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The suspect in the Charleston Church Massacre is due in court on Friday for a hearing.  21-year old Dylann Roof is charged with one count of murder, but that will change as prosecutors assemble their case.  He was caught on video entering the Emanuel AME Church in the South Carolina city where witnesses watched as he shot a pastor and eight members of the congregation in a bible study class. 

Roof was arrested several hundred kilometers away from the scene of the murders in North Carolina.  This happened after a worker at a florist shop recognized his black Hyundai sedan with Confederate flags stickers and license plates (that’s right, South Carolina actually has hate symbols on its license plates) and followed it for some 50 kilometers until the police finally showed up.

Roof’s flagrant racism was well known to people who knew him, and tolerated as can only happen in America’s south.  “He said blacks were taking over the world.  Someone needed to do something about it for the white race,” said childhood friend Joseph Meek, Jr. about a recent drinking episode with Roof.  “He said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks.  I said, ‘That’s not the way it should be.’  But he kept talking about it.”  But Meek and their others didn’t believe that Dylann Roof would act on his racism.

Jewish extremists are suspected of attacking and burning in northern Israel attacked and burned a revered church where Christian tradition holds that Jesus performed the miracle of feeding thousands of people with two fish and five loaves of bread.  The entrance of the Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha was vandalized red paint spelling out a Jewish prayer that condemns “idol worshipers”.  Police detained and released 16 young people from a settler community. 

An anti-immigrant, anti-European Union has come in from the fringes to become the second largest party in Denmark’s government after this week’s elections.  Social Democratic Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has conceded defeat and conservative Liberal Party leader Lars Lokke Rasmussen will become PM.  But the xenophobic Danish People’s Party appears to have gotten enough votes to join government in some form.

Eurozone leaders will hold an emergency summit on Monday after the latest attempts to stop Greece from defaulting on its debts and leaving the EU fell through.  Less than two weeks remains before Greece has to strike a deal or default.  If the latter happens, the country could be plunged into economic chaos at worst, or a painful transition at best.  For Europe, it means that billions in Euros in Greek debts will never be paid back.

Japanese auto giant Toyota says its executive Julie Hamp did not mean to break the law by importing dozens of Oxycodone pills, a powerful pain killer that is prescribed in the US but strictly controlled in Japan.  Cops took Ms. Hamp into custody on Thursday.  Two months ago, Toyota promoted the American as the carmaker's head of public relations – its first female managing officer.  Japan has a very strange view of prescription drugs that are legal in other countries.  Back in March, Japan held a 26-year old American woman for 18 days after her parents mailed a vial of Adderal for her ADD.

The (alleged) cesspool that is politics in Guatemala is bubbling over.  The lawmaker leading the investigation into President Perez Molina’s corruption charges has himself resigned following accusations of conspiracy and fraud.  The United Nations linked Congressional commission chief Baudilio Hichos to the country’s US$14.5 Million social security scandal.  Meanwhile, President Otto Perez managed to get the constitutional court to slow down the investigation into his possible links to another scandal – one involving kickbacks in the customs service.

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