At least 84 killed in Nice lorry attack
By Martha Buckley and Alex Therrien
French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has said on the party's website that "the war against Islamist fundamentalism" must begin.
Meanwhile, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said on Facebook that: "We are in a war that will last, with a threat that is constantly renewing itself.
"Adapting and continuously strengthening our plan of action against Islamist terrorism remains a top priority.
"Exceptional firmness and vigilance is needed in every moment as well as over a long period of time. Nothing can be as before."
Police are yet to formally confirm the identity of the man behind the wheel of the white, articulated lorry that ploughed into hundreds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the seafront in Nice.
But details are emerging of a 31-year-old man, known to police, but not previously linked to jihadist groups.
As emergency services tended to the men, women and children left dying and wounded on the Promenade des Anglais, police scoured the lorry for evidence.
Inside the vehicle they found papers that apparently identified him as a Franco-Tunisian or a man of Tunisian origin who lived in Nice.
'Freed' Chinese human rights activist Zhao Wei still missing, says husband
Detained employee reported as saying she has returned to parents’ home in Henan province but husband finds place deserted
The mystery surrounding the fate of a young Chinese activist entangled in a major human rights crackdown has grown after her husband was unable to locate her despite police claims she had been freed from detention.
Zhao Wei, a 24-year-old legal assistant, was taken into secret detention in July 2015 at the start of a government offensive against human rights lawyers.
On 7 July this year police said Zhao, an employee of the prominent human rights lawyer Li Heping, who was also detained last year but remains in custody, had been released on bail as a result of her “confession” to unnamed offences.
Speaking to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post this week from an unknown location Zhao claimed she had returned to her family home in Henan province and “was staying with her parents”.
However, when Zhao’s husband visited that home in the city of Jiyuan this week he found the two-storey building deserted.
Black Lives Matter activists say FBI told them not to protest GOP Convention
Samuel Sinyangwe and Johnetta Elzie of Campaign Zero both say agents attempted to visit them in the past week
Prominent civil rights activists closely associated with the Black Lives Matter movement say members of the FBI have attempted to contact them in the days leading up to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Samuel Sinyangwe and Johnetta Elzie, co-founders of Campaign Zero, an organisation that aims to end police violence through policy change, both told The Independent that FBI agents made attempts to contact them in recent days.
Mr Sinyangwe, 25, said that he received a phone call on Friday from an unknown number. The caller identified himself as an FBI task force officer.
“He was interested to hear my plans related to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland,” he said. “I told him I don’t have any plans to go to the convention.”
Philippines' official hails S.China Sea ruling a 'crowning glory'
Manila has so far been keen not to rock the boat in the hope of starting dialog towards Beijing allowing it to exercise its sovereign maritime rights.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES AND BEIJING — A decision invalidating China's vast claims in the South China Sea was a "crowning glory" that renews faith in international law, the Philippines' top lawyer said on Friday, in Manila's strongest comment yet on its sweeping win.
The remarks by Solicitor General Jose Calida follow two days of carefully calibrated responses from the Philippines and are almost certain to irritate China further.
Manila has so far been keen not to rock the boat in the hope of starting dialog towards Beijing allowing it to exercise what the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled were its sovereign maritime rights.
Romania: 38 held on suspicion of enslaving young men
Romanian police arrest 38 for allegedly forcing dozens of victims to work under severe abusive and violent conditions.
Romanian police have detained 38 people suspected of holding dozens of vulnerable young men and boys like slaves for years, chaining them up and forcing them to do various types of work, or fight each other for entertainment.
The arrests took place on Thursday following large-scale police raids the day before in Berevoesti, 170km north of the capital, Bucharest. Five people, including two boys aged 10 and 12, were freed after the raids.
The captives were "attached with chains and straps ... beaten [and] humiliated", starved of food and fed on scraps, prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism, (DIICOT) said.
Tokyo voters seek out corruption-free governor
BY DAISUKE KIKUCHI AND SHUSUKE MURAI
STAFF WRITERS
As the Tokyo gubernatorial election kicked off Thursday, voters said they were looking for a clean, corruption-free governor after the last two — Naoki Inose and Yoichi Masuzoe — resigned over money scandals.
Asuka Hatano, a mother in her 30s with a 2-year-old daughter, said she had not decided who to vote for on July 31 but might vote for the candidate most likely to have “the least risk.”
“Whether famous or not … I want to look closely at what the candidates have done in the past and decide,” the Minato Ward resident said.
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