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Cuban doctor infected with Ebola virus in stable condition
Geneva, Switzerland (ACN) -- Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarrias, who contracted the Ebola virus during his work as part of the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade in Sierra Leone, is in stable condition, though he feels very tired, said…
Israel charges 3 Palestinians in alleged plot to kill foreign minister
Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Israeli military said Friday it arrested three Palestinians from the West Bank and charged them in an alleged plot to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
Court documents say the scheme involved a…
Banned FIFA official in Cayman charged with fraud, money-laundering
MIAMI (Reuters) -- A member of the financial watchdog committee at soccer's ruling body FIFA has been charged with fraud, money-laundering and breach of trust by police in the Cayman Islands.
Canover Watson, a vice-president of the…
Missing Honduras beauty queen killed weeks before Miss World 2014 pageant
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A top police official says what appear to be the bodies of Miss Honduras 2014 and her sister have been found buried near the spa where they disappeared six days ago.
National Police director, General Ramon…
Eight dead in storm as Buffalo braces for more snow
(CNN) -- Enough already.
Shivering under up to 6 feet of snow in its hardest-hit sections, Buffalo, New York, could see another 3 feet Thursday.
If the forecast holds, that's more than a year's worth of snow in just three days. In a…
4 people killed when car bomb explodes near Iraqi governor’s office
(CNN) -- Four people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the Irbil provincial governor's office, Iraq's state-run Iraqiya TV reported Wednesday.
Several other people were wounded in the blast in Irbil city, Iraqiya said.
It was not…
UN votes against North Korea on human rights
(CNN) -- A United Nations General Assembly committee Tuesday voted in favor of a draft resolution referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity as well as "targeted sanctions" for rampant human rights…
Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, second this year
ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian health officials say a woman who was diagnosed with bird flu has died, the second fatality from the H5N1 virus this year in the country.
Egypt has reported seven bird flu cases so far in 2014. Most victims…
Doctor’s death marks second U.S. Ebola fatality
(CNN) -- A doctor who spent time treating Ebola patients in West Africa died from the virus Monday in Nebraska. The death of Dr. Martin Salia, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, marks the second time Ebola has claimed a victim in the…
NY Police: Man killed by train was pushed onto tracks
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man standing with his wife on a Bronx subway platform was pushed onto the tracks Sunday morning by another man and was struck and killed by an oncoming train, police said. The assailant fled.
Police said an unidentified…
Pope Francis to visit the U.S. for the first time next fall
Rome (CNN) -- Pope Francis is to make his first trip to the United States as the head of the Catholic Church in September 2015, the Vatican said Monday.
He will travel to the World Meeting of the Families, said Vatican spokesman Padre…
Florida man executed for killing stepdaughter in 1992
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half…
Sikh student sues U.S. Army, says ROTC enlistment blocked because of his faith
(CNN) -- A Sikh student at Hofstra University filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States Army, claiming the service refused to grant him a religious accommodation that would allow him to enlist in his school's ROTC program without…
Avoiding local transmission of Ebola is ‘the goal’ in the Caribbean says PAHO
WASHINGTON, (CMC) – The Director of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Marcos Espinal, says preventing local transmission of Ebola is the main goal in preparing for…
Obama in Myanmar: Rohingya crisis could dim ASEAN summit
Naypyidaw, Myanmar (CNN) -- What a difference two years makes.
When Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar in 2012, there was much fanfare about the country's political reforms and apparent road to democracy…