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  1. French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very low

    The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission to an area affected by the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    The patient was transferred to a specialist

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  2. Autobiographical work Free Me aims to encourage victims to speak out in country where violence against women is rising

    There are audible gasps in the auditorium in Nairobi as a husband launches a volley of blows and slaps on his wife and pushes her to the floor. “I wish I could spare you this,” the wife tells the audience. “My husband beat me up as if we were in a bar fight. Except, in

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  3. Decision comes after Aden Duale was held in contempt for ignoring previous high court ruling to stop work

    Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous order to end work.

    Many ...

  4. Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee

    The British government had received intelligence that Ethiopia appeared to be supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil

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  5. For one day every June, South Africa’s searing racial inequality seems to melt away at Comrades race

    In the early morning dark, thousands of runners waited, jostling with anticipation. South Africa’s national anthem rang out. Then the haunting swell of Shosholoza, first sung by Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa’s goldmines. Finally, that unmistakable, spine-tingling

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  6. Delcy Rodríguez said authorities were shifting rescue teams from other parts of the country to the hardest-hit La Guaira area

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  7. Second quake, at magnitude 7.5, was most powerful to strike the country since 1900, collapsing buildings in capital

    Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, has declared a state of

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  8. LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution

    The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world, from the US and UK to Chile to Ireland, a report has found.

    In an analysis of about 3,600 climate-related lawsuits filed since 2015, the ...

    • World’s sixth-most famous duck falls short of dream

    • Two-year-old must watch Czechia game from distance

    Merlín the duck’s bid to see his beloved Mexico live has hit a snag after he was barred from El Tri’s match with

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  9. Woman detained at airport after allegedly making racist remarks directed at workers unloading baggage, police say

    Brazil’s federal police have detained a Spanish citizen in São Paulo’s international Guarulhos airport for racism, in the latest of a series of high-profile arrests of foreign tourists on similar grounds.

    Brazil has some of the strictest anti-racism laws in Latin

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