A suicide bomb in a church in the northeast of Nigeria has capped a week in which almost every day saw deaths due to violence by Boko Haram militants.

At least 5 people were killed in the latest attack in Potiskum, in Yobe state.

Recent attacks include:

The Burundian government rejected the mediator on the bases that a critical UN report on Burundi’s elections demonstrated bias.

The Dutch city of The Hague has seen 4 consecutive nights of protests, triggered by the death of a man in police custody.

Mitch Henriquez, 42, from the Caribbean island of Aruba, died in police custody last Sunday.

He was initially arrested at a music festival and amateur video footage showed several police officers restraining him before his limp body was put into a police van, the BBC reported.

Questioning the effectiveness sanctions, Mawien Makol Ari, said,

Islamic State has been destroying statues and artefacts from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra which the group captured in May.

A 2000 year old lion statue outside of the city's museum was destroyed on Saturday, reported Syria's antiquities director, Maamoun Abdelkarim.

IS also published images of combatants grinding to dust classical busts and statues, reportedly found being smuggled in Aleppo.

On Thursday Malaysia informed the UN Security Council that it would be seeking a UN-backed tribunal to prosecute those suspected of being responsible for shooting down a passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine.

The Islamic State appears to have escalated its attacks in Sinai, launching simultaneous attacks on multiple military checkpoints Wednesday morning. Egyptian military officials claimed that 100 militants and 17 soldiers were killed in the attacks but local newspapers reported much higher numbers for soldier casualties.

The Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for the attacks saying they targeted more than 15 security sites and launched 3 suicide bombings.