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With All Eyes On ISIS, Al-Qaida Quietly Rebuilds

5:20am October 20, 2015

by Dina Temple-Raston

Its branch in Yemen is taking advantage of the unrest there to get new recruits and grab land. Leaders have called jihadists back into service and is preparing for when ISIS is no longer ascendant.

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German Anti-Immigrant Group Protests As Migrants Pour Into Country

5:13am October 20, 2015

A German anti-immigrant group marked its first anniversary with a rally in the eastern German city of Dresden. The demonstrators were met by counter-demonstrators who attempted to block their path.

On Thailand's Samui Island, a macaque picks coconuts from a tree top. Captive monkeys are trained to help harvest coconuts on the island's plantations.

What's Funny About The Business of Monkeys Picking Coconuts?

11:01pm October 19, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

Animal advocates were outraged after discovering videos of leashed monkeys picking coconuts in Thailand. But monkey trainers and scientists say it's common practice, and doesn't count as abuse.

She's a teenager with a cellphone, surfing the Internet. And she's a Syrian refugee who works in the fields up to 14 hours a day. That's the new life of 15-year-old Fatmeh, seen here in the living room area of her family's makeshift shelter.

How A Top Student Ended Up Picking Potatoes: #15Girls

9:06pm October 19, 2015

Fatmeh is one of hundreds of thousands of children who have fled Syria with their families. In Lebanon, she works in the fields up to 14 hours a day, clinging to her dream of going to college.

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Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide, which is equivalent to manslaughter, in the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend. After less than a year in jail, he was released to house arrest.

Oscar Pistorius Released From Jail

8:13pm October 19, 2015

by Laura Wagner

South Africa's paralympian sprinter has been released from prison following his "culpable homicide" conviction in the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend. He is under house arrest.

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The Strategic Importance Of The Battle For Syria's Aleppo

7:36pm October 19, 2015

Many groups are battling for control of Syria's second largest city. The Free Syrian Army has its main headquarters here. Middle East analyst Andrew Tabler explains the strategic importance of Aleppo.

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Thousands Of Migrants Stream Through The Balkans In Nonstop Pouring Rain

6:57pm October 19, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

Asylum seekers are still streaming into southeastern Europe in huge numbers, despite the onset of winter. Thousands are now held up at Croatia's border with Slovenia, where there are few facilities and almost no shelter from the continual pouring rain.

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The remains of a mid-16th century church, visible from the surface of the Grijalva River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, because a drought has lowered the water level.

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A Church Emerges After Centuries

6:42pm October 19, 2015

by Alexandra Starr

A church in southern Mexico, built in 1564, engulfed by a newly-created reservoir in the 20th century, rises again.

Israeli police check Palestinian IDs at a checkpoint in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sunday. Palestinian assailants have carried out a series of stabbings and the Israelis have ramped up security measures in the city. Eight Israelis and more than

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East Jerusalem Becomes Focus Of The Conflict, And The Mood Is Bleak

6:28pm October 19, 2015

by Alice Fordham

Palestinians in East Jerusalem were not often involved in the violence in the past, but this area is the center of the current friction between Israelis and Palestinians.

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A view of Earth as seen from EPIC, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera.

NASA To Publish At Least A Dozen Daily Images Of Earth From Space

6:17pm October 19, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The photos come from a camera on a satellite, once called "GoreSat" after former Vice President Al Gore, who initially proposed the project in the late 1990s.