Boris Johnson has vowed to defeat Covid and build a better country over the next decade in his leader's speech to the virtual Conservative conference.more
Compliance with the restrictions is not only our duty to ourselves, but also our responsibility for other people - emphasized yesterday Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski. Thus, he announced a "zero tolerance policy" for non-compliance with the restrictions.more
The age at which most people start to receive the state pension has now officially hit 66 after steady rises in the qualifying age in recent years.more
Minister Marlene Schiappa, responsible for citizenship in the Ministry of the Interior, announced on Monday that polygamists would be deported from France and that the production of “virginity certificates” for women and girls was prohibited.more
Norway will allow most amateur team sports to resume in mid-October and permit larger crowds at matches, as the government looks to ease nationwide restrictions enforced to contain the coronavirus epidemic.more
The Prime Minister is set to deliver an update to the public today as the number of coronavirus cases has reached its highest level since the start of the pandemic. more
39-year-old Tomasz Wiśniewski from Worcester became the first Pole in Worcester to receive the prestigious Mayor's Best of Worcester Award from the mayor himself. The Pole was recognized for his work for the benefit of local communities in Worcester with a population of 100,000.more
You are on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBT - said the US ambassador to Poland in an interview for Wirtualna Polska. I have great respect for the religious tradition of the country in which I am an ambassador, but human rights are universal regardless of the dominant religion - reminded Georgette Mosbacher.
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By 2030, 30 percent the territory of Great Britain will be national parks and other protected areas, declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.more
Nearly 2 million people in north-east England face being fined up to £6,400 if they mix with other households indoors in a significant extension of the government’s lockdown powers.more
By this afternoon, restrictions on the use of public space due to the Covid-19 epidemic have been introduced by the authorities of 90 Spanish cities. The largest of these is the country's capital, Madrid.more
The Polish Ministry of Health has prepared a portal that gives every doctor access to the coronavirus test result of any person, if they know their PESEL number. Experts say it's a violation of the GDPR - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more
London was added to the national watch list yesterday amid the rising number of coronavirus infections. So far, almost all of the cities on this list have eventually been subject to additional restrictions.more
Ukrainian women cleaning in Polish homes are often asked by Polish women with whom they work to cook dinners for their families in the underground - we learn from the book "Ukrainian women. What do they think about Poles with whom they work?" that they are proficient in culinary arts.more
In the UK, 6,874 new coronavirus infections were detected in the last 24 hours, a new daily record since the beginning of the epidemic. The R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.more
The UK is at a “perilous turning point” and must act, Boris Johnson has told MPs, announcing new restrictions for England including slashing the size of wedding celebrations and bans on indoor team sports, as well as a return to home working.more
Keir Starmer is to appeal directly to “red wall” voters who abandoned the party last year to “take another look at Labour”, telling them his party loves Britain and is under new leadership.more
For the first time in history, the United Nations celebrated International Equal Pay Day. As Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the organization underlined, the unequal status of women at work also fuels inequalities in other areas of their lives.more
