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The final of the European football championship at Wembley significantly contributed to the spread of COVID-19, according to the government agency Public Health England. As reported, probably 2,295 people at the stadium were already infected then, and a further 3,404 became infected there.more

British chief of diplomacy Dominic Raab was called by Downing Street to return from a vacation in Crete as Afghanistan plunged into chaos, but persuaded Prime Minister Boris Johnson to let him stay for two more days, The Times revealed.more

"Polish borders must be tight and well-protected; protection is not based on anti-humanitarian propaganda, but on efficient action," PO leader Donald Tusk wrote on Twitter yesterday, referring to the deteriorating situation of a group of refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border. He added that "under PiS, the Polish border was crossed by a record number of illegal migrants."more

ISIS has assured that it will continue the fight in Afghanistan against the Taliban, the Spanish daily La Razon reported, citing an article in the jihadist magazine "Al-Naba".more

The Scottish National Party (SNP), which has formed a minority government so far, signed an agreement on cooperation with the Scottish Greens yesterday. Both parties pledged to strive for an independence referendum within the next five years.more

The US and UK governments yesterday announced in a joint statement new sanctions against those involved in an attempt to poison the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny. Both countries also called on Russia to give up chemical weapons.more

Not only British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, but also none of his deputies called the Afghan Foreign Ministry before the fall of Kabul about the evacuation of Afghan associates of the British military, the Daily Mail revealed.more

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab failed to make an important call while on leave to obtain urgent help to evacuate local translators from Afghanistan who worked for the British military, the Daily Mail revealed today.more

Criticism fell yesterday in the House of Commons against Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the British government's reaction to the situation in Afghanistan, with not only opposition MPs but also his own Conservative Party among those pointing out his mistakes.more

The main goal of the mission in Afghanistan, which was to remove al-Qaeda from it, has been achieved, and it was not possible to continue without the US, said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He also stressed that Taliban rule should be judged by their actions, not by words.more

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan proves that President Joe Biden is more concerned with domestic affairs than with defending freedom in the world and that their allies must take this into account, concludes the British daily "The Times".more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to host a virtual meeting of G7 leaders to tackle the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and has stepped up efforts to evacuate UK nationals and others from Kabul.more

Polish news channel TVN24 has obtained a Dutch broadcasting licence which will allow it to remain on air in Poland under European Union rules if its local licence isn’t renewed, its parent company, U.S. media group Discovery, said on Monday.more

Now I have to burn everything that I have achieved in 24 years of my life - says a female student from Kabul University after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. Her report was published yesterday by British "The Guardian".more

The regaining of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban is the greatest disaster of US foreign policy in almost 50 years, and the human cost of this error for Afghans will be enormous and unstoppable, reports the British press today.more

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in touch with Poles in Afghanistan and is taking steps to urgently evacuate them," said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz today on Twitter. According to him, in recent months many people working for a democratic Afghanistan have been evacuated with the support of the institutions of the Polish state.more

Poland's president Andrzej Duda has approved a law that will make it harder for Jewish people to recover property lost during and after World War Two. Israel has recalled its diplomatic envoy to Warsaw over the changes, branding the law "anti-Semitic".more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said no one wants Afghanistan to become a "breeding ground for terror", as the Taliban enters capital Kabul.more

Russia has given veteran BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford until the end of the month to leave the country in retaliation for what it called discrimination against Russian media in Britain, Bloomberg reported Friday.more

President and CEO of Discovery International Jean-Briac Perrette said that things around lex TVN were going “in a very bad direction”. “We’re not going to sell or leave,” he said. Discovery has alternative plans in place, he said.more

EU citizens living in the UK had until 30 June to apply to stay in the country or lose their rights, under post-Brexit rules introduced by the government.more

You can reject PiS reforms, but you should take Poland's side in conflict with the European Union over the reform of the judiciary; as in the Battle of Britain, Poland fights for the British who are too pleased with themselves to notice it, writes a commentator for the British weekly The Spectator.more

We call on the Polish authorities to prove their commitment to democratic principles and freedom of the media not only in words but also in deeds, Ned Price, spokesman for the US Department of State, appealed to the draft media bill in the Polish Sejm.more

German police yesterday arrested a man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to Russian intelligence, the German prosecutor's office said.more

Former Prime Minister David Cameron personally promoted Greensill Capital to investors before the controversial company collapsed. BBC Panorama discovered Mr Cameron appeared with the company's founder, Lex Greensill, at an event hosted by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in 2019. The collapse of Greensill in March has left the bank's clients facing billions of dollars in losses.more