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Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama denounced the country's epidemic of gun violence on Saturday and renewed a call for tougher controls on military-style weapons after yet another deadly shooting, saying "enough is enough." The latest bloodshed came on Friday when a man entered a family planning clinic in the state of Colorado and allegedly opened fire, killing three people, including a police officer, and wounding nine others. The motive of the suspect now under arrest was not yet known and police were to interrogate him Saturday.

A courthouse in Chatsworth was evacuated and woman’s backpack blown up by a bomb robot after she began yelling about “Islamic State” at a security checkpoint Wednesday, authorities said. The woman entered the Los Angeles County Superior Court branch at 9425 Penfield Ave. and became upset when she was stopped by security, Sheriff’s Department Deputy Jeff Gordon said. She was detained and began shouting about “Islamic State” — in an apparent reference to the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the recent deadly Paris attacks — and talking about something in her backpack, Gordon said. …The backpack was exploded...

We hear you loud and clear about guns, President Obama. It's a little odd though, that you'd make insinuations about taking our guns away after the recent college shooting in Oregon, especially now that the EU Times reports the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) listed the shooter as an "American black-Islamist terror suspect" not quite the "white Republican" some initially suggested.

G20 leaders in Turkey rose from their seats to honor Paris terror victims on Sunday President Barack Obama arrived at the G20 summit's first working session after the silent observance was already underway He said economic conditions in the Middle East contribute to the global terror crisis Later in the day Obama insisted he wouldn't send troops to the Middle East and called the Paris attacks a 'setback' President Barack Obama arrived late to a 'moment of silence' in Belek, Turkey on Sunday as the rest of the world's most powerful leaders stood for a somber observance to honor Friday's...