Pastor Myles Munroe dies in plane crash
UN Peace Envoy for Syria Calls on Damascus to Suspend Fighting: Reports
UN chief hails US nationals’ release in North Korea
Obama says attorney general Lynch will carry on equal justice
Obama: ‘Wonderful day’ for 2 freed Americans
US air strike on Islamic State convoy killed leader’s key aide
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. US officials were unable to confirm if he was a casualty of the air strike that destroyed 10 vehicles carrying its top militants.Photograph: ISLAMIC STATE VIDEO / HANDOUT/EPA A key aide to the leader of Islamic State (Isis) was killed in a US strike on a convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosulon Friday that…
Germany marks 25 years since Berlin Wall’s fall
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Japan governor approves Sendai reactor restart
US Military Chief Defends Israel’s Actions in Gaza
Politically Weak Obama Prepares to Face China
German Rail Strike to Affect Berlin Anniversary Celebrations
New virus putting tiger population at threat of extinction
South Sudan: UN Mulling Sanctions, Arms Embargo
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ICC rules out investigation into Israeli raid on Gaza-bound flotilla
War crimes court says killing of Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010 not of sufficient gravity to warrant inquiry …
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European immigrants contribute £5bn to UK economy but non-EU migrants ‘cost £118bn’
Pakistan arrests 43 over ‘blasphemy’ killings
Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division concludes operations in Afghanistan, 13 years after it arrived
Army Slow to Investigate War Gear Missing in Afghanistan
Discontented voters hand Senate to Republicans
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European immigrants contribute £5bn to UK economy but non-EU migrants ‘cost £118bn’
Pakistan arrests 43 over ‘blasphemy’ killings
Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division concludes operations in Afghanistan, 13 years after it arrived
Army Slow to Investigate War Gear Missing in Afghanistan
New Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone Aggravates Fears of Epidemic
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A referendum on Obama’s leadership
WASHINGTON (AP): Increasingly confident Republicans claimed new momentum last Sunday, just two days before Americans vote in a national election, assailingPresident Barack Obama in a final weekend push to motivate voters to give them aSenate majority. Democrats deployed their biggest stars to boost turnout in an effort to minimise expected…
Obama faces lashing in midterm polls
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Argentina’s President Fernandez Hospitalized With Fever
Brittany Maynard dead: Terminally ill cancer patient ends life by assisted suicide
UN: Climate Change Fight Affordable
AU Ready to Help Restore Democracy in Burkina Faso

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel ‘ready to cast UK adrift’ over migrant quotas
Brittany Maynard dead: Terminally ill cancer patient ends life by assisted suicide
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AU Ready to Help Restore Democracy in Burkina Faso
Iraq: 322 Tribe Members Killed, Many Bodies Dumped in Well
Israel Closes 2 Gaza Border Crossings
Pope Warns Against ‘Industry of Destruction’ at All Saints Day Mass
Pro-Russia separatists hold leadership elections in two Ukraine enclaves
A man walks past an advertising hoarding in Donetsk, Ukraine, with a portrait ofAlexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic.Photograph: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukrainehold controversial leadership elections on Sunday which Kiev and the west have refused to recognise and which…
Virgin Galactic crash: Branson vows to continue space project
Sir Richard Branson has vowed to continue his space tourism venture despite the fatal crash of one of his craft in the California desert. One pilot died and the other was badly injured when Virgin Galactic‘s SpaceShipTwo craft exploded on Friday. The founder of the Virgin Group said he was “shocked and saddened” but insisted he would…
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Burkina President Resigns
UN: Growing number of foreigners in terror groups
Leading the fight against female mutilation
EFUA DORKENOO 1949-2014 Efua Dorkenoo helped to lead a successful 30-year campaign against the tradition of genital cutting of girls and women, mainly inAfrica and the Middle East, by casting the practice as a human rights violation. Dorkenoo started organisations to battle genital cutting and coordinated the effort more broadly as acting director…
UN envoy proposes Syria ‘fighting freeze’
Power struggle after Sata’s death
Sweden recognizes Palestinian state; Israel upset
Menino, Thomas, Longest Serving Boston Mayor, Dead at 71
Slim chances of survivors as 200 buried in Lanka landslide
Nobel winner Malala Yousafzai gives $50,000 to Gaza schools
Ebola outbreak: Fewer burials, fewer new cases in Liberia, the WHO says
October 30, 2014 — Updated 0713 GMT (1513 HKT) (CNN) — The fight against Ebolain Liberia got some welcome news — with a little caution. The number of new cases in the nation appears to be declining, with fewer burials and lab confirmations, and less-cramped hospitals, the World Health Organization said. If the trend continues, the hardest hit…
African Union Says a Sixth of Pledged Ebola Workers Ready to Go
WHO says Ebola epidemic in Liberia may be slowing down
Poverty forces Afghan Children to work for food
Editorial: A better plan for Afghanistan
Barroso: Without EU enlargement, Russia would have gobbled up Bulgaria, the Baltics
UN condemns Israeli settlement expansion
At least 3 million in Somalia in need of aid: U.N. Secretary General
Afghanistan pullout: Just more territory for the Islamic State to swallow up
Full ArticleThe Malta Independent
As concern increases about the presence of an Islamic State offshoot in Darnah, Libya, the last troops are pulling out of Afghanistan as the US Marines and UK military pull out of Helmand province. The US and UK led war in Afghanistan lasted 13 years and has left thousands of casualties in its wake… some of them young western soldiers, some of…
Zambian president dies in London hospital
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Two militants killed in Kashmir encounter
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Giant tortoises rally from near extinction on Galapagos island
Ebola aid appeal launched by Disasters Emergency Committee
War in Afghanistan – thirteen years of conflict
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Ukip ‘enjoy huge poll surge after EU demand for £1.7bn surcharge’
Marines leave Afghanistan after tough war years
Niger cholera outbreak kills 51 people: UN
UN chief voices concern over Ebola-related restrictions
Car bombings in Iraq kill at least 38 people
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Boko Haram kidnaps 30 in northeast Nigeria
October 27, 2014 — Updated 0500 GMT (1300 HKT) Kano, Nigeria (CNN) — Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped at least 30 boys and girls from a village in northeastNigeria during the weekend. The abductions are the latest in a string of recent kidnappings by Boko Haram that dims hope for the anticipated release of 219 schoolgirls ?held by the group since…
Ebola: US nurse ‘to take legal action’ over confinement
US and UK troops pull out of Afghanistan’s Helmand province
EU row heaps pressure on Cameron
Ukraine’s pro-West and nationalist parties win snap election
Brazil votes in tight presidential runoff
‘Conditions’ dictate delay in S. Korea OPCON transfer
‘No safety guarantee’ over Helmand
Nurse criticizes Ebola quarantine, raising concern
NEW YORK (AP) — The nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa criticized the way her case has been handled, raising concerns from humanitarian and human rights groups over unclear policies for the newly launched quarantine program. KaciHickox, the first traveler quarantined under…
WHO: Number of Ebola-Linked Cases Passes 10,000, Nearly 5,000 Dead
Iran hangs woman convicted of killing alleged rapist
Israeli Military Kills Palestinian-American Youth
Egypt declares state of emergency in Sinai after checkpoint bombing
Mali’s first Ebola case, a 2-yr-old girl, dies -officials
Two die in shooting at US school
A student has opened fire in a US high school cafeteria, killing at least one person and wounding four other students, officials said. The gunman also died in the attack. Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureux said the shooter was a student at Marysville Pilchuck High School, near Seattle, but he could not provide more information including…
N.Y. doctor positive for Ebola had no symptoms until Thursday, officials say
Egypt imposes state of emergency in Sinai after attacks
Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula after at least 31 soldiers were killed in two attacks there. PresidentAbdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared three days of mourning in the wake of the suspected jihadist attacks. Egypt’s Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip was also closed, state TV said. It was the…
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Attack on Egypt army post kills 30
Palestinian boy killed at West Bank protest
PM Modi conveys greetings on United Nations Day
US radar deployment in Japan draws Chinese rebuke
Mali reports first Ebola case, a toddler from Guinea
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PM Modi conveys greetings on United Nations Day
US radar deployment in Japan draws Chinese rebuke
Mali reports first Ebola case, a toddler from Guinea
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Gigantic Volcanic Eruption Could Destroy Japan Within Hundred Years: Study
Royal Protection officer arrested in ammo probe
Dozens of Nigerian women abducted by suspected militants, residents say
Number of Ebola cases nears 10,000
Full ArticleThe Times of India
GENEVA: The number of people with Ebola is set to hit 10,000 in West Africa, theWorld Health Organization said, as the scramble to find a cure gathered pace. The UN‘s public health body said 9,936 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — the three countries at the epicentre of the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic — have contracted the…
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Somali Pirates Still Holding 37 Sailors: UN Official
US and UK asked Australia to send personnel to West Africa to combat Ebola crisis
Obama on Canada shooting: ‘We’re all shaken by it’
Gaza inquiry
Climate change: What does real action mean for Europe?
Well over half a million people in 2,000 communities around the globe marched last month to demand real action on climate change. That was an unprecedented scene. On the next day, several financial businesses announced they would no longer invest in the carbon intensive economy, but rather shift to invest in the new climate economy. Two days later…
UN announces Gaza war inquiry
American Jeffrey Fowle freed from North Korea, two remain
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Oscar Pistorius cannot run in Paralympics
WHO outlines next steps in Ebola crisis
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Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison
Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Masipa found Pistorius guilty last month of culpable homicide for negligently killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Ms Masipa said before giving the sentence: “a non-custodial sentence would send the wrong message to the…
‘Spare human parts’ as intestine is grown in mouse
A segment of human intestine has been grown in laboratory mice for the first time as part of research that could one day produce transplant “spare parts” for repairing diseased tissues and organs using a patient’s own skin cells. The miniature intestine grew from a single stem cell to the size of a fingertip and was able to carry out many of the…
Ukraine’s politicians face mob attacks
Comet Siding Spring buzzes Mars
Russia denies submarine incident as Sweden searches for mystery vessel
Plan to charge jihadists with treason ‘will not work,’ claims terror expert
Ukraine Details Interim Gas Deal with Russia
John Kerry hosts Yang Jiechi for ‘frank’ talks at his Boston home
Catholic Bishops Fail to Approve More Welcoming Approach to Gays
Ebola
By Humeyra Pamuk URFA Turkey (Reuters) – The fiercest fighting in days shook theSyrian border town of Kobani overnight, sources inside the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday, as Islamic State attacked Kurdish militants with mortars and car bombs. Islamic State, which controls much of Syria and Iraq, fired 44 mortars at Kurdish parts of the…
Ukraine Details Interim Gas Deal with Russia
John Kerry hosts Yang Jiechi for ‘frank’ talks at his Boston home
Catholic Bishops Fail to Approve More Welcoming Approach to Gays
US Cancels Visas for Hungarian Officials Over Corruption Allegations
Latinas Converting to Islam for Identity, Structure
Abu Sayyaf frees older German pair
Castro: Cuba would cooperate with US against Ebola
World warned that Ebola ‘could be scourge like HIV’
Britain and the US say inadequate international response to outbreak has allowed it to continue and worsen …
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Ebola crisis: UN launches urgent appeal for donations
Ban Ki-moon has launched another urgent appeal for funds to help fight Ebolaafter a United Nations drive for donations fell short of its target. The UN chief said a $1bn trust fund he launched in September has received just $100,000 (£62,000) so far. He joins a growing chorus of world leaders criticising the global effort to tackle the Ebola…
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Morocco denies withdrawing as African Cup host
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Spain tests 3 with fever for Ebola, isolates jet
Afghanistan Arrests 2 Haqqani Commanders
Amnesty: State Repression on the Rise in Uganda
36 Killed in IS Attacks on Baghdad’s Shi’ite Areas
At least 25 dead after blizzards, avalanches in Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Search and rescue teams flying on army helicopters spotted the bodies of eight more trekkers killed in a series of blizzards and avalanches that have hit central Nepal in recent days, raising the death toll in the region to 25, officials said Thursday. About 70 people were still missing along or near the popular…
Putin to meet with Western leaders on Ukraine
Ebola ‘most serious’ health emergency in years: leaders
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World Soccer Officials: Albania-Serbia Violence ‘Inexcusable’
North and South Korea military talks end in stalemate
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UN medical worker infected with Ebola dies at Germany hospital
Published October 14, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email PrintBERLIN – A United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola in Liberiahas died despite “intensive medical procedures,” a German hospital said Tuesday. The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said the 56-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died…
US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State
NYT editorial reflects ‘difficult situation’ for US: Castro
Ebola cases in West Africa could reach 10,000 per week: WHO
Facebook founder reshapes giving with $25 million to fight Ebola
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US, Iran keep pushing for elusive nuclear deal
UN medical worker infected with Ebola dies at Germany hospital
Published October 14, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email PrintBERLIN – A United Nations medical worker who was infected with Ebola in Liberiahas died despite “intensive medical procedures,” a German hospital said Tuesday. The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said the 56-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died…
British police seize over $400,000 suspected funds for ISIS
Climate change: Models ‘underplay plant CO2 absorption’
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Turkey denies it agreed to let US use air bases for Islamic State fight
Stocks Tumble In Worst Three Day Slide Since 2011
MPs Vote To Recognise Palestinian State
Iraqis Swear: Baghdad Airport is Safe From ISIS
‘THE MOST SEVERE HEALTH EMERGENCY SEEN IN MODERN TIMES’
ISIS militants march on toward Baghdad despite airstrikes, international outrage
October 13, 2014 — Updated 0728 GMT (1528 HKT) (CNN) — Despite airstrikes and international outrage against ISIS militants, the terror group is overrunning Iraqi forces and slowly marching toward Baghdad. And as alarming developments piled up over the weekend, it appears the U.S. plan to “destroy” the group is slowly falling apart. Here are where…
Oscar Pistorius faces sentencing over girlfriend’s death
Disgraced South African track star Oscar Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a sentencing hearing that will determine whether he serves jail time for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, or walks out a free man. A stony-faced Pistorius stared straight ahead as police officers escorted him into the court building. He…
US General: IS Militants Adapting to Air Campaign
$5.4 Billion Pledged Toward Gaza Rebuilding
Pakistan to UN: Indian Cross-Border Fire Kills 12 in Punjab
US Pledges $212 Million for Rebuilding Gaza Strip
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect’s Brother Involved in Triple Murder: Reports
Ukraine, Russian Presidents to Meet in Bid to End Crisis
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