Same-sex marriages performed in other EU countries will now be recognized in Poland, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Friday. The decision marks a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ rights in one of the bloc's most socially conservative countries. The case involved a Polish couple who married in Germany in 2018.
The European Union (EU) Parliament recently passed a resolution pushing for the release of Niger's former President, Mohamed Bazoum, by April 2, the day his constitutional mandate was meant to conclude. The EU resolution said that it "strongly condemns the continued arbitrary detention of democratically elected President Bazoum and his wife."
Across history, European depictions of the Amazon have typically presented the South American region as a vast, untouched expanse. Over time, a set of tropes took hold: the rainforest as a "virgin" wilderness; Indigenous life cast as belonging to an earlier era; the whole region suspended outside of time.
The long sandy beaches of Turkey's Mediterranean region are very popular with tourists.
Network microphones on the desk as President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation from the White House in Washington on April 28, 1942.
A farmer sprinkles fertilizer over crops at a rice field on the outskirts of Amritsar on July 23, 2024.
Investigators on Friday said they had worked with partners in the United States and Canada to shut down infrastructure linked to the "Aisuru" and "Kimwolf" networks. The so-called botnets, made up of millions of infected devices, were used for large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that can overwhelm entire websites and onlines services.
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Fighting in the Middle East has revealed that many nations are ill equipped to face new forms of warfare, including massive deployment of drones. Attempts to shoot down Iranian drones in the Gulf states using expensive missiles from Western air defense systems have had limited success.
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