Paris attacks: French police launch raids as military strikes Isis in Syria
Counter-terrorism raids are carried out at four locations in France as jets bomb Isis sites in the group’s stronghold of Raqqa
France’s response to the Paris terror attacks gained pace on Monday with counter-terrorism raids arrests across the country and “massive” airstrikes launched on Islamic State targets in Syria, as the prime minister, Manuel Valls, warned of potential further attacks.
Tactical police units led raids in four locations in southern and northern Franceearly on Monday, reportedly arresting at least nine people and seizing weapons from homes.
The raids, conducted as part of the country’s state of emergency, coincided with airstrikes on Isis targets late on Sunday in which French aircraft dropped 20 bombs across the group’s northern Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.Mass grave of Yazidi women killed by 'IS' found in Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish forces have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of women who were executed by the 'Islamic State' (IS). The UN has described the brutal campaign against the Yazidi minority as a possible genocide.
The bodies of an estimated 80 Yazidi victims were found in a mass grave on the edge of the city of Sinjar in Iraq on Saturday, according to local reports. Kurdish forces discovered the grave while clearing bombs from the area which was recently reclaimed from 'IS' militants.
Officials were able to locate the grave based on information provided by young women who witnessed the executions and escaped IS enslavement. Although the grave has yet to be excavated, Miyasir Hajji, a local council member for Sinjar, told AFP that it is thought to contain the bodies of around 78 women who were 40 to 80 years-old.
"It seems that the (IS) terrorist members only wanted young girls to enslave," Hajji said. Yazidi residents in Sinjar were targeted as part of an IS campaign which included mass murders, enslavement, and rape.
Children’s rights matter
by Julien Lauprêtre
Twenty-five years after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was adopted, we should recall the importance of its principles, embodied in the 10 key rights that Secours Populaire Français (SPF) defends:
the right to a name and a nationality; the right to food and lodging, and to grow up in acceptable conditions; the right to receive medical care and treatment appropriate to their age; the right to appropriate protection and support for disabled children; the right to education; the right to play, laugh and dream; the right to culture; the right to protection from violence and exploitation; the right to aid and protection, especially for refugee children; and the right to access information, express an opinion and be heard.Malcolm Turnbull will be spared the sight of beggars on Manila's streets
November 16, 2015 - 12:53PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Bangkok: The poverty on the streets of Manila shocks first time visitors.
But Malcolm Turnbull and other world leaders will be spared the sight when they attend this week's summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
In a "clearing operation" Philippines municipal authorities have rounded up several hundred mostly indigent and homeless residents of the sprawling city, including more than 140 children, and detained them without charge.
Many of the adults operate food carts or sell scavenged items on the streets and live in squatter shanty towns, home to millions impoverished Filipinos.
Many of the children are beggars.
"They were merciless. They took our things or did not allow us to bring our belongings," Dario, a scavenger arrested on the waterfront Roxas Boulevard, told Human Rights Watch. China says global war on terror should also target Uighur militants
The struggle against Islamist militants in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang should become an "important part" of the world's war on terror, China's foreign minister said, following the attacks in Paris.
Hundreds of people have died in unrest in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people, and other parts of China over the past three years.
Beijing has blamed the violence on Islamist militants, led by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group it says has ties to al Qaeda. More recently China has reported that some Uighurs have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight with Islamic State and other groups.
Speaking in Turkey on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the international community to form a "united front to combat terrorism" in the aftermath of Paris attacks, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday.
"The UN's leading role should be brought into full play to combat terrorism, and a united front in this regard should be formed," Wang said.
Yakuza gang boss ‘bludgeoned to death’
A gang boss in Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate was bludgeoned to death on Sunday, according to reports.
Tatsuyuki Hishida's wife and fellow gang members found him collapsed and bleeding at a house in Mie prefecture, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
Hishida's hands and feet were reportedly tied, and his head appeared to have been hit with a blunt object.
The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organised crime group, split in two in September.
Police said the incident was likely related to the split, which saw the emergence of a rival group calling itself the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi.
Hishida was the leader of a second-tier Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate group called the Aio-kai, based in the city of Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture.
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