well remembered in Poland for including the Battle of Warsaw among these 18 most important battles. The American historian Joseph Mitchell tried to update this list in the 1960s.
Polish customs officers discovered one of the world’s largest jumping spiders and other insects in parcel sent from the UK that officially contained boxes of spices.The discovery was made by the officers of the Pomeranian National Revenue Administration (KAS) at the postal customs office in Pruszcz Gdanski, northern Poland.
Former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the extermination centers. To preserve the relics and the remains of Auschwitz, the memorial and museum was created in 1947. The collection of the memorial hides tragic stories belonging to over a million people. Thanks to the preservation of the historical items, the researchers still uncover new facts about the camp victims.
Every nation also has the right to shape its life according to its own traditions, although of course, this must not consist in violating fundamental human rights, especially the oppression of minorities - said St. John Paul II at the United Nations summit in 1995. Today marks the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyla.
Since February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, 3,442,000 people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland, the Border Guard (SG) tweeted on Wednesday morning.
The Polish government has decided to pay out PLN 11.4 billion (EUR 2.45 billion) in an additional allowance for old-age pensioners to cushion the impact of high inflation.
Lidia Fidura from GUKS Carbo Gliwice, and a policewoman from the Gliwice Police Department, reached the semi-finals of the Women's World Boxing Championships, which are held in Istanbul. The fact that the sportswoman won a medal is already certain. The question is with what colour of the medal she will return to Gliwice.
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.