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A court in Copenhagen yesterday arrested a 39-year-old man on charges of punching Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Danish media reported that the suspect in the attack was Polish.more

As a sign of mourning for the soldier who died after being injured on the border with Belarus, state flags will be lowered to half-mast in all units subordinated to the Ministry of National Defense, informed the General Staff of the Polish Army.more

A cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by a Russian group has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted.more

Police have arrested a passenger after a flight from Edinburgh had to be diverted to Bristol following reports of a "sexual offence" being committed on the plane.more

A gang of Bulgarian fraudsters who “systematically plundered” the benefit system out of £54 million and enjoyed lavish lifestyles were jailed for between three and eight years on Thursday.more

The trial of three men accused of murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Derry, Northern Ireland in 2019 has begun at Belfast Crown Court.more

Austrian police detained a man who hit a Pole who was changing a tire in his car a week ago. The Austrian fled the scene without helping the injured.more

Child serial killer Lucy Letby has been denied permission to appeal against her convictions for the murder and attempted murder of babies in her care when she worked as a neonatal nurse.more

One of three men arrested in early May in the UK and subsequently charged with spying for Hong Kong has been found dead, British police said yesterday.more

A terrorist who stabbed a stranger to death in an attack motivated by the conflict in Gaza has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 44 years.more

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, seriously injured in Wednesday's attack, remains in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Banská Bystrica. The attacker admitted that his motives were political. The authorities are appealing for calm.more

The Swedish prosecutor's office announced the arrest of another young man in connection with the murder of a 39-year-old Pole in Stockholm in early April. The 17-year-old is suspected of hiding the perpetrator of the murder.more

The PM was shot in front of a building in the central Slovak town of Handlova, where a government meeting had been held. Fico has been taken to hospital and his alleged assailant detained by police.more

After the high-profile murder of a 39-year-old Pole in Stockholm, who was shot in April when he drew the attention of a group of young people, fewer Swedes are willing to intervene in the event of a crime - according to a Demoskop survey published for the Aftonbladet newspaper.more

Hackers broke into the Europol Platform for Experts (EPE) website, which serves police officers from all over Europe to exchange information; now criminals are selling their loot on the Internet - reported the German weekly "Der Spiegel".more

Dylan Earl is charged under new spy laws of orchestrating an arson plot on Ukraine linked business in London.more

Yesterday, two over-eighty-year-old climate activists from the Just Stop Oil group attacked with a hammer and damaged a display case in the British Library in London, which contains one of the four preserved copies of the Magna Carta of 1215. The document itself was not damaged.more

More and more Polish tourists are robbed in Rome - this information was provided to PAP by consular services. As they emphasize, foreigners should be especially vigilant in the Eternal City. It has been under tourist siege for weeks, which is being taken advantage of by pickpockets and car thieves.more

A record-breaking number of shoplifting offences were recorded in London last year, new figures have revealed. The British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) is calling for urgent action to tackle this "concerning trend" in order to safeguard employees and customers.more

Two Poles - 68-year-old Michal Jaroslaw P. and 42-year-old Marcin M. - appeared before Manchester Crown Court yesterday on charges of murdering a 67-year-old man and quartering his body.more

A 14-year-old boy was killed and four people were injured when a 36-year-old man armed with a sword attacked bystanders in an east London suburb yesterday morning. Police do not believe the attack was terrorist motivated.more

The police extradited 38-year-old Sebastian G., who had been wanted for five years for leading an organized criminal group. The man was detained in England and brought to Poland.more

British police today announced that five men have been charged with hostile activities in favour of Russia. Two of them are British citizens. They will all face trial on 10 May.more

A school in south-west Wales has been locked down after three people were injured in an incident and one person was arrested, police have said.more

Stalking Protection Orders will no longer need to reach the criminal threshold, as figures obtained under freedom of information laws by a victims' charity show some police forces have issued fewer than 10 per year.more