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Polish minister of defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and Parliament speaker Szymon Holownia attend a ceremony in Warsaw celebrating 25 years since Poland's accession to NATO. A day earlier, President Andrzej Duda urged NATO members to increase their defence spending to three percent of GDP in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. IMAGES
Greenpeace activists gather and inflate a giant octopus near the Eiffel Tower to protest against the presence of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the international One Planet - Polar Summit, an international summit dedicated to glaciers and the poles. Norway is considering opening up its waters to deep-sea mining. IMAGES
Taiwan holds candle light vigil in Taipei on the 34th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown. IMAGES
Around 20 Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels to denounce the institution's support for the EastMed gas pipeline project, denounced as a "war monger" and a "climate bomb". They put up a banner several dozen metres long, symbolising the pipeline. Police asks the activists to leave the area. No arrests were made. IMAGES
Times Square in New York holds a moment of silence on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 for the almost 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks. IMAGES
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