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Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES
Polish lawmakers tap former EU chief Donald Tusk with forming the next government after eight years of right-wing populist rule. The lower house of parliament, which is controlled by Tusk's pro-EU alliance, had earlier Monday rejected the conservative camp's proposed new cabinet. IMAGES
Polish president Andrzej Duda delivers a speech, during the first session of the new Polish parliament, following the general election. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party won the largest number of seats in October's elections, though well short of a majority. Even so, President Andrzej Duda has given it first crack at forming a new government. IMAGES