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Parents and teachers in Congo urge delay of school resumption as Ebola outbreak rages on

Teachers at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak are calling for a delayed reopening of schools due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak

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Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84

Ratko Mladic, the notorious Bosnian Serb general, has died at 84 while serving a life sentence for war crimes

Russia says it launched a 'massive' overnight strike on 9 Ukrainian cities

Russia has launched a major attack on Ukraine that targeted nine cities with missiles and drones

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UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’

Lawyers claim Eman el-Shazly, from Birmingham, was detained in effort to silence her sister, a critic of Sisi regimeThe UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman who it is claimed has been arrested in Cairo because of her sister’s political activism.Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel. Continue reading...

Baghdad crackdown on illegal housing turns deadly as shooting kills Iraqi chief

Iraqi military personnel and municipal workers have come under fire in Baghdad as they tried to remove illegal housing structures