Saturday, November 1, 2014

Too many phones from Samsung?

Samsung's many smartphone models was once considered its strength. Andrew Stevens explains how it's now become a weakness.



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Ebola: Liberia cases may be 'tapering'

The United Nations said it's unnecessary to quarantine people just because they came from Ebola-afflicted countries. Yet parts of the United States and Canada are tightening their Ebola policies.



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Who is French al-Qaeda bomb-maker?

When the United States unleashed 47 U.S. Navy Tomahawk missiles on September 22 on suspected Khorasan Group sites to the west of Aleppo, Syria, one of their top targets was an unlikely figure: David Drugeon, a 24-year-old French convert from Brittany who had become a key bomb-maker for the group.



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U.S.-Israel quarrel: Is it serious?

Here we go again. Yet another supposed crisis in the ongoing soap opera between the Obama administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



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Jerusalem tense after clashes

Jerusalem tense after clashes over holy site. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.



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FBI seizes fugitive after long hunt

Terrified residents of northeastern Pennsylvania heaved a sigh of relief Thursday after police arrested Eric Frein following a long manhunt -- and then held him at the same barracks he allegedly ambushed.



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Bush 'would have punched Putin'

House Speaker John Boehner is trashing President Obama's foreign policy on the campaign trail by talking up someone Republicans have spent years running from: George W. Bush.



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Burkina Faso president to quit

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore says he will resign to preserve peace following violent protests demanding an end to his rule.



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Could Kobani spark new order

In the space of just 48 hours last week, Turkey went from calling the PYD -- the Kurds defending the Syrian border town of Kobani -- a terrorist group to opening up an arms corridor from Iraq to aid its fight against ISIS.



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Peshmerga forces join fight

Peshmerga fighters from Iraq arrive to help fend off an ISIS advance. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.



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Armed Kurdish convoy bolsters fight against ISIS

Kurdish fighters from Iraq help reinforce Syrian Kurds in the battle against ISIS for control of the border town of Kobani.



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U.S. military to move closer to ISIS

Pentagon officials are readying a plan that would deploy U.S. military advisers to the volatile Iraqi province of Anbar to advise and assist Iraqi security forces in a region currently dominated by ISIS militants.



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'Iran pays us to fight for Assad'

An "Afghan" man tells rebels that Iranians pay him $500 a month.



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Women bought and sold by ISIS

CNN's Ivan Watson speaks to a Yazidi woman who survived being kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS militants.



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Marine freed from Mexico jail

U.S. Marine reservist Sgt. Andrew Paul Tahmooressi, who was detained in Mexico for seven months, is free and on his way to Miami.



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People flee California mudslide

A California mudslide prompted the evacuation of 11 homes in Ventura County, about an hour north of Los Angeles.



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'Be wary of Boko Haram talks claim'

In the wake of the six-month anniversary of Boko Haram's kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls two weeks ago, the Nigerian military released a terse statement that it had negotiated a ceasefire with the cult-like Islamist insurgency, saying it would be finalizing the details for return of most of the girls this week. The announcement came as a surprise, since the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan had refused to negotiate for the girls' release up to that point.



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Israel-U.S. relationship 'in crisis'

CNN speaks to Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid about the health of the relationship between the U.S. and Israel.



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Third school shooting victim dies

A third teenage girl has died from last week's shooting at a Washington state high school.



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Girls killed trick-or-treating

A speeding car struck and killed three girls, including twins, who were trick-or-treating in Santa Ana, California, authorities said.



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