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Sierra Leone records 121 Ebola deaths in a single day
Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease ...Hong Kong protests face test of stamina as city returns to work
Hong Kong started to return to work on Monday after more than a week of pro-democracy protests disrupted the Chinese-controlled city, with ...Israel chides Swedish PM over Palestinian state
Israel has hit out at Sweden\'s newly elected prime minister Stefan Loefven over his decision to recognise a Palestinian state.Typhoon Phanfone churns toward Tokyo with heavy wind, rain
A powerful typhoon was on course to hit the Tokyo area on Monday, after barreling into southwestern Japan with heavy rain and ...Brazil votes for next president after dramatic campaign
Brazilians vote Sunday in the most unpredictable presidential election in decades and the first since the end of an economic boom underpinning ...Kurds battle Islamist militants closing in on Syrian town
Kurdish forces battled overnight with Islamists trying to seize a hill overlooking a Syrian border town with Turkey as U.S.-led coalition warplanes ...Hong Kong student leaders urge protesters to regroup in heart of city
Student leaders in Hong Kong called on pro-democracy supporters on Sunday to decamp from outlying protest sites and join the bulk of ...Militants kill 20 in two separate Yemen attacks: sources
A suicide bomber linked to al Qaeda drove a car laden with explosives into a hospital used as a base by Yemen\'s ...At least 31 feared dead near peak of Japanese volcano
Thirty-one people were presumed dead on Sunday near the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted a day earlier, catching hundreds of ...Hong Kong democracy protesters defy tear gas, baton charge in historic standoff
Riot police advanced on Hong Kong democracy protesters in the early hours of Monday, firing volleys of tear gas after launching a ...




