Between 40 and 60 wildcats are to be released in Devon and Cornwall woodlands next year. This is England's first reintroduction programme for these once common wild cats since they were completely exterminated 500 years ago.more
The Paris Urban Transport Authority is planning to hire 6,600 drivers, mechanics and other specialists later this year to properly prepare for the 2024 Games, the RATP's director general, former Prime Minister Jean Castex, has announced.more
Redundancies in global big tech companies are a sign of a slowdown, but not a crisis in the IT industry, which still employs in Poland, Rzeczpospolita reports.more
President Biden gave a speech today in the Kubicki Arcades in the gardens of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. His speech began with the song "Freedom" by Kygo.more
Iga Swiatek defeated Canada's Leylah Fernandez 6:1, 6:1 to advance to the 1/8 final of the WTA 1000 hard-court tennis tournament in Dubai (prize pool $2.8 million). The next opponent for the leader of the world tennis ranking will be Russia's Lyudmila Samsonova.more
The British have secretly returned to the Cambodian authorities a huge collection of looted Angkorian jewels, some of which date back as far as the seventh century. The treasure is to be displayed in the national museum in Phnom Penh.more
All indications are that the scheduled 27 March match between Poland and Albania in the Euro 2024 qualifiers will take place at the PGE Narodowe in Warsaw. Official confirmation could come on Thursday. The list of players called up to the national team will probably not be announced until mid-March.more
Several children in Austria today filed a lawsuit with the constitutional court in an attempt to force their country's government to ensure that their rights are protected by taking stronger action against climate change, AP reported today, citing the group's lawyer Michaela Kroemer.more
Vladimir Putin announced during a speech today before the Federal Assembly, the combined chambers of the Russian parliament, that Moscow is suspending its participation in the US-Russian strategic arms reduction agreement New START, concluded in 2010.more
If the Polish tennis player beats Canada's Leylah Fernandez today, Russia's Lyudmila Samsonova will be her opponent in the third round (1/8 final) of the WTA 1000 hard court tournament in Dubai.more
A huge controversy has been sparked in the UK by a new edition of Roald Dahl's very popular children's books in this country, from which almost all references to physical appearance have been removed, the gender of some of the characters has been changed or they have been recast as gender-neutral.more
In 2021, Russia was planning the annexation of Belarus by 2030, claims an international group of investigative journalists in its publication, which arrived at a secret document purportedly created by the Kremlin.more
US President Joe Biden's visit to Poland is a clear signal to Russia that the Euro-Atlantic community will defend security throughout Europe in a solidarity manner, government spokesman Piotr Müller stressed today.more
The Foreign Office yesterday summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Iranian embassy in London following threats against journalists living in the UK, and sanctioned a further eight Iranian officials.more
The New Jersey community is shocked after a Polish-American family of four was killed in Linden, New Jersey, on Sunday. ABC suggested that it may have been a murder combined with suicide. Police commented only that a gunman is believed to be among those killed.more
Two previous UK Prime Ministers - Boris Johnson and Liz Truss - yesterday called for the immediate handover of fighter jets to Ukraine, increasing pressure on current chief executive Rishi Sunak to do so.more
"In the absence of a change in the situation related to Russian aggression against Ukraine, there are no practical reasons to waive the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes," proclaims the statement on international sports competitions, signed by 34 countries.more
The Germans must take the Poles seriously about reparations. Disregarding Poland's demands may be legally right, but morally Germany still has a debt to pay and must take that into account.more
Members of the RMT union working for Network Rail and 14 train operators are staging more walk-outs and overtime bans in the current round of strikes. Since June 2022, national rail strikes in a tangle of disputes about pay, job security and working arrangements have caused problems for tens of millions of train passengers.more
