Spain | Police arrest suspect tied to Jan 2015 Paris attacks

Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Frenchman they believe supplied the arms to Paris attacker Amedy Coulibaly for use in the January 2015 attacks in the French capital. A ministry statement yesterday said Antoine Denive, 27, from the northern French town of Sainte Catherine was arrested Tuesday in the southern coastal town of Rincon de la Victoria on a European arrest warrant. It said a Serbian man and a Montenegrin man were also arrested. It said Denive left France several weeks after the January 2015 attacks and moved to the southern Spanish province of Malaga, where he allegedly continued illegal activity under a false identity. The January 2015 attacks in Paris left 17 victims and three attackers dead.

USA | State judge rules Cruz eligible for presidential nomination

A New Jersey judge has ruled that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz meets the constitutional requirements to be president and may appear on the state’s presidential primary ballot. Judge Jeff Masin ruled that a child of a citizen-father or citizen-mother is “indeed a natural born Citizen within the contemplation of the Constitution.” Cruz, who was born in Calgary, Alberta, to a Cuban father and American mother, faced challenges to being on the June 7 primary ballot from Catholic University of America law professor Victor Williams and the South Jersey Concerned Citizens Committee. The challengers argued Cruz was a naturalized citizen because he was not born on U.S. soil.

Cuba | Havana opens state wholesale market to some private businesses

Cuba says it is opening its state-controlled wholesale market to a limited number of private business owners in response to rising prices that have angered many ordinary Cubans. Without access to wholesale goods, private business have been buying basic supplies in retail outlets and raising the prices to generate profit, leading to widespread hikes in the cost of food and many household goods. State-run media said yesterday that food and personal-service businesses that are either cooperatively run or rent space from the government will be able to buy goods at prices 20 percent below retail. They will also be able to do business with state-run importers, a potentially important new benefit that could give access to U.S.-made goods. The new measures also establish price caps on some goods bought wholesale and sold privately, among them Cuban-produced soft drinks and beer, rum, cigarettes and chicken. State media said the measures would go into effect on May 2.