CZECH REPUBLIC: The country’s highest court ruled today to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo gender-affirmation surgery, including sterilisation, in order to officially change their gender.

The constitutional court said the requirements are unconstitutional and in conflict with “the fundamental right of trans people to have protected their physical integrity and personal autonomy in connection with their human dignity.”

IRAN: The UN nuclear watchdog and Iran are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the country’s rapidly advancing atomic programme, officials said today.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi has warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near weapons grade to make several nuclear bombs if it chose to do so. 

TOGO: President Faure Gnassingbe signed a new constitution on Monday that eliminates presidential elections: parliament will now decide the country’s leader.

Mr Gnassingbe’s ruling party won a majority of parliament seats in recent elections, and opponents say the move will allow him to extend his family's six-decade rule.

Civil society groups in the west African nation have called for protests.

ITALY: Journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike on Monday to protest against budget cuts and an increasingly repressive atmosphere for the media under far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Their 24-hour strike is the latest protest by journalists against what they say are threats to freedom of the press and of expression.