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Midnight fireworks over Skopje during a New Year's Eve celebrations in North Macedonia's capital on January 1, 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski.

Fireworks shower the skies over the Macedonian capital, Skopje, at midnight during a New Year's Eve celebration on Janurary 1, 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski.

Saturday's protest was organised by "Million Moments for Democracy", a student-led movement that drew a quarter of a million people to Letna plain in June amid ire over alleged conflicts of interest involving the Agrofert conglomerate that Babis founded.

According to Million Moments chairman Mikulas Minar, Babis is abusing media and political power to profit his companies.

The planned modification of the law on hunting would remove the rare brown bear from the list of species accorded the highest level of protection and place it in the category of those eligible for seasonal hunting.

The change was backed by the Social Democrat-led government and approved last week by the Romanian Senate, the upper house of parliament. 

A man walks toward the beach of Lagonissi, near Athens, on election day, Sunday. Amid fears of widespread abstention, Greek political leaders urged the country's almost 10-million strong electorate to get to polling stations. [EPA] 

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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria (c) and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (r) attend an event titled "Challenges and Opportunities Related to a New Climate Economy: Driving Innovation for Sustainable Development," at the Academy of Athens, Thursday. [Yannis Kolesidis/EPA]

Police officers during an operation to evict people from a neighborhood where two buildings are occupied by alleged migrants, in the Exarchia district, central Athens, Thursday. According to police sources, more than 90 people have been brought for questioning. According to reports, locals had complained about violent incidents in the area. [Pantelis Saitas/EPA]

US President Donald Trump attends an event marking Greek Independence Day (March 25) at the White House in Washington on Monday.

US President Donald Trump attends a Greek Independence Day celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. [EPA]

Thousands of protesting students flooded Tirana's George Bush Street near parliament on Thursday, in the ninth day of protests in Albania against tuition fee rises, over university autonomy and living conditions in dormitories.