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Monday, October 20, 2014 (2014x209)

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2014/10/20 Headlines: UNICEF: Several Thousand Children Orphaned by Ebola in West Africa; U.N. Provides Food to Ebola-Stricken Town; Liberian President Warns a Generation "Risks Being Lost"; Duncan Contacts Declared Ebola-Free in Texas After 21-Day Monitoring Ends; Obama Appoints New Ebola Czar in Absence of Confirmed Surgeon General; Kobani Faces Heavy Violence as U.S. Arms Syrian Kurds, Turkey Allows Passage; 21 Killed in Baghdad Suicide Attack; Iraqi Forces Seek to Retake Baiji; Ongoing Militia Fighting Kills 75 in Benghazi; Boko Haram Kills Dozens Despite Claims of Deal for Ceasefire and Schoolgirls' Release; Report: Not Enough Evidence to Indict Officer in Federal Civil Rights Probe of Michael Brown Killing; Florida Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing of Black Teen Jordan Davis over Loud Music; Supreme Court Allows Texas to Enforce Voter ID Law That Could Disenfranchise "Hundreds of Thousands"; Report: Obama Administration Considers Sidestepping U.N. Torture Ban Overseas; U.N. Rapporteurs Visit Detroit to Probe Water Shutoffs; Colombian Farmers Sue BP for Environmental Damage; Influential Kenyan Scholar Ali Mazrui Dead at 81