Paris attacks: investigation spreads across Europe as terrorist identified
One attacker, Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, has been identified, as security services make multiple arrests in France and Belgium
The investigation to identify members of the terrorist cell behind France’s deadliest attack since the second world war has spread to Belgium, Greece andGermany as a 29-year-old Frenchman was named as one of the killers.
Multiple sources told French media that a severed finger found at the Bataclan theatre, where three gunmen killed 89 people during a concert on Friday night, belonged to Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, a petty criminal of Algerian origin.
Paris prosecutor François Molins said the suspect was born in the poor southern Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, and had been flagged as a radicalisation risk in 2010 but “never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association”.
Donald Trump the gringo bogeyman? Mexican theatre troupe lampoons Republican presidential candidate
Actors mock the Republican presidential candidate, who wants to build a wall along their country’s border with the US
Joshua Partlow Mexico City
The first taste the Mexican audience gets of Donald Trump is his golden head speaking from the face of a giant $100 bill, calling them “frijoleros” (“beaners”) and bragging about the wall that will block them from setting foot in the United States.
Trump and his bewigged followers only get more cartoonishly evil from there: tossing crumpled up bills at servants and drinks in waiters’ faces, stealing from the blind, bribing the police, snorting mountains of cocaine and ingesting exotic cures for impotency.
This is a social critique, in general, of the elitists
Freddy Ortega
Such is the latest Mexican revenge against the Republican presidential candidate: a group of comedians is performing a popular play called Los Hijos de Trump (“Sons of Trump”), in Mexico City’s Aldama Theater. It’s another riposte in Mexicans’ ongoing opposition to the candidate who launched his campaign by declaring that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists. From bashable Trump piñatas to Halloween masks with swishing manes, the candidate has often been met with mockery.
Justice Department: Black Americans more susceptible to nonfatal force by police
November 15, 2015 - 3:15PM
Anu Narayanswamy
Washington: Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to experience nonfatal force or the threat of force from police, according to a new US Justice Department study.
The study, which was released Saturday, found that an annual average of 44 million US residents older than 16 had at least one face-to-face contact with police between 2002 and 2011. About 75 per cent of those who had encountered force from the police perceived the force to be excessive.
For the purpose of the study, nonfatal force by police officers was defined as anything from shouting and cursing to using an electroshock weapon or pointing a gun. The report "looks at the characteristics of incidents involving force, including the type of contact, type of force used, and whether the contact involved a personal search."
Of those who had any type of police-initiated contact, a higher percentage of black people than white people or Hispanics experienced the use of nonfatal force during a routine street-stop or when the police were investigating a crime.
Kurdish force finds mass grave in Iraq's Sinjar
Officials say there could be hundreds of sites containing Yazidi bodies across the town just reclaimed from ISIL.
Sinjar, Iraq - A grim discovery has been made in the Iraqi town of Sinjar as Kurdish fighters who claimed victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, entered the war-torn community and found at least one mass grave containing the bodies of Yazidis.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters said they dug up bones, hair and personal items, evidence of what they said was ISIL brutality.
Hussein Haffoun, an adviser to the Kurdish regional government, told Al Jazeera that the grave found by the Peshmerga contains 76 bodies, including that of young women.
Haffoun said that the attack occurred on August 15, 2014, and that it could qualify as a genocide.
He said that young girls who escaped from ISIL told investigators about the details of the mass killing.
Clashes Erupt At Massive Anti-Government Protest In South Korea
It was the largest protest in Seoul in over seven years.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday as they clashed with anti-government demonstrators who marched through Seoul in the largest protest in South Korea's capital in more than seven years, leaving a protester critically injured.
About 70,000 people marched from various locations in Seoul to an area near City Hall, according to police. The demonstration stretched into the night, and police detained at least a dozen people. It was not clear how many people were injured.
The marches, organized by labor, civic and farmers' groups, brought together protesters with a diverse set of grievances against the government of conservative President Park Geun-hye, including her business-friendly labor policies and a decision to require middle and high schools to use only state-issued history textbooks starting in 2017.
Why is Pakistan's army chief all over social media?
Is the army general more popular than the prime minister in Pakistan and what does that means for democracy? BBC Urdu's Amber Shamsi investigates.
Just off the main road between the political capital and army headquarters lies a ramshackle set of houses.
They're new builds but shoddily constructed. The mosque is no different.
But it has a grand title - it has been named after Pakistan's current army chief General Raheel Sharif.
"We want General Raheel Sharif to help us catch the land grabbers and land mafia," says a young bearded man on his way to prayers.
Many Pakistanis seem to see General Raheel Sharif as a messiah who is saving the country from terrorism, corruption and all manner of social ills.
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