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West Africa struggles to deal with Ebola outbreak
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa claimed a fourth victim in Nigeria on Thursday while the United States ordered the evacuation of ...Under artillery fire, Ukraine rebels switch their leaders
Two of the most senior rebels battling government troops in eastern Ukraine quit on Thursday, deepening the disarray in a pro-Moscow separatist ...Argentina says will use anti-terror law against U.S. printing firm
Argentina\'s government will use an anti-terrorism law for the first time to seek criminal charges against a U.S.-based international printing firm which ...Islamic militants seize 2 northern Syrian towns
Islamic extremists captured two key towns and several villages near Syria\'s northern border with Turkey on Wednesday after pushing out rival fighters ...Brazil presidential candidate Campos killed in plane crash
Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, throwing the October election and local financial markets into ...Maliki refuses to go as Iraqis turn to new leader
An increasingly isolated Nuri al-Maliki again protested his removal as Iraqi prime minister on Wednesday, as his own political party and his ...Renewed Israel, Palestinian truce off to shaky start
Israel and the Palestinians renewed a truce that had largely tempered a five-week-old war, but the deal got off to a shaky ...Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go
Iraq\'s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki\'s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go ...Israelis, Palestinians begin new talks to end Gaza war
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt on Monday to end a month-old Gaza war, Egypt\'s state news agency ...US actor Robin Williams dead at 63 in apparent suicide
Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and ...