A violent storm battered Poland over the weekend, prompting the country to upgrade its high storm alert to cover all regions. Emergency services were inundated, with more than 700 calls by 7 p.m., primarily from eastern and southern areas. "In the three worst affected provinces, we have received the support of extra personnel," the State Fire Service said.
France’s defence ministry has contacted France’s largest car maker, Renault, to help build supplies of its drones, the company said on Sunday. Renault said meetings had occurred, but stressed that no final decision had been taken. The company is now waiting for more information from the ministry.
When kids go on school trips, their parents often are concerned about their safety. To mitigate those concerns, the mobile app mObywatel contains some nifty features that analyses the safeness of both the car and the driver before any journey ever takes place. Users are able to quickly verify in a few steps whether a coach has up to date technical inspections and civil liability insurance.
A 40 year old-man was detained in Cicibór Duży, in the vicinity of Biała Podlaska on suspicion of driving under the influence and assaulting a motorcyclist who tried to stop him. The accident happened early Sunday morning on provincial road 811, when the motorcyclist saw the Toyota driver was driving dangerously.
Motorists are being greeted in early June by a slight rise in fuel prices throughout the country. Market analysts report that the price of 95-octane gasoline has increased by 2 groszy and is currently averaging PLN 5.71/l while looking at the national average. This comes after a sustained period of price decreases, so the upward trend has come as a surprise for many drivers.
Mount Etna, the Italian island of Sicily's tallest peak, exploded early Monday morning, spewing plumes of thick ash and throwing up volcanic material over its Southeast craters. The eruption was also punctuated by a series of powerful explosions that escalated in strength, according to Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
In central Poland, history enthusiasts have a hit major archaeological jackpot, by finding an entire war cemetery, dedicated to the Przeworsk culture – an Iron Age people whose ethnic origins remain a mystery among scholars. The site was discovered close to the village of Zbiersk by members of the Denar Kalisz Association who found the spearhead and a disc of bronze or timber – which they initially believed was the umbo of a shield.
Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is the man getting ready to become Poland’s second astronaut in space. His next mission will take him aboard the Falcon 9 rocket on June 10, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
MI5 is facing mounting legal pressure as a High Court judge raised serious doubts over the agency’s honesty in court. Mr Justice Chamberlain said he had no faith in the Security Service to explain how a senior officer provided false evidence. He has called on MI5 to hand over secret internal documents such as files and interviews amid questions about the credibility of recent witness statements.
Erin Patterson – Testimony in Mushroom Poisoning Trial – Updated Erin Patterson, whose daughter Shayna De Oliveira, has also taken the stand to testify in the poisoning trial in which her granddaughter is the victim.
In Boulder, Colo., a man threw what appeared to be incendiary devices at a group gathered in support of Israeli hostages, wounding several people. The suspect was in custody and authorities were searching to find out the motive for what some officials said was being described as a targeted terror attack.
A Community Takes an Audacious Stand for the Right to Preservation
In a bizarre and symbolic gesture, Jazdów, a small, green neighborhood of central Warsaw nicknamed a “village within a city,” has declared itself an independent state. Famed for its wooden cabins and grass-roots spirit, the community is now taking online applications for citizenship in languages ranging from Polish, English and Esperanto to pirate. The fossa was declared in response to the city’s repeated aloofness to the concerns of residents and attempts to make the area more commercial.
A high-ranking UN humanitarian official has said the people of Gaza are now the victims of forced starvation. Tom Fletcher called the situation a war crime but said it is for the legal entities and history to judge.
China has announced that it is not going to send its defence minister to this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, the Asia’s biggest defence and security summit. Instead, a delegation from the People’s Liberation Army National Defense University will represent the country. The move is believed to be the first time in at least five years that a top Chinese defense official has not attended a signature defense-related event.
Millions of tourists are descending on Athens, the ancient capital of Greece, as the summer heat threatens to break all records. Greece’s most crowded historical site, the Acropolis, has been shut several times in the hottest hours because of scorching temperatures reaching over 40°C (104°F) in the past few years. Even the iconic Parthenon, unshaded and sunbaked, is close to unbearable under such heat, particularly when wildfire smoke looms close by.
Family portrait of a Vietnamese woman and her great-granddaughter in a smoky room.IMITATION.Printed Book Page, 225 x 155 mm, 2026 An evocative photograph of a Vietnamese grandmother and her great-granddaughter in a dark, smoke-filled room has been awarded the top prize in this year’s National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition 2025. The winning photograph, shot in Lào Cai province, Vietnam, by UK-based photographer Justin Cliffe, was chosen from thousands of entries. It perfectly captures the woman at work on her embroidery, a traditional craft handed down through generations of the Red Dao minority.
Israel has given a green light to the largest expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank since the Oslo Accords were signed more than 30 years ago. In all, 22 new settlements are to be created, some deep in the West Bank and in zones it had removed from in the past. The decision was jointly made by Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who stressed that it was part of a strategic, long-term plan.
Ukraine is preparing for a massive summer offensive by Russia, which has escalated missile, drone and ground attacks on multiple regions. Officials are reported as saying that Ukrainian troops are retreating from parts of Donetsk and the north and from rural areas in the south. The Russian military now appears to be seizing about 14 square kilometers of territory a day, with the ultimate goal of taking the four annexed territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
BY Oskar Malec
BY Oskar Malec
BY Oskar Malec
BY Oskar Malec
BY Oskar Malec
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