women around the world have taken to the streets to mark the international day for the elimination of violence against women hundreds marched in paris french president a man and woman gone launched an initiative to combat violence and harassment against women he noted that one hundred twenty three women died in attacks against them last year. gyptian warplanes have hit back at militants suspected of carrying out friday s attack on a mosque in northern sinai and the jets struck vehicles and hideouts said to be used by the militants in nearby mountainous the state prosecutor s office said that three hundred five people were killed in the assault on radha mosque. u.n. planes have arrived in yemen carrying humanitarian aid workers and desperately needed polio vaccines the saudi led coalition fighting yemeni rebels gave permission for the planes to land three weeks after imposing a blockade. but the coalition is still refusing to let ships dock with wheat and