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Some reproductive health campaigners in southern Africa are hoping for a change in Namibia's abortion ban, which they say has forced many women to risk dangerous backroom procedures. The government has been holding public hearings about the current legislation ever since over 60,000 people signed a petition calling for abortion to be made more accessible.
E. Jean Carroll, the former columnist accusing former US President Donald Trump of rape and defamation, arrives outside a New York court as the jury is expected to hear the closing arguments in the civil trial. IMAGES
Images of people outside the US Supreme Court building as the nation's highest court is poised to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling Friday on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. 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
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the US has been plunged into uncertainty after conflicting court rulings on Friday over the legality of the medication Mifepristone, which has been widely available for more than 20 years.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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