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Federal police stepped up security at Parliament House in Canberra after the shooting at the Canadian capital Ottawa.  A gunman shot and mortally wounded a soldier guarding the National War Memorial, before going into Parliament where he was shot and killed by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms.

The UN World Health Organization is planning to begin testing two experimental Ebola vaccines in West Africa by January and may have a blood serum treatment available for use in Liberia within two weeks.  The serum will be based on antibodies extracted from the blood of Ebola survivors.

The Ebola rate in Sierra Leone has increased to more than 20 deaths per day, according to a lawmaker from the western area of the country.  Authorities are struggling to keep up with the collection of corpses from homes in the western area – alarming, because before this it was the eastern area of Sierra Leone that was worst-affected.

Two Ebola patients in highly developed nations have been declared free of the virus that’s proven so deadly in countries with little to no healthcare infrastructure, highlighting the disparity in treatment for Ebola patients.

A 17-year old runaway from Bankstown in Sydney’s southwest has turned up as a spokesman for the Islamic State terrorist group somewhere in the Middle East, possibly Iraq.  Abdullah Elmir was last seen in June when he told his mum he was “going fishing”.

When Wednesday morning rolls around to South Africa, Oscar Pistorius wakes up in prison.  But perhaps not for too long.  A judge sentenced him to five years in the slam for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day of last year.

A Cairo court has set an appeals hearing for Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his Al Jazeera coworkers, convicted of terrorism-related charges and jailed for doing their jobs and reporting on the tumult in Egypt that followed the ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi.

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After weeks of prodding by the US and Europeans, Turkey is finally getting off of the fence and helping Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to join the defense of Kobani, the Kurdish city in northern Syria that is under siege by Islamic State (IS) radicals.

Chilean authorities arrested the former mayor of an upscale suburb of Santiago in connection with an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed during the murdering reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet. 

The UN World Food Program has airlifted much-needed aid to the three countries that are worst-affected by the West African Ebola Epidemic – Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.  It comes as Nigeria is declared “Ebola Free” after successfully containing the eradicating the killer virus.

Australia’s forward-thinking and most-transformative leader Gough Whitlam is dead at age 98.  He brought in the most sweeping policy and social reforms from the beginning of his tenure as Prime Minister from 1972, until his controversial dismissal just three years later.

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The UN World Health Organization is expected to declare Nigeria free from Ebola on Monday, because it has been been six weeks since the last reported case of the virus.  The nation’s success is chalked up to careful planning and the heroic efforts of one doctor.

The Spanish nurse is almost out of the woods.  Doctors say tests show that Teresa Romero is Ebola-free.  She caught the potentially deadly virus while taking care of two missionary priests who were infected in Africa and airlifted to Madrid for treatment. 

US C-130 transport aircraft have airdropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters holding the northern Syrian city of Kobani from Islamic State (IS) fighters.  US-led air strikes helped the Kurds push black the militants.

Africa’s Northern White Rhino has moved one step closer to extinction after one of its last two breeding males died at a nature conservancy in Kenya.  The animal was not poached, although damn near every single other Northern White Rhino was, and only four are left in the wild.

The woman often been referred to as the likeliest candidate to become Japan’s first female prime minister has resigned.  Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi is alleged to have used political donations on personal items such as cosmetics and other items unrelated to her position.

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Pope Francis has demoted one of his loudest critics.  American Cardinal Raymond Burke will leave his post at the top of the Vatican’s highest court of canon law, to the much-less prestigious, ceremonial post of patron of the sovereign military order of Malta.