US needs to replan Ebola control
Reuters, Dallas :Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a US health official said on Monday, after...
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Scuffles break out in HK
Reuters, Hong Kong :Hundreds of people, some wearing surgical masks and armed with crowbars and cutting tools, tore down protest barriers in the heart of...
$2.7b pledged for Gaza rebuilding
AP, Cairo :Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key participants said their...
Car bomb kills two Afghans
Reuters, Kabul :A suicide car bomber rammed a NATO military convoy along a major road out of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, early on Monday, killing one...
Kurds resist IS in Kobane as Turkey boosts help
AFP, TurkeyAttacking Islamic State jihadists met firm Kurdish resistance in the Syrian battleground town of Kobane, as neighbouring Turkey heeded pressure to intervene and handed...
Shashi Tharoor sacked as Congress spokesman
NDTV.com, New Delhi :Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been dropped as party spokesperson on the charge that he has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi once...
Hudhud wreaks havoc on east India coast
Reuters, India :Cyclone Hudhud powered its way inland over eastern India on Monday, leaving a swathe of destruction but the loss of life appeared limited...
Medical men urged not to go for strike amid Ebola crisis
BBC Online :Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues.The...
UK troops training Kurdish forces in Iraq
BBC Online :A “specialist team” of 12 UK soldiers is training Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.It...
Is militants advance toward west Baghdad
AP, Baghdad :On the western edge of Iraq’s capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, only adding to the sense...
3 car bombs kill 25 north of Iraq`s Baquba
Reuters, Baghdad :Three car bombs exploded at a government compound north of Iraq’s Baquba city on Sunday, killing 25 people including military personnel and civilians,...
Thousands in St Louis protest police violence
Reuters, Ferguson :The mother of an unarmed black teenager shot dead by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, walked with hundreds of protesters on Saturday...