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US-Tropical-Weather-Sandy (will update)
Pockets of frustration among cold and hungry residents festered Friday, in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, even as other areas sputtered back to life. The biggest challenges in places like Staten Island -- where the majority of New York's storm-related deaths were recorded -- include food and electricity shortages.
Syria-Civil-War monitoring
A Syrian rebel brigade blamed "extremists" for a grisly massacre now gone viral on the Internet, and it vowed to punish the perpetrators.
Pakistan-Mumbai-Suspect
Hafiz Saeed, leader of Pakistan's Jamaat ud Dawaak Party, lives openly in Pakistan, despite a $10 million dollar bounty on his head. CNN spoke to him and here is what he said.
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INTERNATIONAL
Nigeria-Violence
More than 30 people have been shot dead in Nigeria, the head of Amnesty International said Friday, only a day after the rights group accused Nigerian security forces of committing serious abuses in their efforts to crack down on the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the region.
Turkey-Prisons-Hunger-Strike
Turkey's government announced Friday that at least 682 inmates were participating in a hunger strike in at least 67 prisons across the country, but it insisted that no protesters were in critical condition.
Chinese-Stealth-Fighter
CNN has obtained detailed photographs of a new stealth fighter being tested in China. It is the second such stealth fighter China has tested in as many years and appears destined to become the communist nation's future aircraft carrier-based fighter jet, according to weapons analysts.
Syria-Civil-War
A Syrian rebel brigade blamed "extremists" for a grisly massacre now gone viral on the Internet, and it vowed to punish the perpetrators.
SPORT-football-egypt-ahly-ultras
Since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo is a city that has become addicted to the art of protest. But this protest wasn't like any of the others. Outside a smart hotel in the city, several hundred well-appointed young men had gathered to express their frustrations at the new Egypt. Their livelihoods had been decimated since the revolution, they argued. And direct action was the only cure. Except these young men were not bakers, or cab drivers, or stockbrokers, or former regime allies. They were professional soccer players, out of work and unpaid ever since 74 young fans died in a tragic incident at a match in Port Said in February and the domestic league was suspended.
U.S.
Oregon-National-Guard-Lawsuit
Defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root was negligent in exposing National Guard soldiers to toxic chemicals at a water plant in Iraq, a jury in Portland, Oregon, found Friday.

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