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Lagarde calls uncertainty³ of the US debt selling very concerning, telling NBC's Meet the Press, that the potential for a US default, push the world economic recovery at risk. 

 

If there is that degree of disruption. That lack of certainty, that lack of trust, in the US signature, it would mean massive disruption the world over. 

 

Legarde says there has been significant improvement as they've laid in the economies of the US, Europe and Japan, but the US default could tip the world into a recession like resound⁴ 2008. She also criticized any alternative to raising the debt limit, saying create of accounting⁵ is not the answer. DamBobcoffxxx, NPR News. 

 

Several national parks shutter⁶ since the government shutdowna are reopening as states use their own funds to run them. But Florida is barking the trend. As NPR's Greg Allen reports from Miami Florida's governor says no state money can be used to reopen Everglades national park despites protests. 

 

A flotilla of fishing guides held protest in the waters just outside Florida bay. Some 800 square miles of the bay are part of  Everglades national park, enclosed because of the shutdown. The guides said the closure is a finanical burden, halting light tackle fishing for redfish, snook and tarpon. The federal government says it will allow states filling to pension the shutdown to reopen national park, using state money. Florida governor Rick Scott has rejected that option. His office released a memo⁷ instructing all state anencies, that no accounting measures or other budget actions can be taken to offset⁸ the loss of federal funds. In addition to the national park, the shutdown has cut funding in Florida for nutritional⁹ programs and assistance to needy¹⁰ families, veterans and schools. Greg Allen NPR News, Miami. 

 

The Syrian national council, the largest group in the Syrian opposition¹¹ coalition¹², says it won't participate and propose peace talks this weekend in Geneva to end the country's civil war, and as the BBC's James Munro reports the head of the group George Sabra says the SNC will pull out of the coalition if it takes part. 

 

The statement came as the US secretary of state John Kerry was preparing to meet the special United Nations and Arab League peace envoy¹³, Lakhdar Brahimi, in London tomorrow. The UN, Russia and America all hope to organize the talks in Gevena by mid¹⁴ November. While the Syrian regime, ally to the Russians, has said it's ready to go.  George Sabra's declaration underlined the task facing the Americans trying to get a unified¹⁵ and creditable opposition delegation¹⁶ to take part. 

 

The BBC's James Munro. This is NPR News. 

 

Anti-immigrant demonstrations¹⁷ or migrant demonstrations in Moscow turned violent today as protesters vandalized stores, that employed migrant workers from the Caucasus region. The protesters are demanding justice over the killing¹⁸ of a young ethnic¹⁹ Russian, a murder widely blamed on a man from the Caucasus. 

 

In eastern India, cyclone²⁰ Pailin has left trail of flooded towns, tangled²¹ powerlines and tens of thousands of destroyed houses. So far at least 15 deaths have been reported. Authorities say the death toll²² would have been far higher, had it not been for a massive evacuation before Pailin rolled ashore²³. 

 

Israel is reimposing a ban on private shipments of cement to Gaza, NPR's Emily Harry reports today's move comes after a concrete reinforce tunnel was discovered. That runs from the Gaza Strip into Israel. 

 

The tunnel is tall enough to stand in, concrete arches reinforce the ceiling and it's wired for electricity and has a phone line. An Israeli military spokesman says shovels²⁴ and other building tools were found inside along with food wrappers, indicating work had been gone on for months. Israeli officials believe this passage would have been used for some kind of attack in the future. In response, Israel has stopped allowing private merchants to bring cement into Gaza. Private sells of cement from Israel to Gaza had just begun three weeks ago, after being prohibited for six years. Emily Harry NPR News, Jerusalem. 

 

Pulitzer Prize winning, novelist Oscar Hijuelos has died. the Cuban American writer often wrote about the losses and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience. He won the Pulitzer in 1990 for his novel, "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" . He is the first Hispanic writer to receive the honor. Hijuelos was 62. 

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