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An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter hold his position in the mountains east of Mosul.

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Ill-Equipped And Underpaid, Kurdish Fighters Hold ISIS At Bay

8:44am November 10, 2014

by Leila Fadel

With Iraq's military in tatters and U.S. forces gone, the Kurdish peshmerga is the only viable force to stave off ISIS in Iraq. With little support from Baghdad, discontent grows among the fighters.

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Pyongyang Releases 2 U.S. Citizens Who Were Held For Months

8:34am November 10, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

Two Americans who had been held prisoner in North Korea have returned to the U.S. They were freed after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went to North Korea to negotiate their release.

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Obama Leaves Election Results Behind, Travels To Asia

8:34am November 10, 2014

by Scott Horsley

President Obama is in Beijing — kicking off a week-long trip that will also take him to Burma and Australia. The overseas trip comes on the heels of last week's domestic drubbing for the Democrats.

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Confirmation Of Mexican Students' Deaths Touches Off Protests

8:34am November 10, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

Violent protests broke out over news that the students had been killed, burned and their remains tossed in a river. The announcement that the case was solved didn't quelled public outcry.

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Suicide Bomber In School Uniform Targets High School

8:34am November 10, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

A suicide bomber attacked a secondary school in the violence-torn region of northeast Nigeria. Dozens of students are reported to have been killed.

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People inspect the site of a suicide bomb explosion at the Government Science Technical College in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday. Survivors say a bomber disguised in a school uniform detonated explosives during an assembly at the school.

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Bombing At Nigerian High School Kills Dozens

8:16am November 10, 2014

by Bill Chappell

As many as 48 students reportedly died in the attack came during a morning assembly Monday. It's being blamed on the insurgent group Boko Haram.

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A man wearing a Catalan Nationalist flag T-shirt casts his ballot in a symbolic independence vote in Barcelona on Sunday.

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Binding Or Not, Catalans Express Themselves In Referendum Vote

11:48pm November 09, 2014

by Scott Neuman

People in the wealthy northeastern region of Spain, many of whom harbor ambitions of independence, cast ballots in a symbolic statement. The majority voted for independence, but turnout wasn't high.

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25 Years Later: Looking Back On The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

6:21pm November 09, 2014

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates talks to Berlin correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson about the festivities marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, 3rd from left, place candles to commemorate the victims of the Wall at the Berlin Wall memorial site at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.

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Germany's Merkel: Fall Of Berlin Wall Shows Dreams Come True

4:41pm November 09, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Chancellor Angela Merkel, marking the 25th anniversary of the event, said the destruction of the Wall showed that "nothing has to stay as it is."

Unmarked military vehicles parked on a road outside the separatist rebel-held eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne, 50 miles from Donetsk on Saturday. Ukraine has accused Moscow of sending in more weapons and supplies to the rebels.

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Despite Truce, Heavy Shelling Resumes In Donetsk

4:20pm November 09, 2014

by Scott Neuman

In the fiercest fighting in weeks, pro-Russian separatists appear to have renewed a push to seize the city's airport.