SAUDI ARABIA: IRAQI EXECUTED FOR MURDER

An Iraqi convicted of murder became the 132nd person executed in Saudi Arabia this year, the interior ministry said.
Kazim al-Abasi, a sheep herder, was found guilty of killing a Saudi with whom he worked, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
It said Abasi bashed the victim in the head with a hammer while he slept, bound him and tossed him down a hole before fleeing in his car.
Authorities carried out the death sentence in Hafr al-Batin, near Iraq.
According to AFP tallies, 132 foreigners and Saudis have been put to death in the kingdom this year during a surge of executions that compares with 87 for all of 2014.