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Poland’s local and regional elections over the weekend failed to give Prime Minister Donald Tusk the sweeping victory he had hoped for in his efforts to reverse eight years of rule by a populist party that was accused by the European Union of eroding democratic norms. Exit polls released after voting closed Sunday show that…

WARSAW — Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has now taken another step toward full-scale autocracy. With parliamentary elections approaching this fall, PiS has drafted a law to create a special commission to investigate Russian influence between 2007 and 2022, a period that includes the opposition party Civic Platform’s time in power (2007-15). Worse, Polish

WARSAW — Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has now taken another step toward full-scale autocracy. With parliamentary elections approaching this fall, PiS has drafted a law to create a special commission to investigate Russian influence between 2007 and 2022, a period that includes the opposition party Civic Platform’s time in power (2007-15). Worse, Polish

Poland’s ruling party is again tinkering with the Constitutional Tribunal for political ends.

Few would have predicted Biden and Duda would become firm allies — but war makes for strange bedfellows.

President Bidens visit to Warsaw coincides with a high-stakes election year for Poland. The ruling camp sees this as a huge opportunity to convince its electorate that a Poland led by PiS has finally risen from its knees to become an important actor in world politics and a military power to be reckoned with.

The Duchess of York, 62, said todays episode of Storytime with Fergie and Friends - in which she read Do Not Wish For A Pet Ostrich by Sarina Siebenaler - is to all the children out there.

Wearing the same jacket she wore on her first visit to Poland in March, shortly after the war with Russia began, Sarah Ferguson, 62, was today back in Southern Poland to meet Ukrainian refugees.

About 300 participants travelled from Ukraine to the Polish capital, which is now home to a quarter-million Ukrainians who fled the war.

Sarah Ferguson has visited a monastery in Rudy, Poland today, where she met with Ukrainian mothers who were forced to flee the war-torn country with their children.