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Xiaomi, whose phones have been extremely well received in online sales in India, is reportedly seeking to resolve alleged security concerns.

Kurdish forces have been holding out for weeks against a concerted assault by militants of the Islamic State group on Kobani.

China executed 2,400 people in 2013, about three times more than the combined count in all countries with the death penalty.

The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership is central to President Barack Obama's policy of expanding U.S. presence in Asia.

Carrie continued her quest to seduce Aayan in Season 4 episode 5 of "Homeland."

Lance Cpl. Sean Neal is the first U.S. serviceman to die in an ISIS mission. He was 19.

Rousseff ally Ideli Salvatti says the government will seek "national reconciliation."

A Dallas man's Halloween decorations are Ebola-themed.

George P. Bush says family would back a presidential run by his father.

British hostage John Cantlie said in a propaganda video hostages who tried to escape from ISIS were waterboarded.

Taiwan has four aging submarines including two that date back to World War II although its military is otherwise considered generally modern.

The large number of parties in Sunday's election, from conservative Islamist Salafist movements to Socialists, means a coalition is the probable outcome.

The struggle is part of a wider conflict in the north African state where former rebels use their guns to fight for power and a share of the country's oil revenues.

Record-breaking temperatures are expected to hit the East Coast of the United States next week.

The Houthis, with Yemeni army backing, earlier battled their way to al-Manasseh, a small town regarded as the main Ansar al-Sharia stronghold in the area.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen has said it could take a decade to bring the Fed's assets down to their historical level.

Quarantined Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox says she has hired a lawyer to challenge her mandatory isolation.

After 13 years of war, the U.K. handed over Camp Bastion in Helmand and the U.S. handed over the adjacent Camp Leatherneck to Afghan forces.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 was elegant, commercially doomed, and the last American rival to Boeing.

Samantha Power's trip comes as three U.S. states begin mandating quarantines for health workers returning from the Ebola-stricken region.

Six weeks of summaries reviewed by NBC News paint a grim picture of the situation in the three Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa.