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(Reuters) – Appearing thin but smiling, a Texas doctor who weeks ago entered an Atlanta hospital in a full-body biohazard suit to be treated for Ebola said on Thursday he was “thrilled to be alive” as doctors declared him virus-free and safe for release. Dr. Kent Brantly’s release came two days after a second U.S. missionary, Nancy Writebol, was quietly allowed to leave Emory University Hospital, where both had been treated after contracting the […]
(Reuters) – Indonesian police fired teargas to disperse thousands of protesters outside the country’s top court in Jakarta on Thursday, as judges started delivering their verdict into last month’s disputed presidential election. Losing candidate Prabowo Subianto has asked the Constitutional Court to overturn the election result, saying the vote in the world’s third largest democracy was tainted by mass fraud. Judges started reading through their findings – estimated to be hundreds of pages long – […]
Thailand’s military leader has been named prime minister of a legislature that he hand-picked, giving his rule a semblance of legitimacy.
US President Barack Obama vows relentless fight against ISIS after the US intelligence confirmed the authenticity of the video showing the beheading of an US journalist.
(Reuters) – An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed. Palestinians launched more than 180 rockets on Tuesday and Wednesday, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side. Egypt, which has been trying to broker a […]
(Reuters) – The U.S. military earlier this summer carried out an attempt to rescue journalist James Foley and other American hostages held in Syria, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, in an operation that the Pentagon said ultimately failed to find the captives. Foley, 40, was beheaded by an Islamic State militant in a video that surfaced on the Internet on Tuesday. President Barack Obama expressed revulsion on Wednesday at the execution and vowed the United States […]
At least 27 people have been killed and 10 more are missing when a landslide hit a residential area in the city of Hiroshima in Japan
A senior US official says that US intelligence agents are verifying the authenticity of a video showing the beheading of a US journalist by the ISIS.
(Reuters) An Israeli air strike launched on Wednesday morning (August 20) killed seven members of a family in central Gaza, among them a woman and three children, Palestinian health officials, and neighbors said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. “It was a whole family. It was the husband, the wife, three children, and her unborn child. It’s a whole family that the Israeli occupation targeted, without any previous warning,” Yahya Abu Safer, a neighbor said. […]
Wes Ramos reports from Madrid, Spain
(Reuters) – The mother of American journalist James Foley, who was purportedly beheaded by Islamic militants, said on Tuesday her son gave his life to expose the suffering of the Syrian people and she asked his kidnappers to release their other captives. “He was an extraordinary son, brother, journalist and person,” Diane Foley said in a post on a website set up by the Foley family. James Foley was abducted in Syria in November 2012 while reporting […]
(Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents posted a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on how the United States acts in Iraq. The video, titled “A Message To America,” presented PresidentBarack Obama with bleak options that could define America’s next phase of involvement in Iraq and the public reaction to it, potentially deepening his hand in a conflict he built much of his […]
