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Waddling across a Warsaw expressway, a brood of wild sea ducks brought traffic to a halt as volunteers held motorists at bay -- an annual ritual to protect the bustling Polish capital's famous ducklings. u.afp.com/Saef 📸@WojtekRadwanski

🦆🇵🇱 Au printemps à Varsovie, des canards sauvages traversent un important axe routier près duquel leurs œufs éclosent. Des bénévoles coupent la circulation pour laisser les oiseaux traverser la route paisiblement, avec la bénédiction de la police. ➡️ u.afp.com/SasA

🏃🏽‍♂️ Armand Duplantis delivers a pole vault masterclass to win a fourth world indoor title, as Josh Kerr outguns Cole Hocker for victory in a stacked 3,000m and Simon Ehammer sets a new record in the men's heptathlon. Read our roundup from Torun, Poland ⤵️ u.afp.com/SLRF

Two Ukrainians working for Moscow have been identified as suspects in two cases of rail line sabotage in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said during a speech in parliament on Tuesday ➡️ u.afp.com/Snzn

🎹 American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition, the contest's Polish organisers said Tuesday. ➡️ u.afp.com/Ssep

🇵🇱 Dans un lycée militaire de Pologne, des adolescents participent à un nouveau cursus pour apprendre à piloter des drones. Pour eux, c'est une fiction qu'ils comparent à un jeu vidéo. Mais pour la Pologne, la menace semble bien réelle. ➡️ u.afp.com/SsxF

🇹🇲 Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told AFP how they were tortured, beaten and raped in penal colonies and psychiatric hospitals in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of being gay. ➡️ u.afp.com/SPb5

AFP’s Wojtek Radwanski photographs military exercises of Poland and NATO allied countries in Orzysz, northwestern Poland, on September 17, 2025. The military exercises come as Poland seeks help to shore up its eastern defences in the wake of a major Russian drone incursion

Are Russia and the EU inching toward "open conflict"? Poland issues warning after shooting down what it said were Russian drones in Polish airspace u.afp.com/SdtJ

VIDEO: Young Poles spend holidays at summer army boot camp. Instead of relaxing over the summer holidays, nearly 10,000 men and women have signed up for a month-long, paid "Vacation with the Army" programme, launched by Poland's defence ministry to promote military service among young people as the country beefs up its security

'Musical cocoon': Polish mountain town hosts Chopin fest u.afp.com/SMNg

Poland's pro-EU government won a confidence vote in parliament Wednesday as it attempted to demonstrate it still had majority support, despite suffering a major blow in this month's presidential election. u.afp.com/SNkX

'This is no vacation': young Poles do summer army bootcamp. Nearly 10,000 men and women have volunteered for the month-long, paid "Vacation with the Army" programme, which the defence ministry set up as Poland beefs up its security u.afp.com/Sgbo

"We're in a musical cocoon." The peaceful spa town of Duszniki-Zdroj, nestled on the Polish-Czech border, is hosting the International Chopin Piano Festival - hosting aficionados of Frederic Chopin, who gave his first concert abroad there aged just 16. u.afp.com/SMGx

RT @MarekJozefiak: WAŻNE: HISTORYCZNY MOMENT DLA 🇵🇱ENERGETYKI‼️MAMY MIJANKĘ OZE I WĘGLA🔥 ⚡️Jak wynika z szacunkowych danych think tanku @F…

#UPDATE The centrist and nationalist candidates vying for the Polish presidency were neck and neck, exit polls showed, each predicting victory in a vote with major implications for Poland's pro-EU government. u.afp.com/SGZi

Nationalist Karol Nawrocki is predicted to win Poland's presidential election, in what would be a major blow for the country's pro-EU government. An admirer of US President Donald Trump, Nawrocki was given 51% of votes in a projection by Ipsos based on partial results u.afp.com/SGZT

UPDATE Nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's presidential election against Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, official results show, in a major blow for the pro-EU government. The national election commission says Nawrocki won 50.89% against 49.11% for Trzaskowski in the runoff election

Wczoraj odbyła się rozprawa Piątki #h5 oskarżonych o pomoc rodzinie z Iraku i mężczyźnie z Egiptu na #granica PL-BY. Tymczasem prokuratura w #Bialymstoku chce zmienić kwalifikację prawną czynów i zarzuca aktywistom organizację nielegalnego przekraczania granicy. Nie ma naszej zgody na kryminalizowanie pomocy humanitarnej! @Adbodnar

Pope Francis's funeral will be held on Saturday, the Vatican announced Tuesday, as world leaders from US President Donald Trump to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said they would attend to honour the Catholic leader. u.afp.com/SSLM