The US city of Chicago has celebrated a bloody Fourth of July weekend, with gunmen shooting at least 66 people, 8 of them fatally.
Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was assassinated Sunday in front of the supreme court in the capital, Amman, Al-Alam reported.
A wave of violence Friday killed at least 51 people in Iraq, most of whom were kidnapped and shot dead with their corpses abandoned.
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip say Israeli forces have shot and injured a young Gazan farmer in the northern part of the impoverished coastal sliver.