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Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa leaves the Guayas governor's office building in the port city of Guayaquil after a meeting with officials from the State and Public Safety Council. Noboa imposed a state of emergency and nightly curfew following the escape from prison of gang boss Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito", and has vowed to wage "war" on the country's powerful criminal gangs. IMAGES
Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso, who was forcibly kissed in August by the former president of the football federation Luis Rubiales after the Roja women's World Cup victory, arrives at the Audiencia Nacional court in Madrid to be heard by the judge in charge of the case. IMAGES
Images of former Japanese soldier and sexual assault victim Rina Gonoi arriving at Fukushima District Court. The court found three ex-soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting Gonoi and gave them suspended jail terms, bringing to a close a rare case for a country where victims rarely come forward to speak out against abuse. IMAGES
Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes rally in the capital, Brasilia, as Brazil's Supreme Court weighs the legality of the so-called "time-frame argument," which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988. IMAGES
Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis arrives at the country's Supreme and Civil Criminal Court for a hearing over his claims to have been spied on by the Greek National Intelligence Service using the spyware Predator. IMAGES
Assange supporters gather outside the High Court in London, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is given permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the United States. IMAGES