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Samsung vice-chairman and heir Lee Jae-yong arrives at court for the ruling over an arrest warrant sought by South Korean prosecutors against him over a controversial merger of two Samsung units. IMAGES
The de facto chief of South Korea's Samsung business empire, Lee Jae-yong, arrives at court to face the verdict Monday in his retrial over a sprawling corruption scandal. The ruling could see him jailed for years, depriving the tech giant of its top decision-maker. Samsung is by far the biggest of the family-controlled conglomerates, or chaebols, that dominate business in the world's 12th-largest economy. IMAGES
The victim of the Mazan rape case, Gisèle P., who was drugged and raped for ten years by her husband and scores of strangers he recruited on the internet, arrives at the court in Avignon before taking the witness stand. Police counted a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom were identified. 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
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, walk into the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas, where they join other presidential candidates who have been summoned. Venezuela's supreme court has summoned all candidates to a hearing following Maduro's request that it initiate a process to investigate and certify the election result. IMAGES