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Crowds gather in Ghetto Heroes Square in Warsaw on the first day of commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Polish government officials and survivors in attendance. Sirens can be heard across the Polish capital to mark the beginning of the commemorations, which mark the 1943 revolt of hundreds of the city's Jewish inhabitants against the Nazis. IMAGES
British Defence Minister John Healey is welcomed by his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in Warsaw. The British politician is on a lightning tour of Europe that has already seen him visit France, Germany and will see him in Estonia next. IMAGES
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
German and Polish delegations take family photo in Warsaw as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits for talks. IMAGES
Poland's Prime Minister and the former President of the European Council Donald Tusk casts his vote for the EU's parliament elections in Warsaw. IMAGES