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Former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and a dozen co-defendants are to be tried today for the first time in a Guinean court for the horrific massacre of 28 September 2009. A special court has been built on the premises of the Court of Appeal in Conakry to try them. IMAGES
The European Union on Wednesday expresses hope that Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, who has been held for two years on terror charges, would be freed soon. SOUNDBITE
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES
Armed forces block the entrance of Kaloum district, the administrative centre of Guinean capital Conakry. Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara has been taken out of prison by a heavily armed commando during an operation that sparked heavy gunfire in the city, according to his lawyers and a judicial source. IMAGES
Police clashed with protesters in a Dhaka hospital as they barricaded the ambulance carrying Sayedee's corpse demanding a funeral prayer in the capital. Sayedee died Monday in a prison hospital ten years after his conviction by a controversial war crimes court triggered the deadliest political violence in the country's history. IMAGES