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Members of Poland's women's rights organizations, with obituaries of women who fell victim to violence, protest against plans by the right-wing government to withdraw from Europe's Istanbul Convention on prevention of violence against women and children, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s top court to probe Europe’s domestic violence pact

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EU keeps LGBT-hostile Polish towns out of local fund program

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Members of Poland's women's rights organizations, with obituaries of women who fell victim to violence, protest against plans by the right-wing government to withdraw from Europe's Istanbul Convention on prevention of violence against women and children, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poles split over govt plan to exit domestic violence treaty

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Group founded by a Latina welder aims to empower other women

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Protesters with a banner reading &quot;Women's Strike&quot; taking part in a rally against Polish government plans to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on prevention and combatting of home violence,in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 24, 2020. In the opinion of Poland's right-wing government the convention promotes &quot;gender&quot; ideologies alien to Poland's Catholic tradition.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Protests decry Polish gov’t plan to leave anti-violence deal

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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Protesters hold a sign saying &quot;People, not Ideology,&quot; at a protest of the homophobic rhetoric of Polish President Andrzej Duda in Bialystok, Poland, on June 20, 2020. Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are angry and afraid after Duda won re-election in a divisive campaign that cast their movement for equal rights as a dangerous “ideology” that threatens families in the deeply Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

Poland’s LGBT community feels fear and anger after election

By VANESSA GERA and DOROTHEE THIESING - Associated Press

Candidate in Poland's tight presidential election runoff, incumbent President Andrzej Duda talks to reporters after having cast his ballot at a polling station in his hometown of Krakow, Poland, on Sunday, July 12, 2020. Conservative Duda is running against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and latest opinion polls suggest the race will be decided by a very narrow margin.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Russian prankster acts as UN chief, reaches Polish president

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Poland's ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, during a police-guarded ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 10, 2020 remembering his twin brother, the late president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, killed in a plane crash in Russia in the year 2010. Friday was the last day of campaigning in Poland's presidential election runoff in which incumbent president, Andrzej Duda enjoys the right-wing ruling party's backing for a reelection, rivalling liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski. Opinion polls suggest the election may be decided by a small number of votes.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland: Politician vows steps to make media more ‘realistic’

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Incumbent President Andrzej Duda flashes a victory sign in Pultusk, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2020. An exit poll in Poland's presidential runoff election shows a tight race that is too close to call between the conservative incumbent, Andrzej Duda, and the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president wins 2nd term after bitter campaign

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 7, 2020 photo Poland's incumbent president Andrzej Duda, who is seeking reelection in a tight presidential election runoff on Sunday, July 12, 2020 attends a rally in Lomza, Poland. Duda, who has backing from Poland's ruling right-wing party, is running against liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski. Opinion polls suggest the election may be decided by a small number of votes. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Exit poll: Duda leads Poland’s tight presidential runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this Thursday, July 9, 2020 photo election campaign posters of incumbent conservative president, Andrzej Duda, right, and his challenger, the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, for a tight presidential election runoff on Sunday, July 12, 2020 are seen in Raciaz, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland faces momentous choice in tight presidential runoff

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

This combination of photos shows candidates in Poland's presidential election, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, right, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda. The two candidates are heading into a razor's-edge presidential runoff election Sunday, July 12, 2020, that is seen as an important test of populism in Europe after a campaign that exacerbated a conservative-liberal divide in the country. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A deeply divided Poland chooses a president in runoff vote

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

President Andrzej Duda leaves after speaking to supporters at the end of the voting in the presidential election day in Lowicz, Poland, Sunday, June 28, 2020. The election will test the popularity of incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who is seeking a second term, and of the conservative ruling party that backs him. Exit poll shows incumbent Andrzej Duda with most votes in Polish presidential vote, but short of first-round win.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Rivals in Poland election runoff get no help from also-rans

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

President Andrzej Duda flashes victory signs after voting ended in the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland, Sunday, June 28, 2020. The election will test the popularity of incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who is seeking a second term, and of the conservative ruling party that backs him. Exit poll shows incumbent Andrzej Duda with most votes in Polish presidential vote, but short of first-round win.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Polish president attacks LGBT rights as he heads to runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Pope Francis speaks during the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, after celebrating a Mass for the Feast of Rome's Patrons Saints Peter and Paul, at the Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Polish group seeks pope’s action against sex abuse, cover-up

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 file photo, Polish President Andrzej Duda waves to supporters as he campaigns for a second term in Serock, Poland.Polands current President Andrzej Duda is the frontrunner ahead of the election on Sunday, June 28, but polls show him unlikely to achieve the majority needed to win outright. That will require a runoff two weeks later in which he is expected to face off against Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a very close race. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Exit poll: Polish presidential vote headed for runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sunday election in Poland a test for president and populism

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski talking to reporters at the site of a city bus crash that killed one person and injured over 20 people when the articulate bus crashed off an overpass, in Warsaw, Poland, on June 25, 2020. Trzaskowski, who is a runner-up candidate in Sunday election for the nation's president, suspend his campaigning to come to the site.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish presidential candidates make last appeals to voters

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

FILE -- In this file photo taken on March 14, 2019, Archbishop Wojciech Polak, right, the Roman Catholic primate of Poland, addresses the media during a news conference at the episcopate building in Warsaw. Pope Francis has named a temporary administrator to lead a southern Polish diocese where the bishop has been accused of covering up cases of sexual abuse that were featured in a second abuse documentary that has rocked Poland's Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Pope moves against Polish bishop accused of hiding predators

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press