Abdeslam gets 20 years in related case
A Brussels court on Monday found 2015 Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam and an accomplice guilty of attempted murder over shots fired at police they sought to avoid arrest in a Brussels suburb. The court handed both Abdeslam and Sofiane Ayari the maximum 20 year sentence. It said the “terror character” was clearly established in the March 2016 shooting, four months after the Paris attacks that killed 130.
Congress to move Supreme Court
Senior congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha address a press conference at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.
The Congress on Monday said it will file a petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the Rajya Sabha Chairman's order rejecting the impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra. Earlier in the day, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, who is also the Chairman of the Upper House, rejected the impeachment notice submitted to him by Opposition members of Rajya Sabha led by the Congress. The CPI, the CPI(M), the NCP, the SP, the BSP, and the IUML were the parties that had agreed to the motion.
Sweden, Japan mark 150 years of diplomacy
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf (right), Queen Silvia (second from right), Japanese Emperor Akihito (left), and Empress Michiko (second from left), visit Special Exhibition “The Art of Natural Science in Sweden” at JP Tower Museum in Tokyo on April 23, 2018.
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Japan’s Emperor Akihito attended a special exhibit on Swedish natural sciences in Tokyo on Monday to mark 150 years of diplomacy between the countries. The King and Queen Silvia accompanied Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the exhibition featuring three key Swedish scientists from the 18th century who have influenced Japan, including Carl Linnaeus, who set the basis of a systematic scientific classification.
Dozens of businesses looted amid Nicaragua unrest
Young demonstrators wait outside the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua, UPOLI, for the day's clashes, in Managua, Nicaragua.
Demonstrators and students have barricaded themselves inside the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua campus for several days with police and pro-government supporters laying siege, as protests and disturbances sparked by government social security reforms continued into Sunday. Human rights groups say at least 26 people have been killed in several days of clashes. Dozens of shops in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua have been looted. Images broadcast by local news media showed looted shops in the sprawling Oriental Market district and at least one Walmart. Police apparently did not intervene, in contrast to what had been a heavy-handed response to the demonstrations, in which dozens have been injured or arrested.
Ruling party candidate wins election
Paraguay's newly elected President Mario Abdo Benitez of the Colorado Party gives a speech in Asuncion, Paraguay.
The son of a former dictator’s top aide won the presidential election in Paraguay on Sunday, helped by a booming economy under his party. Mario Abdo Benitez of the governing Colorado Party had 46.5% of the votes, with 96% of 21,000 polling stations reporting, electoral officials said. Efrain Alegre of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party finished second with 42.7% of the ballots. Eight other candidates finished far out of the running.
'Just wanted to live', says man who disarmed Nashville shooter
Hero James Shaw wipes tears away during a press conference on the Waffle House shooting, in Nashville, Tennessee. Shaw wrestled the gun from the suspect. To Shaw's right is Nashville Metro Mayor David Briley and to his left is FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew Espenshade.
The U.S. police hunted a semi-nude gunman who shot four people dead at a waffle restaurant on Sunday after he fled from a “hero” who disarmed him. James Shaw Jr. (29), the father of a 4-year-old daughter, who disarmed the gunman during the shooting spree declined accolades from police and others that he was a hero, saying he acted out of a desire “to live.” “I'm not a hero, I'm just a regular person,” the Nashville native said, pausing as tears rolled down his cheeks. “I just wanted to live.”
Four former Presidents at Barbara Bush's funeral
This photo provided by the Office of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, shows Mr. Bush (front centre) and past Presidents and First Ladies —(from left) Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump — in a group photo at the funeral service for First Lady Barbara Bush, in Houston.
Past presidents, family and friends came together to bid a tearful farewell to Barbara Bush, the matriarch of one of America's most prominent political dynasties, at her funeral in Texas. Bush, who died Tuesday aged 92, was wife to the 41st U.S. President and mother to the 43rd. She was remembered for her friendship, her wit and her strength. The invitation-only service at St Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston was attended by four former Presidents: George H.W. Bush — Barbara's husband of 73 years — their son George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as other former senior officials. First Lady Melania Trump attended but her husband President Donald Trump did not, with the White House saying his decision to stay in Washington was taken “to avoid disruptions due to added security.”
