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Security forces in Liberia’s capital Monrovia have deployed to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in order to contain the spread of Ebola. The move set off protests from angry residents in West Point and people gathered at roadblocks to complain. The president has also ordered a countrywide night-time curfew as part of new anti-Ebola measures. Since the …

Mr Obama compared Islamic State (IS), the group which made a video of Mr Foley’s killing, to a “cancer” and said its ideology was “bankrupt”. IS said Mr Foley’s death was revenge for US air strikes on its fighters in Iraq. But Mr Obama pledged to continue “to do what we must do” to confront IS. The UN, UK and …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – Oladipo Airenakho –   Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Kenneth Minimah has assured Nigerians that the Nation’s Army will defeat terrorism and overcome its current security challenges. The Army Chief gave the assurance last weekend while speaking at the Nigerian Army Corps and School of Supply and Transport in Benin City, Edo State during the …

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced the death of Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the firts doctor who attended to Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer. With her death, Nigeria has recorded five Ebola deaths, of which one was the index (first) case, Patrick Sawyer, one medical doctor, two nurses and the ECOWAS staff. Nigeria also has five Ebola survivors and three more …

Three doctors in Liberia with Ebola who started taking an experimental drug last Thursday are showing remarkable signs of improvement, a minister says. ZMapp was first given earlier this month to two US aid workers, who were flown home for treatment from Liberia. Ebola has no cure but the World Health Organization (WHO) has ruled that untested drugs can be …

Israel’s military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. “Terror targets” were hit in Gaza after rockets were fired towards the towns of Beersheba and Netivot, officials said. Talks in Cairo to end the violence have broken up, and the Israeli delegation …

Attorney General Eric Holder, one of President Obama’s longest-serving and most controversial deputies, is taking the lead in the federal government’s response to the roiling tensions in a St. Louis suburb over the police shooting of an unarmed man. While the president, who is in Washington for two days of meetings, returns Tuesday evening to his family vacation in Martha’s …

Unrest flared hours after President Obama called for calm following the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on 9 August. The US attorney general is due to visit Ferguson on Wednesday to meet federal officials investigating the killing. The National Guard has been deployed to support police operations. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced the deployment on Monday, …

The Missouri state trooper in charge of directing the law enforcement response to protests that have rocked a St. Louis suburb slammed “violent agitators” who he said were using largely peaceful protests as “cover” to commit criminal acts. Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson told reporters in Ferguson early Tuesday that 31 people had been arrested during a night of …

(AFP) – Barcelona striker Luis Suarez said he has received professional help after receiving a four-month ban for biting an opponent for the third time in his career when he clashed with Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. Suarez made his debut for the Catalans in a 6-0 friendly win over Mexican side Club Leon on Monday, but will …