A group of Israeli female soldiers have been disciplined after posting
pictures of themselves in their underwear on Facebook in the latest social media
embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.
Israeli female soldiers have
been disciplined after posting pictures of themselves in their underwear on
Facebook in the latest social media embarrassment to hit Israel's armed forces.
One picture showed four women, who are new recruits, dropping their army
trousers to reveal the thongs they were wearing underneath. One woman in the
photo was dressed only in her bra and pants.
Another image showed five scantily clad recruits wearing only helmets and a
small covering of combat equipment.
Walla, an Israeli news website, showed the pictures with faces and exposed
areas partly blurred.
The pictures received multiple "likes" on Facebook, along with numerous
enthusiastic comments.
The enthusiasm was not shared by Israel's commanding military
brass, who announced that the women had been given stern "educational lectures"
about their future conduct.
BUENOS AIRES – The
chief of the Argentine Federal Police’s dangerous drugs division was shot
outside his house and investigators do not consider the incident a random crime,
Security Secretary Sergio Berni said Sunday.
Nestor Roncaglia was shot in
the chest and hand Saturday night in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires,
Berni said.
“We are not ruling out any theory because it would be
irresponsible to say what happened, but we are convinced it was not a common
assault,” Berni told the press.
Roncaglia is out of danger but remains in
the intensive care unit of a Buenos Aires hospital.
The drug enforcement
chief was shot after overseeing several raids, police spokesmen told the
official Telam news agency.
Roncaglia spotted two suspicious men outside
his house and ordered them to halt.
The suspects opened fire on
Roncaglia, who returned fire with his service weapon.
Investigators are
trying to determine whether a man taken to a hospital in the Buenos Aires suburb
of Pilar with a gunshot wound was one of the criminals involved in the attack on
Roncaglia, officials said.
GUATEMALA CITY –
Drug enforcement agents seized 1,048 kilos of cocaine hidden in a van in Puerto
Quetzal, a city in the southern Guatemalan province of Escuintla, but no arrests
were made, a police spokesman said Sunday.
The cocaine arrived in the
Central American country from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and was to be delivered to a
Guatemalan company, a National Civilian Police, or PNC, spokesman
said.
The drugs were found Saturday packed in plastic bags hidden in a
shipment of tile.
“The shipment came from the Ecuadorian city of
Guayaquil and was destined for a transportation company in Mixco (west of the
capital) that we are investigating,” the PNC spokesman said.
The cocaine
was discovered during a routine inspection by drug enforcement agents in Puerto
Quetzal, Guatemala’s main Pacific port.
Iran Human Rights, June 2: Two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Khoramabad (western Iran), reported the Iranian state media.
According to the Iranian state broadcasting two prisoners who were not identified by name, were hanged in the "Barsilon" prison of Khoramabad this morning. The prisoners were convicted of possession and trafficking of 2209 grams of synthetic narcotic drugs such as crack and crystal, said the report.
MONTERREY, Mexico –
Five people were killed and one was wounded in two shootings earlier this
weekend in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, officials said.
An
unidentified gunman opened fire on a group of young men in the Villa de San Juan
district of the city of Juarez, located east of Monterrey, around 11:00 p.m.
Friday, killing four of them and wounding the fifth.
The gunman drove up
to the house where the young men were drinking, threatened them and opened fire
with an AK-47 assault rifle.
The killings may be related to drug
trafficking, Nuevo Leon Security Council officials said.
Another shooting
around the same time on Friday night left a man dead in the Independencia
section of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon.
Police officers
responding to reports of shots fired went to the area and found a dead body
inside a house and two severely beaten men in a nearby ditch, officials
said.
Investigators are trying to determine whether the incident was a
fight between neighbors, officials said.
Nuevo Leon, one of Mexico’s most
violent states, is the scene of a turf war between the Gulf cartel and Los
Zetas.
After several years on the payroll of the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas,
considered Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, went into the drug
business on their own account and now control several lucrative
territories.
The criminal organizations have been fighting for control of
smuggling routes into the United States since 2010