AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas jury on Tuesday found a white, former policeman guilty of murder for fatally shooting a black teenager in a car moving away from him in a 2017 case in a Dallas suburb that fueled a national debate over possible racial bias in U.S. policing. 

Somalis in Ethiopia's eastern region have welcomed the arrest Monday of their former leader, Abdi Mohammed Omar.  The former strongman is accused of stoking deadly ethnic clashes in the Somali region, Ethiopia's second largest.  Somalis hope his removal will usher in a new era of accountability and a new relationship with Addis Ababa. 

The number of Somalis left homeless has surged this year as thousands who had already fled war, drought and floods were forcibly evicted from mostly makeshift homes, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said. 

"Tens of thousands of people who fled drought and violence are being forced from their homes again, only this time from forced evictions.  Many of these families were forced to leave with little or no notice.  Some have been evicted multiple times, without due process.  This is unjust, and violates their rights," said Evelyn Aero, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Adviser for Information, Counseling and Legal Assistance. 

It was an eventful weekend for the political guardians and critics of Canadian citizenship.  To kick things off, on Friday night, this newspaper brought remarkable news that our Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship thinks Canada’s capacity to deal with inland refugee claimants is “not sustainable.” 

A suspected Dutch jihadist is believed to have been involved in the deadly kidnapping of a British couple in South Africa and of contacting a top Islamic State group official, Dutch media reported Monday. 

On Monday morning in Arizona, Senator John McCain’s former campaign manager Rick Davis, acting as a spokesperson for the McCain family, read aloud the text of the late senator’s final letter to the public. “ These are John’s words,” he said.  What follows is a transcription of what Davis read: