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Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists gather outside the US Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments in the fiercest challenge to abortion in a generation, as a Supreme Court dramatically reshaped by Donald Trump hears a case that could roll back 50 years of reproductive rights. The nine justices -- among them six conservatives -- are examining a 2018 law in the southern state of Mississippi that prohibits most terminations after 15 weeks of pregnancy. IMAGES
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. IMAGES
Abortion in America will face its fiercest challenge in a generation when the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, dramatically reshaped by Donald Trump, will hear opening arguments in a case that could roll back 50 years of reproductive rights. The nine justices -- among them six conservatives -- will sit from 10:00 am (1500 GMT) to examine a 2018 law in the southern state of Mississippi that prohibits most terminations after 15 weeks of pregnancy. IMAGES
Thousands of people gather on Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, ahead of a march toward the Supreme Court, at the start of a day of nationwide protests aimed at countering a conservative drive to restrict access to abortions. IMAGES
A dozen of pro-immigration activists gather outside the US Supreme Court after it rejected US President Donald Trump's cancellation of the DACA "Dreamer" program protecting 700,000 "Dreamers," undocumented migrants brought to the United States as children. IMAGES
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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