Hello Australia! - French police spread out across the country in a series of anti-terror raids - The man sought by police as the eighth terrorist from Friday's attacks was briefly stopped by cops hours after the attacks - An Australian woman pleads guilty to aiding her terrorist husband - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Elite French security units staged a series of raids in the pre-dawn hours across the country.  These are taking place far beyond Paris: Toulouse, in the south; Grenoble, in the Alpine east; the port city of Calais in the north; and the commune of Jeumont on the Belgian border.  Local media reports that several people were arrested and police confiscated weapons, cars, and money from the sites.  Police outside Paris also served another warrant in the northeastern suburb Bobigny.  Both the RAID (Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion) and GIPN (Groupes d’Intervention de la Police Nationale) anti-terrorism units of the French national police force took part in the raids.

In the hours immediately after the Paris terror attacks, police stopped a car with three men heading towards the border with Belgium - one of the men inside was 26-year old Abdeslam Salah (which some sources report with the names reversed as Salah Abdeslam), since named as a suspect in the atrocities.  It's not clear why gendarmes allowed him to go, or if they had even been informed that he was a suspect.  Investigators in Paris already knew that he signed the papers of the rented Volkswagen Polo found near the Bataclan theater, the scene of the worst carnage.  One of Saleh Abdelslam's brothers (Brahim) was one of the suicide bombers, another (Muhammed) has been arrested by police.

A day before the attacks, Iraqi intelligence alerted France and other countries in the US-led coalition that Islamic State was planning something horrible.  The self-styled caliph of IS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ordered supporters to stage attacks in coalition countries, to use guns and bombs, and to take hostages.  The warning did not specify when or where such attacks would take place.  A French security official says the country's intelligence services gets this kind of communication "all the time" and "every day".

The death toll from the Paris attacks has been corrected to 129.  Earlier, a French official added three more deaths to it; but it turned out that the three names were already included in the original figures.  Of the 350 or so injured, 80 are still in a critical condition.  19-year old Emma Parkison of Hobart has undergone surgery after being wounded in the attack in the Bataclan theater, and is out of danger; her Mum is on her way to Paris to be at her side.

In Iraq, Kurdish forces mopping up the city of Sinjar discovered a mass grave containing the bones of women from the Yazidi religious minority.  When Islamic State seized the town last year, younger women were separated and sold off as slaves; older women were taken east of the city and murdered en masse.  "Death would have been better than what I felt when I saw that grave," said 24-year old Badr Sleiman Taha, a Yazidi man who survived the onslaught and returned to Sinjar with a clear case of survivor's remorse.  Most Yazidi survivors are in refugee camps in Iraq's Kurdish region; about 2,000 women are still captives of Islamic State.

One of the terrorists believed to have been involved in the atrocities against the Yazidi is Australian Mohamed Elomar.  His wife has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge at Sydney's Downing Center District Court.  Prosecutors detailed her email communications with her scumbag husband, for whom she purchased clothing, cash, medical supplies, and special shampoo for his horrible, horrible dandruff.  Not the call I would have made, but Fatima Elomar apparently will remain free on bail and will be sentenced on 1 April 2016.