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Added on the 24/05/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Images outside of the Palais de Justice in Dakar, as the appeals trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is due to begin. Sonko, who was accused of defamation, was handed a two-month suspended sentence in the court case at the end of March after a trial his lawyers said would not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election. Sonko's fate is also wrapped up in another case in which he is accused of rape, which he contests. IMAGES
Images of French president Emmanuel Macron meeting Netherlands Senate and House of Representatives presient as he began a two-day state visit to the Netherlands, the first of a French president in this country in 23 years, largely focused on Europe. IMAGES
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters the US Justice Department asked an appeals court on Monday to stay a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill. The ruling "could open the floodgates for other medications to be targeted and denied to people who need them," she adds. SOUNDBITE
Colombia's government and a delegation from the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrillas meet in the Venezuelan capital Caracas as they announce they will next month restart peace talks suspended since 2019. IMAGES
Raila Odinga and Martha Karua arrive at the Supreme Court to file a hard copy of their petition challenging the presidential election results after having filed an online petition. Odinga has rejected the outcome of the poll, branding it a "travesty." He narrowly lost to Ruto by around 230,000 votes, less than two percentage points. IMAGES
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