1st Ebola case in U.S. diagnosed

A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital was diagnosed with the Ebola virus, the CDC says.



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Drenching fails to deter

Thousands of demonstrators are drenched by the stormy weather, however, they continue to protest, CNN's Ivan Watson reports.



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Gates defends U.S. response to Ebola

One of the world's most successful innovators and philanthropists defends the U.S. response to the deadly Ebola epidemic, saying he doesn't think the government waited too long to act.



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Eight arrested in Ferguson protests

Eight people were arrested outside the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Sunday night when demonstrations grew violent yet again, police say.



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Albright: Modi U.S. visit crucial

India and U.S. need to build trust, Madeleine Albright writes.



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Thousands fill the streets

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators continue to fill the streets, CNN's Kristie Lu Stout has the details.



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U.S. beheading: Man charged

Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the beheading of a 54-year-old woman last week at his former workplace in Oklahoma and in an stabbing attack on another woman, said Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn.



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Why law and war will not beat jihad

Over-reliance of Western states on law and war to combat what is ultimately an ideological threat is a gift to extremist recruiters, says Ghaffar Hussain, of counter-extremist think tank Quilliam. Mainstream Muslim commentators must move away from notions of victimhood and promote positive role models instead.



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Swimmer Phelps on drink-drive charge

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was arrested early Tuesday morning in Maryland on a DUI charge, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.



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Netanyahu: Iran, Hamas are threats

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned U.N. delegates Monday not to overlook the threats posed by Iran and Hamas in their zeal to defeat the terror group ISIS.



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Tennis: Nadal makes winning return

The last time Rafael Nadal came back from a long-term layoff, he enjoyed one of the finest seasons of an outstanding career -- reaching nine consecutive finals on his return from a knee injury, and winning both the French and U.S. Open grand slams in 2013.



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Gay rights figure in Brazil poll

Gay rights have taken center stage in Brazil's presidential election. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.



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5 things to know

Beijing is watching events in Hong Kong very closely as protesters succeed in disrupting the city center in their push for democracy.



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Spying app creator arrested

The creator of StealthGenie, a mobile app marketed as a tool for spying on cheating spouses and keeping tabs on children, has been arrested, according to federal authorities.



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Clooney wedding photos hit stands

It may have taken him awhile, but it looks like waiting to get married was more than worth it for George Clooney.



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Watson speech: Boy pens viral letter

A 15-year-old British schoolboy has struck a chord with his eloquent response to actress Emma Watson's United Nations speech encouraging men to join in the fight for gender equality.



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George Clooney ties the knot

George Clooney, the man long considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, followed up his private wedding to British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin with a civil ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Monday.



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Leung: Emotion 'will get us nowhere'

Hong Kong is in the midst of a passionate debate about our constitutional development. It's a debate we must have. But it's a debate that must be tempered with reason. Raw emotion -- for or against the proposed political reform -- will get us nowhere.



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U.S. Secret Service: Security lacking

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ISIS 'hit Iraqi army near Baghdad'

Shortly after ISIS claimed to have carried out attacks within miles of Baghdad, police officials confirmed Tuesday that the ISIS militants had struck Iraqi military checkpoints on the southern outskirts of the capital during the weekend.



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Stine releases new 'Fear Street' book

Author R.L. Stine has returned to the evil street that made him famous in the 1990s, and fans are looking forward to the new ways he'll terrorize Shadyside High School teenagers on "Fear Street."



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Syrian town fears massacre by ISIS

ISIS militants have moved to within about two miles of the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani near the Turkish border, despite dozens of bombing missions by U.S.-led warplanes.



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'40,000 migrants' die since 2000

Every day, refugees and migrants risk their lives as they seek a new life. Now, a new report from the International Organization for Migration has put a figure to the number of victims: at least 40,000 deaths since 2000.



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Afghans to keep U.S. troops past 2014

The United States and Afghanistan on Tuesday signed a long-delayed security agreement that will allow U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond the previous December deadline to withdraw.



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Liberia's top doctor in quarantine

Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials.



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Fumes delay Japan volcano rescue

Five more lifeless bodies have been found on the slopes of Japan's Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of presumed dead in a volcanic eruption Saturday to 36.



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9 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk

Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed by tank fire Monday at the airport in the flashpoint city of Donetsk, the country's state news agency reported.



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Leung: China won't compromise

Hong Kong's chief executive says China won't back down and urges protesters to go home. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.



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How protests are affecting travel

Visiting Hong Kong during the protest? These are the things travelers should know.



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City's refugees 'living like beggars'

Away from pro-democracy protests, the city's refugees are fighting to be heard.



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City in Jordan welcomes ISIS

Jordan is battling ISIS in Syria, but one city in Jordan would welcome the terror group. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.



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UK hostage mocks airstrikes

British photojournalist John Cantlie reads a statement in a new ISIS hostage video that mocks airstrikes.



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Why Modi's U.S. visit matters

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the White House next week, he will carry with him grand hopes for a re-energized partnership between his country and the United States. Fresh off a landslide victory in the Indian elections, Modi has seized an outright majority in parliament and a mandate for sweeping domestic reform. For years, the former chief minister of Gujarat faced an American visa ban due to his alleged role in violent riots. Now, the new premier's visit represents a key opportunity to recharge a critical bilateral relationship.



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NFL: Player who killed self 'had CTE'

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher likely had a devastating brain disease when he shot and killed his girlfriend and then himself two years ago, a doctor says in a new report.



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Beating ISIS to 'take more than might'

The head of a Syrian opposition group warns that military operations alone won't be enough to defeat terrorist groups like ISIS -- the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.



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Did Aussie man give U.S. jihadi $12K?

Australian police arrested a 23-year-old man in Melbourne on Tuesday on suspicion of funding a U.S. citizen who went to fight in Syria.



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We're not going anywhere: Protesters stay on streets

Thousands of protesters clamoring for full democracy in Hong Kong stood their ground Tuesday even as the head of its government said China won't give in to their demands.



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Why street protest is wrong

Robert Chow from the Alliance for Peace and Democracy calls for negotiations not protests in Hong Kong.



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To beat ISIS, focus on young people

Earlier this month, Kenyans commemorated the heinous attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi.



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Now on Google Street View: poverty

Lake Providence, Louisiana, is the parish seat of the "most unequal place in America," meaning it has a higher rate of income inequality than any other parish or county. And until somewhat recently, the poor side of town was missing a key Google Maps feature.



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Seduction of the rich boyfriend

I have always been a fiercely independent woman. I learned from my grandmother -- the breadwinner in her marriage -- that there was nothing that a woman couldn't do as well as a man.



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Anti-jihad transit ad pulled in U.S.

A transit advertisement depicting deceased American journalist James Foley moments before he was beheaded by ISIS was pulled from circulation in New York and San Francisco, according to the attorney representing the organization behind the ads, American Freedom Defense Initiative.



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Catalonia independence vote frozen

A referendum over Catalonia's future as a part of Spain has been put on hold.



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Amanda Bynes arrested on DUI charge

Amanda Bynes has hit rough road yet again.



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Why was ISIS threat misjudged?

ISIS, a top intelligence official said more than a year ago, has "ruthlessly grown in effectiveness."



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Beheading suspect to be charged

A man who allegedly beheaded a woman in Oklahoma will be charged Monday, authorities said.



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Protesters sleeping on asphalt

Thousands of protesters demanding democracy pack the streets in Hong Kong. CNN's Andrew Stevens reports.



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White House intruder went far inside

The man who jumped the White House fence earlier this month and breached the mansion's doors actually made it farther than originally thought, officials said Monday.



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Are protests being seen in China?

News articles, social media posts and images about Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests are being heavily censored behind China notorious firewall.



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Umbrella protests

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Time to end electronics slave trade

If you are reading this on a tablet, smart phone or computer monitor, then you may be holding a product of forced labor.



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Europe wins Ryder Cup

Europe withstood an early fightback from the United States to retain the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles Sunday and secure an eighth win in the last 10 stagings of the biennial team competition.



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Kimetto sets new marathon record

Kenya's Dennis Kimetto became the first man to run the marathon in under two hours three minutes as he set a new world record in Berlin Sunday.



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Gates defends U.S. response to Ebola

One of the world's most successful innovators and philanthropists defends the U.S. response to the deadly Ebola epidemic, saying he doesn't think the government waited too long to act.



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Eight arrested in Ferguson

Eight people were arrested outside the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Sunday night when demonstrations grew violent yet again, police say.



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Albright: Modi U.S. visit crucial

India and U.S. need to build trust, Madeleine Albright writes.



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Why China relations are so complex

Relationship between Hong Kong and China is often complex.



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How will ISIS use media?

Modern U.S. presidents seem to be in need of neat, catchy labels for the enemy they want to destroy. "Network of death" is the latest one. After U.S. President Barack Obama's speech at the United Nations, we now know that it is this network that needs "dismantling."



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Leader: It's 'a war' not 'a battle'

Occupy Hong Kong Central leader Chan Kin Man tells Christiane Amanpour they are in it for the long haul.



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Kurdish fighters outgunned

Kurdish fighters close to the Turkish border are outgunned as ISIS militants advance. CNN's Phil Black reports.



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Netanyahu: Iran, Hamas are threats

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned U.N. delegates Monday not to overlook the threats posed by Iran and Hamas in their zeal to defeat the terror group ISIS.



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Hikers found 'lifeless'

Will Ripley explains the delicate language officials are using to explain the condition of people found on Mount Ontake.



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Robin Williams: Friends pay tribute

Robin Williams received a warm sendoff from family and friends at a San Francisco tribute Saturday night.



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What are protesters demanding?

Beijing is watching events in Hong Kong very closely as protesters succeed in disrupting the city center in their push for democracy.



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Terror suspect arrested in Spain

Max Foster speaks with Nima Elbgir on the recent arrest of a terror suspect in Spain.



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Chicago fire: Air travel still hit

If you are traveling today, you may want to check with your airline.



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Watson speech: Boy pens viral letter

A 15-year-old British schoolboy has struck a chord with his eloquent response to actress Emma Watson's United Nations speech encouraging men to join in the fight for gender equality.



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George Clooney ties the knot

George Clooney, the man long considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, followed up his private wedding to British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin with a civil ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Monday.



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Who is student leader Joshua Wong?

He's one of the fieriest political activists in Hong Kong — he's been called an "extremist" by China's state-run media — and he's not even old enough to drive.



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Opinion: HK leader writes for CNN

C.Y. Leung, Hong Kong's leader, writes the pro-democracy protests gripping the territory reflect a passionate, vital debate -- but one that must be tempered with reason.



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Police officer shot in Ferguson

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was shot Saturday evening, according to St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman.



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Flight chaos after fire 'sabotage'

The effects of an employee's attempted suicide and alleged sabotage of the Illinois air traffic control center where he worked stretched into a second day.



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ISIS threat: Syrian town fears massacre

Bombings from U.S.-led warplanes fail to stop ISIS from advancing toward Turkey, leading one town in its path to fear a massacre.



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Irbil citizen: 'Fight to death'

As ISIS closes in on the ancient city of Irbil, some of its resilient residents say they are ready to fight to the death.



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UK: No targets worth hitting

UK jets did not fire a shot on their first mission over Iraq, instead they collected intelligence. Karl Penhaul reports.



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Liberia's top doctor in quarantine

Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials.



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After night of tear gas, Hong Kong protesters dig in

Pro-democracy protesters remain camped out in Hong Kong, defying government attempts to persuade them to give up their demonstration.



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7 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk

Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed by tank fire Monday at the airport in the flashpoint city of Donetsk, the country's state news agency reported.



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36 feared dead after volcano erupts

Five more lifeless bodies have been found on the slopes of Japan's Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of presumed dead in a volcanic eruption Saturday to 36.



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Obama: ISIS threat misjudged

A week after U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria began, lawmakers continued to question President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating the militant group ISIS, which he admitted in a televised interview Sunday was more powerful than the U.S. initially believed.



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Australian refugee deal slammed

Cambodia will accept refugees seeking asylum in Australia in return for A$40 million ($35 million) in aid, under a controversial, open-ended deal that has been criticized as "a new low" in Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.



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Ghani sworn in as Afghan president

Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as the new President of Afghanistan on Monday, sealing the country's first peaceful democratic transition of power.



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Iran President: ISIS airstrikes 'theater'

Airstrikes against ISIS militants are a "psychological operation," not a military one, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Friday.



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Why Modi's U.S. visit matters

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the White House next week, he will carry with him grand hopes for a re-energized partnership between his country and the United States. Fresh off a landslide victory in the Indian elections, Modi has seized an outright majority in parliament and a mandate for sweeping domestic reform. For years, the former chief minister of Gujarat faced an American visa ban due to his alleged role in violent riots. Now, the new premier's visit represents a key opportunity to recharge a critical bilateral relationship.



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Cheers as Lenin statue falls

Crowds in Eastern Ukraine cheered as a the largest statue of Vladimir Lenin in the country was pulled down.



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Belgium terror trial to start

CNN's Atika Shubert reports a jihadist recruit who returned home to Belgium is expected to be a key witness at the trial.



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More counter-terror arrests in UK

UK police arrested two more men Friday in connection with an investigation into suspected membership of a banned organization.



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Protesters jam business district

After a night of clashes with police, thousands of protesters continue to occupy Hong Kong's business district.



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Date set for Catalan independence vote

The president of Spain's Catalonia region, Artur Mas, signed a decree on Saturday setting November 9 as the date for a referendum on independence.



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FDA warning over fake Ebola drugs

The FDA has sent warning letters to three companies who are selling products that claim to treat or cure Ebola.



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Social media transforming Arab world

Groups like ISIS grab headlines with their use of social media to circulate outrageous images, but hateful speech is no match for the more moderate voices, says Nadia Oweidat.



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Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug

A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he's had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug.



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Montana rape teacher gets 10 years

Fighting back tears, Auliea Hanlon sat on the witness stand in a Montana courtroom, just feet away from the man who pleaded guilty to raping her 14-year-old daughter -- and initially received a sentence that required him to serve just 31 days in prison.



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Chelsea Clinton gives birth

Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a daughter, according to a post on her confirmed Twitter and Facebook accounts.



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CNN crew gassed in protests

CNN's Ivan Watson was in the middle of a pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong when things suddenly got out of hand.



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Protesters clash with police

CNN's Ivan Watson reports from the epicenter of a pro-democracy protest that is rocking the streets of Hong Kong.



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Beheading suspect to be charged

A man who allegedly beheaded a woman in Oklahoma will be charged Monday, authorities said.



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Yemen bomb kills 7 near hospital

A bomb-laden vehicle exploded near a hospital controlled by Houthis in the northeastern province of Mareb on Sunday, killing at least seven, several local sources told CNN.



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U.S. child rape suspect on run

A Massachusetts child rape suspect fled after cutting off his GPS monitoring bracelet, then -- days later -- returned home, beat and tied up a relative, and sped off again with a gun, police say.



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U.S., allies strike ISIS refineries

The U.S. military and its allies hit ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq this weekend. While the scope of the airstrikes was not yet clear, several targets were hit, and the strikes appear to have succeeded.



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Murray's great escape in China

It's been 15 long months since he lifted a trophy and Andy Murray certainly did it the hard way.



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Time to end electronics slave trade

If you are reading this on a tablet, smart phone or computer monitor, then you may be holding a product of forced labor.



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Europe wins Ryder Cup

Europe withstood an early fightback from the United States to retain the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles Sunday and secure an eighth win in the last 10 stagings of the biennial team competition.



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Kimetto sets new marathon record

Kenya's Dennis Kimetto became the first man to run the marathon in under two hours three minutes as he set a new world record in Berlin Sunday.



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Jihadist threat not as big as you think

Peter Bergen and Emily Schneider say a new report counts the number of militants fighting for jihad worldwide. Verdict? It's a relatively small number



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Maverick U.S. congressman dies

James Traficant Jr., who railed against government agencies while serving as a wild-haired, maverick congressman from Ohio, died Saturday after being critically injured in a tractor accident on his farm. Traficant was 73.



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Dramatic protest photos

Hong Kong pro-democracy protests



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Signed, not sealed

LAST October, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, flew to Brussels to sign a trade-and-investment deal in principle between Canada and the EU. On September 26th, the two sides announced the close of negotiations. But despite the back-slapping there may still be work to be done. Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s economy minister, objected strenuously this week to a clause in the deal that would allow companies to sue governments if they felt their rights had been infringed.

The clause is common in bilateral investment deals and initially attracted little attention in the Canada-EU negotiations. But it has become a flashpoint in another set of trade negotiations, between the EU and the United States. The European Parliament, a range of environmental and civil-society groups, and certain German politicians oppose it because they feel it gives multinational firms too much power in their dealings with government.

During a debate in Germany’s Bundestag about the two sets of EU talks, Mr Gabriel said “it’s completely clear we reject these investment-protection agreements” and that the debate was not over yet. In Ottawa, Jose...Continue reading



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Albright: Modi U.S. visit crucial

India and U.S. need to build trust, Madeleine Albright writes.



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Riot police fire tear gas

Riot police fire tear gas into a crowd of protesters in Hong Kong. Ivan Watson reports.



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How will ISIS use media?

Modern U.S. presidents seem to be in need of neat, catchy labels for the enemy they want to destroy. "Network of death" is the latest one. After U.S. President Barack Obama's speech at the United Nations, we now know that it is this network that needs "dismantling."



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Gun suspect's identity unknown

Authorities in Ferguson, Missouri, are still searching for a gunman who shot a Ferguson police officer.



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Photos: Mount Ontake erupts

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30 people found 'lifeless'

Will Ripley explains the delicate language officials are using to explain the condition of people found on Mount Ontake.



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Hurricane Rachel spins off Mexico

The Atlantic Ocean, hurricane-wise, has been relatively quiet this season.



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Federer -- as you've never seen him

Look what happened when Roger Federer asked his Twitter followers to send him on virtual holiday.



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42 amazing sports photos

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Showdown looms as Hong Kong protests swell

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to the streets in Hong Kong in a face-off with authorities over Beijing's plans for the city's political future.



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Dozens trapped by Japanese volcano

Rescue teams searched Sunday for dozens of climbers who were caught by the sudden eruption of a volcano in central Japan a day earlier.



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Chaos as Chicago fire halts flights

All Chicago air traffic was stopped early Friday morning because of a fire at a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control facility, an FAA spokeswoman said -- causing flight delays around the nation.



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Young protesters take to streets

Police in Hong Kong blocked more protesters from joining a pro-democracy rally outside the government headquarters.



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Leung: Emotion 'will get us nowhere'

Hong Kong is in the midst of a passionate debate about our constitutional development. It's a debate we must have. But it's a debate that must be tempered with reason. Raw emotion -- for or against the proposed political reform -- will get us nowhere.



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Protests: What you need to know

Hong Kong is in the midst of its longest series of political protests since the 1997 handover.



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Who is Joshua Wong?

He's one of the fieriest political activists in Hong Kong — he's been called an "extremist" by China's state-run media — and he's not even old enough to drive.



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Why Turkey remains on sidelines

Turkey, a key U.S. ally and a NATO member that borders the territory captured by ISIS, which now calls itself the Islamic State, in Syria and Iraq, could play a critical role in the U.S.-led military assault against the jihadist group.



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Police officer shot in Ferguson

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was shot Saturday evening, according to St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman.



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'Sabotage' still disrupting U.S. flights

The effects of an employee's attempted suicide and alleged sabotage of the Illinois air traffic control center where he worked stretched into a second day.



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U.S. beheading suspect interviewed

Police in Oklahoma said Saturday they've interviewed the man who allegedly beheaded a 54-year-old woman at his former workplace.



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Liberia's top doctor in quarantine

Liberia's chief medical officer is on a 21-day Ebola quarantine after her assistant died from the illness, according to health officials.



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Afghanistan: 100 civilians killed

An estimated 100 civilians have been killed in the past week, including some women and children who were beheaded, in a Taliban offensive in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a provincial deputy governor said Friday.



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Football: Messi nets 400th career goal

It's a landmark that most players can only dream of, but for Lionel Messi it was only a matter of time.



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Ryder Cup: U.S. with mountain to climb

A 10-6 scoreline in the Ryder Cup can be dangerous — just ask Davis Love III.



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Australian refugee deal slammed

Cambodia will accept refugees seeking asylum in Australia in return for A$40 million ($35 million) in aid, under a controversial, open-ended deal that has been criticized as "a new low" in Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.



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'Come Home Ronaldo' beg Man U fans

Given their woeful defending of late you'd think Manchester United fans would want a decent center back to come to the club not another star forward -- albeit one of the world's best.



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Air strikes target northern Syria

U.S.-led coalition forces strike various locations inside Syria, including for the first time an area near Turkey's border, the U.S. Central Command says.



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Tennis: Murray into Shenzhen final

Andy Murray will look to clinch the 29th singles title of his career on Sunday when he faces Spain's Tommy Robredo in the final of the inaugural Shenzhen Open in China.



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Defense ministry: UK jets over Iraq and ready to strike

UK jets have been sent to Iraq and "are now ready to be used in an attack role as and when appropriate targets are identified," the defense ministry says.



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Volcanic ash envelopes hikers

Hikers run for cover as Mount Ontake in Japan explodes, causing a massive ash cloud to envelope them.



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More counter-terror arrests in UK

UK police arrested two more men Friday in connection with an investigation into suspected membership of a banned organization.



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Dozens arrested in HK protests

Protesters taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong said Saturday they would continue to occupy an area outside the government headquarters indefinitely until detained student activists are released.



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How far does ISIS' reach extend?

But the recent expansion of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS into Syria, as well as a call by a leader of the extremist group for attacks against Western citizens, has raised questions about how far the militants' global reach extends.



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Date set for Catalan independence vote

The president of Spain's Catalonia region, Artur Mas, signed a decree on Saturday setting November 9 as the date for a referendum on independence.



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What does victory over ISIS look like?

Andrew Liepman and Philip Mudd: When we declare that we will defeat ISIS, what do we exactly mean?



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Social media transforming Arab world

Groups like ISIS grab headlines with their use of social media to circulate outrageous images, but hateful speech is no match for the more moderate voices, says Nadia Oweidat.



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FDA warning over fake Ebola drugs

The FDA has sent warning letters to three companies who are selling products that claim to treat or cure Ebola.



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Japan's Mount Ontake erupts

Mount Ontake erupted late Saturday morning, sending a plume of smoke and ash into the sky, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.



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Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug

A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he's had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug.



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Chelsea Clinton gives birth

Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a daughter, according to a post on her confirmed Twitter and Facebook accounts.



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Montana rape teacher gets 10 years

Fighting back tears, Auliea Hanlon sat on the witness stand in a Montana courtroom, just feet away from the man who pleaded guilty to raping her 14-year-old daughter -- and initially received a sentence that required him to serve just 31 days in prison.



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'Friends' cast dine out together

It's a "Friends" reunion. Again.



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Fighting at Turkish border as coalition against ISIS grows

Britain, Denmark and Belgium join more than 50 countries fighting ISIS as the U.S. warns it is just the beginning of the war.



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U.S. child rape suspect on run

A Massachusetts child rape suspect fled after cutting off his GPS monitoring bracelet, then -- days later -- returned home, beat and tied up a relative, and sped off again with a gun, police say.



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France key player against ISIS

The French have emerged as one of America's strongest allies in the fight against ISIS, as CNN's Jim Bittermann reports.



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Remains identified at U.S. boys school

A research team has identified two more sets of remains from unmarked graves at a former reformatory in Marianna, Florida, reported the University of South Florida.



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Man beheads woman in Oklahoma

A man has beheaded a woman after a workplace dispute in Oklahoma, U.S. law enforcement officials told CNN on Friday.



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'No indications' of N.Y. subway plot

U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies have no indications of a terrorist plot against U.S. subway systems, two U.S. law enforcement officials told CNN on Thursday.



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Navajo agree $554M deal

The Navajo Nation will mark history Friday when it officially announces a $554 million settlement from the U.S. government, putting an end to years of litigation.



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Alaska shaken by 6.2-strength quake

Alaskans were shaken up -- but not, it seems, rattled -- by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake and more than a dozen aftershocks that struck in the state Thursday.



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Students skip class, challenge China

Skipping class in the name of democracy.



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Afghanistan: 100 civilians killed

An estimated 100 civilians have been killed in the past week, including some women and children who were beheaded, in a Taliban offensive in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a provincial deputy governor said Friday.



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Top U.S. court to rule on gay marriage

The one-sentence order from the U.S. Supreme Court was brief but emphatic. The year was 1972 and the justices were asked to decide something extraordinary in that era: whether an openly gay couple from Minnesota had a "fundamental right" under the Constitution to legally wed.



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Blackberry: Hip to be Square?

Can a huge square-shaped touchscreen help blackberry win back old customers? Isa Soares has the story.



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Australian refugee deal slammed

Cambodia will accept refugees seeking asylum in Australia in return for A$40 million ($35 million) in aid, under a controversial, open-ended deal that has been criticized as "a new low" in Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.



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Doctor treating Ebola with HIV drug

CNN explores an Ebola isolation unit where a doctor is successfully treating patients with a medication meant for HIV.



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UK lawmakers set to vote on air strikes against ISIS in Iraq

Britain's House of Commons is set to debate joining the international air campaign against ISIS militants in Iraq, with a vote due later Friday.



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Foley tape: U.S. may have jihadi ID

The FBI has possibly identified the ISIS militant in Scott Foley's execution video. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.



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U.S. trooper shot unarmed man

One moment, a man reaches into his vehicle after a South Carolina trooper asked for his driver's license.



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Hunter Mahan: 'We'll miss Tiger'

CNN's Patrick Snell sits down with Hunter Mahan to look ahead to the Ryder Cup.



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More counter-terror arrests in UK

UK police arrested two more men Friday in connection with an investigation into suspected membership of a banned organization.



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Radical cleric arrested in Britain

Nic Robertson takes a look at the man who was arrested in the U.K. for suspicion of terror related offenses.



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U.S. Attorney General Holder resigns

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday he will resign after six years at the Justice Department helm. He will stay in the position until his successor is confirmed, he said in a statement.



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How far does ISIS' reach extend?

But the recent expansion of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS into Syria, as well as a call by a leader of the extremist group for attacks against Western citizens, has raised questions about how far the militants' global reach extends.



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Is Obama tarnishing his legacy?

LZ Granderson says Obama was elected as a war-ending change agent, not a leader who would leave behind for his successor new engagement in Iraq and Syria. Is he as disappointed as the rest of us?



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What does victory over ISIS look like?

Andrew Liepman and Philip Mudd: When we declare that we will defeat ISIS, what do we exactly mean?



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To beat trafficking, change mindsets

Human trafficking is a multibillion dollar global industry. To beat it, we need to change mindsets, Cindy McCain says



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What role is media playing?

Modern U.S. presidents seem to be in need of neat, catchy labels for the enemy they want to destroy. "Network of death" is the latest one. After U.S. President Barack Obama's speech at the United Nations, we now know that it is this network that needs "dismantling."



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Why Turkey remains on sidelines

Turkey, a key U.S. ally and a NATO member that borders the territory captured by ISIS, which now calls itself the Islamic State, in Syria and Iraq, could play a critical role in the U.S.-led military assault against the jihadist group.



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Ukraine: Plan to join EU in 2020

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko outlined a program of social and economic reforms Thursday that he said are aimed at preparing his country to apply for EU membership in 2020.



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Japan dolphin slaughter begins

The slaughter of dolphins has begun again in a small Japanese village, in a controversial annual hunt that pits Western environmentalist values against what locals say are traditional hunting practices.



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Obama: Ebola threat to security

Sierra Leone's government has declared a three-day nationwide lockdown put in place to help stop the spread of Ebola a success, saying it had revealed more cases hidden in the community.



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Grinding it out: The long, slow fight against ISIS

While airstrikes have had some effect against ISIS, experts and politicians everywhere warn that we will be fighting this enemy for years to come.



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Why Arab states are supporting U.S.

Five Arab states have supported the U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Chatham House's Jane Kinninmont explains their likely motivations.



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Nigeria: Boko Haram leader killed?

Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group's leader, Nigeria's Defense Ministry said.



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Ryder Cup: More than just a game

It is always with a sense of great anticipation that I get ready for the thrilling spectacle that is golf's Ryder Cup.



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McIlroy's joy - Selfies rule OK

Rory McIlroy loves making birdies, but he's partial to the odd selfie too.



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Flag-waving wives treated like stars

A spot of shopping, the odd spa day and some serious flag waving.



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Pride, pressure and ping pong

Pressure is inescapable in the cauldron of Ryder Cup competition -- pressure and ping pong.



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6 ways to talk climate with Republicans

John Sutter says the right is often stereotyped on climate change. But with 97% of climate scientists say humans are causing global warming, we all have to get together on this. Try these talking points



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Ferguson cops arrest protesters

Police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, were engaged in an uneasy standoff in front of the city's police department early Friday after authorities arrested several individuals.



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Can Iraqi military stand up to ISIS?

As Iraq's military fails time and again to defeat ISIS on the field, serious questions are being asked about its ability to defend the country. Should its allies be providing more support?



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Malkovich recreates iconic pics

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Pampered life of Lagerfeld's kitty

When your owner is one of the most famous fashion designers in history, the world is your oyster



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Pentagon: 'ISIS fight to take years'

The U.S. and its allies are steeling themselves for a years-long battle against ISIS -- after more airstrikes hit the terror group's oil assets.



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At least 50 killed in Xinjiang violence

Chinese government authorities late Thursday dramatically revised upward the death toll of a violent incident they say occurred earlier in the week in the far western Xinjiang region.



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Female pilot leads UAE airstrike

Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri may be ISIS's worst nightmare.



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State blames woman for own rape

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is blaming a former state prison clerk for her own rape, in response to a federal lawsuit the woman filed.



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Miller starts N. Korean sentence

The American held in North Korea, Matthew Miller, begins his six-year sentence of hard labor on Thursday.



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Indonesians lose electoral rights

Indonesia's parliament voted on Friday to do away with direct local elections in a move that critics say is a huge step backward for the country's fledgling democracy.



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3 firefighters die of 9/11 illnesses

Three retiree firefighters from the FDNY died this week from illnesses believed related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.



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Woman secretly films life in Raqqa

One woman goes undercover, risking her life to give a rare look at civilian life inside one Syrian city under ISIS rule.



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Suspect in Graham case in custody

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Holder a fighter who would not cower

Eric Holder, who resigned Thursday, kicked off his stormy tenure as attorney general with a challenge to the American public that set the tone for his six turbulent years as the nation's top law-enforcement officer.



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ISIS' impact in Algeria growing

Even among terrorism watchers, the Algerian group Jund al Khilafa has not been a daily preoccupation. But on Sunday this obscure cell found a 55-year old French hiker, Herve Gourdel, wandering in the rugged and beautiful Djudjura National Park in central Algeria.



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Oracle’s boss resigns: Transition, not succession

Larry has not left the building

NOTHING has changed, except for the titles. That was the word from Oracle after Larry Ellison said on September 18th that he was resigning as chief executive. The firm he founded in 1977 is now the world’s biggest maker of business software, with annual sales of $38 billion. Mr Ellison will stay on as executive chairman and focus on his main interest—technology. His old job will be split between Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, who already run the firm’s operations.Though there may be little immediate effect, the title-shuffling may one day be seen as the start of an upheaval like the one IBM had to go through when smaller computers dethroned the mainframe in the 1980s and early 1990s. Big Blue almost went under in the process. Big Red—the colour of Oracle’s logo—is unlikely to run such a risk, but the shift will not be easy.Other than when Oracle’s sponsored boat won the America’s Cup last year, the company has not been in the headlines much since it bought a bunch of other business-software firms in the mid-2000s. It seems to be doing a decent job of integrating those acquisitions. But they are less...



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Tesco’s accounting problems: Not so funny

IT IS too soon to say whether the accounting misstatement at Tesco was cock-up or conspiracy. The source of the discrepancy is already clear, however, and it is as old as book-keeping itself: the premature recognition of revenue.Suppliers make payments to supermarkets that meet certain sales targets for their products, run promotions or place the goods in eye-catching places, such as at the end of aisles. Tesco managers appear to have been too ambitious in forecasting these “rebates”. They may also have underreported the costs of stolen and out-of-date produce.In a study of accounting scandals at American companies by the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations, a business-ethics body, the misrecording of revenues was to blame in 60% of cases. Manipulation generally falls into one of two categories. In the first, involving “timing differences”, the revenue is genuine but, say, sales at the start of a quarter are booked as having been struck in the previous one. The flipside of this is “cookie jar” accounting: pushing today’s revenue into tomorrow so it can be dipped into to shore up weak quarters.In the second, more serious category, the sales are fake: often, a related party poses as a customer to generate phoney invoices. Examples include Gowex, a Spanish technology firm that folded earlier this year, and Satyam Computer of India, whose boss compared the escalation of the $...

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Tesco’s crisis: A hard rain

Coming to a high street near you

OF ALL the dark days that Tesco has seen recently, September 22nd was the blackest. That was when Britain’s biggest grocer—and the world’s third-largest retailer—confessed that it had overstated its already dismal profits for the first half of its fiscal year. They were £850m ($1.4 billion), not £1.1 billion, as Tesco had said in August. Its share price has slumped by about 15% since the disclosure. Credit-rating agencies have put its debt on watch for a possible downgrade.Tesco’s accounting fiasco (see article) follows a series of profit warnings and the ousting in July of its boss, Philip Clarke. His successor, Dave Lewis, has promised “a comprehensive independent investigation” and suspended four executives, including the chief of the company’s British business, its biggest unit.Serious questions are being asked about how such a huge, established company could get into such a mess. Do its directors know too little about selling groceries? None of the ten...



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The legal business: The default choice

Get me my lawyer!

RARE is the finance minister of a developing country who does not have Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton on speed-dial. Cleary, based in New York, has long been the go-to law firm for governments in debt crises. Since 1983 the firm has advised 28 sovereign debtors in 54 restructurings. Its recent clients include Greece and Iraq, as well as sturdier places like South Korea. Cleary’s lawyers have reaped both fame and fortune as a result: a survey of 17,000 lawyers by Vault, a jobs site, ranked it America’s seventh most prestigious firm. Its profit per partner of $2.9m last year ranks it 12th, according to American Lawyer magazine.In 2014, however, the firm’s sovereign litigation clients have had a year to forget. In July arbitrators in The Hague ruled that Russia had illegally expropriated Yukos, a big oil company. They ordered the government to pay shareholders $50 billion, 20 times the previous record for arbitration. Argentina has suffered three setbacks at America’s Supreme Court. In March the justices reinstated a $185m award against the country. Three months later, they let a ruling...



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Gambling in Japan: Balls in the air

Zen and the art of pachinko

THE gaudy pachinko parlours that disfigure many a Japanese high street are an acquired taste. The country’s 12,000 parlours keep players sealed off from the outside world behind a thick wall of noise, smoke and gambler’s tension. The pinball-with-prizes machines, with their flashing lights and ceaseless din, induce a trance-like state, prompting Donald Ritchie, an American writer on Japan, to describe pachinko as “cut-price Zen”.Pachinko has been in decline for years, yet its revenues last year were put at 19 trillion yen ($175 billion). To give some idea, that was almost twice the Japanese motor industry’s export revenues. About one in seven Japanese adults play it regularly. For decades it has thrived in a legal grey zone, just about dodging an official ban on gambling. Now it faces two challenges: a government plan to allow the building of big, legal casinos; and finding a way to reinvent itself for the video-game generation.The second problem is the toughest. To young Japanese, pachinko is a bit naff, something your fusty old uncle wastes his time with. The number of regular players has halved since...



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Pharmaceuticals: Priceless pills

IN THE late 1800s a New York doctor noticed that getting an infection after surgery helped some cancer patients. So he began to treat cancer using infections and had a little success. But many doctors were sceptical of his work, and other treatments such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy eventually took off. Today, however, the pharmaceutical industry understands how his treatments would have worked and has placed a sizeable bet that immuno-oncology—the treatment of cancer using the body’s immune system—will yield breakthrough drugs.Earlier this month one of a promising new class of immuno-oncology drugs was approved for use in America by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Developed by Merck, pembrolizumab will be used to treat advanced melanoma, a skin cancer. Another American firm, Bristol-Myers Squibb, hopes to gain FDA approval soon for its melanoma treatment, nivolumab, which is already in use in Japan.Cancer cells have defences that stop the immune system from attacking them, but pembrolizumab and nivolumab are among an emerging category of drugs called “checkpoint inhibitors”, which overcome these defences by interacting with proteins on the surface of either cancer cells or the immune system’s T-cells.Four drugmakers in particular—AstraZeneca, Roche, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb—are chasing new immuno-oncology medicines. Evidence has grown that some...

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Dismembered girl found in Japan

Japanese police have arrested a man after the dismembered body of a missing six-year-old girl was found in several plastic bags near her home in Kobe City.



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UK Parliament recalled for ISIS vote

As the Netherlands commits aircraft and troops, other European nations, including stalwart ally United Kingdom, debate support for U.S.-led mission.



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Hungary’s prime minister: Orban the Unstoppable

FLUSH with cash from the European Union and backed by a phalanx of ultra-loyalist MPs, Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, seems unstoppable. Brushing aside concerns about democracy, the European Commission last month signed a €21.9 billion ($28.2 billion) partnership agreement. The money will arrive between 2014 and 2020 to boost competitiveness and growth. Hungary will also get €3.45 billion for rural development and €39m for fisheries. GDP rose in the second quarter at an annual rate of 3.9%. Industrial output is up 11.3%. Tourism revenue has risen by more than 10% year-on-year.Next month’s local elections will consolidate Mr Orban’s grip on power. The once mighty left has splintered into three parties, none of which poses a serious challenge to his ruling right-wing Fidesz party. Instead, disillusioned Fidesz supporters are moving farther right. Polls show Jobbik, a nationalist party, neck-and-neck with the Socialists. Attila Juhasz at Political Capital, a think-tank, reckons that Jobbik could win up to 30 mayoralties in small towns and villages. The party might even take Miskolc, a big city in the east.Budapest highlights the opposition’s malaise. The...



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Charlemagne: Let’s stick together

THE demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall came out of nowhere, says Günther Dauwen, and had consequences nobody could foresee. Observing the proceedings in Scotland last week, he wondered if something similar might be brewing. From a quiet fourth-floor office in Brussels Mr Dauwen runs the European Free Alliance (EFA), a rum assortment of 40 regional political groups, including the Scottish National Party (SNP), that seek greater autonomy, or, in some cases, independence, from existing countries. From the plains of Silesia to the beaches of Corsica, reckons Mr Dauwen, there is a growing clamour for power among Europe’s long-neglected regions. Scotland is a “beacon” for such places; that its independence referendum was achieved at all encouraged others to think “Yes, we can!”, even though the outcome was negative. In the run-up to the vote the EFA’s website nearly crashed under the weight of traffic.Watching the streets of Edinburgh filling up with Saltire-waving Catalans, Flemings and South Tyroleans (not to mention Québécois, Kurds and Taiwanese) last week, a visitor might have been forgiven for assuming that something was stirring in Europe....



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Germany’s economy: Three illusions

“OUR euphoria is dangerous. It makes us overbearing, blind and dull.” So writes Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, in a new book, “The Germany Illusion”. The book’s message is that Germany, for all its economic strength, has weaknesses. It should be “required reading”, declared Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s economy minister, who joined Mr Fratzscher for its launch. Mr Gabriel, who also leads the Social Democrats, junior partner in the coalition government, has already drafted Mr Fratzscher into an expert commission. Its goal, derived from Mr Fratzscher’s thesis, is to work out how to boost investment by both German firms and the government.Plugging the “investment gap” is all the rage in Berlin. On September 20th Chancellor Angela Merkel devoted her weekly podcast to the subject. Growth only happens “when people really invest”, she said, talking up electricity grids, computer networks, roads and other opportunities for private or public investment. Such rhetoric is a personal success for Mr Fratzscher. Having spent much of his career outside Germany, he has an international perspective that nowadays counts as leftish in German economic circles, dominated by such conservatives as Hans-Werner Sinn of Munich’s Ifo Institute. The conventional narrative starts with a triple triumph: a “jobs miracle” thanks to labour-market reforms in the previous...

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Rebel areas in Ukraine: Significant variations

The territory controlled by pro-Russian rebels in the Donbas region of Ukraine has varied significantly. By early July they held large parts of Luhansk and Donetsk, but they were then driven back by the Ukrainian armed forces. They lost more ground after the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. In late August Russian forces crossed the border in large numbers and pushed the Ukrainians back. The rebels have now regained much of what they earlier lost.



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The western Balkans and the EU: In the queue

TO THOSE who oppose further European Union expansion to the western Balkans, the statement in July by Jean-Claude Juncker, the new European Commission president, was heartening. Negotiations would continue, he said, but “no further enlargement will take place over the next five years.” The political message seemed to be that the whole process was being slowed down.The statement was “controversial and populistic,” says Stefan Fule, the outgoing enlargement commissioner, because no Balkan country would have been ready to join in the next five years. “It was a wrong message to the western Balkans at a wrong time”. Rumours spread the enlargement job would be dropped in Mr Juncker’s new commission. A few angry words (and tweets) from Carl Bildt, the outgoing Swedish foreign minister, helped head that off. To drop the enlargement portfolio, he said, would be a “very bad signal” and an “abdication of responsibility”.The appointment earlier this month of Johannes Hahn, an Austrian, as the new commissioner, led to a search for meaning in his job title: neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations. The neighbourhood comprises six ex-Soviet countries...



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Nicolas Sarkozy’s return: Je reviens

THE Sarko show is back, and half of France is mesmerised, the other half dismayed. More than 8m viewers, almost twice the usual evening television-news audience, tuned in on September 21st to watch Nicolas Sarkozy, the former centre-right president, explain why he was making a return to politics. A poll by Odoxa for Le Parisien, a daily, then suggested that 54% of the French do not want him back.Mr Sarkozy made a studied effort in his interview to appear wiser and calmer: a mature elder statesman who has travelled widely since his defeat in 2012 at the hands of François Hollande, a Socialist, and who has no choice, faced with the “humiliating spectacle” of France today, but to come back to serve his political family and his country. “With all the experience that I have accumulated,” he declared, “am I able to say ‘France is sinking, I’ll stay at home?’” But it was still vintage alpha-male Sarko, as he is familiarly known: vigorous and combative, bordering on finger-wagging aggressive.The French are bracing themselves for a political whirlwind, as Mr Sarkozy campaigns for the leadership of his UMP party, due to be chosen by a vote of members...



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Ukraine in turmoil: A Somalia scenario?

WITH violence in eastern Ukraine waning (for the moment), attention has tentatively turned to the country’s post-war contours. Both the government in Kiev and the separatists claim to be withdrawing heavy weaponry, following an agreement on September 20th to create a 30km (19 miles) buffer-zone, though clashes have continued in some places. Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, claims that “serious work” is under way to build a defensive line around rebel-controlled territory. No matter its final shape, Ukraine will be left with boorish new neighbours on its eastern flank.Directly west of Donetsk, the Dnipropetrovsk region is preparing for more trouble, including banditry, kidnapping and terror. Dnipropetrovsk officials have faced assassination attempts by “liquidation groups” from the Donbas in recent months, and criminals have begun arriving under the guise of refugees. Borys Filatov, a deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk, speaks worryingly of a “Somalia scenario”, under which the Donbas becomes a swathe of ungoverned territory harbouring bandits who cross into the rest of Ukraine to raid, kidnap and steal. Another troubling precedent lies in...



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The future of banking: You’re boring. Get used to it

SINCE the financial crisis, it has become commonplace to argue that banks should be run as utilities, not casinos. At least in terms of their financial performance, that seems to be happening. In 2006, the eight American banks that regulators have since labelled “globally systemically important” generated casino-like profits, with returns on equity of 30% on average, according to Oliver Wyman, a consultancy. They are currently managing less than 11%, and there is worse to come: the Federal Reserve recently announced plans to oblige them to raise extra capital. By one calculation that would reduce their return on equity to little over 8%, other things being equal—a lower return than America’s water companies make.And other things are unlikely to be equal. American regulators continue to biff big banks with blistering fines. Then there is the requirement that banks produce “living wills”, explaining how they could be wound down if disaster strikes: the regulators have rejected every single “will” they have received so far as too flimsy. Making banks easier to close down will probably leave them even less profitable.Nor are American officials the only ones still...



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China’s water crisis: Grand new canals

SOON the centrepiece of one of China’s most spectacular engineering projects will be completed, with the opening of sluicegates into a canal stretching over 1,200km (750 miles) from the Yangzi river north to the capital, Beijing. The new channel is only part of the world’s biggest water-diversion scheme. More than 300,000 people have been kicked out to make way for the channel and the expansion of a reservoir in central China that will feed it. But the government is in a hurry, and has paid their complaints little heed.China’s leaders see the so-called South-North Water Diversion Project, which has already cost tens of billions of dollars, as crucial to solving a water problem that threatens the country’s development and stability (see article). Grain-growing areas around Beijing have about as much water per person as such arid countries as Niger and Eritrea. Overuse has caused thousands of rivers to disappear. The amount of water available is diminishing fast as the water...



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Corporate saving in Asia: A $2.5 trillion problem

THE odd thing about prudence is that too much of it can be deadly. Timid drivers crawling along a motorway create more risk than they avoid. Children who are over-protected from germs end up with weaker immune systems. Economies are the same: too much saving can lead to a loss of vigour or, as Keynes put it, to a “paradox of thrift”. That is why Japanese and South Korean firms, two of the world’s biggest hoarders, need to be cajoled into parting with their cash.Corporate saving has risen across the rich world in recent years. Bosses have felt a greater need to protect themselves against financial turmoil. There have also been fewer opportunities for investment in ageing economies. But East Asia is an extreme case. Japanese firms hold ¥229 trillion ($2.1 trillion) in cash, a massive 44% of GDP. Their South Korean counterparts hold 459 trillion won ($440 billion) or 34% of GDP. That compares with cash holdings of 11% of GDP, or $1.9 trillion, in American firms. If East Asia’s firms spent even half of their huge cash hoards, they could boost global GDP by some 2%.Sadly, that kind of largesse is unlikely. Bosses in East Asia are still scarred by bitter...



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U.S. chief law officer resigns

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday he will resign after six years at the Justice Department helm. He will stay in the position until his successor is confirmed, he said in a statement.



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Hostage's family frustrated

Parents of kidnapped journalist Austin Tice express their frustration at the lack of information on their son.



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Francis Fukuyama: The end of harmony

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 658 pages; $35. Profile Books; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukA BASIC rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality: the more famous an author becomes the more likely he is to produce hot air. Superstar academics abandon libraries for the lecture circuit. Brand-name journalists get their information from dinners with the great and the good rather than hard digging. Too many speeches must be given and backs slapped to leave time for serious thought.Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception to this rule. Mr Fukuyama earned global applause with the publication of “The End of History and the Last Man” in 1992. He won more plaudits in the early 2000s with his broadsides against the neoconservative movement that had nurtured him. But rather than milking...



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New fiction: Another Yalta conference

The Betrayers. By David Bezmozgis. Little, Brown and Company; 240 pages; $26. Viking; £12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHIS compelling second novel by David Bezmozgis takes place in Crimea in August 2013, before the province was annexed by Russia. Baruch Kotler, a famous Soviet Jewish dissident turned Israeli politician, has fled to Yalta with his young mistress after an attempt in Jerusalem to blackmail him.Kotler can flee his enemies in Israel, but he cannot escape his past. He has been haunted for decades by his nemesis, Chaim Tankilevich. The two men were once friends, secretly studying Hebrew in Moscow. But Tankilevich was also a KGB agent, spying on the gatherings. He denounced Kotler in an article in Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, and Kotler was sent to prison for 13 years.Both men seek a kind of redemption when they meet in Yalta, apparently by chance, although more powerful...



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Decrypting Google: Don’t be modest

How Google Works. By Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Grand Central Publishing; 286 pages; $30. John Murray; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukAS A service, Google has become indispensable to people’s interactions online. As a business worth $400 billion after 16 years, its success has been breathtaking. Yet in terms of management, it has set up radically different ways of organising itself from those of traditional businesses. Few people have focused on this.Now two of Google’s architects have analysed what they think worked and why. Eric Schmidt, the current chairman and former chief executive (and also a board director of The Economist Group, this newspaper’s parent company), and Jonathan Rosenberg, a former senior manager, decrypt the firm’s methods for other business leaders to learn from.Most important is thinking extremely big—the “moonshot”, as it is called in Silicon Valley. Google’s leaders often have to wrest employees away from seeking a 10% improvement and towards finding one that is “10X” (that is, ten times better)—something that requires them to do things in an entirely new way, not just optimise what...

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra: Electric conductor

Admirable Nelsons

WHEN Andris Nelsons takes the podium for his first official concert as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on September 27th, it will mark an end to more than three years in the wilderness for a venerable musical institution. Having been troubled by the ill health of its previous musical director, James Levine, the orchestra endured a long interregnum of guest conductors while a replacement was sought. The selection of the ebullient Mr Nelsons seems calculated to banish memories of that period.When his appointment was announced, Bostonians celebrated in characteristic fashion. June 25th 2013 was designated “Andris Nelsons Day” in the city and he was invited to throw the first pitch at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox baseball team. The ritual was symbolic on many levels. The presence of the six-foot-two (1.88-metre) Mr Nelsons on the pitching mound seemed to signal the start of a new, more vigorous era at the BSO where musty halls would open up to let in sunshine and a boisterous crowd.Even before the abrupt ending of Mr Levine’s tenure in 2011, the orchestra had suffered on account of his poor health...



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Australian teen 'terror suspect' killed

As Australian lawmakers introduced tough new laws on foreign fighters on Wednesday, police were explaining why an officer shot dead an 18-year-old terror suspect outside a police station in Melbourne Tuesday night.



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Ukraine: Reforms plan to join EU

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko outlined a program of social and economic reforms Thursday that he said are aimed at preparing his country to apply for EU membership in 2020.



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Japan dolphin slaughter begins

The slaughter of dolphins has begun again in a small Japanese village, in a controversial annual hunt that pits Western environmentalist values against what locals say are traditional hunting practices.



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America and Islamic State: Mission relaunched

FOR more than three years, Barack Obama has been trying to avoid getting into a fight in Syria. But this week, with great tracts of the Middle East under the jihadist’s knife, he at last faced up to the inevitable. On September 23rd America led air strikes in Syria against both the warriors of Islamic State (IS) and a little-known al-Qaeda cell, called the Khorasan group, which it claimed was about to attack the West. A president who has always seen his main mission as nation-building at home is now using military force in six countries—Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.The Syrian operation is an essential counterpart to America’s attacks against IS in Iraq. Preventing the group from carving out a caliphate means, at the very least, ensuring that neither of these two countries affords it a haven (see article). But more than the future of IS is at stake in the streets of Raqqa and Mosul. Mr Obama’s attempt to deal with the jihadists is also a test of America’s commitment to...



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S. Leone: Ebola lockdown 'success'

Sierra Leone's government has declared a three-day nationwide lockdown put in place to help stop the spread of Ebola a success, saying it had revealed more cases hidden in the community.



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Airstrikes: What you need to know

The United States and several Arab nations carried out airstrikes against ISIS in Syria early Tuesday, intensifying the campaign against the Islamic militant group.



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Why Arab states are supporting U.S.

Five Arab states have supported the U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Chatham House's Jane Kinninmont explains their likely motivations.



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Marriage equality is not like abortion

Tim Holbrook says the future of marriage equality likely rests on Justice Anthony Kennedy.



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Key 'True Detective' casting revealed

Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will lead the cast of "True Detective's" second season, HBO confirmed Tuesday.



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5 biggest surprises in Syria bombing

America had already telegraphed plans to attack terrorist targets in Syria, but the operation that unfolded over Syrian skies overnight brought several significant and revealing surprises.



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Nigeria: Boko Haram leader killed?

Nigerian forces battling the Islamist terror group Boko Haram have killed a man suspected of acting as the group's leader, Nigeria's Defense Ministry said.



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FIFA report 'should be publicized'

American lawyer Michael Garcia breaks ranks with FIFA by insisting his report on the 2018/2022 World Cup bidding process should be made public.



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Strikes bring civilian casualties

Opposition activists say the U.S. and its allies need to be very careful about who they strike. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.



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Desperate refugees flee strife

CNN's Phil Black reports on Syrian refugees' grim journey to an uncertain future in Turkey.



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Clinton: U.S. 'bought the NRA's theory'

Bill Clinton takes on the gun lobby and discusses a range of topics during a sweeping talk with CNN.



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9 held for UK 'terror offenses'

Nine men have been arrested in the United Kingdom on suspicion of terror offenses, London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday.



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Blair: I want to see America strong

Tony Blair tells Erin Burnett America has its faults but at its best it offers something extraordinary.



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U.S., Arab allies hit ISIS by pummeling oil refineries

U.S.-led airstrikes targeted an ISIS HQ and oil bases in eastern Syria killing at least 14 militants and five civilians, a monitoring group says.



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Obamacare causes med. costs to fall

Days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the rollout of HealthCare.gov, the Affordable Care Act's health care exchange website that was originally plagued with numerous technical glitches, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a report highlighting the impact of the law on hospital costs.



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Iran-UK meeting 'constructive'

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met Wednesday at the first such meeting in more than three decades.



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State blames woman for own rape

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is blaming a former state prison clerk for her own rape, in response to a federal lawsuit the woman filed.



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Miller starts N. Korean sentence

The American held in North Korea, Matthew Miller, begins his six-year sentence of hard labor on Thursday.



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Does hurting ISIS help al-Assad?

The United States has inflicted damage on one enemy in Syria with the airstrikes it launched against ISIS. But it may also be helping another foe: the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.



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Boston bomber trial staying put

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's request for a new location for his trial in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings and violent encounters with police days later was denied Wednesday by a federal judge.



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Airstrikes get Clinton approval

Former President Bill Clinton told CNN he agrees with President Barack Obama's decision to authorize airstrikes against the terrorist group ISIS and arm Syrian rebels working to defeat them.



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Suspect in Graham case in custody

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Manhunt heats up after sightings

A trio of heavily armed state troopers looked down intently from a bridge in rural Pennsylvania. Behind them, a slow procession of unmarked cars climbed a steep hill to deliver the next tour of local, state and federal law enforcement agents in the nearly two-week hunt for cop-killing suspect Eric Matthew Frein.



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Refugees flood Turkish border

CNN's Arwa Damon reports the latest on the airstrikes against ISIS and on the movement of Syrian refugees into Turkey.



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Nude photo threat to Emma Watson

Emma Watson is experiencing the ugly side of advocacy.



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U.S. resumes airstrikes in Syria

U.S. and coalition warplanes have resumed airstrikes in Syria, targeting oil infrastructure. Barbara Starr reports.



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Who's taking part? Who's not?

The campaign of airstrikes against ISIS in Syria has pitted several Arab countries into action alongside the United States. Here's the lowdown on who's taking part and who's missing from the list.



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FBI: U.S. mass shootings more common

Mass shootings have been occurring more frequently in recent years, an FBI study shows, with nearly one incident a month from 2000 to 2013.



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Why West is wrong about Arab women

Women's issues should be considered front and center when assessing a society's path, says Zainab Salbi.



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Hollande: Beheading of hostage 'cowardly'

French President Francois Hollande spoke about the beheading of a French hostage during his address at the United Nations.



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Indian Mars probe enters orbit

Just days behind NASA's Mars orbiter, an Indian mission could follow suit and make history.



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Ferguson erupts over burned memorial

Five people were arrested as tensions flared again in Ferguson, Missouri, with people threatening officers, shooting at them, throwing rocks and bottles, and one person tossing a Molotov cocktail at a parking structure, police say.



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University limits fraternities after death

A month into the fall semester, Clemson University has pulled the plug on two dozen fraternities. The university opted to halt all social and new-member activities on the South Carolina campus after the death of a student and a "high number" of reported incidents involving fraternities.



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Hostage purportedly beheaded

Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped in Algeria, was purportedly shown being executed by armed men in a video.



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White tiger kills boy in zoo

A day out turned to tragedy Tuesday when a white tiger in a New Delhi zoo mauled a visitor to death, an official said.



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Why 'superpowers have failed us'

No nation is immune to the impact of climate change but it is the world's poorest that will be hit the hardest. A fair and inclusive global agreement to combat climate change is a moral imperative. Time is of the essence for Africa.



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Video appears to show beheading of Frenchman

A video posted online shows armed men beheading a man who appears to be Herve Gourdel, who France said was abducted in Algeria Sunday.



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Australia: Assailant a 'lone wolf'

Australian police shot and killed an 18-year-old after he reportedly stabbed two Australian police officers.



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Obama: We won't negotiate with the evil of ISIS

Speaking at the U.N., Barack Obama calls for cooperation against terror and says it is time for the world to reject the ideology of groups like ISIS.



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Terror group: Our leader is dead

Al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front says its leader has been killed as the U.S. targeted the terror group alongside ISIS.



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1.4M Ebola cases by 2015?

The death toll from Ebola in West Africa has now climbed to more than 2,800, with 5,800 cases confirmed as of Monday, the World Health Organization said.



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Kerry: Fight against ISIS is 'going to go on'

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says it'll take time for strikes to degrade ISIS. "There's a definitely a second day and there will be a third and more. This is going to go on."



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31 penalties in one football match?!

Liverpool finally beat Middlesbrough in a League Cup tie -- but it required an extraordinary penalty shootout for them to win.



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8 killed in 'U.S. drone strike'

Missiles fired by what is thought to be a U.S. drone killed eight suspected militants and injured an unspecified number of other people in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on Wednesday morning, Pakistani intelligence sources said.



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Revealed: How 'Islamic State' is run

Put yourself in the shoes (and seventh-century black robes) of ISIS' Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the mysterious boss of the terror group that is striking fear into the hearts of leaders around the world.



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Dismembered girl found in plastic bags

Japanese police have arrested a man after the dismembered body of a missing six-year-old girl was found in several plastic bags near her home in Kobe City.



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