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Law enforcement, Apple users and security experts react to the legal standoff between Apple and the U.S. government over its iPhone encryption technology. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg leaves a UK court after denying a public order offence, after she was arrested at a demonstration against the energy industry in central London. The 20-year-old activist -- a key face of the movement to fight climate change -- was among 26 people charged at the October 17 demonstration in the British capital. IMAGES
The UK Supreme Court rejects a government plan to send migrants to Rwanda, upholding a lower court ruling that it was unlawful, in a major setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. SOUNDBITE
The President of Britain's Supreme Court, Lord Robert Reed, announces the court's ruling that the Scottish Parliament cannot unilaterally legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence without the backing of the Westminster-based government of the United Kingdom, in a set-back for the Scottish National Party and those supporting a repeat of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. SOUNDBITE
The first official budget figures since Britain voted to leave the EU show a smaller-than-expected budget surplus. As post-referendum data continues to trickle in, attention is turning to what sort of access Britain will seek with its main trading partners in the EU. Kirsty Basset reports.