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The suspect charged with attempted murder of PM Robert Fico leaves court in Slovakia. Fico has been in hospital since Wednesday when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen. The suspected gunman, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula, arrived in a special penal court in Pezinok northeast of the capital Bratislava, which is due to decide on his pre-trial detention. IMAGES
Hadi Matar, who is accused of the attempted murder of writer Salman Rushdie, arrives in court for a procedural hearing in Mayville, New York. [ATTN CLIENTS: NO AUDIO DUE TO COURTHOUSE RESTRICTIONS.] IMAGES
The former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his home to go to the criminal court of Paris which is due to give its judgement in the "wiretapping" case in which he and his lawyer Thierry Herzog were tried for influence-peddling and corruption. They are accused of having tried to obtain from a high-ranking magistrate, Gilbert Azibert, information covered by secrecy in legal proceedings in exchange for support in obtaining a position in Monaco. In November-December 2020, the Public Prosecutor's Office requested four years in prison, two of which were to be served, against the three men. Nicolas Sarkozy had been indicted in 2014 in this case. IMAGES
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou leaves her home, walks down the driveway and gets into her car as she heads to court for her extradition hearing. Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant, has been fighting extradition from Canada to the US, where she faces fraud and conspiracy charges related to alleged violations by Huawei of American sanctions on Iran. IMAGES
Kenyan police say a serial killer suspect who escaped from a Nairobi police station may have been "aided by insiders". A manhunt has been launched to rearrest the escapees, including the serial killer suspect Collins Jumaisi, Acting Inspector General of Kenya's Police, Gilbert Masengeli said from outside from outside the police station in the Kenyan capital's Gigiri district where the escape occured earlier on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE