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President Andrzej Duda authorized soldiers and civilian personnel of the United States, Great Britain and Canada to stay in Poland. These countries have been significantly strengthening their military presence in Eastern Europe for several weeks.more

There were at least six knife attacks on the New York City subway last weekend. These came shortly after New York City and State governments proposed a new plan to combat violence in public transport.more

Talks are under way on further strengthening the US presence in Poland. More US troops will come to Poland. If Russia attacks Ukraine, they will stay for longer - writes today's "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

The United States has informed allies that other cities - Kharkiv, Odessa and Kherson - could be targets of a Russian invasion in addition to Kiev, Bloomberg reports, citing three anonymous interlocutors of "Western government officials".more

"I am convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already made the decision to invade Ukraine," US President Joe Biden said yesterday. He announced that the US had information that the attack would take place in the next few days.more

The US State Department has approved the sale of Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks and associated equipment to the Polish government. The sale will enhance the security of a NATO allied country working to promote political stability and economic progress in Europe, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) reported.more

A grand jury in Texas yesterday indicted 19 Austin police officers who intervened during protests after the killing of George Floyd . They were charged with assault with a weapon. Police Chief Joseph Chacon came to their defence.more

Any incursion into Ukraine would cause a "prolonged crisis" for Russia with "far-reaching damage to both Russia and the world" - warned U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday as they held talks on the situation surrounding Ukraine.more

The James Webb telescope has taken the first images of the star, as well as a selfie, captured by one of its cameras. They were published by NASA, as reported on Saturday by US television channel Fox News, among others.more

The U.S. will send an additional 3,000 troops to Poland in the coming days, the defense ministry in Washington said on Friday, cited by global agencies. According to Reuters, the forces will come from the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, rather than U.S. forces deployed in Europe.more

According to Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) runs a secret program, part of which is a database of American citizens. The CIA has a long history of concealing the details of the program from the public and Congress.more

"We do not know whether Russia has decided to resume aggression against Ukraine, but there is a significant risk that the attack will occur even before the end of the Olympic Games in Beijing," said US national security adviser Jake Sullivan yesterday, reporting on the talks between US and state leaders, NATO and the EU, including Poland.more

Most of the US states with the lowest life expectancy in 2019 were in the south. Hawaiians can live the longest, according to a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).more

In an interview with NBC News, US President Joe Biden called on American citizens in Ukraine to leave Ukraine immediately. "Things may begin to develop at an insane pace," he said, ruling out sending US troops to Ukraine.more

We view the Russian-Belarusian military exercises in Belarus as escalation activities, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced yesterday. She declined to assess whether they constitute preparations for an invasion of Ukraine. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that more Russian forces are arriving in Belarus every day.more

I thank the allies from Great Britain and the United States for their solidarity and military strengthening of the security of the region. As the West, we want to conduct a dialogue, but we are ready to oppose the threats, said Polish President Andrzej Duda.more

U.S. intelligence has intercepted conversations between Russian military officials that show they fear the cost of aggression against Ukraine could be higher than President Vladimir Putin expects, CNN television reported yesterday, citing sources in the services.more

Yesterday before noon, another group of American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division landed in Rzeszow, the Ministry of Defense tweeted.more

Top U.S. military commander General Mark Milley was expected to tell congressmen in a classified briefing that a full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine could bring Kiev down within three days, Fox News television reported yesterday.more

The American airline Delta has applied to the Department of Justice (Ministry) of Justice to put all persons who caused any trouble during the flight on a nationwide "black list" to prohibit boarding.more

The US intelligence has uncovered a plan for an extensive Russian provocation, which involves fabricating an attack by alleged Ukrainian forces on Russia or the Russian-inhabited areas of Ukraine, filming this staging and using it as a pretext to attack Kiev, announced Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.more

The first-ever fully private astronaut flight to the International Space Station (ISS) has a four-person crew already completed and approved, the US space agency NASA announced.more

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced that he would send 3,000. US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania to support US allies in the face of the concentration of Russian troops around Ukraine. Kirby added that it was possible to further deploy US troops to Europe.more

Two students were shot today near a school in Richfield, Minnesota. One is dead, the other is in critical condition, local police said. She added that the perpetrators fled the scene.more

Researchers at George Washington University have developed a rapid blood test that detects SARS-CoV-2 infection and predicts whether the course of the disease will be severe. The results of the study were published in the journal PLOS One.more