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An international warrant has been issued for Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national, who is one of three brothers suspected of carrying out the terror attacks in Paris on Friday, officials said.
Fairfax County police are hunting for an armed federal prisoner who escaped from a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia early Tuesday morning.The prisoner, identified as Wossen Assaye, was being held at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria for armed robbery on March 21. Assaye attempted to harm himself on Friday and was transported to Inova Fairfax Hospital for treatment.While at the hospital, Assaye overpowered a private security guard and took the guards weapon. During the struggle, one shot was fired, but no one was injured.Assaye was wearing a hospital gown with no shoes. His girlfriend may be with him.According to officials, a man believed to be Assaye carjacked a silver 2002 Toyota Camry at 7 a.m. The man got into the backseat of the car, causing the driver, a nurse who works at Fort Belvoir hospital, to crash into the driveway of a house near Backlick Road.A search for the armed gunman is underway. Residents in the area are advised to shelter in place.The Toyota Camry was found on Monterey Drive. Police are now looking for another vehicle, a 2008 gray or silver Hyundai Elantra with Virginia license plate XTU-5024.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg joins a gathering of opponents to the A69 Toulouse-Castres highway project in southwest France, in the pouring rain. IMAGES
French farmers dump tyres, soil, manure and wooden pallets outside a train station in Agen in southwest France. Across the country, angry farmers are blockading motorways and calling on the government to respond immediately to their distress. IMAGES
Police in the US state of Maine wage a sprawling manhunt for a gunman who killed at least 16 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the deadliest mass shooting this year in America. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).