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Hundreds of demonstrators gather in central Warsaw to protest after Poland's parliament rejected a bill that would have decriminalised abortion assistance. The country has one of Europe's most restrictive rules on the practice, which is punishable by up to three years in jail. IMAGES
Women and activists hold a demonstration in front of the Polish public television station TVP building in Warsaw on the eighth straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Women in Poland walk off the job and hit the streets, the seventh straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Poland's Prime Minister and former President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, reacts at the centrist Civic Coalition's (KO) headquarters in Warsaw as polls close for the European elections. IMAGES
Polish voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Warsaw on the last day of European Parliament elections. 21 EU member countries are voting, with the bloc facing a range of challenges, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, global trade and industrial tensions, a climate emergency and a West that, within months, may have to adapt to a new Donald Trump presidency. IMAGES