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Poland: Country in Central Europe
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces, covering an area of 312,696 km2 (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. Poland has a population of nearly 38.5 million people, and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin.

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Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to stir border tensions with Poland, says Meta [Video]

Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to stir border tensions with Poland, says Meta

Facebook's parent company also said it had removed dozens of fake Polish accounts that posed as migrants.

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Court 'should dismiss' Hungary-Poland bid to stop conditions being slapped on EU cash handouts [Video]

Court 'should dismiss' Hungary-Poland bid to stop conditions being slapped on EU cash handouts

Hungary and Poland are trying to stop EU cash handouts from being conditional on respect for rule of law and other key values of the bloc.

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Brussels accused of 'weakening asylum rights' to deal with Belarus border crisis [Video]

Brussels accused of 'weakening asylum rights' to deal with Belarus border crisis

The European Commission is facing backlash after it proposed to give Poland, Latvia and Lithuania more flexibility to process asylum applications.

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Berlin: 6000 green lights in solidarity with migrants in Belarus [Video]

Berlin: 6000 green lights in solidarity with migrants in Belarus

A collective of NGOs placed 6,000 green lights in front of the Bundestag to demand the reception of migrants blocked at the border between Poland and Belarus.

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Belarus will not force migrants to return home, says President Lukashenko [Video]

Belarus will not force migrants to return home, says President Lukashenko

The Belarusian President made his first public appearance at the Polish border since the start of the crisis.

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Johnson talks European security with Polish PM at Downing St [Video]

Johnson talks European security with Polish PM at Downing St

Boris Johnson discusses European security with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at Downing Street. He says Poland are the UK's "closest" European NATO ally, while Morawiecki warns a "new global..

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Ukraine sends 8,500 troops to its Belarus border over migrants fear [Video]

Ukraine sends 8,500 troops to its Belarus border over migrants fear

The Belarus-Poland border crisis has sparked fears in Kyiv that migrants will soon be sent Ukraine's way.

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Poland reports more migrant crossing attempts from Belarus [Video]

Poland reports more migrant crossing attempts from Belarus

There were 267 attempts to cross the border fence from Belarus on Tuesday.

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Belarus-Poland border crisis: The migrants in their own words [Video]

Belarus-Poland border crisis: The migrants in their own words

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Poland 'will not yield to blackmail' over Belarus migrant crisis [Video]

Poland 'will not yield to blackmail' over Belarus migrant crisis

He went on to warn that "today the target is Poland, but tomorrow it will be Germany, Belgium, France or Spain".

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Demonstrators on Poland-Belarus border demand more help for migrants [Video]

Demonstrators on Poland-Belarus border demand more help for migrants

Demonstrators in Poland - close to the Belarusian border - demand that the government does more to help migrants.

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Poland says migrants are still trying to cross the border from Belarus [Video]

Poland says migrants are still trying to cross the border from Belarus

"The new method has been adopted by migrants and Belarusian services," Poland's defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.

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Does Poland's deputy FM have sympathy for migrants on border with Belarus? Hear his reply [Video]

Does Poland's deputy FM have sympathy for migrants on border with Belarus? Hear his reply

Polish deputy foreign minister Pawel Jablonski responds to a migrant’s cry for help at the Belarus-Poland border.

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Reporter shows inside processing center holding migrants on Poland-Belarus border [Video]

Reporter shows inside processing center holding migrants on Poland-Belarus border

CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from a processing center in Belarus where some migrants are being held. On Tuesday, violence broke out on the country’s border with Poland as thousands tried to cross..

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Tensions boil over at Belarus-Poland border [Video]

Tensions boil over at Belarus-Poland border

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Hear why this historian says 'the bad guys are winning' around the world [Video]

Hear why this historian says 'the bad guys are winning' around the world

The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum joins CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to discuss the migrant crisis at the Belarus-Poland border and why she believes autocrats around the world are winning.

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Baltic leaders urge EU to 'hold Belarus accountable for human trafficking' [Video]

Baltic leaders urge EU to 'hold Belarus accountable for human trafficking'

On Monday, hundreds of migrants found themselves trapped at a border crossing unable to go forward or backward between Poland and Belarus.

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See what Belarus-Poland border looks like after violence erupted [Video]

See what Belarus-Poland border looks like after violence erupted

Violence has erupted at the Poland-Belarus border. Migrants threw stones at Polish border guards, who responded with water cannons and tear gas. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from the Belarusian side..

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Teenage Syrian laid to rest by Poland-Belarus border [Video]

Teenage Syrian laid to rest by Poland-Belarus border

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Poland to start building wall as migrants mass at border [Video]

Poland to start building wall as migrants mass at border

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Camped against barbed wire and watched by dogs, a day on the Belarusian border [Video]

Camped against barbed wire and watched by dogs, a day on the Belarusian border

CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from the Belarusian side of the border where thousands of migrants are caught in a diplomatic standoff trying to cross into Poland.

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Freezing and hungry: Journalist describes migrants' plight at Poland-Belarus border [Video]

Freezing and hungry: Journalist describes migrants' plight at Poland-Belarus border

Journalist Matthew Luxmoore says migrants at the Poland-Belarus border are in dire straits as temperatures start plummeting.

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Water cannons aimed at migrants in tense border standoff [Video]

Water cannons aimed at migrants in tense border standoff

An estimated 2,000 migrants, among them hundreds of babies and toddlers, have massed along the Kuźnica-Bruzgi border crossing separating Belarus from Poland. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from the..

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Scores of migrants leave camp for Belarus-Poland border [Video]

Scores of migrants leave camp for Belarus-Poland border

Hundreds of migrants remained stranded at Belarus' border with Poland on Monday as the European Union agreed to slap further sanctions on the former Soviet nation. Amid the crisis, Poland has also..

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Belarus-Poland border crisis: Migrants stranded at the border told their stories to Infomigrants [Video]

Belarus-Poland border crisis: Migrants stranded at the border told their stories to Infomigrants

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