World News: Poland extends temporary border checks with Germany to October

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Poland announced that checks at Poland's borders with Germany and Lithuania will be extended to block irregular migration and close transit routes from Russia and Belarus.

Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said Sunday that the regulation to prolong controls had been formally submitted to the European Commission, as required under EU rules.

The checks, initially introduced on July 7 and originally due to expire on August 5, will now remain in force until October 4.

Kierwinski explained that the strengthened barriers on Poland's eastern frontier with Belarus and Russia have largely blocked migrant paths, shifting the flow toward Lithuania and Latvia.

The expanded checks aim to intercept cross-border transit before migrants reach the German border.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk framed the extension as a defensive response to Germany's tightening of asylum admissions.

In the United States, around 3,200 workers from Boeing's defense unit went on strike for the first time in nearly three decades on Monday after rejecting a contract offer from the company.

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 walked off the job across Boeing facilities in St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, and Mascoutah, Illinois, staging their first strike since 1996.

They rejected Boeing's contract offer, which included a 20 percent general wage increase, a 5,000 U.S. dollar ratification bonus, additional vacation and sick leave.

The workers cited unresolved issues with overtime eligibility and scheduling provisions.

Dame Stella Rimington, the UK's first publicly named director-general of MI5 and the first known female leader of any national intelligence agency, died on Sunday aged 90.

She joined MI5 in 1969 and worked her way up to become Director General in 1992.

Paying tribute, the current MI5 Director General said, "Her leadership ushered in a new era of openness and transparency about the work MI5 does."

After retiring, Rimington was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1996 and went on to write bestselling spy novels featuring fictional MI5 and CIA agents.

Choi Chi-hee, Arirang News.