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BERLIN (AP) — The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change. The move, long declared by U.S. President Donald Trump and triggered by his administration a year ago, isolates the United States in the world but has no immediate impact on international efforts to curb global warming. ....

The law, which came into force at midnight, mandates that all Supreme Court judges over the age of 65 must retire and will force 27 of the 72 judges off the bench, according to the European Union. "My presence here is not about politics, I am here to protect the rule of law," Gersdorf, who is 65, said at the court's entrance... ...Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, insists that the measures are needed and will strengthen democracy. "Each EU state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions," Morawiecki told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France,...