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Russian soldiers parachuted into open fields in western Serbia on Friday as part of an unprecedented joint military drill that has stirred controversy in the European Union candidate-country given the West-Russia standoff over Ukraine. The one-day anti-terrorist exercise, around 50 km (30 miles) from Serbia's border with NATO-member Croatia, illustrated the balancing-act Belgrade faces; safeguarding relations with its big-power ally while pursuing closer integration with Europe at a...

Detectives investigating claims of a Westminster paedophile ring uncover evidence of possible murder linked to allegations
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 10:08 PM

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An investigation into claims of a Westminster paedophile ring operating 30 years ago, alleged by MP Tom Watson, have uncovered evidence that could be linked to a possible murder.

Ready or not, Obamacare 2.0 is here - WISC Madison
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 10:08 PM

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Sterilization Deaths Are Linked to Pills Tainted With Rat Poison, Indian Officials Say by By SUHASINI RAJ and ELLEN BARRY
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:52 PM

NYT > World

Officials in Chhattisgarh state issued an urgent warning to practitioners to cease distribution of theantibiotic ciprofloxacin after at least 15 deaths were linked to it.

Report: Obama immigration plan expected next week - The Hill
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:52 PM

Report: Obama immigration plan expected next week
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President Obama plans to unveil a comprehensive immigration plan through executive action as early as next week, Fox News reported Wednesday. Citing a source close to the White House, Fox said Obama's 10-part agenda was contained in a draft ...

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China’s Rise as Arms Supplier Is Put on Displayby By CHRISTINA LARSON
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:51 PM

NYT > World

The world’s fourth-largest exporter of arms is now encouraging smaller private domestic companies to enter the field.

Turkey: Perpetrators of US Sailors' Assault Will 'Pay the Price'by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:50 PM

Turkey's Foreign Minister on Friday described an assault on U.S. sailors in Istanbul this week as reprehensible and vowed that the attackers would “pay the price for their actions.” Members of the nationalist Turkish Youth Union attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting “Yankee go home,” throwing paint and trying to pull hoods over their heads. Video footage was later posted on the group's website. Twelve people were detained but...

Putin slams G20 for imposing sanctions over Ukraine - Press Trust of India
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:50 PM

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Putin slams G20 for imposing sanctions over Ukraine
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Moscow, Nov 14 (AFP) President Vladimir Putin today slammed G20 member countries for imposing sanctions on Russia, saying this violated the group's principles, but said he did not plan to raise the issue at the summit in Australia. Putin told the TASS state ...

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WorldViews: How a Chechen leader’s obsession with Instagram and the Islamic State turned awkward by Adam Taylor
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:49 PM

Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Russia's Chechen Republic, might be the most Instagram-savvy of all world leaders. With more than 600,000 followers, the Chechen strongman has used the photo-sharing service to broadcast himself hanging out with Steven Seagal and to mock U.S. President Barack Obama; he once even used the service to help track down his missing dog.

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How did the Enigma machine work? by Alex Hern
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:44 PM

On the day The Imitation Game hits cinemas, a look at how Allied codebreakers untangled the Enigma

Like all the best cryptography, the Enigma machine is simple to describe, but infuriating to break.

Straddling the border between mechanical and electrical, Enigma looked from the outside like an oversize typewriter. Enter the first letter of your message on the keyboard and a letter lights up showing what it has replaced within the encrypted message. At the other end, the process is the same: type in the ciphertext and the letters which light are the decoded missive.

World Leaders Arrive in Australia for G20 Summitby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:43 PM

World leaders are arriving in Brisbane, Australia for a two-day meeting of the world's top 20 economic powers expected to focus on global finances, climate change and Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday in the eastern coastal city, after Kyiv accused Russia of sending a fresh influx of troops and weapons into eastern Ukraine. Also, four Russian warships have entered international waters off Australia's northeastern coast. Australian warships were sent to...

Sweden confirms foreign sub in its waters
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:43 PM

A foreign submarine recently trespassed in Swedish territory, officials there said Friday, but they couldn't say what country the vessel belonged to.

Former mayor charged in Mexico student deaths
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:42 PM

Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Guerrero said Friday they have formally charged former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca in the disappearance of 43 students.

NATO Says Russian Forces in Ukraine as Putin Goes to G-20 - Bloomberg
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:41 PM

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NATO Says Russian Forces in Ukraine as Putin Goes to G-20
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NATO's chief said Russia is sending troops and heavy weapons into Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin arrived for a Group of 20 summit in Australia that's overshadowed by the crisis. “We have observed in the past days that Russia has again brought arms, ...
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Russia braced for 'catastrophic' oil plunge - Financial Times
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:39 PM

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Russia braced for 'catastrophic' oil plunge
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia is bracing itself for a “catastrophic” slump in oil prices. as the world's leading energy forecaster warned that the price rout had yet to run its course. The price of oil has fallen 30 per cent since mid-June. But the International ...
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Obama Aims to Shield Millions from Deportationby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:37 PM

A new immigration battle is brewing in Washington amid reports President Barack Obama is planning unilateral action that would protect up to five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Officials familiar with the plan say Obama could make an announcement as early as next week, or wait until next month after Congress approves a budget. Whenever it happens, the move is guaranteed to anger Republicans, who are already preparing efforts to block it. House of...

Russia plans alternative version of 'Wikipedia'
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:37 PM

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to create its own "Wikipedia" to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday.

Chris Denning admits further charges of sexually assaulting young boys
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:36 PM

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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning, 73, today admitted sexually assaulting 28 boys some as young as nine. At Southwark Crown Court he plead guilty to a total of 41 charges.

Two patients die after being given kidney transplants infected with a parasitic worm
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:35 PM

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Doctors were not aware the donor had the worm - known as Halicephalobus - when the transplant operations were carried at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

Clashes loom as Obama pursues his legacy
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:33 PM

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President embraces fights with conservatives over immigration, climate change and the internet

Mexican mayor charged with murder linked to students disappearance by Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:33 PM

José Luis Abarca accused of deaths of six people on night of terror that culminated in probable massacre of 43 students

The former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala has been charged with the murder of six people who died in a chain of confusing events that began when municipal police attacked a convoy of student teachers on 26 September.

The attacks on the students took place during a night of terror that included the arrest, subsequent disappearance and probable massacre of 43 students after police handed them over to a local drug gang.

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Defense Secretary Vows Reform of Nuclear Forceby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:32 PM

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says U.S. nuclear arsenal personnel are suffering from low morale, mismanagement and staffing shortages that could undermine the group's safety, security and effectiveness. In announcing Pentagon reviews of the nuclear mission, Hagel told reporters on Friday there has been a consistent lack of investment and support for the U.S. nuclear force. He said he is ordering widespread changes to how the nuclear arsenal is managed to reverse leadership...

Prominent Serbian tycoon shot outside Belgrade home: official
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:26 PM

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BELGRADE (Reuters) - One of Serbia's most prominent business tycoons was shot and wounded outside his home in an upscale Belgrade neighborhood on Friday, a government official told Reuters.

Rat poison linked to India sterilisation deaths, with death toll expected to rise by Jason Burke in Delhi
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:24 PM

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Antibiotics bought from Mahawar Pharmaceuticals withdrawn, after quantities of zinc phosphide discovered at its factory

Health officials investigating the deaths of more than 13 women who died after attending government-run family planning camps in eastern India believe that they were killed by medicine contaminated with rat poison.

All antibiotics bought from Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, a factory in the the eastern city of Raipur, the state capital, have now been withdrawn, the Press Trust of India reported.

Ekho Moskvy Board Of Directors To Decide Outlet's Fate
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:21 PM

Mikhail Lesin, head of the state-controlled entertainment giant Gazprom-Media, has called for a vote of Ekho Moskvy's board of directors that could determine the future of one of the last independent media outlets in Russia.

Thalidomide: how men who blighted lives of thousands evaded justice by Harold Evans
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:20 PM

Newly exposed files show how victims were betrayed by political interference in trial and how the pill has remained on sale

The dark shadow of thalidomide is still with us. The original catastrophe maimed 20,000 babies and killed 80,000: it remains the greatest manmade global disaster. Now evidence has been uncovered that the pharmaceutical outrage it is nothing less was compounded by a judicial scandal that has suppurated all these years.

It is exposed in a large number of documents discovered in the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia by a researcher for the UK Thalidomide Trust. The papers, which have been examined and authenticated by the international law firm of Ince & Co, speak to political interference that violated the constitutional division of power between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. And more than half a century since the pills threat to an embryo was proven, the company that produced the first disaster has continued to sell the drug in parts of Latin America, on prescription only, where babies continued to be born with malformations similar to the survivors from the 1960s.

Islamic State sets sights on Saudi Arabia - BBC News
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:18 PM

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Islamic State sets sights on Saudi Arabia
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In a 17-minute audio message, purportedly from its elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group sets its sights firmly on Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam and the world's largest oil producer and exporter. The speaker does not refer to it as Saudi Arabia, ...

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Dylan Thomas manuscript found
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 9:12 PM

A notebook full of work-in-progress versions of some of Dylan Thomas's key poems has been rediscovered more than 70 years after the poet's mother-in-law ordered it to be burnt.

N. Korean Special Envoy to Visit Russiaby webdesk@voanews.com (Byung Yong Park)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:58 PM

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sending a special envoy to Russia next week in an apparent attempt to ease diplomatic isolation. In a short dispatch, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency announced Friday that Choe Ryong Hae, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, will visit Russia soon. In an official statement, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Choe would visit Russia November 17-24. During the week-long visit, the two sides are expected to discuss...

President’s Immigration Plan Presents a Challenge to Republican Leaders
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:49 PM

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s looming action on immigration is poised to become the first, real opportunity for the new Republican leadership in Congress to demonstrate that they can avoid the pitfalls of opposing the president’s policies and unite around a governing agenda of their own.

By insisting that he will take unilateral action to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, Mr. Obama has delivered his adversaries a compelling political target. In Asia, Mr. Obama effectively said “I told you so” to Republicans, saying he had given them every opportunity to avoid the action he was about to take.

“I indicated to Speaker Boehner several months ago that if Congress failed to act, I would use all lawful authority that I possess,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference in Myanmar. “That’s going to happen. And that’s going to happen before the end of the year.”

Administration officials said the president would shield from deportation up to five million people living illegally in the United States and provide many of them with work permits. The president also plans to refocus the activities of the nation’s 12,000 immigration agents on deportations for convicted criminals and people who have recently crossed the border illegally.

Republicans, who next year will control both chambers of Congress, have seized on the prospect of what they have called Mr. Obama’s “executive amnesty.” They are warning the president and his Democratic allies that such action could trigger lawsuits, legislative gridlock on other issues and even the threat of another budget stalemate and government shutdown.

House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who will become the majority leader next year, have joined the chorus of outrage from some of their most conservative members. Mr. Boehner left open the possibility this week that House Republicans might shut down the government in a standoff on the immigration issue.

“The president is playing with fire here, and when you play with fire, you get burned,” Mr. Boehner told Republican leaders in a closed session on Thursday, according to a person in the room. “We don’t know when exactly he’ll do it or how exactly he’ll do it. But if he proceeds, we are going to fight it.”

But first impressions matter, and many Republican strategists worry about political damage if the party’s first action on Capitol Hill is a protracted budget battle that leads to a shutdown — much as occurred after the shutdown over Mr. Obama’s health care law in 2013.

For his part, Mr. McConnell has repeatedly insisted that the Republican Party has no intention of shutting down the government, and has vowed after Republican victories in the midterm elections that his party could get things done in Washington.

“This gridlock and dysfunction can be ended,” Mr. McConnell said in a news conference on Nov. 5.

But ending gridlock could be more difficult in an environment where Republicans are focused on what they consider to be another example of the president’s executive overreach.

Republicans believe their best option to block the president’s immigration actions is an upcoming spending bill, which must pass by Dec. 11 in order to fund the government through the next year. In the Senate, three Republicans — Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Sessions of Alabama — have taken the lead in urging their colleagues to oppose any spending bill unless it includes provisions to stop the president from acting on immigration.

“Our office stands ready to use any procedural means available to make sure the president can’t enact his illegal executive amnesty,” Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cruz, said.

In addition, Representative Matt Salmon, Republican of Arizona, sent a letter with 63 signatures Thursday to the chairman and the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, urging them not to send any spending bill to the Senate that does not include “language that would prohibit funding for the president’s reported intentions to create work permits and green cards for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.”

But the dynamics of such a move are complicated. Representative Harold Rogers of Kentucky, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has made it clear that while he opposes any executive action on immigration, he is hesitant to include such language in his must-pass spending bill, as it could lead to a government shutdown.

Others in the party are less hesitant. Some House Republicans have previously said they considered impeachment proceedings a viable option if Mr. Obama moves forward with his executive actions.

“The audacity of this president to think he can completely destroy the rule of law with the stroke of a pen is unfathomable to me,” Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican who is an outspoken opponent of an immigration overhaul, said in a statement Thursday. “It is unconstitutional, it is cynical, and it violates the will of the American people. Our republic will not stand if we tolerate a president who is set upon the complete destruction of the rule of law.”

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The Big Money Behind the Push for an Immigration Overhaul - New York Times
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:49 PM

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The Big Money Behind the Push for an Immigration Overhaul
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Declared dead, 91-year-old woman wakes up in funeral home
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:36 PM

Never underestimate the healing power of a good nap.

Why ISIS Can Survive Without Baghdadi by Naina Bajekal
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:35 PM

TIME

Amidst speculation that U.S.-led airstrikes had last week killed or injured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), the group released an audio message on Thursday from Baghdadi himself where he called on his supporters to “erupt volcanoes of jihad”, saying ISIS would “never abandon fighting”, adding: “they will be triumphant, even if only one man of them is left.” While Baghdadi apparently was not killed in last week’s raid on the Iraqi city of Mosul, the rumors nonetheless raised the question: can ISIS survive and thrive without its mysterious frontman?

“Baghdadi is more like a CEO than a traditional battlefield leader,” says Justin Dargin, a Middle East scholar at the University of Oxford. Unlike the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Baghdadi does not present himself as a charismatic, messianic leader to his followers. A November report from security intelligence firm The SoufanGroup agrees, saying Baghdadi “has not needed to be a visionary or a natural leader, just strong enough to impose his will more effectively than anyone else.”

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Nicknamed “the invisible sheikh” by his followers, Baghdadi has been careful to reveal very little about himself, aside from a few videos released by ISIS, and even reportedly wears a mask when addressing ISIS fighters. Experts say this is partially a response to what happened to other leaders who were hunted down once their secret locations were discovered, including his predecessor Jordanian Islamist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. bombing raid in 2006. Baghdadireportedly went to Afghanistan in the late 1990s with Zarqawi, who went on to found al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group that would eventually become ISIS.

As a member of Zarqawi’s terrorist group, Baghdadi was picked up and detained for five years by the U.S. in Camp Bucca in Iraq in 2004, where many al-Qaeda commanders were jailed. “”Prison sentences are opportunities for these people to meld ideologies, to develop friendships, to develop trust,” says Lauren Squires, research analyst at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington D.C. “Camp Bucca is where [Baghdadi] actually met a lot of his closest cohorts that are in ISIS now,”

Once a somewhat peripheral figure, Baghdadi has now become ISIS’s leading man, playing an instrumental part in gathering support for the militant group as it established its self-proclaimed caliphate in June. “He became a very public face to this organization that was rapidly growing,” says Squires, referring to Baghdadi’s notorious appearance in a video leading prayer at a mosque in Mosul in July. “So he was important in unifying and developing this group to get it off the ground.”

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Baghdadi also claims to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, naming himself “Caliph Ibrahim” in July, ruler of the Islamic State caliphate which gives him further legitimacy among the organization’s followers.

But Paul Rogers, professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the U.K., points out that while Baghdadi is very important, ISIS “is an organization that is both adaptive and robust.” Squires agrees, saying that the old Western strategy of cutting off the head of a snake no longer applies, because of how resilient ISIS has proven to be. Data from IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center suggests that the U.S.-led coalition has failed to slow down the number of ISIS attacks, and body counts are higher than ever before. In Baghdadi’s recent audio message he claimed that “America and its allies are terrified, weak, and powerless.”

That resilience comes from the fact that the core leadership of ISIS is primarily made up of professionals who were elite members of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government in Iraq. That gives the group a clear command and control structure, says Dargin.

Unlike al-Qaeda’s affiliate-based system, which operates through more independent cells in different parts of the world, ISIS is located in a tighter geographical area and has a more government-like, bureaucratic structure. That includes two major military and administrative bodies: the Shura Council and the Sharia Council. “What’s different [from al-Qaeda] is that the structure falls underneath one central command,” says Squires.

This leads her to believe that the most effective way to degrade a terrorist organization like ISIS “is by hitting the mid-level to senior-level leadership” repeatedly, in order to remove that echelon and ensure the group will not be able to reconstitute its leadership—rather than focusing solely on Baghdadi.

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Researchers tell TIME that it’s very difficult to identify who would be the next viable successor in the event of Baghdadi’s death, but that they are certain ISIS has contingency plans and that it would only be a temporary setback for the group, especially in practical terms. “It is extremely important to remember that ISIS considers itself a “state,” and while it is not a state such as is recognizable anywhere else in the world, it would not allow itself to collapse because of the death of one leader,” says Dargin.

The death of Baghdadi could also feed into the religious beliefs of ISIS followers who extol martyrdom. Indeed, Squires believes his death may even increase “the global jihadi incentive to join and conduct retaliatory attacks.”

Of course, if Baghdadi is killed, many within ISIS and outside it may see his death as a strategic blow against the terrorist organization—and a successful attack would surely be trumpeted by the U.S. But as the group continues to increase its stronghold in Iraq and Syria, it seems that ISIS will remain a threat to the region for quite some time—with or without Baghdadi.

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Study: Western Diet Bad for Human Health, Environmentby webdesk@voanews.com (Rosanne Skirble)
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:34 PM

The globalization of Western eating habits is bad for human health and for the environment, according to a new study in the journal Nature. In the study, David Tilman, a University of Minnesota ecology professor, analyzed data from 100 countries to chart what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a trend beginning in the 1960s: As nations industrialized, population increased and incomes rose. More people began to adopt the so-called Western diet, one high in refined sugar,...

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Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:33 PM

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The nation's two top military leaders made a pitch Thursday for $5.6 billion in new federal funding to eradicate the threat of Islamic State terrorists. The United States, in addition to providing more cash, needs to cut off the supply of money rolling into ISIS ...

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Judging from Instagram, Queensland police are having a great time at the G20 — for now by Timothy McGrath
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:32 PM

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There are 13 protests scheduled for Saturday. Here's the calm before the storm.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly surfaced videos are adding fresh energy to the efforts of congressional conservatives to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, feeding into their contentions that the overhaul was approved through a scheme of deception....

VP Biden Announces Refugee Plan for Central American Kids - NBCNews.com
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:29 PM

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VP Biden Announces Refugee Plan for Central American Kids
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Vice President Joe Biden announced Friday a plan to allow U.S. parents here legally to apply for their Central American children to join them in the hope of preventing a crisis as was seen this summer when more than 68,000 migrant children arrived at the ...
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Warship envy as world leaders try to find their place in G20 pecking order by John Crace
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:28 PM

Cameron and Abbott try to prove their toughness to home audiences but they arent threatening Putin

Put 20 world leaders in the same city and the one thing you can guarantee is warship envy.

At this weeks G20 summit in Brisbane, Australias prime minister, Tony Abbott promised to shirt-front Vladimir Putin over the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. Not to be outdone, David Cameron has trash-talked the Russian premier for parking the Russian navy off the Queensland coast. Barack Obama has said nothing because he doesnt need to. Generally speaking, the more extravagant the warship waving, the smaller the warship, and the US president is quite comfortable with his size.

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G20 summit: Russia sanctions 'undermine trade' - Putin - BBC News
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:25 PM

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G20 summit: Russia sanctions 'undermine trade' - Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that US and EU sanctions will harm not just Russia but the global economy. He said the sanctions were a mistake, going against trade accords and only the UN had the right to impose them. The sanctions were ...
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Ukrainian battle caught on camera
Friday November 14th, 2014 at 8:21 PM