Medics have repeatedly come under attack from armed militiamen who reportedly believe Ebola is a conspiracy against them. The health workers, who are trying to fight the DRC’s second deadliest outbreak of the killer virus, have warned they will walk out indefinitely as early as next week if they continue to be attacked. Doctors are […]

Jake Patchett was driving as he took a 50-mile round trip to his favourite KFC. The 23-year-old died when the Ford Focus he, his girlfriend Sammy-Jo Franks and her daughter were travelling in crashed into a tree near Scunthorpe. His girlfriend was injured along with her two-year-old daughter, who suffered a fractured skull and broken […]

A young woman vaccinating children against polio in Pakistan has been shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike – in the third attack this week. The Taliban claims the vaccine is part of a foreign plot to sterilise Muslims, and that those administering it are Western spies. Mosques in the northwestern city of Peshawar broadcasted […]

Israeli authorities have reported an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu at a turkey farm in the northern region of Hazafon, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from Israel’s agriculture ministry. The virus infected 350 out of a flock of 13,500 turkeys in Ma’ale Gilboa, the report said. Some 200 birds […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, then the defense secretary, crushed Tamil Tiger separatists with such ferocity ten years ago that Western powers sought war crime trials against them and greeted their defeat in elections later with barely concealed glee. But now the tiny Indian Ocean island is faced […]

MAISA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s Chief Eipa Choro, 74, remembers when battles were fought with knives and spears. But now newcomers with far more firepower are taking lives in his region at the remote northern edge of the Rift Valley. Instability in neighboring Ethiopia and South Sudan are spilling over the border into the disputed […]

The rising waters along the St. John River have resulted in the closure of a section of the Trans-Canada Highway between Oromocto and River Glade. The closure was announced at 7 p.m. Wednesday night. The highway closure, from exit 3-06 in Oromocto to Exit 4-23 in River Glade will remain in effect until it is […]

President Vladimir Putin has said North Korea is open to denuclearisation, but that it needed security guarantees before moving forward. Meeting for the first time, Mr Putin and Kim Jong Un attended their historic summit in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. Speaking afterwards, the pair announced the summit to be a success, with […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A French warship passed through the strategic Taiwan Strait this month, U.S. officials told Reuters, a rare voyage by a vessel of a European country that is likely to be welcomed by Washington but increase tension with Beijing. The passage, which was confirmed by China, is a sign that U.S. allies are […]

The Belgorod submarine will be able to carry the groundbreaking Poseidon strategic weapon which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last month. During his address to the country’s Federal Assembly, Putin described the development of an underwater drone which as he put it, “nothing in the world could withstand”. Commenting on the new submarine, Carl Bildt, […]