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#Ebolavirus: 17 Ebola patients still missing in Liberia

MONROVIA  (AFP) - Liberian officials were searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled an…

Brazil: Rousseff's days numbered, polls show

Environmentalist Marina Silva could unseat incumbent Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's presidential elections in October, a…

Kurds retake key Iraq dam as US, UK step up involvement

by Serene ASSIR AL-QOSH (AFP) - Iraqi Kurdish fighters backed by US warplanes have retaken…

Survivors enlisted in Sierra Leone's Ebola battle

by Frankie TAGGART KAILAHUN (AFP) - Hawa Idrisa was visiting her father-in-law on an Ebola…

Iraqi strikes in US interest, Obama tells Congress

  WASHINGTON(AFP) - US President Barack Obama told Congress on Sunday that the "limited" airstrikes…

20 Ebola patients on the loose after hospital attack

Armed men claiming that "there's no Ebola" in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the…

Kurds advance on key Iraq dam, Sunnis hit jihadists

Kurdish fighters backed by US warplanes pushed back jihadists around Iraq's largest dam on Sunday,…

Rebels shoot down Ukrainian fighter jet over east Ukraine

Pro-Russian separatists on Sunday shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet over the war-torn east of…

Kenya bans travellers from 3 Ebola hit nations

Kenya has become the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa…

US doctor with Ebola hopes to leave hospital soon

The American doctor being treated for Ebola has said  that he was "recovering in every way" at…