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A US mayor says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “is plain wrong” in claiming Arabs in his city cheered the attacks of 9/11.
BBC News – US & Canada

Police appeal for help to identify the two gunmen who carried out Friday’s attack on a hotel in Bamako, in which 22 people were killed.
BBC News – Africa

The Thunder’s rival from down I-35 has some new faces in the mix, but tonight it’ll be the same principles as always that determine wheth
Oklahoma City Thunder

The A’s beefed up their bullpen Friday, acquiring lefty reliever Liam Hendriks from the Blue Jays, but at the cost of one of their most versatile arms, right-hander Jesse Chavez.
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George Osborne’s plan to raise more money than he needs to spend is “unacceptable” when he is cutting benefits, according to John Swinney.
BBC News – Business

Four Israelis have been injured, two of them seriously, after being stabbed in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, Israeli police say.
BBC News – Middle East

Argentina is to vote in its first ever presidential run-off, pitting the ruling party’s Daniel Scioli against conservative Mauricio Macri.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Central Brussels was almost deserted on Saturday night after Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level, as a search for Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam goes on.
BBC News – Europe

David Cameron is to set out his strategy for tackling the crisis in Syria this week, as he continues efforts to win support for air strikes against the Islamic State group.
BBC News – UK

A US man is freed on bail after serving more than 23 years in jail over crimes, including a murder of which another man was convicted.
BBC News – US & Canada

Three new cases of Ebola are confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
BBC News – Africa

After a 43 minutes of the ball simply not going through the hoop, the Thunder’s chances at victory were slim.
Oklahoma City Thunder

Rickey Henderson and Robin Yount , two of MLB’s 29 historical 3,000-hit men, were on the stage of the Juniper Ballroom in the Aria Hotel on Friday, reminiscing about their careers in an installment of a lecture […]

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