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Capital

Warsaw

Head of State

President Andrzej Duda

Head of Government

Prime Minister Donald Tusk

EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional relations and Transparency, Maros Sefcovic attends a Foreign Affairs council in Trade format at the EU Council building in Luxembourg on Monday. Photo: AFP

China-EU relations

EU frets over flood of Chinese imports as Trump stokes tariff war

Advocates for easier trade with Beijing, including Spain, face off against Poland and others backing protections against Chinese imports.

8 Apr 2025 - 2:07AMvideocam

Music

Meet Marcin, the guitar genius so good people think he’s faking it

28 Mar 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

South Korea

South Korean eggs arrive in US to combat rising prices

24 Mar 2025 - 8:44AMvideocam

European Union

Poland, Baltic nations to quit landmine treaty amid Russia threat

Quitting the 1997 treaty will allow Poland and the three Baltic countries to start stockpiling and using landmines again.

19 Mar 2025 - 1:28AMvideocam

A Ukrainian sapper in special shoes takes part in a demining operation in the Kharkiv area of northeastern Ukraine on March 12. Photo: EPA-EFE

Russia

Lithuania blames Russian military intelligence for Ikea store arson

The Ikea store was set ablaze in Vilnius in May 2024 and caused no casualties.

17 Mar 2025 - 10:09PMvideocam

Ukraine war

Opinion | Appeasing Russia and forcing Ukraine into a peace deal will breed chaos

It would embolden Putin, make Ukraine a breeding ground for mass migration, a weapons surge, even civil war – affecting Europe and beyond.

13 Mar 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

European Union

Polish activists open abortion centre in front of parliament

The majority Catholic Poland has one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws despite election promises from Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

8 Mar 2025 - 11:20PM

Participants attend the 26th Warsaw Women’s March ‘Manifa’ on International Women’s Day in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Ukraine war

Poland’s leader plans military training for all adult males amid Ukraine fears

PM Donald Tusk wants to create a reserve force, as concerns rise in Europe over a US shift towards Russia under Trump.

8 Mar 2025 - 1:54AM

US-China relations

CK Hutchison to sell unit operating near Panama Canal amid Trump pressure

Decision by Hong Kong-based conglomerate comes as US president pushes for greater control of critical trade route over concerns about China.

5 Mar 2025 - 10:18AMvideocam

Ukraine war

EU top diplomat says ‘free world needs new leader’ after Trump-Zelensky clash

A Russian official said Ukraine’s president had been ‘slapped’ by ‘masters of the pigsty’; US critics say Trump is doing Putin’s dirty work.

1 Mar 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media during his meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. Photo: Ukrainian Presidency via dpa

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How Hong Kong can seize opportunities along Silk Road Economic Belt

By deepening cooperation, the city can leverage its unique brand and core advantages to help businesses uncover new areas for growth.

23 Feb 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Tourists taste grapes at the 30th China Silk Road Turpan Grape Festival in Xinjiang, on August 17. Turpan, China’s main grape producer, has more than 550 types, making it the “vineyard of the world”. As a renowned culinary capital and an international wine trading hub, Hong Kong is ideally positioned to showcase these products. Photo: Xinhua

Fame and celebrity

Who is La Dolce Villa actor Scott Foley’s wife, Marika Domińczyk?

Netflix’s La Dolce Villa, starring Scott Foley, has been climbing the charts globally since its release – but what do we know about the main actor’s IRL love life?

20 Feb 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Meet The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg’s wife, activist Anna Strout

The pair dated for a decade after meeting on the set of The Emperor’s Club in 2001, but took a break from 2013 to 2015; they reconciled in 2016, then welcomed a son and married in 2017.

15 Feb 2025 - 5:00AM

Germany

German Holocaust remembrance under fire from far-right, Elon Musk

At AfD rally, Musk said there’s ‘too much focus on past guilt and ‘children should not be guilty for the sins of their great grandparents’.

28 Jan 2025 - 9:02AM

US tech billionaire and businessman Elon Musk is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, right, co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, eastern Germany on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Britain

In Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer vows to fight antisemitism back home

The visit made the UK leader see more clearly than ever before how the industrial-level killing didn’t result from the evil deeds of a few individuals.

18 Jan 2025 - 12:30AM

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria place a candle and a stone from Downing Street at a memorial monument during their visit to the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo: AFP

King Charles III

Britain’s King Charles to visit Poland for Auschwitz commemorations

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp in World War II, was liberated on January 27, 1945.

14 Jan 2025 - 12:36PM

Israel-Gaza war

Poland says won’t arrest Netanyahu if he visits for Auschwitz commemoration

The Israeli leader is subject to a warrant by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

10 Jan 2025 - 5:20AM

China's military weapons

China’s military tests remote 3D printed parts for the battlefield: report

US uses similar tactics as it aids Ukrainian frontline soldiers from a maintenance site in Poland, American military paper says.

27 Dec 2024 - 10:00AMvideocam

China and the US have declared they are investing in remote maintenance that uses 3D printing and drones to keep battlefield weapons and vehicles operating. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong restaurant chain expands to ... Warsaw, Poland

Ask For Alonzo owner Bart Szyniec talks about opening a restaurant in his native Poland and aspiring to be ‘the Maxim’s of Western eateries’.

7 Dec 2024 - 1:15PM

Ukraine war

Outside In | It’s goodbye to ‘peace dividend’, hello to wars and defence binges

Global spending on defence is rising at the expense of social needs. The ‘peace dividend’ years are over.

22 Nov 2024 - 6:07PMvideocam

Nato

US opens missile defence base in Poland to Russia’s irritation

The base was originally intended to protect Europe from Iranian missile threats, but the Kremlin views it differently.

14 Nov 2024 - 2:51PM

The base is equipped with the US Aegis Ashore Missile Defence System, which can detect, track and destroy missiles. Photo: Reuters

Espionage

Russia suspected of plotting to send US incendiary devices through air cargo

Poland flags alleged sabotage effort without naming Russia, as officials cite attempt to send incendiary devices via DHL.

5 Nov 2024 - 12:19PM

Governments across Europe have been raising alarm over a growing threat of Russia-sponsored acts of sabotage. Photo: Shutterstock

Architecture and design

Why architect calls his Warsaw Museum of Modern Art ‘a magic box’

Open and full of light, the new modern art museum is part of Warsaw’s post-communist renaissance. Its architect, Thomas Phifer, explains.

28 Oct 2024 - 4:15PM

Italy

Italy sends first migrants to Albania under new deal

Italy has built two reception centres in Albania, in the first scheme by a EU nation to divert migrants to a non-EU country.

16 Oct 2024 - 6:56PM

Tourism

Inside Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair, where he was almost assassinated

The son of a former Nazi guard at the Wolf’s Lair visits Hitler’s World War II Polish headquarters, site of a failed assassination attempt.

29 Sep 2024 - 4:15PM

The Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s World War II headquarter and site fo the failed Stauffenberg assassination attempt, is hidden in dense forest close to Poland’s border with Russia. Photo: Instagram/dushi_travel

China-EU relations

EU mulls curbs on China’s surging fast fashion online retailers

European Commission considers punitive actions to curb explosive market growth of Chinese merchants deemed ‘direct threat’ to European producers.

27 Sep 2024 - 11:40PMvideocam

Surging shipments of low-value items from China to the EU have sparked calls for greater scrutiny, and curbs. Photo: Reuters

Electric & new energy vehicles

Opinion | How Chinese EV makers can survive and thrive in Europe

China can produce affordable EVs for the world if executives adapt their management practices to fit with European cultural norms and regulations.

27 Sep 2024 - 6:00AMvideocam

Semiconductors

Intel secures Amazon as AI chip client, outlines turnaround plans

CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined steps that Intel would take to revive itself, after it reported disastrous second-quarter earnings.

25 Sep 2024 - 3:37PM

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