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The shelling on Saturday morning was directed at security guards in the southwestern Saudi border area of Jizan, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry on SPA.

A suicide plot was intended to strike an Armed Forces Day parade, targeting troops who had fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, a British newspaper reported.

Tunisia's tourism minister called Friday's attack in one of the country's most popular resorts for Europeans a "catastrophe" and authorities vowed to toughen security.

While some GOP presidential candidates urged action to counter the Supreme Court's ruling, grassroots activists said they preferred to focus on limiting the damage.

Almost 200 people are now in intensive-care units, and at least eight have life-threatening injuries, after colored powder sprayed on revelers caught fire at a concert.

Israel's economy minister says he backs a plan for the country to rebuild Gaza in exchange for a long-term ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

Bree Newsome, 30, was arrested Saturday for taking down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse.

"They were playing poker," said Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling. "But in poker, you can always lose."

"The creditors have not sought our approval but have asked for us to abandon our dignity. We must refuse."

Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud was found hiding at an extremist's house.

Police were looking for suspects Saturday evening.

The raid took place just a week after a Tuareg-led northern rebel alliance signed a peace deal with the government.

"We demand the city immediately stop jailing mentally ill people and fund mental health services instead," the activists wrote on Facebook.

French terror suspect Yassin Salhi allegedly sent a photo of himself posing with the severed head of his boss to a Canadian contact.

A bomb threat at the airport serving Paris came the day after the French government raised the national security alert level.

A number of Cuba initiatives are pending in the Senate, including a bill to remove the travel ban on Americans and a more ambitions bill to rescind the decades-old U.S. economic embargo.

A dance and music party at a water park resulted in more than 200 people injured, presumably because colorful powder ignited, sending flames sky-high.

More than 200 civilians were killed as Kurdish forces routed Islamic State group militants around the key town of Kobani.

People who believe the Confederate flag represents Southern culture are demonstrating in support of it.

A Russian official says his country will be a major player in the $100-billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank proposed by China.

The New Jersey governor is expected to be the 14th Republican to seek the GOP's U.S. presidential nomination in 2016.

A liberal activist best known for films such as "Bowling For Columbine" and "Sicko," the moviemaker offered to cover all her legal fees and asked friends to notify her about it.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says those responsible for the attack in Tunisia "only unite us more strongly in our determination to defeat these Islamist extremists."

Eurozone finance ministers dismissed a Greek request for a one-month bailout extension and are now focusing on ways to deal with a default.

Construction of an international terminal was paused around the same time six government officials disappeared.

With a self-imposed deadline approaching on Tuesday, both sides emphasized that major obstacles remained to finalizing a deal.

The terrorist attack Friday claimed at least 39 lives, with Belgian, British and German nationals among the dead.

An investigation into the business dinner attended by Xiang Shuguang, mayor of Yongzhou city, and other officials, found that the party cost about $1,200.

A Chinese official says other countries are encroaching on the nation's historical claims to a wide swath of the South China Sea.