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Thailand becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, in a historic parliamentary vote hailed as a "victory" by campaigners. The senate upper house gives final approval -- by 130 votes to four, with 18 abstentions -- to changes to the marriage law allowing same-sex couples to tie the knot. IMAGES
Investigators search the Brussels office of German MEP Maximilian Krah as part of a probe into his aide, who is suspected of spying for China, German prosecutors said. IMAGES
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES
Images of Britain's Charles III and queen consort Camilla entering the German Parliament. The king will address the German parliament, becoming the first monarch to do so, on the occasion of his inaugural state visit as king. SOUNDBITE
President of the French National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, speak at a Franco-German parliamentary session on the 60th anniversary of the reconciliation treaty between the two countries. IMAGES