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On the 5th day of the trial over the foiled Paris train attack in August 2015, Anthony Sadler and Aleksander Skarlatos, two of the three Americans whose heroic intervention stopped assailant Ayoub El Khazzani, arrive at the Palais de Justice in Paris to give evidence. Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood made the 2018 film "The 15:17 to Paris" about the events of August 21, 2015 and had even been listed as a possible witness in the trial but will in the end not have to give testimony. IMAGES
The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. IMAGES
Images of the arrivals of lawyers at a Brussels court about to deliver its judgement for 14 people accused of having helped members of the jihadist cell behind the attacks in Paris of 13 November 2015. The judgement comes a day after the verdict of a special court in Paris which, after ten months of hearings, sentenced on Wednesday evening 20 men (six of whom were tried in absentia) involved in the worst acts of violence committed in France since the end of the Second World War. IMAGES
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, Carlos the Jackal's lawyer, arrives in court in Paris, as the Venezuelan militant who was behind some of the biggest terror attacks of the 1970s and 1980s seeks to have one of his three life sentences reduced. The final trial will only determine the length of his sentence, 47 years after the murderous attack on the Drugstore Publicis in Paris. IMAGES
Lawyers for the various parties arrive at court on the second day of the closing arguments in the trial of the January 2015 attacks in Paris. The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office is due to announce the sentences required against the 14 defendants, described as the linchpin of the attacks. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.