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A Paris court has approved the transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, arrested in France after decades on the run, to a UN body for trial. Accused of financing the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people, Kabuga asked to be tried in France, and he can still appeal the decision to hand him over to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) for a trial in Arusha, Tanzania. Images of his lawyers arriving IMAGES
Protesters gather outside Paris city hall, after the French constitutional court approves the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform, while rejecting certain parts of the legislation. IMAGES
Relatives of the alleged financier of the genocide in Rwanda, Félicien Kabuga, arrive before his appearance before the Paris Court of Appeal. This hearing is to examine the validity of the arrest warrant issued by the Mechanism of the International Criminal Tribunals. IMAGES
French anti-terror judges will begin their first questioning of Salah Abdeslam, a member of the jihadist cell which killed 130 people in a series of attacks in Paris in November. IMAGES
French rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou leave Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires after being released from Mendoza prison on charges of rape against a woman. An Argentine court ruled September 3 that the two players, who have been detained for nearly two months, can leave the country. IMAGES
The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison. IMAGES