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Student protesters hold a rally at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. Security officials said police backed by armored vehicles have stormed the campuses of at least two prominent Egyptian universities to quell anti-government protests by students. Sunday's largest rallies took place at Cairo and the Islamist al-Azhar universities. They were organized by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/El Shorouk, Aly Hazzaa) EGYPT OUT

Egypt police storm 2 universities over protests

SARAH EL DEEB · October 12, 2014 6:42 pm

Kurds describe fierce battles on streets of Kobani

Ryan Lucas · October 12, 2014 6:40 pm

A man looks at the site of a car bomb attack in the Shula neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. A series of car bomb attacks in Iraq's capital killed and wounded dozens of people in Shiite areas Saturday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Triple suicide bombing in Iraq kills 58 people

SINAN SALAHEDDINSAMEER N. YACOUB · October 12, 2014 6:34 pm

3 German photojournalists arrested in Turkey

Kirsten Grieshaber · October 12, 2014 6:11 pm

Iraqi officials say death toll in triple bombing in eastern Diyala province rises to 58 killed

Washington Examiner · October 12, 2014 6:05 pm

Egyptian state television: Norway foreign minister says $5.4B pledged for Gaza reconstruction

Washington Examiner · October 12, 2014 5:25 pm

Militia fighting in Libya’s west kills 23

SARAH EL DEEB · October 12, 2014 5:11 pm

In this picture provided by Greece's Culture ministry on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, a partly damaged floor mosaic is shown inside an ancient Greek tomb, depicting a chariot driver, two horses and the Greek god Hermes. Archaeologists digging through an ancient grave at Amphipolis, northern Greece, uncovered the 3-by-4.5 meter (10-by-15 ft.) mosaic in what is likely the antechamber to the main burial room. (AP Photo/Greek Culture Ministry)

Large mosaic in ancient tomb uncovered in Greece

Demetris Nellas · October 12, 2014 4:17 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 file photo Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock in court in Pretoria, South Africa, where Judge Thokozile Masipa found Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius faces sentencing this week (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)

Oscar Pistorius faces sentencing this week

Christopher Torchia · October 12, 2014 3:33 pm

U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah Al-Khalid al-Sabah in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, during the Gaza Donor Conference. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

US promises $212 million in new Gaza aid

Bradley Klapper · October 12, 2014 3:27 pm

As seen from Mursitpinar in the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, a Turkish forces armoured vehicle patrols the border road as in the background thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Activists: Kurds halt jihadi advance in Syria town

Lefteris Pitarakis · October 12, 2014 2:43 pm

A medical practitioner wearing protective clothing stands next to an isolated patient on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. A Spanish hospital official says Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant infected with Ebola is "stable," hours after authorities described her condition as critical. She is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. Romero contracted the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Spanish nurse infected with Ebola makes progress

Harold Heckle · October 12, 2014 2:40 pm