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This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for causing the pneumonic disease Legionnaires' disease. Poland's internal security officers were searching for the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 others in the strategic city of Rzeszow, near the border with Ukraine, authorities said Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Francis Chandler/CDC via AP, File)

Legionnaires’ disease kills 7 people in a strategic Polish city on the Ukrainian border

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Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, greets Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during a state visit at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. At a joint news conference de Sousa vowed continuing support for Ukraine's struggle against Russia's invasion, while Duda said Poland is watching Russia's transfer of some nuclear weapons into neighbouring Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s leader says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, look on in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. Poland's controversial commission for examining Russian influences in Poland, that is seen as targeting the opposition ahead of Oct.15 parliamentary elections will not be formed before that vote, a prominent member of the ruling party said Friday, Aug, 18. The commission is seen as intended to diminish the popularity of main opposition leader Donald Tusk ahead of the elections in which the ruling conservative party is seeking an unprecedented third term. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland’s divisive commission on Russian influence postponed, ruling party member says

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

The leader of Poland's ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, and defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak ,right, during parliament vote to confirm that a government-planned controversial referendum on migration will be held alongside key parliamentary elections on Oct. 15, at the lower house of parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Critics say the referendum is a campaign ploy by ruling Law and Justice party to discredit the opposition and rally voters around government politics. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s lawmakers approve government plan for divisive referendum on election day

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken remotely addressing the participants in the observances of the anniversary of the Aug. 16, 1943 Jewish ghetto uprising in Bialystok, Poland, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Participating was Blinken's mother, Judith Pisar, the widow of a Bialystok ghetto survivor Samuel Pisar, who was Blinken's stepfather. U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski also attended. (AP Photo)

U.S. secretary of state says Poland’s 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising was act of bravery and dignity

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Polish servicemen attend a press conference of Poland's Minister of Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, in Jarylowka, Poland, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with pro-Russian Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up. Officials in Belarus have been making hostile comments about Poland, a European Union and NATO member. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, file)

Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus

By Monika Scislowska and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

People wait for a massive military parade during the Polish Army Day, which commemorates the 1920 battle in which Polish troops defeated advancing Bolshevik forces, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Aug. 15 , 2023. Poland is holding a military parade to showcase its state-of-the-art weapons and defense systems, as war rages across its southeastern border in neighboring Ukraine and ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for Oct. 15. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland showcases military might in a parade as war rages in neighboring Ukraine

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A metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, in Jurowlany, Poland, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. Poland’s defense minister said Saturday, that the country has increased the number of troops protecting its border with Belarus as a deterrent amid “destabilising” actions by its pro-Russian neighbour. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want ‘thousands of illegal immigrants’

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Polish servicemen attend a press conference of Poland's Minister of Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, in Jarylowka, Poland, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. Minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Saturday met in Jarylowka with some of the troops recently deployed with their defense equipment close to the Belarus border. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Polish minister says reinforcement at the border with Belarus is due to hostile rhetoric and actions

By Rafal Niedzielski - Associated Press

A metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. Poland’s president has announced that the country will hold its parliamentary election on October 15. The announcement on Tuesday marks the official start of an electoral campaign that has informally been underway for months and is being shaped by Russia’s war against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration

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Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak speaks during a ceremony after receiving its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, at an air base in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, 15 May 2023. Poland's defense minister said Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, that the country intends to put 10,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus, a statement that comes as Warsaw worries about migrants and Russian-linked mercenaries coming across its border. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus

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In this Sunday, June 28, 2020 file photo, President Andrzej Duda addresses supporters after voting ended in the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland. Poland’s president has announced that the country will hold its parliamentary election on Oct. 15. The announcement on Tuesday marks the official start of an electoral campaign that has informally been underway for months and is being shaped by Russia’s war against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Poland to hold parliamentary election on Oct. 15, launching campaign in shadow of war in region

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Two years after Olympics drama Belarus-born Tsimanouskaya to run for Poland in 3 track worlds events

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In this grab taken from video released by Belarus' Defense Ministry on Thursday, July 20, 2023, Belarusian soldiers of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and mercenary fighters from Wagner private military company attend the weeklong maneuvers conducted at a firing range near the border city of Brest, Belarus. The Polish prime minister says that more than 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland. (Belarus' Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Poland sending more troops to border after airspace violation by Belarus

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this grab taken from video released by Belarus' Defense Ministry on Thursday, July 20, 2023, Belarusian soldiers of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and mercenary fighters from Wagner private military company attend the weeklong maneuvers conducted at a firing range near the border city of Brest, Belarus. The Polish prime minister says that more than 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland. (Belarus' Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says

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Poland's lawmakers vote in parliament, in Warsaw, Poland, on May 26, 2023. Poland's lawmakers have voted to approve an amended but divisive law on Russian influences believed to be targeting the opposition and criticized by the U.S. and the European Union. The lower house voted Friday, July 28, 2023, to reject the Senate's veto to the draft law, meaning it only now requires to be signed by President Andrzej Duda to take effect. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s lawmakers approve a divisive law on Russian influence

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FILE - A Polish border guard patrols the area of a built metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. Security of the European Union's border with Russia’s ally Belarus is Polish government’s top priority, Poland’s chief politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Thursday, July 27, 2023. Deputy prime minister and conservative ruling party leader, Kaczynski paid a visit to the village of Koden, on the EU nation’s border with Belarus. Later in the day Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak was to meet troops guarding the border. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland’s ruling party leader vows to protect the EU border with Russia’s ally Belarus

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The European Commission headquarters is reflected in the windows of the European Council building in Brussels, on Oct. 28, 2019. Poland has made a complaint against Germany to the European Commission over tons of German waste, some of it allegedly toxic, brought and stored in unauthorized landfills across Poland, officials said Wednesday July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Poland complains to European Union about German waste brought and dumped in unauthorized landfills

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People protest Poland's restrictive abortion law in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday June 14, 2023. Women's rights advocates called for protests in dozens of Polish cities under the slogan "Stop killing us," after a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy died of sepsis, the latest such death since a tightening of Poland's abortion law. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) **FILE**

Women in Poland protest alleged police hostility against patient who took abortion pill

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FILE - People attend the ceremony marking the Polish Army Day in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Poland's population has shrunk again to just under 37.7 million in June despite returning emigrants, the state statistical office said Tuesday. A preliminary report by the Statistics Poland office says there were around 130,000 Poles fewer in the European Union country at the end of June compared to a year ago. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland’s population constantly shrinking despite pro-family policy

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