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The president of the World Bank has made an emotional appeal for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help contain the growing Ebola outbreak. Jim Yong Kim said at least 5,000 medics and support staff are needed to beat the disease. Many potential recruits were too scared to travel to West Africa, he added. The current Ebola outbreak has …

At least 34 people have been killed and dozens injured following two bomb blasts in and around Iraq’s capital Baghdad. The first attack came when a suicide bomber drove a Humvee at a checkpoint south of Baghdad killing at least 24, Iraqi officials said. The second attack, a car bombing inside the capital, killed at least 10 people, officials say. …

Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected president of Brazil, after securing more than 51% of votes in the closest election race in many years. An official count showed her rival, centrist candidate Aecio Neves, taking just over 48% of the vote. In her victory speech, Ms Rousseff said she wanted to be “a much better president than I have been until …

The purported Secretary General of terrorist Boko Haram sect, Danladi Ahmadu, who represented the group and negotiated the recent ceasefire agreement with the Nigerian government, has affirmed that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls would be released soon to Chadian President, Idriss Derby, for onward presentation to the Nigerian government. Ahmadu, who spoke on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America …

Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after the first elections to the body since February’s revolution, exit polls suggest. President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc is expected win the most seats, with Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front party a close second. Mr Poroshenko called an early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path after the ousting of …

The last UK base in Afghanistan has been handed over to the control of Afghan security forces, ending British combat operations in the country. The union flag was lowered at Camp Bastion, while Camp Leatherneck – the adjoining US base – was also handed over to Afghan control. UK troops entered Afghanistan in 2001. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon spoke of …

Millions of Brazilians are set to vote for a new president in what correspondents say is the tightest vote the country has seen in decades. Incumbent left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) faces centrist Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in the second run-off round. Both candidates have pledged to kick-start Latin America’s largest …

A nurse quarantined on her return to the US from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has criticised the way she was dealt with at Newark airport. Kaci Hickox said the experience was frightening and could deter other health workers from travelling to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola virus. Illinois has become the third state after New York …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Five hundred million naira libel suit instituted by the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih against the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS) has been dismissed by an Edo State High Court 10 in Benin City, the State …

Dozens of people are being monitored in Mali after the country confirmed its first case of Ebola. The patient is a two-year-old girl who recently arrived from Guinea, which along with Liberia and Sierra Leone has seen most of the 4,800 deaths. However, the Malian health ministry says her condition is now improving. The World Health Organization (WHO) has meanwhile …