Thieves in France steal jewellery worth up to $1.2 mn: police
Thieves in northern France have made off with jewellery worth up to $1.2 million, police said on Saturday.
The burglars reportedly broke into a jewellery boutique in central Roubaix, near Lille, on Wednesday, and briefly took the jeweller and his wife hostage before making off with the valuables.
The jewels were worth "between 500,000 and one million euros" ($580,000 and $1.2 million), police said.
They have launched an investigation into kidnapping, organised crime and armed extorsion.
In a separate incident earlier on Wednesday, several individuals blew up a cash transfer safe belonging to Roubaix's main post office and escaped with the bag that was inside it.
It later transpired that the bag contained nothing other than more empty bags. Six people were arrested that evening.
The heists come after a gang raided the Louvre museum in Paris in broad daylight last month, stealing jewellery worth an estimated $102 million.
Six minors killed in Colombian airstrikes on guerrillas this week: ombudsman
BOGOTÁ, Nov 15, 2025 (AFP) - Six minors were killed this week when Colombia's military launched airstrikes against an alleged drug-running armed group in the country's southern Amazon region, the national ombudsman's office said Saturday.
Iris Marin, head of the office, told reporters that "six minors who had been victims of forced recruitment" died in the operation, ordered by President Gustavo Petro as he faces US pressure to increase crackdowns on drug trafficking.
Colombia's military announced on Tuesday that it had carried out airstrikes in the Amazon region in the early hours of November 10, killing 19 members of an ex-FARC splinter group.
Additionally, a defense ministry source told AFP on Friday that the military had killed nine suspected guerrilla fighters in strikes in Arauca province, near the Venezuelan border.
The operations are part of Petro's intensifying attacks against armed groups involved in cocaine trafficking, following fierce criticism from US President Donald Trump over alleged inaction on drug production.
Local media reported that authorities were investigating whether the latest strike killed Antonio Medina, a high-ranking rebel commander responsible for a bloody war between ex-FARC fighters and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group.
Colombia's leftist president has been facing pre-election criticism and US sanctions for his alleged reluctance to target armed cocaine-trafficking groups.
In October, Washington slapped unprecedented sanctions on Petro, his wife, son, and a top aide, accusing them of enabling drug cartels.
The US government provided no evidence linking Petro directly to drug trafficking.
Since taking power in 2022, Petro, himself a former guerilla, had previously opted to engage well-armed cocaine-producing groups in talks, rather than conduct open warfare.
He is constitutionally barred from running for president again, but the criticism risks damaging his political allies during next year's elections.
