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Hong Kong Students Make Personal, Professional Sacrifices To Protest

6:46pm September 30, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

The students have appeared as the vanguard of the ongoing pro-democracy protests. On Tuesday, student groups announced they will boycott classes until the government addresses their demands.

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U.S.-Afghanistan Security Agreement Receives Mixed Reaction

6:46pm September 30, 2014

Rachel Martin talks to U.S. ambassador James Cunningham and Sarah Chayes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Afghanistan's new government and joint security agreement.

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Israel Justice Minister: U.S. Shouldn't Give Up On Palestinian Peace Process

6:46pm September 30, 2014

Robert Siegel speaks with Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Minister of Justice and the country's chief negotiator with the Palestinians, about the future of the failed peace process.

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Two container ships collide in the Suez Canal on Monday.

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WATCH: Container Ships Collide In Suez Canal

3:56pm September 30, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The two vessels, one flagged in Germany and the other in Singapore, come together after one appears to lose rudder control.

Boys show off their four-legged friends at a rabies vaccination drive set up by the Serengeti Health Initiative in the Bariadi District of Tanzania.

Doggone It, The World Can Wipe Out Rabies

3:31pm September 30, 2014

by Nsikan Akpan

Rabies kills tens of thousands of people each year. Now scientists are hoping to mount a final siege against the virus globally. The trick? Getting all of our four-legged friends in for a shot.

Images from August 2000 (left) and August 2014 (right) show the drop in water levels in the Aral Sea.

Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Has Dried Out, NASA Photos Show

2:07pm September 30, 2014

by Bill Chappell

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000 and 2014.

European Activists Say They Don't Want Any U.S. 'Chlorine Chicken'

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Susanna Capelouto

Most U.S. poultry is bathed in a little chlorine on the way to your plate. But that treatment is banned in Europe. Now "chlorinated chickens" are a sticking point in a trans-Atlantic trade deal.

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Hong Kong Protesters Give Government A Deadline To Respond

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

The civil disobedience movement has set an Oct. 1 deadline for the city's unpopular chief executive to meet their demands for democracy. The also want him to step down as leader of Hong Kong.

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Liberian physician Martha Zarway continues work in a temporary clinic while her original facility is disinfected.

Martha Zarway Of Monrovia: 'I'm A Doctor, So We Can't Run Away'

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

The Liberian physician, who operates a clinic in the capital, perseveres in the wake of a colleague's death, possibly from Ebola. She and her staff continue to treat patients.

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Some potential new Ebola drugs will be tested at treatment centers like this one run by Doctors Without Borders near Monrovia.

Tests Of New Ebola Drugs Could Take Place As Early As November

1:46pm September 30, 2014

by Richard Harris

New drugs and vaccines can take years to develop. But health officials and researchers are accelerating tests of experimental drugs to fight the outbreak in West Africa.

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