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Ebola outbreak: UN health worker dies in Germany
WHO: There could be 10,000 new cases per week in two months
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N Korea’s Kim reappears after 40 days
Israel rejects UK vote on Palestine
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Ebola outbreak: UN health worker dies in Germany
Berlin, October 14 The UN medic, who has not been named, arrived in Leipzig last week and was the third Ebola patient to be treated in Germany. One was successfully treated and released from hospital, while another is still being treated. "The patient sick with Ebola fever died during the night in St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig. Despite intensive medical measures and maximum efforts by the medical team, the 56-year-old UN employee succumbed to the serious infectious disease," the German clinic said. The volunteer medic was the second member of the UN mission, known as UNMIL, to contract and succumb to the virus. "UNMIL colleagues are saddened by the tragic news as they continue to serve at this very difficult time. Our thoughts now are with the family and friends of the departed," UNMIL said. Doctor Bernhard Ruf at the Leipzig clinic said, "We took measures of the highest standard to protect personnel and the environment, so there was no danger to others. We have also safely destroyed all material contaminated with Ebola."
— Reuters Screening starts at Heathrow airport
London: The UK on Tuesday started screening for Ebola virus at the Heathrow airport by testing the temperature of the passengers arriving from countries at risk in Britain, the first European Union country to begin such screenings. UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said a "handful" of cases were expected to reach the UK before Christmas as the process started at Terminal 1 of one of the world's busiest airport. It will be extended to other terminals as well as Gatwick Airport and Eurostar trains by the end of this
week. — PTI Second patient in Texas is a nurse
Dallas (US): Media reports and a church rector have identified the second Ebola patient in Texas as a nurse (26) infected while caring for a man from Liberia. WFAA-TV in Dallas reported that Nina Pham's family reached out to identify her as the nurse infected with Ebola. A rector at her family's church said Pham's mother told him Pham has Ebola.
— AP
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WHO: There could be 10,000 new cases per week in two months
He said the WHO estimated there could up to 10,000 cases per week in two months. Aylward said for the last four weeks, there have been about 1,000 new cases per week, though that figure includes suspected, confirmed and probable cases. He said the WHO is aiming to have 70% of cases isolated within two months to reverse the outbreak. The WHO increased its Ebola death toll tally to 4,447, nearly all of them in West Africa, and the group said the number of probable and suspected cases was 8,914. Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have been hardest hit. Aylward said the WHO was concerned about the continued spread of Ebola in the three countries' capital cities — Freetown, Conakry and Monrovia. He said while certain areas were seeing cases decline, "that doesn't mean they will get to zero." He said the agency was still focused on trying to treat Ebola patients, despite the huge demands on the broken health systems in West Africa. "It would be unethical to say that we're
just going to isolate people," he said. — AP
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21 raids ‘slow’ ISIS advance near Kobani
Washington, October 14 In one of the heaviest bombardments so far against the Sunni jihadists encircling Kobani, coalition air strikes "destroyed" two IS staging locations, a building, a truck, two vehicles, three compounds and damaged several other targets, it said. A separate air raid in eastern Syria struck a small oil refinery, it said. "Indications are that air strikes have slowed ISIS advances" around Kobani, US Central Command, which is overseeing the air campaign, said in a statement. "However, the security situation on the ground there remains fluid, with ISIS attempting to gain territory and Kurdish militia continuing to hold out," it said, using another acronym for the Islamic State group. The air strikes are designed to "interdict" IS reinforcements and resupply efforts as well as prevent the group from "massing combat power" against the Kurdish-held parts of Kobani, it said. US fighter jets and bombers took part in the raids along with aircraft from Saudi Arabia, according to Central Command. The IS group has steadily gained ground around Kobani and has reportedly captured nearly half of the town, which lies close to the Turkish border. IS militants have also been advancing in Iraq's western province of
Anbar. Central Command also said coalition warplanes carried out one air raid in Iraq in the past 24 hours, southwest of Kirkuk, destroying IS militants’ two vehicles.
— AFP Turkey bombs Kurdish militants Istanbul: War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened on Tuesday to unravel the delicate peace in neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish air force bombed Kurdish fighters furious over Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria. Turkey's banned PKK Kurdish militant group accused Ankara of violating a two-year-old ceasefire with the air strikes. — Reuters Six Pak Taliban commanders pledge allegiance to ISIS Islamabad: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan's six commanders on Tuesday pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has been vying for supremacy with Al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said he and five others have accepted the leadership of Al-Baghdadi, ISIS chief. — PTI Iraqi MP killed in ‘suicide bombing’ by Islamic State Baghdad: An Iraqi MP and prominent militia leader was one of at least 21 persons killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing immediately claimed by Islamic State. Ahmed al-Khafaji, a commander in the Shiite Badr militia, was killed in the attack in the Kadhimiyah area of Baghdad, a fellow lawmaker and a medical official said. — AFP
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Hong Kong protest: Police use chainsaws to clear barriers
Hong Kong, October 14 Traffic flowed freely along Queensway Road after the protesters' obstructions were cleared but other major protest sites remained intact in the Admiralty and Mong Kok districts and pro-democracy demonstrators were defiant. "We will rebuild them after the police remove them," said protester Bruce Sze. "We won't confront the police physically." Unlike on Monday, when clashes erupted between anti-protest groups and pro-democracy activists after the police removed blockades, Tuesday's operation resulted in no confrontation. The policemen with chainsaws cut through bamboo defences and others wielded sledgehammers to smash concrete blocks outside the Bank of China's Hong Kong headquarters and next to the office of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing.
— Reuters ‘Won't stand foreign interference in HK’ Beijing: China on Tuesday asked foreign countries to exercise prudence in expressing support for the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong saying it will not stand any external interference in its matters. — PTI
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N Korea’s Kim reappears after 40 days
It marked the first time Kim has been seen since September 3 -- an extended absence that fuelled intense speculation, including rumours of a serious illness or even a coup. The North's official KCNA news agency said Kim made a "field guidance" tour of the new residential complex specially built for scientists working on North Korea's satellite programme. "Looking over the exterior of the apartment houses and public buildings, decorated with coloured tiles, (Kim) expressed great satisfaction, saying they looked beautiful," the agency said.
— AFP
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Israel rejects UK vote on Palestine
Jerusalem, October 14 Reacting to the development, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said the vote in the British parliament would not help the Palestinians have a state. "This won't work. No Israeli government will accept significant risks in Judea and Samaria without a treaty. The Palestinians are not holding real negotiations and they're losing time," Hanegbi told the Army Radio. The deputy foreign minister called upon the Palestinian leadership to act like former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and former Jordanian king Hussein and analyse the needs and risks of each side in trying to reach a compromise.
— PTI
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