Friday, October 3, 2014

World News Briefs -- October 2, 2014



US Ebola Patient's Friends Quarantined At Home Under Armed Guard -- The Guardian

Girlfriend and her family are forced to remain in quarantine as officials admit they failed to clean apartment where sufferer was staying

Four members of a household with whom the US Ebola patient had been staying were confined to their Dallas apartment under armed guard on
Thursday as authorities faced tough questions over a series of mis-steps in their handling of the case.

Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.

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MIDDLE EAST

Mass executions of up to 1,500 at a time, girls abducted as sex slaves and children used as soldiers: UN report confirms ISIS's atrocities across Iraq. UN Report On Iraq details 10,000 civilian deaths and 'staggering array' of human rights abuses.

U.N.: At least 1,119 Iraqis killed in September.

Islamic State presses offensives in Iraq, Syria; defenders call for more airstrikes. Iraq army claims fresh gains against ISIL.

Islamic State steps up attack on Syrian town of Kobane. Isis assault on Kurdish city of Kobani ‘reaches decisive moment’.

Islamic State seizes Hit, assaults Iraqi military headquarters in Anbar.

Syrian army fights for last major rebel route into Aleppo.

UN nuclear watchdog team to visit Tehran.

Netanyahu to Obama: 'I fervently hope' Iran will not get nukes 'under your leadership'.

Israel boosts security for rare clash of holy days.

Muslim pilgrims in mass movement as hajj begins.

ASIA

Hong Kong protests: Leaders threaten to call off talks.

Clashes break out between Hong Kong residents, protesters.

Britain's Cameron on surprise visit to Afghanistan.

Australia approves strikes against IS in Iraq.

Rights groups condemn Myanmar's Rohingya plan.

Two Myanmar men admit to murders of Britons in Thailand; DNA matches: police.

Philippines halts work in disputed South China Sea.

AFRICA

Stopping global Ebola spread 'world's highest priority': UN.

Liberia places restrictions on Ebola coverage.

Many sick in US Ebola patient's Liberia hometown.

Nine UN peacekeepers killed in Mali ambush.

France to foot bill for US military aid in Africa.

Deal struck to hold early election in crisis-hit Lesotho.

Exxon puts Africa oil project on pause over Ebola outbreak.

EUROPE

Residential areas in central Donetsk under heavy artillery bombardment. Fighting rages around airport in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine crisis: Red Cross condemns Donetsk shelling.

U.N., OSCE call for warring sides to abide by Ukraine ceasefire.

Ukraine needs truce to raise army combat readiness — Poroshenko.

Gazprom accuses Poland, Hungary, Slovakia of rerouting Russian gas to Ukraine.

Catalans vow to hold referendum on independence from Spain.

Sweden to recognize state of Palestine.

Eurozone economy 'stuck in a rut', according to Markit chief economist.

AMERICAS

Health officials: Ebola unlikely to spread in Dallas.

US Ebola patient's friends quarantined under armed guard.

Poll: 2 of 3 Americans back strikes in Iraq, Syria.

Poll: Half think US at high risk of terror attack.

Poll: 70% of troops say no boots on ground in Iraq.

US unemployment rate falls to 5.9 percent. US unemployment rate hit a six-year low in September.

Rousseff widens Brazil election lead, challengers even.

Exclusive: Gifts for Cubans end in 15-year sentence for Canadian CEO.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS.

Timeline: How Islamic State put itself on a collision course with the West.

Pro-al Qaeda ideologues propose truce between Islamic State, rivals.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Google deletes 'tens of thousands' of celeb nude pics.

The world's 2,325 billionaires have these 14 traits in common.

You know it’s a tough market when Bernanke can’t refinance.

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