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Authorities established a no-fly zone and warned journalists to stay away from street demonstrations.  No, not in Gaza, nor Egypt, nor eastern Ukraine.  This is happening in Ferguson, Missouri, the Middle American town where the police shooting of an unarmed, college-bound black teen set off days of protests and civil unrest.

The Spanish priest Fr. Miguel Pajares died in the isolation unit of a hospital in Madrid, where he was taken after contracting Ebola while performing missionary work in Liberia.  His death could be the first failure of the experimental Ebola drug under development by a California pharmaceutical company.

Bolivia has extradited an Argentine former military officer accused of committing crimes against humanity during the right-wing dictatorship of 1976-1983.  Jorge Horacio Paez Senestrari is charged with kidnapping, torturing, or killing several politicians during the "dirty war", including one who survived and is now a provincial governor.

Kiev and Moscow have come to an agreement on a humanitarian air mission to ethnic Russians in the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, where thousands of people are without power, water, or medical supplies.  It comes after Russia assured that the convoy would not contain any arms, armed personnel, or soldiers.

The UN World Health Organization says the death toll in the West African Ebola Outbreak is now 1,013 out of 1,848 suspected or confirmed infections in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now in Nigeria which has just confirmed its tenth case.

Iraq’s president named veteran Shiite politician Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister and asked him to form a new government.  But interim Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to relinquish office and created the conditions for a dangerous showdown by deploying militias and Special Forces on the streets of Baghdad.

The day the parents of 18-year old Michael Brown were planning to take him to college was instead spent urging angry people to stop rioting after the unarmed young man was shot to death police in the middle of a street north of Saint Louis, Missouri.  It’s another case of an unarmed young black male being killed under shady circumstances.

The Academy Award-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams is dead of apparent suicide at age 63.  Authorities were called to his home across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, California at around noon, local time on Monday.

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Turkey’s Outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have won his country’s first direct presidential election with a clear majority of 52 percent, enough to avoid a run-off.  Erdogan rode a wave of conservative Muslim support and may further weaken the secular republic.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologized for the high death toll among the country’s healthcare workers battling the West African Ebola Outbreak, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in four countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave a rare midnight television address, announcing that he was not going to cave in under pressure and step down.  Within hours, Special Forces made up of Shiites loyal to al-Maliki were deployed onto the streets of Baghdad.

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to another 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza, which took effect late Sunday night in the Middle East.  Israel is going another step and saying it will return its delegation to the peace talks in Cairo if the current ceasefire holds.

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US President Barack Obama addressed his nation Thursday night to confirm that he has ordered air strikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, as well as aid drops to Yazidi refugees hiding on a mountain after being driven from their homes by the Sunni militants.

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Spain is now the second country to evacuate an Ebola patient from West Africa, and the first to bring said patient to Europe.  75-year old missionary Father Miguel Pajares is in stable condition in hospital in Madrid, while a nun who worked with him tested negative for the deadly virus.  She is undergoing another round of tests.

A prominent Liberian doctor “openly mocked the existence of Ebola” by trying to enter a hospital isolation ward with no gloves or protective clothing.  The doctor and another man who accompanied him to the hospital were both died within five days.

Moscow has granted a three-year residency permit to Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who divulged the security secrets of his native America and fled to Russia.  His previous, yearlong residency permit ran out on 31 July.