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🇵🇱In Poland, a journalist’s conversation with a senator suddenly turned into a scandal: “Please do not touch me.” The confrontation broke out in the corridors of the Polish Sejm during a discussion about ending the war in Ukraine and Poland’s alleged absence from the negotiation table. At one point,...

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