Due to rising numbers of COVID cases abroad, Poland has banned direct passenger flights to and from 30 countries under new rules that came into force today. Most notably, flights between Poland and France have now been suspended, while flights to Romania, Albania, Malta, and Kosovo, are allowed to resume.
Officials in the UK and Poland are today commemorating the moment when Britain’s Royal Air Force and its Allied counterparts turned the tide of the battle after months of air raids by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe).
An estimated 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in a continued show of defiance against the regime of current president Alexander Lukashenko.
The prime ministers of Poland and three regional partners have urged the Belarusian authorities to release all political prisoners. The call came after the premiers of Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, which together form a regional cooperation platform called the Visegrad Group, met in the eastern Polish city of Lublin on Friday.
Belarus’s opposition could ask foreign countries to play a mediation role if Belarus is not able to resolve its own internal conflict, exiled opposition leader has said during a visit to Poland this week.
The exiled Belarusian opposition leader, Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya, has called on her supporters to continue peaceful protests against Belarus’s authoritarian President Aleksandyr Lukashenka.
The British government is facing growing international criticism today as it unveils legislation which many have said breaks international law.
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