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Accused Chattanooga gunman Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez reportedly texted a friend a link to an Islamic verse the night before embarking on a shooting spree.

Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels accused each other on Saturday of shelling residential areas despite a ceasefire, reporting four civilians and one soldier killed following a week of the deadliest fighting in over a month.

Next week's visit to Washington by President Muhammadu Buhari is viewed by the U.S. administration as a chance to set the seal on improving ties since he won a March election hailed as Nigeria's first democratic power transition in decades.

Only a tiny fraction of the Germans polled offer unqualified support for the deal with Greece, and many say they would have preferred a so-called Grexit.

A Reclaim Australia rally featured violent clashes Saturday, while another was marked by arrests Sunday. Both were held to oppose the so-called Islamization of Australia.

"It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this heinous act of violence," the Abdulazeez family wrote.

Personal copies of copyrighted music and videos are deemed illegal to have or make in the United Kingdom without compensation.

The kidnapping took place in an ISIS stronghold southeast of the city of Sirte, Libya, said a resident, who asked not to be named.

Hackers send Department of Defense cleverly disguised emails intended to infiltrate the Pentagon with malware, the Daily Beast reports.

South African President Jacob Zuma has known about the problem for two months but put off treatment because of his schedule.

"This latest attack is yet another painful example of the atrocities that the terrorist group ISIL continues to perpetrate against the people of Iraq," a NSC spokesman said.

In response to the shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that left five servicemen dead, governors across the nation issued executive orders to arm National Guard officers.

In South Carolina two competing rallies over the Confederate flag led to arrests outside the Capitol on Saturday.

An appellate court panel decided a Delaware law limiting campaign contributions is consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the Citizens United case.

China’s vice finance minister says, “There is a mismatch for supervision, and that is a real challenge.”

At least two women were crushed to death during a Hindu religious festival in India Saturday, four days after 27 perished at a different festival.

Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, sent a text message to a friend that links to a Quranic verse that includes the text: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."

Both trains were on the way from the city center of Johannesburg to the nearby township of Soweto.

Shoppers have returned to the Nairobi retail mall where a four-day siege by terrorists killed 67 people in 2013.

"He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured," the U.S. presidential candidate says at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa.

Saudi Arabia says its security forces have arrested 431 suspected Islamic State group terrorists in recent sweeps.

Congressional Republican moderates seek to expand protections for same-sex couples while shielding tax-exempt religious groups from prosecution.

Advocates of immigrant rights say Texas is attempting to block U.S-born kids from gaining citizenship rights in cases where their moms entered the country illegally.

Controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona dismissed calls for his resignation, as he denied racial targeting by his office.

"We by no means want this to be a pop quiz. I think just it's about just getting a sense of what they would prioritize," said Sheril Kirshenbaum, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin.

The governors of Louisiana and Oklahoma have authorized their states' National Guard units to arm themselves to protect military facilities in wake of the attack in Tennessee.

Several hundred Australian nationalists and anti-racism activists clashed with police in Melbourne on Saturday.

The new reserve force has been discussed for several years and was first ordered by Putin in 2012 shortly after his re-election as President.

The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Black Educators for Justice are each planning rallies at the South Carolina Capitol.