Ebola experience is a wake-up call for the WHO
Full Article New Scientist
07 May 2015

The World Health Organization is in need of both reform and money to give it the best chance of dealing with potential global health threats in future Does the WHO have fatal weaknesses? (Image: Espen Rasmussen/Panos) HOW the world has changed. In 1948, the first commercial jet airliner was still a few years away from take-off, and the global...

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Ambulances at the depot near the Western Area Emergency Response Center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are disinfected with chlorine after each trip carrying suspected Ebola cases, 15 December, 2014.
photo: UN / Martine Perret

updated 19 Apr 2015; published 19 Apr 2015
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Britain votes in suspense-filled general election
Full Article The Times of India
07 May 2015

LONDON: Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country's membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland. Polls opened at 7:00am (0600GMT) with voters deciding between Prime Minister David Cameron's centre-right Conservatives and Ed Miliband's centre-left...

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Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron and his wife Samantha leave a voting station in Spelsbury, England, as protesters demonstrate outside after they voted in the general election, Thursday, May 7, 2015.
photo: AP / Alastair Grant

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updated 05 May 2015; published 05 May 2015
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Over 50 Thai police punished over links to human trafficking
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
07 May 2015

BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 50 Thai police officers have been punished over suspected links to human trafficking networks, the police chief said on Thursday, after the prime minister ordered a probe into the discovery of trafficking camps near the Malaysian border. Thirty-two bodies, believed to be migrants from...

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Thai rescuers carry a dead body to hospital in Songkhla province, southern Thailand, Friday, May 1, 2015. Authorities found an isolated mountain shelter that is believed to be a trafficking camp for ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.
photo: AP / Sumeth Panpetch

updated 07 May 2015; published 07 May 2015
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Over 50 Thai Police Punished Over Links To Human Trafficking
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Yemen asks UN to back foreign ground force to battle Houthis
Full Article BBC News
07 May 2015

7 May 2015 From the section Middle East Pro-government forces in Yemen are struggling to hold back the Houthi advance Yemen has urged the UN to authorise the use of foreign ground forces to drive back Houthi rebels, specifically in the cities of Aden and Taiz. Rebels have been advancing in both areas despite air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition....

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A Shiite fighter, known as a Houthi, stands guard at the residence of a military commander of the Houthi militant group, destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, April 28, 2015.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

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Houthis make gains in Yemen's Aden, approach port Reuters
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What will Obama do after the White House?
Full Article CNN
06 May 2015

(CNN)The recent debate over where President Barack Obama will establish a library to house his official papers -- a debate now settled in favor of Chicago -- serves as a reminder that we'll soon see the end of the administration and the launch of an Obama post-presidency. To judge by recent comments, Obama as an ex-president will end up reverting...

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File - President Barack Obama takes over for Stephen Colbert during "The Word" segment of "The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert" during a taping at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2014.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

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UK votes in most unpredictable election in decades
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a business seminar in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Cameron is on a two-day official visit to India.
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China Daily
  LONDON - British voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world's fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desire...
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Netanyahu forms government in Israel after major concessions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters In Tel Aviv, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
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The Irish Times
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu managed to cobble together a narrow government tonight, a few hours before a midnight deadline, but only after being forced to make significant concessions to all his coalition partners. Negotiations went on...
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Burundi president says a third term would be his last
Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi, joins the General Assembly thematic debate on "Access to education in emergency and post-crisis and transition situations caused by man-made conflicts or natural disasters."
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By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's president said on Wednesday that, if elected for a third term in June, it would be his last and he would not run for office again after that, his spokesman said on Wednesday. President Pierre...
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Kerry seeks pause in Yemen war as he arrives in Saudi Arabia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters during a news conference with Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on March 5, 2015, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following a series of meetings with King Salman, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef, and members of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council.
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The Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought to secure a pause in Yemen's war as he arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday for meeting with top officials, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a...
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Hezbollah plans to attack inside Syria
Hezbollah supporters raise their hands to great Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah
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Taipei Times
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday said his militant group based in Lebanon plans to launch an attack inside Syria against Muslim extremist insurgents in the mountain region along the border. Local media outlets and Syrian opposition...
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Syrian president acknowledges recent 'setbacks' in war
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.
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The Hindu
Syrian President Bashar Assad acknowledged Wednesday what he said were recent “setbacks” in the war against insurgents trying to topple him, promising a comeback by his troops still entangled in heavy fighting. The rare admission of...
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Israel's Netanyahu races to form narrow coalition government
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 28, 2010
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was racing against the clock Wednesday to put together a governing coalition or else face an almost unimaginable scenario by which he would be forced out of office. Netanyahu was holding...
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