One of Poland’s most senior church figures, Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, the archbishop of Łódź, has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants.

Thousands of people have joined anti-immigration marches organised by the far-right Confederation (Konfederacja) party in dozens of cities around Poland.

A 19th-century manor house in Belarus where renowned Polish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz once lived has been sold at auction for the equivalent of €278 (1,180 zloty) ...