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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
In 2015 Ayoub El Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan, was stopped by several passengers including several American tourists as he prepared to launch a terrorist attack on a French high-speed Thalys train travelling to the French capital from Brussels. He stands trial in Paris and the prosecution lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, says any attempt at repentance by the accused should be ignored. SOUNDBITE
A German court sentences a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including AFP journalist Deyda Hydara. Bai Lowe,48, has been convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his role as a driver for the hit squad known as the "Junglers". IMAGES
The mother of slain journalist James Foley, Diane Foley, says the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation welcomes the life sentence for El Shafee Elsheikh after the member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. "With today's verdict we finally have a bit of justice," she says outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. SOUNDBITE
US basketball star Brittney Griner asks a Russian court not to "end my life" as prosecutors requested she be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug smuggling charges. SOUNDBITE