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The hearing to examine the validity of the expulsion of Eric Ciotti, leader of the right-wing mainstream Republicans (LR), opens at the Paris Court of Justice in Ciotti's absence. IMAGES
Senior Democrat Bennie Thompson opens a congressional inquiry into the US Capitol insurrection of January 6 in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. "The Select Committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the law enforcement experience on January 6th," the hearing chair says. A House select committee is tasked with getting to the bottom of the day's security failures. IMAGES
Registrar of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Abubacarr M. Tambadou praises "years of hard work, dedication and commitment" after war crimes judges upheld the genocide conviction of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. The UN tribunal in The Hague rejected Mladic's appeal against his 2017 life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over the 1992-5 Bosnian war. SOUNDBITE
War crimes judges uphold the genocide conviction of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. SOUNDBITE
William Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine arrives in Congress to testify in the first public hearings of the impeachment probe against Donald Trump. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent is also set to testify. IMAGES