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European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Poland will only receive the money from its 35.4-billion euro ($38 billion) post-Covid economic recovery package if it carries out rule of law reforms. She says the EU's approval of the plan announced on Wednesday is "important" but only "a first step, as the money will be disbursed when the reforms and investments are in place". SOUNDBITE
During a press conference with Belgian PM Alexander de Croo and Polish Pm Donald Tusk, EU chief, Ursula Von der Leyen, announces that aid for Poland frozen over rule-of-law row has now been unblocked. SOUNDBITE
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a Eulogy at the memorial of the 21 teens who died under mysterious circumstances in a Tavern in east London. In his speech he lays blame "at the feet of those who are making money off the dreams and the lives of young people of South Africa" and goes on to announce that bars caught selling alcohol to those underage would be shut down permanently, moving forward. SOUNDBITE
The United States vows to keep promoting human rights in Turkey, while also calling for cooperation, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel the ambassador over his advocacy. "We will continue to promote the rule of law and respect for human rights globally," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters during a briefing in Washington, DC. SOUNDBITE
Kenya's Court of Appeal will deliver its verdict Friday on the president's controversial three-year quest to change the constitution, a ruling that could shake up the political landscape less than a year before elections. The so-called Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) seeks notably to dilute the current winner-takes-all electoral system blamed by Kenyatta for poll unrest, by expanding the executive and parliament. IMAGES
The Hague, Jun 18 (EFE), (Camera: David Morales Urbaneja).- The International Criminal Court’s presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji says United States sanctions on its personnel are a “direct, undisguised attack on the rule of law” and that it will continue doing its work.SOUNDBITES OF JUDGE CHILE EBOE-OSUJI.
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