SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR KILLING BANGLADESHI WOMAN

Saudi authorities executed a Pakistani convicted of killing a Bangladeshi woman, raising to 79 the number of death sentences they have carried out this year. Elias Ismail was found guilty of fatally stabbing Hajar Hussein during a robbery and was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, an interior ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency said.