Ebola deaths surge in Sierra Leone and Liberia: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and to a lesser extent in Guinea, with a combined 44 new cases and 21 deaths between July 6-8, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Kerry hopes solution can be found to Afghanistan vote dispute
KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he hoped to be able to find a solution to Afghanistan’s disputed election but cautioned “we can’t say that’s an automatic at this point”.
Russia likely to prolong asylum for fugitive Snowden: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will most probably extend former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s temporary asylum on the grounds that “his life is endangered”, an official close to the country’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) was quoted as say…
Attackers raid Kenya coast village, steal police guns
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) – Armed assailants attacked a village on Kenya’s coast, stole guns from police reservists and burnt down a primary school, an official said on Friday, in the latest in a series of raids since mid-June that have killed about 100 …
Philippines’ Aquino keeps budget chief amid corruption scandal
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday rejected a resignation offer from his budget secretary after the top court declared the government’s discretionary fund illegal in the biggest test yet for its battle against graft.
Kenya’s coastal killings pose insurgency risk for Kenyatta
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya may face a full-blown insurgency on its coast unless President Uhuru Kenyatta can douse a combustible mix of ethnic rivalries, land rows and Islamist militancy.
Taliban sympathizer posts pictures of smiling Bowe Bergdahl
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years, appeared smiling alongside a commander from the militant Haqqani network in a photo posted on a Twitter account by a supporter of the Afghan Taliban.
China sentences 32 in Xinjiang for ‘terror’ videos
BEIJING (Reuters) – China sentenced 32 people in its western Xinjiang region to prison terms for downloading or sending “violent terror” videos, state media said, as authorities crackdown on people they say are Islamists and separatists behind recent a…
Eleven killed in China school bus crash
BEIJING (Reuters) – Eleven people died, including eight children, in a school bus crash in China’s southern Hunan province, state media said on Friday, the latest in a string of traffic accidents that have fueled public anger over unsafe transport for …
Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor Angela Merkel at the behaviour of a close ally after officials unearthed two suspected U.S. spies.
