A court in Russia has sentenced Corporal Madina Kaboloyeva to six years' imprisonment for avoiding military service; this is the first such sentence handed down to a woman in the country, the independent Russian TV channel Nastoyashchye Vremya reported today, noting that Kaboloyeva is pregnant and is also caring for a five-year-old child.more
The Davis Cup matches played last week resulted in no change in the top 40 of the world tennis ranking. Serb Novak Djokovic is the leader, with Hubert Hurkacz in 16th place. There has been no change at the top of the world women's tennis ranking either. Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka leads, ahead of Iga Swiatek and American Coco Gauff.more
How Poland can more effectively support and integrate the Polish community, the role of the Polish community in Polish-British relations and the cultivation of Polishness abroad were debated by participants in the Polish Congress Poland the Great Project, which took place in London on Saturday.more
39.7 per cent of Poles believe that the so-called visa scandal will not affect the outcome of the PiS in the elections; more than 30 per cent are of the opinion that the issue will harm the PiS, according to an IBRiS poll for 'Rzeczpospolita' and RMF FM.more
Football fans in Poland are losing faith in the Polish Football Association (PZPN) and national team captain Robert Lewandowski after the dismissal of short-lived coach Fernando Santos, wrote leading Portuguese daily 'Diario de Noticias', noting the crisis of Polish footballers.more
People 65 and over in England are being urged to get a top-up booster vaccine against Covid at a time when more people are coming into hospitals with the virus.
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The European Union is helpless and weakened by the migratory challenge, and the related crisis has triggered a conflict between France, Germany and Italy, the daily Le Figaro assesses today, wondering if Russia is behind the migratory pressure.more
NHS officials have warned that doctors’ strikes this week are likely to cause disruption to patient care “unlike anything before”, as Wednesday will see consultants and junior doctors taking joint strike action for the first time in the escalating dispute over pay.
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Canada, Italy, Great Britain, Australia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Finland and the Netherlands - these are the participants in the Davis Cup tennis final tournament, which will take place from 21-26 November in Malaga.more
The number of working pensioners is increasing in Germany. More than 56,000 more seniors are now working than at the end of last year. Left-wing politicians point out that for many this is not a voluntary decision, but a necessity "to survive another month" - reported the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) website yesterday.more
The fact that the Soviet Union has never been held accountable for its war crimes, even though it participated on an equal footing with Germany in the invasion of Poland, translates into Russia's current policy, writes Daniel Finkelstein, columnist for the British newspaper The Times and member of the House of Lords, in the US magazine 'The Atlantic'.more
What is at stake in our war against Russia is the future global order; we are not a fiction, a book, but we are really fighting a nuclear power that threatens to destroy the world, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed in an interview with US CBS television on Sunday night.more
Real Madrid won against Real Sociedad San Sebastian 2-1 and returned to the lead in the Spanish football league, pushing Barcelona from the leadership position. In five matches, the "Royals" scored a total of 15 points.more
Stalin showed his true intentions, and the Soviet Union showed that he was in fact no different from Hitler's Germany - wrote the British daily "The Times" on September 18, 1939, informing that the previous day Soviet troops had entered the eastern territories of Poland.more
Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr. with Ferrari he won the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, the 15th round of the world championship. The series leader and defending champion, Dutchman Max Verstappen from Red Bull, finished fifth. Lando Norris from McLaren was second, and Briton Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes was third.more
Most companies would like to restore full stationary work, but employee resistance often limits such ambitions - we read in today's edition of "Rzeczpospolita".more
Parma Calcio striker Adrian Benedyczak scored two goals and his team won 5-0 against US Catanzaro in the fifth round of Serie B - the base of the Italian top football league. After a good performance in the first half, the Pole was replaced during the break.more
This year's record forest fires in Canada contributed nearly 410 million tons of carbon emissions, accounting for 27 percent of global emissions from forest fires, the European atmospheric monitoring center Copernicus reported.more
Cornwall Council has agreed to sell Grade II listed flats worth £640,000 for £1 to ensure affordable homes stay in a Cornish town centre.
The council's cabinet approved a recommendation to release the 11 Coastguard Flats in Looe to a community land trust to avoid costly maintenance. more
The "snowflake" generation, or children and adolescents, who unlike their parents and grandparents have powerful access to knowledge, do not cope with this knowledge, which contributes to mental problems, experts estimate.more
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s rent cap and eviction ban have sent prices for Scottish tenants soaring faster than in London, new data reveals.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assessed that a quick end to the war in Ukraine should not be expected. Peace will come when Russia puts down its weapons, but if the Ukrainians surrender, their country will cease to exist, Stoltenberg said in an interview for the German media group Funke.more
The loss of duty-free shopping, according to independent designer Edeline Lee, who established her namesake brand in 2013 and creates all of her clothing in the UK, makes it more challenging for small British businesses to compete with their European competitors.more
Joseph Stalin deeply, personally hated Poles, in part because of the Bolsheviks' defeat in 1920, and this was an important factor in the decision to conclude a pact with Nazi Germany and partition Poland in 1939, says British historian Antony Beevor today.more
