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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a peaceful transition of power in Belarus after meeting with exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya. President Macron, meeting with Tsikhanovskaya in Vilnius earlier this week, pledged his support for a mediation process, saying...

Over the weekend, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei accused Western countries of attempting to sow “chaos and anarchy” in the former Soviet republic, which has been rocked by street protests since an election last month. In a video statement to...

Hard coal mines in Poland are to be shut by 2049 under a wide-ranging deal signed on Friday between the government and strikers on the transformation of the country’s mining industry. The head of a government delegation that has been...

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. Addressing the virtual General Debate of the 75th...

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. Beginning today, their three-day trip is set to include meetings with Italian President Sergio Mattarella...

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...

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). In preparation for...

An estimated 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in a continued show of defiance against the regime of current president Alexander Lukashenko. Over 400 people were arrested during Sunday’s protests around the country, according to the Belarusian Ministry of...

The British government is facing growing international criticism today as it unveils legislation which many have said breaks international law. The Internal Markets Bill, being published today, is ostensibly designed to ensure free flow of goods between Northern Ireland and...