Russia Warns of Risk of Terrorist Attacks in Tunisia

MOSCOW - The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism, or Rosturizm, warned on Thursday of the possibility of terrorist attacks committed against tourists during the peak vacation season in Tunisia.

The agency said in a note posted on its website that according to authorities and security forces, terrorist groups linked to Islamic State are preparing a series of attacks on tourists in Tunisia, particularly Russians, taking advantage of the increase in their arrivals during the peak season.

The note explained that the most likely places in the country for the targets of such attacks are the island of Djebra and the town of Zarzis, part of that island.

According to the note, Rosturizm has asked tourists to be cautious during their vacation and take precautions.

The North African country was the scene in 2015 of three bloody jihadist attacks, which claimed the lives of 72 people, 60 of them foreign tourists. 

Striking Mexican Teachers Take Cops Hostage

OAXACA, Mexico – Members of Mexico’s militant CNTE teachers union took six police officers hostage Wednesday in this southern city.

EFE witnessed the incident as it unfolded at a checkpoint the teachers set up on one of the main roads leading into Oaxaca, capital of the likenamed state.

The six officers, all assigned to the state investigative agency, were traveling in an unmarked SUV, but the CNTE members at the checkpoint recognized them as law enforcement personnel when they spotted their guns.

The union members forced the cops to get out of the vehicle and pose for photographs next to signs accusing of them of “repressing the teachers” and of clandestinely photographing protesters.

The head of the investigative agency, Jaciel Vazquez, told the media he went to the scene and assured the CNTE activists that they would not be prosecuted if they released the agents.

The agents have not been harmed, he said.

Oaxaca state is home to more than one-third of the CNTE’s roughly 200,000 members nationwide and has been a major battleground in the conflict between teachers and authorities implementing a controversial overhaul of the Mexican educational system.

In Mexico City, CNTE members continued a weeks-long protest to press for the rollback of the educational “reform” enacted by President Enrique Peña Nieto, even as the government prepares to fire more than 3,000 teachers for taking part in the strike.

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Sinaloa - Drug bust 25 tons by military

 

Navojoa, Sonora. -NARCOVIOLENCIA.- A trailer that tried to circumvent a military checkpoint located on the Mexico Federal Highway 15, within the limits of Sonora and Sinaloa, overturned on a dirt road revealing a huge load of 25 tons of marijuana and one kilo 800 grams of methamphetamines.

In a press release, the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) explained that military personnel arrived at the crash site Tuesday afternoon, where they found that a tractor-trailer of the Kenworth brand, blue, was overturned on its right side, the trailer box was opened by its top watering their content and exposing the drug shipment. 

Sinaloa- Cops ambushed on traffic stop and one killed.

Culiacan, Sinaloa. -NARCOVIOLENCIA.- A traffic policeman was killed this morning on the boulevard Pedro Infante,  in the city of Culiacan Sinaloa. 


The Traffic officer was gunned down while he was aboard a patrol car as co-pilot, His partner was driving and he was also injured. 



The slain officer was Manuel Ramos Hinojeantes, his companion was seriously injured. 

The killing of a traffic officer was the result of a phone call, which was made by the driver of a truck involved in a crash, his friends showed up and ambushed the officers killing one of them.