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Club-wielding youths attacked and looted an Ebola treatment and quarantine center in the Liberian capital Monrovia, scattering at least 17 patients who went running for safety, back into the crowded city.  Conflicting reports say ten to 29 patients were moved to another treatment facility.

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The idiot governor of the US state of Missouri Jay Nixon imposed a curfew on the town of Ferguson, where demonstrations against the police killing of a black teen had degenerated into militarized police violence against citizens under the cover of “public safety”.  To understand the outrage and why this is an insulting decision, here’s the chronology:

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A judge in Chile is blocking a Catholic priest from leaving the country.  The church recommended that 77-year old Fr. Gerardo Joannon go abroad for a retreat after allegations he had pressured single women to give up their babies for adoption during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Young people filled the main streets of Ferguson, Missouri on Thursday night, but not in angry protests, and not to dodge the rubber bullets and tear gas fired by militarized cops.  The kids are celebrating because the governor of Missouri relieved local authorities of their duties and turned security over to the State Police, after several nights of unchecked police violence.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says it appears that the West African Ebola Outbreak has been “vastly underestimated”, and that the official death toll might be much greater than the 1,069 lives officially believed to be lost out of 1,975.

Robin Williams was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease when he took his own life in his San Francisco-area home earlier this week.  His wife Susan Schneider said that he as not ready to share that in public yet, and it's not known how long ago the diagnosis was made.

A convoy of hundreds of white-painted trucks is waiting on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, parked at Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov Region while Moscow urges Kiev for permission to bring what they claim is an aid convoy to ethnic Russian areas in eastern Ukraine.

Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced he is finally stepping down.  Maliki addressed Iraqis in a speech, declaring that he has accepted the candidacy of Haider al-Abadi, nominated last week by the Iraqi president to form a government.

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While the US carried out air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Sunni insurgents took control of several towns and villages from rival Islamist groups across the border in Syria.  It opens the way for the group to spread further to the west.

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to a new five-day ceasefire, agreed to just as the previous 72-hour truce was expiring.  It started out pretty rough – Israel launch air strikes in retaliation for alleged rocket fire from Gaza.  But after this initial doubt, there was no further violence overnight.

As boxes of an experimental Ebola drugs arrive in Liberia, Guinea’s president declared the deadly Ebola outbreak a “health emergency” and announced a series of measures to try to help healthcare workers slow the killer virus’ spread.

Ebola has claimed a second leading doctor in Sierra Leone, dealing another blow to the country’s faltering efforts to stem the disease.  The death of Dr. Modupeh Cole comes two weeks after the death of the virologist who was leading the fight against the killer disease in Sierra Leone.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared three days of mourning for opposition party presidential candidate Eduardo Campos who was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday.  The tragedy throws a new variable in the Presidential Elections, scheduled for October.

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South Africa is home to more than 80 percent of African rhinoceros population.  But poachers have been reducing their numbers despite efforts to protect the beasts.  The latest plan is to bypass the poachers entirely, and move the Rhinos out of harm’s way.

Ukraine is likely block an aid convoy from Russia, intended to help ethnic Russians in the besieged areas of eastern Ukraine.  Russia earlier had insisted it had Kiev’s permission, the Red Cross isn’t clear what’s in the convoy, and the west already expressed concern that it could be a pretext for a Russian invasion.