Marathon trial begins over November 2015 Paris jihadist attacks
The biggest trial in modern French history opens on Wednesday, with 20 suspects charged in the November 2015 Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured, with an expected nine months of hearings set to reopen still raw wounds.
The suicide jihadists on bars, restaurants, le Stade de France and the Bataclan music venue – planned in Syria and later claimed by the Islamic State group – was the worst postwar atrocity on French territory.
The only surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, arrived to stand in the dock with 13 other defendants at a purpose-built facility in central Paris .
Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say
National cricket team included in prohibition, as interim government containing no women starts work
Wed 8 Sep 2021 11.32 BST
Afghan women , including the country’s women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the hardline Islamist group.
In an interview with the Australian broadcaster SBS, the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq, said women’s sport was considered neither appropriate nor necessary.
“I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket because it is not necessary that women should play cricket,” Wasiq said. “In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this.
Japanese escapee sues North Korea for decades of misery North Korea escapee Hiroko Saito says she and 97,000 others were deceived into relocating to the North in the 1960s with promises of "paradise on Earth." Instead, she suffered starvation, repression and loss.
It was only when she saw a malnourished boy, aged only 6 or 7, hailing the ship from the dockside that Hiroko Saito realized she had fallen for North Korea's lies.
But with the ship carrying hundreds of returnees and their families from Japan already tying up alongside the wharf at Chongjin on that summer day in 1961, it was already too late.
Saito was greeted by poverty-stricken residents and heavily armed soldiers. The situation soon worsened
Palestinian families of escaped prisoners targeted by Israelis
Frustrated by their inability to track down six escapees, Israeli soldiers are arresting their relatives near the Jenin refugee camp.
Israeli forces are arresting relatives of Palestinian prisoners on the run after their brazen escape from a high-security prison in Israel.
Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, said on Wednesday at least seven family members of the escapees were detained by Israeli soldiers throughout the occupied West Bank, though some were held only briefly.
Al Jazeera visited the Jenin area where most of the prisoners are from.
Ukraine spies tried to ensnare alleged Russian war criminals with a fake website, promises of riches and an international sting
It was less than two weeks before Belarus' presidential election last year, and authorities suspected that
the outsiders had been sent from Russia to interfere.
The men were indeed part of a mission. But the target was not Belarus, and they were not under orders from any Russian entity.
Mexico: Powerful earthquake hits Acapulco A powerful earthquake has struck the Pacific coast of Mexico, close to the resort of Acapulco.
The magnitude -seven quake was also felt strongly around 370km (230 miles) away in Mexico City, sending residents and tourists spilling into the streets from homes and hotels.
Power cuts were reported in several states and there was damage as the quake shook hillsides around Acapulco.
One man was killed by a falling post in the nearby city of Coyuca de Benítez.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said there were no reports of major damage across the country.
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