Since 1993, Poland has allowed abortion only in cases of severe foetal abnormalities, risks to the mother's health or life, or pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
Poland’s Sejm has voted to ease some abortion restrictions, but the changes would leave its laws among the most restrictive in the EU — and face an uphill battle to become law.
A 16-year-old suspected of plotting a massacre has been detained by police in Warsaw, Poland. Investigators believe the teenager was preparing to kill multiple people. Officers searching his home discovered what they described as "an entire arsenal of dangerous items".