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Migrants Seek New Routes Across Europe After Hungary Seals Border

6:10am October 20, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Peter Van der Auweraert, senior regional expert on on humanitarian assistance at the International Organization for Migration, about the new options to get across Europe.

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Former British Foreign Secretary Criticizes Response To Migrant Crisis

6:10am October 20, 2015

by Peter Kenyon

David Miliband, now the president of the International Rescue Committee, recently visited the Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of migrants are arriving by boat from Turkey.

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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.

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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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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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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Eritrean Dies After Israeli Security Mistakes Him For Assailant In Bus Station Attack

4:38pm October 19, 2015

by Emily Harris

With tensions rising over Arab attacks on Israeli Jews, an Eritrean asylum seeker was mistaken for an assailant and killed — shot by a security guard and beaten by a mob.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking at a news conference in Spain. Kerry will attempt to strike the right balance in separate meetings later this week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Religion

Kerry On Holy Site In Jerusalem: 'We're Not Seeking Outsiders Or Others To Come In'

4:22pm October 19, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

Kerry appeared to push back against a French proposal calling for an international presence at the holy site in order to preserve the status quo agreement. Israel is against the proposal.

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How The Libyan Revolution Opened The Door To The Islamic State

2:27pm October 19, 2015

David Greene revisits his 2011 trip to Libya and the period following the fall of Moammar Ghaddafi, to try to understand how the revolution unexpectedly gave way to the Islamic State's incursion.

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