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The European Union has urged the top legal authority in Senegal to explain why it's rejected some presidential candidates, including the music star Youssou N'Dour, for next month's vote. On Friday, the council validated the candidacy of the
incumbent
, Abdoulaye Wade, and 13 others. The decision to allow Mr Wade to run for a third term sparked protests by the opposition.
A jury in Canada has found an Afghan immigrant couple guilty of murdering three daughters and the husband's first wife, whom they'd accused of
dishonouring
the family. The couple's son was also convicted. The bodies of the victims were found in a car submerged in a canal in the province of Ontario in 2009. Lee Carter reports from Toronto.
In a three-month trial that had riveted the country, the court heard the prosecution lay out its case against Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed in the deaths of Mr Shafia's three teenage daughters and a woman the girls referred to as auntie who was Mr Shafia's first wife. The court heard how Mr Shafia had become increasingly angry and upset with his three daughters, aged 13, 17 and 19, for having secret relationships with boys and wearing revealing clothes.
Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Madrid in support of Spain's best-known judge Baltasar Garzon, who's currently on trial for exceeding his powers. Judge Garzon has won worldwide fame by initiating a series of human rights