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The UN's highest court rules that a landmark case filed by the Gambia, accusing Myanmar of genocide of minority Rohingya Muslims, can proceed. International Court of Justice president Joan Donoghue declares the tribunal "finds that it has jurisdiction (...) to entertain the application filed by the Republic of the Gambia". SOUNDBITE
South Africa's top court rules that private and personal cannabis use should be legal in the climax of a case that has pitted officials against marijuana advocates and the judiciary. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, delivering the Johannesburg-based Constitutional Court's unanimous verdict, said that the law banning marijuana use in private by adults "is unconstitutional and therefore invalid". IMAGES
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius welcomes his British counterpart John Healey to Berlin with military honours. IMAGES
Passengers wait in long queues at Berlin airport as flights were temporarily suspended due to a global IT outage hitting Germany. The disruption comes as a major outage wrought havoc on computer systems worldwide, grounding flights in the United States, derailing television broadcasts in the UK and impacting telecommunications in Australia. IMAGES
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes Argentinian President Javier Milei at the Chancellery in Berlin. Mr. Milei is also greeted by the noise of dozens of demonstrators against his government. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are among leaders meeting at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin. IMAGES