FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma dismissed his Health Minister Miatta Kargbo on Friday over her handling of the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 400 people in the West African country.
TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian coast guard recovered on Friday the bodies of 15 migrants, most probably Syrians, who drowned when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea near the maritime border with Libya, officials said.
DAKAR/CONAKRY (Reuters) - The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighbouring Guinea's remote southeast where infection rates are rising fast.
ACCRA (Reuters) - The United Nations will use Ghana as a base for supplies bound for countries stricken by an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,550 people in West Africa, the Ghanaian presidency said in a statement on Friday.
A Ukrainian cargo plane crashed in a mountainous area of southern Algeria on Saturday morning, killing seven people who were aboard, Algerian state-run news agency Algerie Presse Service reported.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to meet over the weekend for intense talks on new measures to tackle the threat posed by Islamist extremists. The negotiations come after the UK's terror threat level was raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to ...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (APP): The United Nations said on Friday that it has received assurances from credible sources that the 44 peacekeepers who were taken from their positions in the Golan Thursday are safe and in good health. Syrian refugees top 3 ...
New York: Quick! What exactly did President Barack Obama say from the White House briefing room about Syria, Iraq and Ukraine while dressed in the tan suit buzzed 'round the world? Precisely. If you get all your news from social media. Obama's summer ...
A Palestinian girl holds a rifle as fighters of Al-Quds brigades gather in Gaza City. (Wissam Nassar/The New York Times). Jerusalem: Only time will tell whether Israel will maintain the quiet it so desperately sought during 50 days of war with Palestinian ...
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