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Actor/director Richard Attenborough dies at 90
LONDON (AP) -- Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, has died. He was 90.
The actor's son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died…
Diaspora remit US$16b over ten years – Foreign Affairs Ministry
Washington DC (JIS) -- Jamaicans living overseas have remitted US $16 billion to the island over the past 10 years.
The figure was disclosed by Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Arnaldo Brown, while…
Indian police arrest alleged kingpin of human trafficking
New Delhi, India (AFP) - India police have arrested the alleged kingpin of a trafficking racket who sold hundreds of poor tribal girls for domestic slavery in the country's capital, an officer said Thursday.
Police accused Baba Bamdev of…
Baby’s head bitten by circus camel in France
Lyon, France (AFP) -- A four-month-old baby boy is in hospital after a circus camel bit him on the head, French police said on Thursday.
The incident happened on Saturday as the baby boy and his mother visited the circus in the…
Ebola death toll rises to 1,229, WHO says
(CNN) -- The number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has climbed to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, but it cited "encouraging signs" from Nigeria and Guinea that positive action can rein in the deadly…
‘This has to stop’: 31 arrested after fresh confrontation in Ferguson
(CNN) -- More violence. More tear gas. No answers.
Stun grenades and tear gas canisters arced through the night sky and into crowds of protesters overnight in Ferguson, Missouri, after police said they had been targeted with rocks, Molotov…
Ukraine military: 15 bodies recovered after refugee convoy attack
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Ukrainian soldiers have recovered the bodies of 15 civilians from Monday's attack on a refugee convoy in the eastern Luhansk region, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said Tuesday.
Col.…
Ebola facility in Liberia attacked; patients flee
(CNN) -- Ebola patients fled during an attack at a health care facility in Monrovia, Liberia, on Saturday, Liberian National Police spokesman Sam Collins told CNN on Sunday.
All patients who ran away had Ebola, and some chose to stay at…
Ukraine says it’s made gains against separatists
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- One month after Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, government military forces there said they've made advances Sunday against pro-Russian separatists.
Ukrainian forces regained control over the strategic…
Hundreds dead as monsoon brings chaos to northern India, Nepal
(CNN) -- Dozens of people have been killed in flooding in northern and eastern India, while the death toll in Nepal has passed 100, government officials in the two countries told CNN.
At least 56 people have died in flooding and…
Man found dead, 34 alive in shipping container at UK port
TILBURY, UK (AFP) -- A man was found dead and 34 others still alive in a shipping container on Saturday after staff at a British port heard banging and screaming coming from inside.
The men, women and children, all believed to be from the…
Boko Haram kidnaps at least 97, kills 28 in raid
(CNN) -- The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, a local leader and residents said Friday.
Boko Haram gunmen also…
Chikungunya test vaccine shows promise: makers
PARIS, France - (AFP) - A candidate vaccine against the joint disease chikungunya, endemic to Africa and south Asia but moving north- and westward, showed promise by provoking an immune response in human trials, its developers said Friday.…
WHO: Evidence shows Ebola crisis ‘vastly’ underestimated
(CNN) -- The magnitude of the Ebola crisis in West Africa is "vastly" underestimated, the World Health Organization warned this week, as the death toll steadily climbed.
Ebola has infected at least 1,975 people in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia…
Police tear gas protesters in shooting death of unarmed 18-y-o
FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) -- Authorities in a St Louis suburb where an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer have used tear gas to try to disperse protesters after flaming projectiles were thrown from the crowd.
Police…