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Incoming Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs David Lammy leaves Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. Britain's Labour Party swept to power Friday after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate handed the party a landslide victory, but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

Britain’s new top diplomat in Poland discusses closer ties with Europe and support for Ukraine

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Police officers are investigating the site of a crash between the white Toyota of eight-time world rally champion Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais, left, and a local resident's Ford, right, that collided head-on on a local road near the village of Wlosty, near Goldap in northeastern Poland, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, while the Ogier and Landais were on a reconnaissance run ahead of this week's Rally Poland. Ogier and the Ford's driver were airlifted to hospital while Landais and the Ford's female passenger were taken by ambulances. (Police Office in Goldap via AP Photo)

69-year-old man dies after head-on car crash last week with rally great Ogier in Poland

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right and Poland's President Andrzej Duda attend the welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, June 24, 2024. (Pedro Pardo/Pool Photo via AP)

NATO member Poland’s president visits China, expecting to talk to Xi about Ukraine

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A Ukrainian man jumps over fire during a traditional Ukrainian celebration of Kupalo Night, in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Ukrainians in Warsaw jumped over a bonfire and floated braids to honor the vital powers of water and fire on the Vistula River bank Saturday night, as they celebrated their solstice tradition of Ivan Kupalo Night away from war-torn home. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukrainians in Warsaw jump over a bonfire, float braids to celebrate solstice custom away from home

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's Robert Lewandowski, left, greets supporters prior to the Group D match between Poland and the Netherlands at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Euro 2024: Poland has an option on Lewandowski for must-win game against Austria

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Poland's Robert Lewandowski greets supporters ahead the international friendly soccer match between Poland and Ukraine at the National stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on June 7, 2024. Poland will have to play its opening game at the European Championship against the Netherlands on Sunday June 16, 2024 without its striker Robert Lewandowski who will miss it out due to a muscle injury. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Euro 2024: Poland missing Lewandowski against Netherlands in opening game of Group D

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A Polish soldier patrols the border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, on May 29, 2024, the day after a young soldier, Mateusz Sitek, was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who thrust a knife through a gap in the fence. He died of his wounds on June 6. The Polish parliament observed a minute of silence to honor him on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

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A woman wipes away a tear in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, May 15, 2024 outside a shopping center destroyed in a weekend fire. A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland's Vietnamese community. People lost entire livelihoods and say they don't know how they will manage to make a living. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Shopping complex fire inflicts tragedy on Vietnamese community in Poland

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Kosovo's foreign minister and deputy prime minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 8, 2024. Kosovo's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine in order for conflict not to spread further in Europe, stressing that her young nation's support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo's independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Fire damage is visible on the façade of the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The synagogue was attacked with firebombs in the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw synagogue attacked with three firebombs in the night, but no one is hurt

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, left, shakes hands with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 4, 2024. NATO marked on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America, with its top diplomats vowing to stay the course in Ukraine as better-armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

With war in Ukraine on its border, Poland wants to be among the countries setting Europe’s agenda

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk listens to the media in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, March 15, 2024. Tusk is celebrating a victory on Monday, April 22, 2024, after a series of candidates supported by his party won weekend races for mayor. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Polish prime minister celebrates after his party wins a string of cities in mayoral votes

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Leonid Volkov, chief of staff for the 2018 presidential election of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, looks on, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Dec. 15, 2021. Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced on Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

2 suspects detained in Poland after last month’s attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania

By Liudas Dapkus and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Poland’s president becomes the latest leader to visit Trump as allies eye a possible return

By Jill Colvin and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrej Duda addresses a media conference at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania during the Three Seas Initiative Summit and Business Forum in Vilnius, April 11, 2024. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Trump to meet with Polish President Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

Anti-abortion demonstrators march in support of every conceived life and against steps taken by the new government to liberalize Poland's strict law and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week, in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Last week, Poland's parliament, which is dominated by the liberal and pro-European Union ruling coalition, voted to approve further detailed work on four proposals to lift the near-ban on abortions. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opponents of abortion march against recent steps to liberalize strict law

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

FILE - Friends and residents gather to place candles and flowers in honor of Damian Soból, a Polish food aid worker who was killed with six other World Central Kitchen workers by Israeli airstrike in Gaza this week, in Soból's hometown of Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. World Central Kitchen and a few other aid groups suspended operations in Gaza, after seven aid workers were killed by airstrikes. Yet despite the danger, many of the largest organizations barely slowed down. Hunger has become commonplace in Gaza amid the war with Israel, and U.N. officials warn that famine is increasingly likely in northern Gaza. (AP Photo, File)

Poland calls aid worker’s killing in Gaza a murder, wants further investigation

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Dariusz Matecki, top right, a conservative lawmaker in the Polish parliament, displays a poster showing a fetus and the words "10th week after conception," during a vote on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, April 12, 2024. Polish lawmakers voted Friday to continue work on four proposals that would loosen the law on abortion, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country which has a near-total ban. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting near-total abortion ban

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

A nun votes during local elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 7, 2024. Voters across Poland are casting ballots in local elections Sunday in the first electoral test for the coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk nearly four months since it took power. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s local elections test Tusk’s government after 4 months in power

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

This photo provided by World Central Kitchen/WCK.org, shows Damian Soból of Poland, one of seven aid workers who were killed in Gaza on Monday, April 1, 2024. Israeli airstrikes that killed the aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world, as friends and relatives mourned the losses of those who were delivering food to besieged Palestinians with the charity World Central Kitchen. (World Central Kitchen/WCK.org via AP)

Diplomatic crisis erupts between Poland and Israel following killing of Polish aid worker in Gaza

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