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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, NY, US

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Update: 1 dead in Flatbush Ave. fire in Brooklyn, NY – @ABC7NY
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EARNINGS

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Lowe’s reports earnings of $585 million in its fiscal 3rd quarter – @AP
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UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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Erie County, NY, officials say death toll from storm up to 5; another person died overnight – @WGRZ
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UBER JOURNALIST TRACKING CONTROVERSY

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Uber allegedly tracked journalist with internal tool called ‘God View’ – @verge

EUROPEAN UNION

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EU’s highest court rules Britain’s courts have the authority to order the British government to comply with EU nitrogen dioxide limits as soon as possible – @Reuters
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UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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Photo: Niagara University women’s basketball team en route back to campus after being stranded on highway for 30 hours due to snow – @NiagaraWBB

ISLAMIC STATE THREAT IN IRAQ, SYRIA

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France believes there is a 2nd French militant in beheading video released by the Islamic State, government spokesman Stephane Le Foll says – @Reuters
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UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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Niagara University women’s basketball team, who was stranded on their bus for 30 hours due to snow, has been rescued – @breakingweather
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ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

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Pope Francis condemns attack by 2 Palestinians who killed 5 Jews in a Jerusalem synagogue; expresses concern about rising tension and violence in the city – @Reuters
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UKRAINE, RUSSIA POLITICAL CRISIS

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Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk rules out direct negotiations with pro-Russian separatists to settle conflict – @Reuters
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FLATBUSH, NEW YORK, NY, US

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At least 15 injured, including at least 6 critically after overnight Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY, fire – @ABC7N7

CELEBRITIES

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Chris Hemsworth named PEOPLE’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ for annual special – @peoplemag

EUROZONE FINANCIAL CRISIS

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Eurozone construction down 0.5% in 3rd quarter – @WSJ

MARKETS

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Switzerland’s SMI equity index hits 9,000 point mark for 1st time since late 2007, tracking recent gains in stock indexes worldwide – @Reuters
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ISLAMIC STATE THREAT IN IRAQ, SYRIA

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Suicide car-bomb explodes outside of the governor’s office in Erbil, Iraq, official confirms – @RudawEnglish

EBOLA OUTBREAK 2014

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World Bank now expects Ebola epidemic’s impact on Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy to be around $3 to $4 billion, well below previously outlined worst-case scenario of $32 billion – @Reuters
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ISLAMIC STATE THREAT IN IRAQ, SYRIA

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Car bomb targets government building in Iraqi Kurdish capital, Irbil, local media say – @BBCBreaking

INDIA

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Authorities: 6 reported dead after police storm ashram in India – @AFP
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BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AU

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Photo: Emergency crews on the scene of flash flooding in Brisbane, Australia, where cars standed – @heylandy

WESTMONT, LOS ANGELES, CA, US

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Authorities say hostage who was held at gunpoint in Westmont, Los Angeles, released; suspect still barricaded inside home – @CBSLA

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KEYSTONE PIPELINE DEBATE

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Bill to approve Keystone XL pipeline fails to meet 60-vote threshold needed to pass Senate; similar measure had passed House – live video
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DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

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Dow, S&P 500 close at record highs after gains in Europe and bullish report on home-builders – @CNBC

WEST JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, NOV. 18, 2014

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Israeli police confirm 4 rabbis killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack: 3 US citizens and 1 UK citizen – @haaretzcom
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UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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Approximately 60 inches of snow reported near Lancaster, NY – @stormchaser4850
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EBOLA OUTBREAK 2014

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New York City health officials investigating death of woman on Ebola monitoring list; authorities say woman did not have symptoms at last check – @ABC
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BILL COSBY SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS

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Supermodel Janice Dickinson says in interview that comedian Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982 – @Variety

WEST JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, NOV. 18, 2014

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders authorities to destroy Jerusalem synagogue attackers’ homes; also orders demolition of homes of Palestinians involved in other recent deadly attacks – @AP

UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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National Weather Service says as much as 74 inches of snow may fall in the hardest hit areas of Erie County, NY, by Wednesday night, according to county executive – @markpoloncarz
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ISLAMIC STATE THREAT IN IRAQ, SYRIA

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FBI tracking 150 Americans who traveled to Syria, perhaps to fight, director says – @Reuters

KEYSTONE PIPELINE DEBATE

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Editor’s note: Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voted ‘No’ on bill to pass Keystone XL pipeline. Unless there is a surprise switch, bill may not get 60 votes needed to pass Senate, @jamiedupree reports. – Stephanie

WEST JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, NOV. 18, 2014

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Editor’s note: Al Arabiya has pulled back on an earlier report that Israel would allow citizens to carry arms for self-defense in the wake of today’s synagogue attack. Later reports have attributed this development to Israel’s public security minister, who has indicated restrictions will be eased for those who already carry gun permits – Sean

UPSTATE NEW YORK LAKE-EFFECT SNOWSTORM, NOV. 18, 2014

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Reports of drivers stranded on Interstate 90 in Buffalo, NY, area for up to 16 hours due to snow storm – @news4buffalo

NSA REFORM PROPOSALS

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Senate Republicans block NSA reform legislation; bill fails to clear 60-vote threshold to move forward – @nationaljournal

KEYSTONE PIPELINE DEBATE

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More: Bill to approve Keystone XL pipeline fell 1 vote short of reaching 60-vote threshold in Senate, 59-41 – live video
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EBOLA OUTBREAK 2014

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Health officials: Woman who was on Ebola monitoring list after returning from West Africa died of apparent heart attack in New York; being tested for virus out of precaution – @NBCNewYork

EBOLA OUTBREAK 2014

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India has quarantined man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia but continued to show traces of the virus – @Reuters
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BILL COSBY SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS

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Spokesperson says Netflix is postponing launch of Bill Cosby special amid sexual assault allegations – @NBCNews
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EBOLA OUTBREAK 2014

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Group of donors led by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat victims – @AP

BUFFALO, NY, US

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4 deaths in New York blamed on snowstorm that dumped more than 4 feet of snow around Buffalo – @AP

KEYSTONE PIPELINE DEBATE

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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opposing Keystone XL: ‘I’ve got news for you, senators don’t live near refineries … filthy, dirty oil’ – @KellyO

World news

South Korea ferry disaster captain jailed for 36 years but acquitted of homicide
Full ArticleSouth China Morning Post

11 Nov 2014
A South Korean court on Tuesday handed a 36-year prison sentence to the captain of a sunken ferry, saying he was professionally negligent and abandoned his passengers during the disaster in April that killed more than 300 people. The chief engineer got 30 years, and 13 other crew members were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, Yonhap news

File - Relative of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast wait for their missing loved ones at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Saturday, April 19, 2014.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

47 people killed in bombing outside Nigerian school; Boko Haram suspected
Full ArticleCNN

10 Nov 2014
November 10, 2014 — Updated 1123 GMT (1923 HKT) Kano, Nigeria (CNN) — At least 47 people were killed and 79 were wounded Monday by a suicide bombing outside a school in northern Nigeria, police said. The attacker was disguised as a student when he set off the explosion in a government boarding school in the town ofPotiskum, police spokesman

People are treated at the General hospital in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, following a suicide bomb attack at Government Science Technical College Potiskum.
photo: AP / Adamu Adamu

How did the government let a defeat over Syria happen?
Full ArticleBBC News

10 Nov 2014
For the British Government, it was the first defeat on military action since 1782. ForPrime Minister David Cameron, it was a humiliation. The vote against bombingSyria in August 2013 continues to have consequences today. Why did it happen?Problem one was timing. MPs were recalled to Westminster from the summer recess four days before they were

A bombs, seen top left, falls on an Islamic State position in eastern Kobani, during an airstrike by the US led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014.
photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda

Leaders of China, Japan hold ice-breaking meeting
Full ArticleThe State

10 Nov 2014
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abeheld an ice-breaking meeting Monday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific conference in Beijing, following more than two years of deep tensions over an island dispute. The spat between China and Japan over uninhabited East China Sea islands raised concerns of a

China's President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, in Beijing, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014.
photo: AP / Kim Kyung-Hoon, Pool

Catalonia independence: 80% vote to split from Spain
Full ArticleThe Independent

10 Nov 2014
Millions of people voted on the issue of Catalonian independence on Sunday, with more than 80 per cent of people electing for a split from Spain in a bid to carve out a new Mediterranean nation. But the vote itself was a watered down version of a referendum due to the legal restrictions put in place by the Spanish government, resulting in it being

People queue with the Estelada flag (pro-independence Catalan flag) to cast their vote at a polling station for an informal poll for the independence of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014.
photo: AP / Manu Fernandez

US and Iran meet in bid to reach nuclear deal
Full ArticleAl Jazeera

10 Nov 2014
The United States and Iran held high-level talks in Oman as the deadline for a nuclear deal loomed closer, but President Barack Obama warned there might be no agreement. US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iran’s Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif in the Gulf sultanate on Sunday, seeking to resolve key disputes that have left the West‘s

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets a string of Omani officials after arriving in Muscat in the pre-dawn hours of November 9, 2014, for negotiations with Iranian officials about the future of their nuclear program.
photo: US DoS

US air strike on Islamic State convoy killed leader’s key aide
Full ArticleThe Observer

09 Nov 2014
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. US officials were unable to confirm if he was a casualty of the air strike that destroyed 10 vehicles carrying its top militants.Photograph: ISLAMIC STATE VIDEO / HANDOUT/EPA A key aide to the leader of Islamic State (Isis) was killed in a US strike on a convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosulon Friday that

Capt. Walt Slaughter, left, executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), and Lt. Ramses Leon, shoot off an EA-18G Growler from the Cougars of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 off the flight deck of Carl Vinson, 1 November, 2014.
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Scott Fenaroli

Jerusalem should be capital of two states: top EU diplomat
Full ArticleThe Siasat Daily

09 Nov 2014
November 09: The European Union‘s top diplomat Federica Mogherini today said that Jerusalem “should be the capital of two states”, as tensions gripped the holy city hit by Israeli-Palestinian violence. “I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states,” Mogherini told reporters in the Israeli-occupied West Bankcity of Ramallah,

Jerusalem should be capital of two states: top EU diplomat
photo: European Community / EC

North Korea Just Freed Two Imprisoned Americans
Full ArticleBusiness Insider

08 Nov 2014
Thomson ReutersU.S. missionary Bae appears before a limited number of media outlets in Pyongyang WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. citizens Kenneth Bae andMatthew Todd Miller have been freed from detention by the North Korean government and are returning to the United States, the office of the director of national intelligence said on Saturday. Bae and

File - In this March 20, 2013 photo, a North Korean flag hangs inside the interior of Pyongyang’s Supreme Court. Detained American Kenneth Bae has been condemned to 15 years of hard labour for 'hostile acts' against the state.
photo: AP

Asia-Pacific ministers pledge at APEC to step up corruption fight
Full ArticleThe Australian

08 Nov 2014
ASIA-Pacific government ministers meeting in Beijing yesterday endorsed plans to deepen regional anti-corruption efforts, in a move that dovetails with a high-profile crackdown on bribery and rake-offs within China’s Communist Party. China has recently announced stepped-up efforts to extradite former officials suspected of corruption from

Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a visit at the UNESCO headquarters, in Paris, Thursday March 27, 2014. Deal-making and commemorations of a half-century of French diplomatic ties with Communist China were the order of business during Xi's three-day visit, part of his European tour.
photo: AP / Christian Hartmann

Saleh’s party rejects new Yemeni government
Full ArticleAl Jazeera

08 Nov 2014
Yemen‘s General People’s Congress, the party of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, has rejected the newly formed government, announcing that the party’s majority parliamentary bloc will not support a confidence vote backing it. Earlier on Saturday, President Abdrabuh

Protestors march while chanting slogans during a demonstration demanding the trial of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Saleh stepped down on February after more than a year of country-wide protests demanding his resignation.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

Suspects admit to massacring missing Mexico students
Full ArticleThe Times of India

08 Nov 2014
MEXICO CITY: Confessions by suspected gang members indicate 43 Mexicanstudents missing for six weeks were killed, burned beyond recognition and tossed in a river in a case that outraged the nation, authorities said on Friday. Facing angry protests in the biggest crisis of his administration, President Enrique Pena Nieto vowed to hunt down all

Relatives holding posters with images of the missing students march in protest for the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.
photo: AP / Marco Ugarte

Fugitive Democracy Can Break Washington’s Gridlock
Full ArticleWorldNews.com

07 Nov 2014
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Opponents are calling it a repudiation and lashing of President Barack Obama, including a no confidence vote in his policies.(1) But such a midterm scenario couldn’t be further from the truth. A closer examination would reveal an angry, disillusioned, exhausted, and overly taxed populace with

President-elect Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions during his news conference introducing members of his economic team, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Chicago.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Japan governor approves Sendai reactor restart
Full ArticleBBC News

07 Nov 2014
Two reactors at Japan‘s Sendai nuclear plant are set to become the first to be restarted since the 2011 meltdown at the

Sendai nuclear power plant, Japan

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