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Thursday, 30 October 2014
U.S. quarantines 'chilling' Ebola fight in West Africa
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Mandatory quarantines ordered by some U.S. states on doctors and nurses returning from West Africa's Ebola outbreak are creating a "chilling effect" on Doctors Without Borders operations there, the humanitarian group said on Thursday.
In response to questions from Reuters, the group...
Read moreFriday, 24 October 2014
Girl dies of Ebola in Mali's first case
A two-year-old girl died of Ebola in Mali on Friday, in the first case of the disease in the west African nation, a source in the prime minister's office told AFP.
"Unfortunately she died between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm," said the source, adding that the girl's death had been confirmed...
Read moreTuesday, 21 October 2014
Ebola vaccine trials in W. Africa in Januarymarie
The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa's hot zone — a bigger rollout than envisioned just a few...
Read moreThursday, 16 October 2014
Pistorius faces prison hospital wing if sentenced to jail
(Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius will be committed to the hospital wing of one of South Africa's toughest prisons if the double-amputee Olympic track star is sentenced to jail time for killing his girlfriend, the head of the prison service said on Thursday.
On the fourth day of Pistorius'...
Read moreWednesday, 15 October 2014
Algerian police protest at president's office
(AP) — Algerian police tried to push their way into the president's headquarters Wednesday in an unusual protest movement prompted by violence against security forces in the south.
The unrest in southern Algeria and protests in the capital come amid concerns that President Abdelaziz...
Read moreMonday, 6 October 2014
5th American with Ebola returning from Liberia
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(AP) — An American photojournalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia is expected to arrive Monday in Nebraska where he will be treated for the virus that has ravaged West Africa.
Ashoka Mukpo, 33, will be the second Ebola patient to be treated at the Nebraska Medical...
Read moreThursday, 2 October 2014
U.S. nears solution for safe disposal of Ebola waste
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(Reuters) - The United States is days away from settling the critical question of how hospitals should handle and dispose of medical waste from Ebola patients, a government official said on Wednesday.
Experts have warned that conflicting U.S. regulations over how such waste...
Read moreMonday, 29 September 2014
Japan's SoftBank in talks to buy DreamWorks
(Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA.O), the Hollywood studio behind the "Shrek" and "Madagascar" movie hits, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
An acquisition of DreamWorks by SoftBank would make it part...
Read moreFriday, 26 September 2014
WHO sees small-scale use of experimental Ebola vaccines in January
(Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday it expected to begin small-scale use of two experimental Ebola vaccines in West Africa early next year and in the meantime transfusions of survivors' blood may offer the best hope of treatment.
WHO is working with...
Read moreThursday, 25 September 2014
One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok freed -police
(Reuters) - One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other missing girls said on Thursday.
Boko Haram militants took the girls from a secondary...
Read moreWednesday, 24 September 2014
Algerian militants behead kidnapped French tourist
(Reuters) - Algerian militants have beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday in what the group said was a response to France's action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.
In a video released by his captors, Gourdel, a 55-year-old from Nice,...
Read moreTuesday, 23 September 2014
French national taken in Algeria, group claims kidnapping
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(Reuters) - A French national was kidnapped in eastern Algeria on Sunday, France's foreign ministry said, and his kidnappers issued a video threatening to kill him if Paris did not halt its intervention in Iraq.
The Caliphate Soldiers, a group linked to Islamic State militants,...
Read moreMonday, 22 September 2014
WHO experts advise against travel or trade bans on Ebola-hit Africa
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(Reuters) - Independent health advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO) have assessed that there should be no general ban on travel or trade with countries reeling from an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the U.N. agency said on Monday.
Some airlines have stopped flights...
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