Volunteers wait before taking part in the 66th National Day celebrations in Malaysia's administrative capital Putrajaya, on August 31, 2023. The country commemorates the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British rule in 1957. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)

A couple buy a sugar-coated Chinese haw to a child at the Qianmen pedestrian shopping street, a popular tourist spot in Beijing, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, June 14, 2014 file photo, two women kiss in front of a rainbow flag, the symbol of the gay rights movement, during the Gay Pride parade in central Athens, Greece. Ahead of May 21, general elections, Alexis Tsipras, head of the main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, promised on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 to legalize same-s*x marriage if he becomes the next prime minister. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)

In this April 14, 2014 file photo, Hamamatou Harouna, 10, who lost the use of her legs to polio, crawls to the restroom on the grounds of the Catholic Church where she and hundreds of others found refuge after fleeing violence in her village, in Carnot, Central African Republic. Health authorities on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 are expected to declare the African continent free of the wild poliovirus after decades of effort, though cases of vaccine-derived polio are still sparking outbreaks of the paralyzing disease in more than a dozen countries. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo/File)

A man sits on his cart which he attached with National League for Democracy (NLD) party flags along a flooded street in Yangon September 30, 2015. Myanmar will hold a general election on November 8. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

Mane flowing, a young competitor clears a jump at the hobby horse racing, eventing and dressage event at Parklands Equestrian Centre near Sheffield, UK on December 30, 2024. (Photo by James Glossop/Times Media Ltd)

A person dressed in a chicken costume walks through Westminster on Good Friday in London, United Kingdom on April 2, 2021. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)

Girls in red neckerchiefs dance on Red Square, with the GUM, the State Department Store and the Historical Museum in the background, during a ceremony to celebrate joining the Pioneers organization and 100th anniversary of the All-Union Pioneer Organization, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Pro-Communist Russians are trying to preserve the Young Pioneers, which used to be the Communist league for pre-teens in the Soviet Union. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)