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The International Criminal Court throws out an appeal by Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, against his conviction for war crimes. Dominic Ongwen, who was himself abducted aged nine by the rebel group led by the fugitive Joseph Kony, was found guilty last year of murder, rape and sexual enslavement in northern Uganda during the early 2000s. SOUNDBITE
The US Supreme Court is to hear Donald Trump's appeal of the Colorado ballot ban. The question before the nine justices is whether Trump is ineligible to appear on the Republican presidential primary ballot in the state of Colorado because he engaged in an insurrection—the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by his supporters. IMAGES
The European Commission urges EU countries to reduce their demand for natural gas by 15 percent over the coming winter months to overcome Russia's energy supply "blackmail". SOUNDBITE
The United States has reached the assessment that Russian military forces committed war crimes in Ukraine, US ambassador at large for global criminal justice Beth Van Schaack tells reporters at a State Department briefing. SOUNDBITE
Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES
A Russian court is set to make a ruling in an "extremism" case against the political network of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as Moscow seeks to outlaw the opposition to President Vladimir Putin. The closed court hearing is part of a sweeping crackdown on Putin's most prominent critic and his supporters after Navalny barely survived a poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent last summer. IMAGES
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