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Former policeman Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail for murdering African American George Floyd, a killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades. SOUNDBITE
Kyrgyzstan's former president is sentenced to 11 years in jail over the illegal release of a crime boss, a case that caused a violent power struggle with his successor. The presiding judge at a court in the capital Bishkek handed Almazbek Atambayev the sentence of 11 years and two months and ruled the ex-leader be stripped of all state honours as well as his homes and businesses. IMAGES
The head of the main opposition party in Istanbul to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison. IMAGES
Rwanda jails the main leader of the opposition for treason and denying the genocide which scourged the country in the 1990s. Next, there are urgent calls for a reform of South Sudan's use of the death penalty as activists warn justice is not being served. Finally, China's manufacturers begin gravitating towards Africa as the low production costs become an irresistible draw.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the US Capitol, on the sidelines of NATO's 75th anniversary summit. IMAGES
A Spanish court sentences former Brazil international Dani Alves to four and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. IMAGES of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia in Barcelona
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