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The trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 opens in Schiphol the Netherlands, even though the suspects are still at large. It follows a half-decade long fight for justice by families of the 298 people who were killed when the jet was shot down over Ukraine by a Russian-made missile as it travelled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. IMAGES
The family of Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki "have come without "no hope whatsoever of any disclosure nor admission" to the appeal trial in eastern France of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, sentenced to 28 years in prison for the murder of the student in the first trial. SOUNDBITE
French serial killer Michel Fourniret's widow, Monique Olivier, arrives in the courtroom's dock to stand trial for complicity in the abduction and murder of little girl and two young women in northern France. Spanning three decades, the murders included a 9 year old girl on her way back from school, a mentally disabled 18 year old and a 20 year olf British woman whose body was found in a river in 1990. Fourniret, known as the "ogre of the Ardennes", was charged with abduction, rape and murder in the cases but died in 2021, aged 79, before he could be brought to trial. IMAGES
Lawyers, security personnel and the members of the press arrive outside the courtroom in Brussels where the trial of the suspects in the March 2016 jihadist attacks opens today. The attacks on the Belgian capital's metro system and airport left 32 dead and became the country's worst peacetimes massacre. IMAGES
A prosecutor in the MH17 trial says she hopes for favourable outcome but that it was also important "that we could speak about what happened openly in court" as a Dutch court rules in the trial of four men over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 above Ukraine in 2014. Prosecutors have demanded life sentences for the suspects although the men are unlikely to serve time if convicted. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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