Chad bans burqa after two suicide bombings

Mali hostages Gustafsson and McGowan seen in new jihadist video

Human Rights Watch claim Colombian army was involved in illegal killings of civilians

Beheading of 5 foreigners in Saudi Arabia triggers outcry from human rights campaigners

Human rights groups have condemned Saudi Arabia after the beheading of five foreigners this week. Experts warn 2015 will mark a dramatic increase in public executions, as 80 people have already been killed, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014.

Despite mounting international criticism from foreign governments and human rights campaigners, Saudi Arabia has shown no willingness to end public executions. On Monday, a group of five men, sentenced to death for murder and theft, were publicly beheaded.

The killings come about a month after Amnesty International decried what it labeled as a “macabre spike”in state-sponsored executions.

Iran news in brief, 24 June 2015

Colombian Navy Seizes Almost 3 Tons of Cocaine from Submarine

BOGOTA – The Colombian navy seized almost 3 tons of cocaine hidden aboard a small submarine with a four-man crew, which was detected in the Pacific Ocean heading for the border area between Guatemala and Mexico, officials said Tuesday.

Combined investigations by the navy, police and U.S. naval units spotted the drug-traffickers’ sub as it set sail from Sanquianga National Park in the southwestern Colombian province of Nariño, an official communique said.

With the aid of the United States Coast Guard, the 11-meter-long (36-foot-long) by 1-meter-wide (3¼-foot) wide submarine was intercepted in international waters and was found to be carrying 2.8 tons of cocaine.

The part of Nariño from where the small submarine sailed is a stronghold of the Daniel Aldana mobile column of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which according to the navy collects huge sums of money from drug-traffickers for permission to ship their narcotics through the region, from the inland jungles to the Pacific Ocean.

The four crew members of the sub detained in international waters were handed over to U.S. authorities, the report said

Mexico - man murdered inside restaurant ( drug wars )

A man was killed by at least four bullets, one in the head, inside the restaurant Miguelito's. 

Located next to the market Bodega Aurrera, in the area of ​​Santa Fe, the afternoon of Thursday, June 18. The victim approximately 35 years was carried out by subjects who left abandoned after the crime meters later a car Honda Civic white, to flee on foot. 

Unofficial data suggest that the deceased brought tucked 9 mm caliber gun and cash. These figures have not been confirmed by the authority. At present, members of the municipal police carried out an operation by land and air to give the suspects. 

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