Disaster Emergency Committee appeal aims to stop Ebola
Full Article BBC News
29 Oct 2014

29 October 2014 Last updated at 12:24 GMT An appeal is being launched in Britain to raise money to combat the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has killed nearly 5,000. It is the first time that the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), made up of 13 UK charities, has asked for donations in response to an outbreak of disease. It says the...

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Disaster Emergency Committee appeal aims to stop Ebola
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updated 29 Oct 2014; published 29 Oct 2014
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Ebola aid appeal launched by Disasters Emergency Committee
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VIDEO: DEC: Ebola outbreak now more than just health emergency
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WHO declares Ebola an international helath emergency
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"Texas Officials 100 People exposed To Ebola Patient"
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Ebola deaths in West Africa exceed 4000, WHO estimates
Ebola: When health workers' duty to treat is trumped
Full Article BBC News
29 Oct 2014

The president of the World Bank has urged thousands of health workers to volunteer in the battle against Ebola, invoking their duty under their oath to help patients. But is there such an obligation? Medical ethicist Dr Daniel Sokol says we should expect some healthcare staff to refuse to go to work, wherever Ebola patients are being treated. In...

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Health workers place the body of a man into a grave, as he is suspected of contracting and dying from the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.
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Liberia Avoids Mass Hospital Strike Amid Ebola
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EBOLA VIRUS: Scorn Emory Hospital and shun employees
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updated 24 Oct 2014; published 24 Oct 2014
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Woman dies outside Ebola center after confusing diagnosis
updated 20 Oct 2014; published 20 Oct 2014
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How Nigeria beat the Ebola virus
Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to hang for war crimes
Full Article The Times of India
29 Oct 2014

DHAKA: A special Bangladeshi court on Wednesday handed the death sentence to the leader of the country's largest Islamist party for war crimes, in a long-awaited verdict that triggers fears of fresh violence. The war crimes court found Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during...

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File - Matiur Rahman Nizami, head of the country's main Islamist opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, enters a prison van at a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014.
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Jamaat Islami Leader Hanged In Bangladesh For War Crimes
updated 10 May 2013; published 10 May 2013
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Jamaat leader Kamaruzzaman sentenced to death by Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal
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Bangladesh tribunal sentences Jamaat leader Sayedee to death in war crimes trial
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Bangladesh War Crimes: SC sentences Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to death
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Bangladesh War crimes tribunal commutes Jamaat leader to life imprisonment till death
updated 01 Mar 2013; published 01 Mar 2013
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Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal sentences to death another Jamaat leader
Zambian President Michael Sata Dead At 77
Full Article Huffington Post
29 Oct 2014

LUSAKA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Zambian President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, a government source in Africa's second-largest copper producer said on Wednesday. The private Muzi television station and the Zambia Reports and Zambian Watchdog websites said the southern African nation's...

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Zambia's opposition Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is seen after submitting his nomination papers for the Sept. 28 general elections in Lusaka, Zambia, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. Sata, a populist former minister, is seen as one of the main rivals to Zambia's President Levy Mwanawa
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Where is Zambian President Michael Sata?
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Zambia president Michael Sata dies in London hospital
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Michael Sata Dies -- Zambian President Michael Sata Dead at 77 in London -- RIP
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Zambian President Sata 'dies in UK'
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Zambian VP Guy Scott Appointed Acting President Following President's Demise
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Zambia's Guy Scott becomes interim president after Michael Sata's death
Afghanistan pullout: Just more territory for the Islamic State to swallow up
Full Article The Malta Independent
29 Oct 2014

As concern increases about the presence of an Islamic State offshoot in Darnah, Libya, the last troops are pulling out of Afghanistan as the US Marines and UK military pull out of Helmand province. The US and UK led war in Afghanistan lasted 13 years and has left thousands of casualties in its wake... some of them young western soldiers, some of...

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Afghanistan pullout: Just more territory for the Islamic State to swallow up
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Afghanistan`s Islamic Empires Map (Must Watch This !!!)
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Afghanistan women burn themselves to escape islamic marriage
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Advice from a Mujahid in Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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Afghanistan - War on Hunger - Ramadan 2013 - Islamic Relief UK
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National "ANTHEM" of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996-2001) [د افغانستان اسلامي امارات]
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Reinventing Vietnam War History
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The People's Voice
Pentagon commanders initiated it. A duplicitous 2015 50th anniversary commemoration. Honoring one of history's greatest crimes. Turning truth on its head. Orwell explained saying...
Migrants who risk everything to reach Europe
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Of the 23 members of the Bakr family who set sail for Europe on a crowded traffickers' boat in early September, only one is known to have arrived. The body of 14-month-old...
Pope Francis: God is Not a Magician With a Magic Wand
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The Daily Beast
The pontiff takes on the daunting task of reconciling science and religion, and hopes to help humanity in the process. On Monday, when Pope Francis addressed prelates and...

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Ukraine: Ban deplores planned holding of November ‘elections’ by rebel groups
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Print 29 October 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the planned holding by armed rebel groups in eastern Ukraine of their own “elections” on 2 November, calling the potential polls a...
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Zambian president dies in London hospital
Supporters of presidential candidate Michael Sata hold his portrait during a rally prior to the Sept. 28 election, in Mandebvu Lusaka, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006. President Levy Mwanawasa of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy is seeking a second term. But while the opposition is splintered, he is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from former Cabinet minister Michael Sata, who heads the Patriotic Front p
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Zambian leader Michael Sata, a longtime opposition leader who was finally elected president in 2011, died after an illness, the Zambian government said Wednesday. The Cabinet held a meeting to discuss a political transition, which would include...
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Police fired teargas at rock-throwing protesters after tens of thousands marched through Burkina Faso's capital calling for President Blaise Compaore, already in power for 27 years, to scrap plans to change term limits to stay in power. An...
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Iran’s parliament overwhelmingly rejected President Hassan Rouhani’s nominee to head the science ministry, in a boost to Rouhani’s hardline opponents. The president had nominated Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, the chancellor of Tehran...
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Future will show us war in Afghanistan was worth sacrifice
Future will show us war in Afghanistan was worth sacrifice
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Well, it's all over, bar the analysing and recriminations. Operation Herrick, Britain's contribution to the campaign in Afghanistan conducted by the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), has finished. What has been achieved? And...
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Indian Paramilitary troop keep vigil in Srinagar Wednesday 22, October 2014. As security has been beefed across Srinagar Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcement that he will celebrate diwali with people of Kashmir.
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The Siasat Daily
Srinagar, October 29: Two more militants were on Wednesday killed by security forces on the second day of an encounter in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army had lost his life while an...
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Parting company?: the New Zealand flag (right, on Sydney Harbour Bridge on Anzac Day in 2005) could soon be consigned to history. Photo: AP Wellington: The New Zealand public will have a little over a year to decide whether to change the country's...
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