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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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Poland's President Andrzej Duda gives a statement to the media in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 10, 2024, after the arrest of two politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge for hours in the presidential palace. Duda on Friday March 29, 2024 vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for girls and women ages 15 and above, his office said. Duda said he was concerned about the health of minors and heeding the voices of parents. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s president vetoes law on free access to morning-after pill for ages 15 and above

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Polish and other NATO troops take part in military maneuvers Steadfast Defender 24 in Korzeniewo, in Poland Monday, March 4, 2024, as the alliance strengthens its defense capabilities on the eastern flank in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine that has entered its third year. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland demands explanation from Russia after a missile enters its airspace during attack on Ukraine

By Vanessa Gera and Tony Hicks - Associated Press

The Jasna Gora Monastery, Poland's most revered Catholic shrine, during a sunset in Czestochowa, Poland, on Sept. 23, 2023. The leaders of Poland’s influential Catholic Church on Thursday, March 14, 2024 chose moderate Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda to be their new principal, at a time when the church is still struggling to reckon with the abuse of minors by some Polish clergy, while the number of Poles going to church has fallen sharply. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Polish Catholics get a new leader as the church struggles to reckon with sexual abuse

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People waves Ukrainian flags before Pope Francis Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis’ ‘white flag’ comment is met by criticism from Ukraine and allies

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

A police officer stops a protester by a burning coffin during a protest in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The protest ratchets up pressure on the government as they demand the Poland-Ukraine border closed to food imports and demand changes to European Union climate and agricultural policies. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Paving stones thrown at Polish police in farmer protest, injuring several officers

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, on Sept. 20, 2023. The European Union’s powerful Commission announced on Thursday that it will start releasing billions of euros to Poland after the funds were frozen over the previous government’s policies that the bloc said amounted to widespread backsliding of fundamental democratic principles. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

EU to begin releasing billions of euros to Poland that were frozen over previous government policies

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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for talks about progress that Poland's new government has been making in restoring rule-of-law principles as it seeks to have its EU funds unfrozen, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Top EU official says decisions coming next week on the release of massive funds for Poland

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A Polish border guard gives instructions as drivers wait to cross the border from Poland into Ukraine in Medyka, Poland, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 that the border crossings with Ukraine are being added to a list of critical infrastructure to ensure that all military and humanitarian aid can reach Ukraine without delay. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance, Polish premier says as he moves to secure aid transit route

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Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk talks to journalists as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. European Union leaders meet in Brussels for a one day summit to discuss the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, including support for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Poland’s Tusk heads to France, Germany to strengthen alliance as fears grow over Russia and Trump

By Sylvie Corbet and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's former president Lech Walesa wears a T-shirt reminding Poland's current right-wing government that it should respect the nation's constitution, in his office in Gdansk, Poland, on Aug. 26, 2021. Walesa, turned 80 on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

An expansive Walesa reflects on Ukraine, traffic laws and the new world order

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Farmers with their tractors attend a protest in Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. For fourth non stop days, farmers in Spain have staged tractor protests across the country, blocking highways and causing traffic jams to demand of changes in EU policies and funds and measures to combat production cost hikes. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Farmers in Spain, Italy and Poland protest over European Union policies and competition

By Ciarán Giles and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, second left, and Polish President Andrzej Duda,right, walk past a Poland's military guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the start of two days of talks on global security, war in Ukraine and bilateral economic cooperation, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Yoon visits Poland after he attended a NATO summit in neighbouring Lithuania, where he sought to deepen ties with the military alliance amid global and regional security challenges .(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Seoul’s arms deal with Saudis clinched but giant Polish sale hangs in the balance

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

A Holocaust survivor places a llit candle at the monument at the Birkenau Nazi death camp during a ceremony in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a ceremony in southern Poland.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland protests error in a social media post by EU chief suggesting Auschwitz death camp was Polish

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