The North Atlantic Council today decided to elect Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next Secretary General of NATO. Rutte will replace Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg.more

Russian and Belarusian flags have been banned from being brought into the Wimbledon tournament grounds, announced the organizers of the tennis event played on grass courts. The third Grand Slam tournament of the season will be held from July 1-14 in London.more

Highly controversial statements by Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, about provoking Russia have resulted in a visible decline in support for this group, according to a survey by JL Partners published yesterday.more

The University of Warsaw took first place in the 25th Perspektywy 2024 University Ranking. Right behind it was the Jagiellonian University, and in 3rd place was the Warsaw University of Technology. Among non-public universities, the Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw won.more

Data collected by thousands of volunteers reveals ‘truly disturbing’ state of rivers from nutrient pollution, writes 'Guardian'.more

The candidate of the center-left opposition Democratic Party, Sara Funaro, won the local elections in this city that ended on Monday. She defeated the center-right candidate, former director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt. This is a historic achievement to serve as mayor of this historic city.more

As a farewell to the European Championship, Polish players drew with the French 1-1 in Dortmund. Goalkeeper Łukasz Skorupski was named the best player of the match. Group D was won by Austria after defeating the Netherlands 3-2. Group C was tight, but after two draws England, Denmark and Slovenia advanced.more

The world's first implantation of a new deep brain stimulation device to treat severe epilepsy has been carried out in the UK. The new device offers hope for more effective treatment of the condition.more

From 1 July, a six-day working week of 48 hours will start to apply in the private sector in Greece, the Greek Reporter portal reported. This does not apply to workers in the catering and tourism sectors.more

Waltham Forest, a borough in North East London, was last year crowned the best place in the UK to raise a family, according to research by home security firm ADT. The study took into account factors such as school ratings, house prices, bus fares, crime and burglary rates, with Waltham Forest coming out on top. more

40% of people surveyed would be happy to buy, for example, airline or train tickets in a banking app, just as many would like to collect points in this way and spend them on rewards, according to a survey commissioned by Santander Consumer Bank.more

Britons are the most likely of seven European nations to say their country is in a sorry state, but the French are the most likely to think things will get worse over the next 12 months, according to a poll weeks before high-stakes elections in both countries.more

The number of people in London receiving benefit support for anxiety and depression has more than doubled since before the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show. more

The group phase of the European Football Championship in Germany will conclude tomorrow. Four matches will be played: Belgium against Ukraine, Romania against Slovakia, the Czech Republic against Turkey and Portugal against Georgia. Out of this group, only Portugal has secured promotion to the knockout stage.more

King Charles III, Queen Camilla and heir to the throne Prince William received Emperor Naruhito of Japan and Empress Masako at Buckingham Palace today as they began a three-day state visit to the UK. This is the first such visit since the British monarch was diagnosed with cancer.more

No matter how heavy a defeat the Conservative Party suffers in the House of Commons elections, it should not yet be struck off as a political force, and being replaced by Reform UK will not be as easy as Nigel Farage seems to think, according to experts at the think tank UK in a Changing Europe.more

Russians use deception, pressure and sometimes force to conscript foreigners into their armed forces and to fight in Ukraine, the US State Department reported in its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Poland has risen to the top of countries fighting human trafficking, while Belarus has been downgraded due to its exploitation of migrants.more

Michal Probierz will remain as manager of the Polish national football team after the European Championships in Germany, PZPN president Cezary Kulesza announced during a meeting with the team in Dortmund.more

Poundland is taking on retailers such as Tesco and Boots with the introduction of their own “unbeatable” meal deal, which is the lowest priced at £3.more

A politician from the Christian Democrat CSU party Alexander Dobrindt has proposed that non-working Ukrainian refugees should be sent back from Germany to "safe areas in western Ukraine". Dobrindt's populist initiative further poisons the debate on migration and asylum, comments the RND website.more

The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks Julian Assange was released from a British prison yesterday and left the UK on a plane, the website reported. He had earlier reached a plea bargain with the US justice system, which had prosecuted him for revealing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.more

With today's match against France, the current runners-up, the Polish footballers will bid farewell to Euro 2024. Regardless of the result, they will certainly take the last place in Group D, while the 'tricolours' are fighting for the first place. The match in Dortmund kicks off at 18:00 (local time).more

Polish Radio correspondent Marek Walkuski will head the White House Foreign Press Group, a group of foreign correspondents at the White House. The group participates in the presidential pool as part of the press corps that follows the activities of the US president.more

Piotr G., a well-known Polish Catholic priest who has ministered in the British Isles for many years, including in the past as an exorcist, has been charged with 10 offences of a sexual nature against minors, the Catholic diocese of Portsmouth in the south of England announced yesterday.more

Falsified versions of a popular weight-loss drug are being offered online and could be harmful to health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is warning.more