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A landmark trial in the Netherlands looks at what to do with dementia patients who have previously stated their wish to die under certain conditions but might have changed their minds later.

21-year-old Evelyn Hernández had already served 33 months of a 30-year prison sentence when her conviction was overturned in February for lack of evidence and a new trial was ordered.

The lawyer of A$AP Rocky addressed the press after US rapper's initial testimony at his assault trial in Sweden.

Robinson, 36, was found guilty of contempt of court for breaching reporting restrictions by broadcasting a Facebook Live outside a sex grooming trial last year.

The cockerel is now allowed out from 8am to 10pm from Monday to Friday and from 9am to 10 pm on Sundays.

The ruling is the latest in a decades-long paternity dispute between the Spanish crooner and Javier Sanchez-Sanchos.

Australian former professional rugby player Israel Folau is seeking to raise 3 million Australian dollars (€1.8 million) to fund legal action against Rugby Australia and the New South Wales Waratahs for his sacking last month.

The 33-year-old died in November last year, three months after being attacked in the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson.

"Mr. Smollett was afforded the same opportunity that anyone in Cook County who had a nonviolent offense and the required background check would get," the prosecutor said.

Dmitry Yazov was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for his role in the violent January 1991 crackdown on Lithuania's pro-independence movement.

Kimberly Foxx had earlier asked Chicago police to hand over the Smollett case to the FBI, according to media reports.

"This is a whitewash of justice," Emanuel said.

Smollett was indicted earlier this month on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for making a false report.

Italy's top court has opened a probe into a sentence by an Ancona appeals court that found the victim in a rape case was "too ugly to be raped".

The first person to be convicted in the UK for female genital mutilation gets 11 years in jail.

Top French court upholds police use of controversial rubber-bullet launchers.

A court released an Austrian student and activist arrested in Turkey but barred him from leaving the country until judicial proceedings take place

Hungarian protesters and opposition MPs entered the state TV building on Monday to demonstrate against Viktor Orban's government's policies.

Two leaders from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge have been convicted of genocide, almost four decades after the communist regime was overthrown.

A court in Ecuador has rejected Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's lawsuit and ruled that he must abide by the London embassy's new rules.

The public tender for a working space in Spain has been cancelled after a tribunal ruled it discriminated against heterosexual people.