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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
Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong's now shuttered pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, arrives at Wanchai District Court ahead of a ruling in a landmark sedition trial. It's the first case of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997. IMAGES
Alec Baldwin arrives at a courthouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ahead of opening statements in his long-awaited trial for involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on the set of Western movie "Rust". 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
Peruvian former presidential candidate and congresswoman Keiko Fujimori arrives at courthouse ahead of the opening of the trial for money laundering in the Odebrecht scandal -for which she could receive a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. IMAGES