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The United States has asked China to cut off oil supply to North Korea, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday, warning that "if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed," Reuters reported.

Charleston police are responding to an active shooter situation that has closed a portion of one of the downtown area’s busiest streets.

A U.S. judge on Jan. 2 ruled Dylann Roof was mentally fit to serve as his own lawyer in the penalty phase of his trial, when a jury will decide whether to sentence him to be executed for the 2015 massacre at a South Carolina church. 

Passenger traffic in the Athens International Airport set a new records in February, reaching 1.07 million, up 18.2% compared with the same month last year.

Domestic passenger traffic went up 26.6%, while international passenger traffic rose 12.8%, with Greek passengers recording an increase of 17% and foreign passengers 21%.

The divisive Confederate flag came down on July 10 at South Carolina's legislature, drawing a line under a furor rekindled last month by the murder of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist.

An F-16 fighter jet smashed into a small plane July 7 over the southern state of South Carolina, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide swath of marshes and rice fields.

A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged June 20 in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.

The 21 year-old Charleston killer Dylann Roof who confessed to killing nine African-Americans in a church of Charleston, South Carolina was apparently originally planning to assault a college.

NBC News and the Washington Post claim that Roof told an African-American neighbor of his recently, on a night when they were out drinking, that he wanted to shoot up a school.

Police captured the white suspect June 18 in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions.

A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on June 18, describing the attack as a "hate crime". 

The suspect, who police described as a 21-year-old white man wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and boots, was still at large hours after the shooting on June 17 evening.