Visiting US envoy blasts poor Ebola response
BBC Online :The US ambassador to the UN has begun a visit to the three nations worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, criticising the level...
International
Isis threatens to kill jihadis wanting to come home
The Guardian :British jihadi fighters desperate to return home from Syria and Iraq are being issued with death threats by the leadership of Islamic State...
Hatchet attack by Islam convert was ‘terrorism’:NYC police
Reuters, New York :The hatchet-wielding man who wounded two New York City police officers, one of them critically, was a self-radicalized convert to Islam who...
Mali Ebola victim travelled while contagious
Al-jazeera.com :Mali’s first Ebola victim, a two-year-old girl, has died of the disease amid an alert she travelled across the country by bus while contagious.The...
Ebola cases pass 10,000: WHO
BBC Online :The number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths, the World Health Organization says in its latest report.Only...
Palestinian-American killed by Israeli forces: US
Reuters, Ramallah :Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian-American youth during clashes on Friday, the US State Department said, calling for a quick and transparent...
Egypt declares state of emergency in Sinai
Al-Jazeera.com :Egypt has declared a state of emergency in the north and centre of the Sinai Peninsula after a suicide car bombing killed at least...
Coal mine accident in China kills 16
Reuters, Shanghai :Sixteen workers were killed after a coal mine collapsed in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency reported on...
What if age is nothing but a mind-set?
Bruce Grierson, :New York Times One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of...
Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks
Reuters, Ottawa :Canada vowed on Friday to toughen laws against terrorism in ways that critics say may curtail civil liberties as a country that prides...
Ground offensive against IS months away in Iraq: US
Reuters, Florida:Iraqi forces are months away from being able to start waging any kind of sustained ground offensive against the Islamic State and any similar...
EU leaders agree CO2 emissions cut
The Gurdian :European leaders have struck a broad climate change pact obliging the EU as a whole to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40%...