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The government is making slow progress on meeting the annual borrowing forecast as official figures revealed the worst October public sector finances for six years.
BBC News – Business

Russia intensifies its air raids on what it calls “terrorist” targets in Syria and raises to 69 the number of its aircraft there.
BBC News – Middle East

A new study finds that a longstanding flow of immigration has been reversed – more Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

French officials say the cousin of the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks did not blow herself up in a police raid as previously thought.
BBC News – Europe

The Metropolitan Police makes an “unreserved apology” to seven women who were tricked into relationships with undercover officers, one of which led to a child.
BBC News – UK

Former US navy analyst Jonathan Pollard, jailed for life in 1987 for passing classified information to Israel, is released.
BBC News – US & Canada

A deadly attack by suspected Islamist militants who took 170 people hostage at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako is over, US officials say.
BBC News – Africa

Despite it not looking pretty for all 48 minutes, the Thunder used every ounce of grit, perseverance and determination in its 110-103 hom
Oklahoma City Thunder

The three finalists for 22 Esurance MLB Awards were announced today, and the first four winners will be revealed on social media throughout the day. The unveiling of the hardware will culminate when the 18 winners […]

November weather in Oklahoma is predictably unpredictable, so when the Thunder, Kia and the Boys and Girls Club of Norman at Center for C
Oklahoma City Thunder

A’s right-hander Sonny Gray finished third in the Baseball Writers’ Association of America balloting for the American League Cy Young Award, behind winner Dallas Keuchel of the Astros and runner-up David Price, […]

A report into the collapse of the High Street bank HBOS says regulators should consider banning up to 10 former executives from working in the City.
BBC News – Business

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad says a political process to end the country’s bloody civil war cannot begin while it is occupied by “terrorists”.
BBC News – Middle East

Police in Honduras say they have arrested five Syrians travelling on stolen Greek passports and aiming to enter the United States by land.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The man believed to have masterminded the attacks in Paris, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was among those killed in a French police raid, prosecutors confirm.
BBC News – Europe

Police believe the body found in a field in Leicestershire is that of the missing 15-year-old Kayleigh Haywood.
BBC News – UK

Police in Minneapolis say an unarmed black man was not handcuffed when he was fatally shot, an incident which has sparked nightly protests.
BBC News – US & Canada

The world’s second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says.
BBC News – Africa

Bouncing back is in the Thunder’s nature.
Oklahoma City Thunder

The A’s have added a veteran arm to their rotation, inking left-hander Rich Hill to a one-year deal worth $ 6 million pending a physical, MLB.com confirmed Tuesday night.
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