A physician who administered lethal drugs to a resistant dementia patient committed legal euthanasia, judges in the Netherlands ruled Wednesday. The Hague District Court concluded the doctor met all the requirements under the law permitting doctors to kill patients who are suffering with no hope for improvement. “The doctor did not need to verify the current desire for euthanasia [of the patient],” presiding Judge Mariette Renckens said.

Several Western nations, including the United States, are likely complicit actors in the civil war in Yemen that sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the United Nations said last week. The investigation also accused both sides in the conflict of atrocities in the targeting of civilians.

The report by a group of experts on Yemen within the UN Human Rights Council involved more than 600 interviews with victims and witnesses.

British lawmakers early on Tuesday voted to prevent a no-deal exit from the European Union before taking a controversial five-week break. They demanded the government seek a three-month delay to Brexit if Prime Minister Boris Johnson cannot strike a deal for an orderly withdrawal from the European Union by Oct. 19. The lawmakers also asked the government to release all private communications on Brexit and again rejected Johnson’s calls for a snap nationwide election.

Hong Kong protesters numbering in the tens of thousands waved American flags and marched to the U.S. Consulate over the weekend. They urged the U.S. Congress to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which would impose economic sanctions on Hong Kong and on Chinese officials who suppress dissent. The territory’s government warned that “foreign legislatures should not interfere in any form in the internal affairs” of Hong Kong.

President Donald Trump said he canceled a secret meeting scheduled for Sunday with Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at Camp David. The United States put peace talks on hold with the Taliban and recalled special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad after the extremist group intensified attacks in Afghanistan.

Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe’s independence fight and was forced out of office after three decades as president, has died. He was 95 and had been receiving medical care in Singapore. His successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, called Mugabe an “icon of liberation” in a tweet on Friday.

Philippine authorities are holding an American woman accused of trying to smuggle a 6-day-old baby out of the country in her shoulder bag. Jennifer Erin Talbot, 43, passed through the Manila airport immigration counter with the baby boy on Wednesday, but an airline staff member stopped her at the boarding gate. Talbot faces charges of human trafficking. Government welfare authorities have custody of the child and charged the parents under a child-protection law.