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UN spokesperson Liz Throssell denounces the passage of a bill in Peru that bars prosecution of crimes against humanity committed before 2002, saying it ran contrary to international law. "The law contravenes the country's obligations under international law and is a troubling development, amid a broader backlash against human rights and the rule of law in Peru," she says. SOUNDBITE
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
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken uses a UN Security Council session attended by his Russian counterpart to accuse Moscow of crimes against humanity in Ukraine. "Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine on a daily basis," Blinken tells the session earlier addressed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. SOUNDBITE
The trial resumes in Mali of the 46 Ivorian troops whose detention has sparked a diplomatic row between both countries. They arrive for their trial in the capital Bamako ahead of a January 1 deadline set by West African leaders for Mali to release the soldiers or face sanctions. Originally 49 had been held after they arrived at Bamako airport on July 10. Three, all women, were later freed. Those remaining, were branded by Mali's junta as "mercenaries", and charged with seeking to undermine state security. IMAGES
The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. IMAGES
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