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A car crash in Argentina killed three members of Pope Francis’ extended family Tuesday — including his 8-month-old and 2-year-old grand-nephews — and seriously injured another, police said. A truck struck a car driven by the pope’s nephew Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio on a highway in Cordoba at about 12:30 a.m., Cordoba police spokeswoman Carina Ferreyra said. Emanuel Bergoglio’s sons — …

DARU, Sierra Leone — The neighbors lined up, smiling and mouthing soft congratulations when the van pulled in bearing Jattu Lahai and her 2-year-old daughter. No one moved to embrace them. Nobody stepped out of the line of 30-odd people as Ms. Lahai, an Ebola survivor, walked to the room she shares with her husband. A conspicuous space formed around …

Liberia’s armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of ebola. Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to “shoot on sight” any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, …

The American Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, on Monday said his country was not yet in a position to make the Ebola Disease experimental drug, Zmapp, available to Nigeria. Mr. Entwistle said during a visit to the Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, that the drug was not yet available in sufficient quantity to go round all the countries requesting …

Police said the suspect was acting suspiciously and was arrested by airport security personnel just as he attempted to detonate an explosive device he wore around his body. When approached the man, who has not yet been identified, began to struggle with airport security personnel whilst clutching an object that was tied around his neck. disabled man, who police say …

FERGUSON, Mo. — President Obama said Monday that he was sending Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to this St. Louis suburb and the Missouri governor deployed the National Guard to help the police quell unrest over the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. Gov. Jay Nixon also lifted a curfew that had been imposed …

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that Iraqi special forces, backed by American war planes, had retaken a strategically critical dam near Mosul, the latest in what he described as a string of positive steps in halting the march of Islamic extremists across the country. “This operation demonstrates that Iraqi and Kurdish forces are capable of working together to take …

FERGUSON, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon lifted a curfew in this embattled city on Monday, hours after deploying the Missouri National Guard, as officials struggle to control unrest that has paralyzed the community since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer The role of the National Guard will be limited, Mr. Nixon said in a statement. …

Boston – by Emman Okuns. Renowned novelist, political columnist, and essayist, Professor Okey Ndibe has expressed dismay at the bizarre state of affairs of the Nigerian nation, saying “we have failed ourselves, our leaders have failed us.” The professor of fiction and African literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in the United States of America said however, that Nigeria …

FERGUSON, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon announced early Monday that he would deploy the Missouri National Guard to this St. Louis suburb as part of a fresh attempt by the authorities to quell the unrest that has paralyzed the town since an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer. Mr. Nixon said in a statement that he …