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People waved rainbow flags and danced to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Pride in Romania's capital city Bucharest on Saturday. The march was attended by around 25,000 people, making it the biggest since the first pride parade took place in the country in 2005, according to ACCEPT NGO, one of the organisers. In May, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that EU member Romania, which does not allow same-sex marriage, was violating the rights of couples by refusing to recognise their unions. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of people take part in Warsaw's Pride March, which the Ukrainian LGBT community has been invited to join due to the war. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of Georgians take to the streets of Tbilisi in support of the country's EU membership bid, after the European Commission recommended deferring Georgia's candidacy. EU leaders are expected to decide by Friday on granting candidate status to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, which all applied for EU membership shortly after Moscow invaded Ukraine on February 24. Waving Georgian and EU flags, an estimated 60,000 demonstrators gather outside Georgian parliament for the "March for Europe". IMAGES
Bogota/Medellin, May 30 (EFE).- Thousands of people joined marches in Bogota and Medellin to reject and call for the end of the 'National Strike' and the violence that arises from the demonstrations against the Colombian Government. Although the National Strike and its mobilizations are welcomed en masse by thousands of people in Colombia, a sector of society protests, claiming that due to the strike, commerce, supplies, the economy and their security have been affected. (Camera: MAURICIO DUEÑAS/LUIS EDUARDO NORIEGA). SHOT LIST: MARCHES AGAINST NATIONAL STRIKE AND VIOLENCE IN BOGOTA AND MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA.
Protesters fill Dhaka streets as they demonstrate against France and president Emmanuel Macron. Macron sparked protests across the Muslim world after the murder last month of teacher Samuel Paty -- who had shown his class a cartoon of Mohammed -- by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of Belarussians march against strongman Alexander Lukashenko in defiance of police threats to open fire after weeks of demonstrations. IMAGES