Poland’s national air carrier LOT said yesterday it was suspending flights to Tel Aviv amid an escalation in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
A spokesperson for LOT said the Polish airline had been scheduled to provide an average of three connections a week from Warsaw to Tel Aviv until the end of May. He added the resumption of flights would depend on how the situation in Tel Aviv develops.
In the region’s worst hostilities in years, Palestinian militants fired more rockets into Israel’s commercial heartland on Thursday as Israel kept up a punishing bombing campaign in Gaza and massed tanks and troops on the enclave’s border.
Source – Polskie Radio
The European Union says Russia is trying to gradually absorb parts of eastern Ukraine, the Bloomberg news agency has reported, referring to a document it said the bloc shared this week with member states.
According to the document, steps by Moscow such as organizing illegitimate elections and issuing passports to locals are „aimed at de facto integration of Ukraine’s non-governmental-controlled areas into Russia.”
The EU document presents options the bloc could take to strengthen Ukraine’s resilience to Russian aggression, including stepping up support in tackling „cyber threats and disinformation” and bolstering energy security to reduce the country’s dependence on Russia.
Source – Polskie Radio
Poland’s Iga Świątek has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, with a hard-fought three-set win over the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejčíková.
The 19-year-old Pole, ranked world No. 15 by the Women’s Tennis Association, saved two match points to eventually overcome the Czech world No. 40, 3-6, 7-6, 7-5, in their third-round encounter in the Italian capital on Thursday.
Source – Polskie Radio
Kalina Łukaszewicz, the oldest resident of Gdańsk, has died this week at the age of 108.
Born in a small village in what is now Latvia, she spent her childhood and youth in Vilnius. She met her husband in 1936 who was later transported to a labour camp and murdered. At the end of World War II she moved to Gdańsk as a widow, with her daughter, parents and sisters.
During her working career she worked at the epidemiology department of the Sanepid, then in the health center of an orthopaedic clinic and finally the voivodeship office, retiring at age 70.
Source – Radio Gdańsk
Weather
Today will be a sunny day with scattered clouds in a gentle breeze and temperatures of 14 degrees centigrade (57 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 7 degrees overnight. Saturday will turn cloudy with a gentle breeze and temperatures will reach 15 degrees during the day and 8 degrees overnight.
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