Reuters – Thousands of people “will most likely be massacred” if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants...
Suspects Reveal More Mass Mexican Graves
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The Guardian – Two weeks after 43 students disappeared in rural southern Mexico after clashes with police, authorities say the suspects have led them to...
Malala Asks India, Pakistan PMs To Nobel
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The Daily Beast – Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 for her courageous, and near fatal, campaign to...
Bionic Hands Restore Sense of Touch
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BBC – Advances in bionic hands have restored a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year, report US scientists. The men...
Patrick Modiano Wins Literature Nobel
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The Guardian – -Patrick Modiano has been named the 107th winner of the Nobel prize for literature. The 69-year-old is the 11th French writer to...
China: U.S. Making Up Cyberattacks
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Reuters – China accused the United States on Thursday of faking facts, after the head of the FBI said that Chinese hacking likely cost the...
ISIS Advances In Face of U.S. Airstrikes
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The New York Times – Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated...
3,660 Killed In Ukraine Since April
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Reuters – At least 3,660 people were killed and 8,756 wounded in violence in Eastern Ukraine between mid-April and Oct 6, the U.N. Human Rights...
ISIS Bearing Down On Baghdad
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Fox News – Waves of U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters appear to have done little to stem the terrorist army’s advance in Syria,...
Banker Emails CEO To Give 200,000 Raise
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Business Insider – Portland, Oregon-based Wells Fargo branch employee Tyrel Oates emailed the bank\’s CEO asking for a $10,000 raise for himself and his colleagues,...
Scentists Hail Diabetes Breakthrough
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The Boston Globe – When his two children were stricken with type 1 diabetes, Harvard stem cell scientist Douglas Melton says, he did what any...
Turkey Won’t Go Alone Against ISIS
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CNN – Turkey\’s foreign minister insisted Thursday that it\’s not “realistic” for the world to expect it to go it alone in launching a ground...
Man’s Oldest Known Art Possibly Found
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Nature – Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the appearance in Europe ~40–35 thousand years (kyr) ago of a rich corpus of sophisticated artworks, including...
Russian Tried To Sell U.S. Military Tech
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Stars and Stripes – The Justice Department says a Russian man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a conspiracy to illegally export...
Dallas Ebola Patient Dies
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The Dallas Morning News – Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who became the first patient diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States,...
Canada Approves ISIS Airstrikes In Iraq
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BBC – The Canadian parliament has voted to authorise the country\’s armed forces to join US-led air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq....