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The UN's highest court rules that a landmark case filed by the Gambia, accusing Myanmar of genocide of minority Rohingya Muslims, can proceed. International Court of Justice president Joan Donoghue declares the tribunal "finds that it has jurisdiction (...) to entertain the application filed by the Republic of the Gambia". SOUNDBITE
South Africa's top court rules that private and personal cannabis use should be legal in the climax of a case that has pitted officials against marijuana advocates and the judiciary. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, delivering the Johannesburg-based Constitutional Court's unanimous verdict, said that the law banning marijuana use in private by adults "is unconstitutional and therefore invalid". IMAGES
Images outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's top court, ahead of a landmark ruling on allegation of genocide in Gaza -- a case that has sparked global attention. The case was brought by South Africa, which has accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, set up in 1948 as the world reeled from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. IMAGES
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans and make public speeches in Cape Town as Israel will face accusations lodged by South Africa at the UN's top court that it has committed "genocidal" acts in Gaza, charges the country's president dismissed as "atrocious" and "preposterous". IMAGES
Eleven judges of the Israeli Supreme Court enter the court room at the beginning of petition hearing on an amendment to one of Israel's Basic Laws, the country's quasi-constitution, specifying the conditions for temporary removal of a prime minister, or the so-called "incapacitation law". Critics have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to use the reforms to quash possible judgements against him, an accusation he rejects. IMAGES
Indigenous celebrate as a majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled against efforts to restrict native peoples' rights to reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners. IMAGES