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The Spanish priest Manuel García Viejó, 69, infected by the Ebola virus, and who was repatriated on Monday, September 22 from Sierra Leone to Spain, will not be treated with the experimental serum ZMapp, while other alternatives are studied to save his life. The medical team...

Thousands of students from Hong Kong yesterday began a strike against Beijing’s proposed reform to the electoral system of the former British colony. 13,000 members of about twenty university partnerships, people gathered in the central square of the Chinese University of...

Yesterday at Minsk, the Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists signed a memorandum of ceasefire to create a demilitarized zone of 30 km. “The memorandum provides for the withdrawal of no less than 15 km of large caliber weapons. Thus, a safety zone of more...

Thousands of tourists were still waiting on September 18 to be evacuated from the peninsula of Baja California, in northwestern Mexico, devastated by Hurricane Odile, as the locals clamored desperately for water, electricity and security after the sack of several supermarkets....

Two men and a woman were arrested on early Thursday, September 18, as suspects of being involved in bomb attacks occurred in the Santiago metro, according to the Chilean police. The three suspects were transferred to a police station in the commune of Ñuñoa, in the East of...

The UN announced on Thursday the creation of an emergency mission to combat Ebola will be responsible for the coordination of international efforts to combat the outbreak of the disease in Africa, among other functions. “I have decided to establish a mission health...

A day after Kiev approved to grant more autonomy and elections in the separatist pro-Russian regions, the combats continued this Wednesday in the surroundings of the Donetsk airport. As a result of the fighting, two civilians were shot dead in the separatist city in eastern...

Experts from the English University of Oxford will begin this Wednesday clinical trials of a vaccine against the Ebola virus. According to the Jenner Institute at Oxford, in charge of this experiment, the first volunteers will receive today a dose containing a small part of the...

At least 13 students killed and 47 others injured, was the outcome of a committed attack this Wednesday by Boko Haram in the seat of the Federal University, located in the Nigerian city of Kano. The attack occurred about 14:30 local (13:30 GMT), and t...

The United Nations brokered an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians to import building materials that serve to reconstruction of Gaza, an envoy reported this Tuesday of the organization. Robert Serry, the UN envoy to the Middle East, said the tripartite agreement between...