Poland’s president has urged global solidarity in the face of challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and support for his country’s protest-riven eastern neighbour Belarus in a major address to the United Nations.
The embattled Belarusian President Aleksandyr Lukashenka has been formally sworn in for his sixth term in office, despite continuing social unrest throughout the country.
President Andrzej Duda and First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda have headed to Italy and the Vatican on their first foreign trip since his re-election in July.
Leaders of Poland’s ruling coalition government met in Warsaw yesterday for emergency talks as the conservative alliance, which has governed Poland since 2015, looks close to breaking point. In recent weeks, political tensions have divided the ruling United Right Coalition, which is made up of the Law & Justice party plus two smaller conservative
Tens of thousands of people marched through Minsk yesterday chanting “go away” on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, keeping up the pressure on the veteran Belarusian leader to quit. In tandem with the protests, anonymous hackers leaked the personal data of 1,000 police officers in retaliation for a crackdown in which thousands
The president of Belarus said on Thursday that Belarus needs to close its borders with Poland and Lithuania, and strengthen border controls with Ukraine.
Hundreds of Jewish pilgrims heading into Ukraine from Belarus are reportedly stranded at the border, unable to cross due to Ukraine’s strict coronavirus travel restrictions. The pilgrims had been on their way to the town of Uman in central Ukraine, in order to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Hasidic branch of Judaism. They
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