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November 15, 2014 (Saturday)

Disasters and accidents

A chemical leak at a DuPont plant in LaPorte, Texas leaves four workers dead. (NBC News)
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake causes serious damage in the Lake Region of Kyrgyzstan. (Reuters)
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurs in waters off Kota Ternate in Indonesia with the potential to trigger a tsunami to hit Indonesia and the Philippines. (AP)
- Later reports state that the threat of a tsunami has passed. (NOAA)

International relations

The ninth G-20 summit gets underway in the Australian city of Brisbane. (AP via NBC News)
Italian MP, Romina Mura, complains on the Turkish embassy for their views on the Armenian Genocide. (Armenpress)

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