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Two schoolgirls walk past a barricade on a street outside Hong Kong's government complex on Tuesday. Many protesters have returned to work and to school. Student leaders and government officials agreed Tuesday to hold talks on ending the protests.

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After Clogging The Streets, Hong Kong Protests Dwindle

2:24pm October 08, 2014

by Frank Langfitt

The demonstrators still have widespread support, but many students have returned to class and businesses have grown weary of daily disruptions that have hampered their operations.

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Turkey Calls On U.S. To Ramp Up ISIS Airstrikes In Syrian Border Town

2:24pm October 08, 2014

Robert Siegel talks to The Washington Post's Liz Sly, from Turkey, where she's been covering the assault by ISIS on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, near the Turkish border.

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The Secret To Prize-Winning Porridge Is In the Spurtle

2:24pm October 08, 2014

An Scottish man won the prestigious 21st Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships on Saturday. We learn from Dr. Izhar Khan about his secret to winning porridge.

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After Mapping Seafloor, Search Resumes For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

2:24pm October 08, 2014

The search resumed on Monday. Melissa Block talks to David Gallo, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, who worked on finding Air France flight 447.

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Alleged Islamic State militants stand next to an ISIS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, called Kobane by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc, Turkey, on Monday.

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A Smuggler Explains How He Helped Fighters Along 'Jihadi Highway'

2:24pm October 08, 2014

by Deborah Amos

Thousands of international recruits have crossed into Syria from Turkey to join the Islamic State. A Syrian man who helped smuggle those jihadis in explains how it worked, but says he's stopped now.

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This 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. Duncan, who became the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. with Ebola, has died, the hospital where he was being treated said.

Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan Has Died

2:24pm October 08, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The 42-year-old man who contracted Ebola in Liberia and later traveled to Dallas was the first person to be diagnosed with the virus in the U.S.

Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade set up to block the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Wednesday.

Kurdish Protesters Killed In Turkey Amid Calls To Save Kobani

2:15pm October 08, 2014

by Scott Neuman

At least a dozen demonstrators were killed in clashes with Turkish police. Kurdish protests to demand help for the city besieged by ISIS militants also took place across Europe.

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Refugee Deal Between Australia And Cambodia Sparks Outrage

12:22pm October 08, 2014

by Michael Sullivan

Australia last week signed a deal that would allow hundreds of asylum seekers to be resettled in Cambodia. Critics have condemned the deal as both wrong and possibly illegal under international law.

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CDC Sets Up Mock Ebola Ward Set Up In Alabama

12:22pm October 08, 2014

by Nurith Aizenman

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a training program for health workers headed for West Africa to help with the outbreak. They're running it at a former Army base in Anniston.

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Turkey Pressed To Intervene In Border Town's Fight Against ISIS

12:22pm October 08, 2014

by Peter Kenyon

Kobania, a Syrian border town, is being assaulted by militants from the self-described Islamic State. Turkey, with tanks and troops massed a short distance away, is being pressured to step in.

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