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A Moscow court has ordered a French researcher accused of breaching Russia's "foreign agent" law to be held in jail until February next year, at the start of a trial that comes amid tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine conflict. IMAGES
The trial of a French researcher accused of violating Russia's "foreign agent" law begins in Moscow amid simmering tensions with Paris over Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier, who worked on conflict mediation for a Swiss NGO and was arrested in June, appears in a glass cage for defendants at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court as the trial opens. He faces up to five years in prison. IMAGES
Images of Mendoza airport as two French international rugby players, accused of raping a woman while on tour in Argentina, leave the city for Buenos Aires. IMAGES
A former Socialist party mayor, Mélanie Boulanger, arrives at Bobigny criminal court, which is due to hand down a verdict in the case against the former elected official and around 15 other people suspected of being implicated in drug trafficking in Canteleu, a town of 14,000 inhabitants in Seine-Maritime. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris for a meeting with France's Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne. IMAGES