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The former mayor of Canteleu in Normandy, Melanie Boulanger, arrives at the Bobigny criminal court, where she will be tried along with 18 other defendants for a vast drug trafficking operation in her small town. The hearing, which had barely begun on Monday 27 May, had been suspended for the week due to a pending appeal. The outcome of the trial depends on the high court. IMAGES
WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner arrives for a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, was detained at Moscow airport in February on charges of carrying in her luggage vape cartridges with cannabis oil, which could carry a 10-year prison sentence. IMAGES
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez is extradited to the United States to stand trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America. IMAGES
Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court. Naama Issachar was arrested in Russia in April 2019 for possession of nine grams of cannabis in her baggage when she was transiting in Moscow between India and Israel. She was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for trafficking and possession of the drug. IMAGES
The EU's 27 leaders urge Israel not to launch a major ground offensive in the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, European Council President Charles Michel says. "We call on the government of Israel not to launch a ground operation because we can imagine what would be the consequences if such an operation would be launched," Michel tells the press at an EU summit in Brussels. SOUNDBITE