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Missouri's attorney general Eric Schmitt announces that his state will be the first "to effectively end abortion" in the United States, after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. "I pledge to continue to fight for our most fundamental right: the right to life," Schmitt says in a video statement posted to social media. SOUNDBITE
Crowds protest in front of the US Supreme Court after it ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. IMAGES
Pro-choice supporters rally in front of the United States' Supreme Court, in Washington D.C. ahead of a case that may be its most significant in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. At issue is a state law in Louisiana which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. IMAGES
Chinese tech giant Huawei's chief legal officer Song Liuping says the firm has asked a US court to throw out US legislation that bars federal agencies from buying its products, and that the US Congress had failed to provide evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products. SOUNDBITE
Chile's Constitutional Court Monday approved an easing of the country's abortion ban to make the procedure legal in cases of rape, threat to the mother's life or deadly birth defects. IMAGES of pro-abortion activists celebrating in front of tribunal
Former US president Donald Trump vows to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, saying that his legal team had several grounds to challenge the verdict handed down by a New York jury. "We're going to be appealing this scam... on many different things," says Trump, who is seeking reelection in November polls, in a rambling speech. SOUNDBITE