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Gujarat braces for Cyclone Nilofar

BBC Online :Authorities in India have begun evacuating tens of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone heads for the western coast.Cyclone Nilofar, categorised as “severe” by weather forecasters, is expected to hit Gujarat...

Malala gives $50,000 to rebuild Gaza schools

The Guardian :Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education campaigner shot by the Taliban, has donated $50,000 (nearly £31,000) towards the reconstruction of schools in Gaza.The Nobel peace prize winner, speaking after receiving the World Children’s...

UN condemns Israeli settlement expansion

Al-Jazeera.com :A UN official has warned that Israel’s plans for further settlements in East Jerusalem could ignite more violence and threaten the viability of the future Palestinian state.UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman called on...

Egypt blows up houses for Sinai buffer zone

Al-Jazeera.com :Egypt has started work on a controversial buffer zone by destroying homes along its border with the Gaza Strip, following some of the worst attacks on the army since President Mohamed Morsi was...

Sweden recognises state of Palestine

Al-Jazeera.com :Sweden has officially recognised the state of Palestine, Stockholm’s foreign minister has said, less than a month after the government announced its intention to make the unprecedented move.The Palestinians cheered on Thursday’s move,...

President Barack Obama gestures during remarks at an event with American health care workers fighting the Ebola virus, in the East Room of the White House in Washington

US faces Ebola quarantine test case

BBC online :A nurse who cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is fighting the US state of Maine over its right to quarantine her against her will.In a test case for returning US...

UN SC to meet on Israeli settlements

AFP, United Nations :The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss Israeli plans to build more Jewish settlements in Arab east Jerusalem, diplomats said.The urgent talks were requested by Jordan...

10 dead, 200 missing in Lanka landslide

AFP, Colombo :Mudslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through a tea-growing region of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and leaving around 200 more missing, disaster officials said.Some of the worst...

Zambian President Sata dies

Reuters, Lusaka :Zambian President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, a government source in Africa’s second-largest copper producer said on Wednesday.The private Muzi television...

Egypt to clear residents from Gaza border

BBC Online :Egyptian authorities have ordered residents living along the country’s eastern border with the Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes prior to their demolishing because the army plans to set up a buffer...