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A 75-year-old Spanish priest suffering from the Ebola virus died Tuesday in an isolation ward in Madrid -- the first European death from the outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa and the first known death on European soil. |
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An effort is underway to honor one of Waukegan's favorite sons, the late science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury. |
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SYDNEYThe United States stressed Tuesday it welcomes the rise of China and wants to work constructively with Beijing as it signed a deal to deploy 2,500 Marines to Australia as part of its “rebalance” to Asia. US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a joint press conference at the end of AUSMIN talks in Sydney on August 12, 2014. |
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WHAT’S THE STORY? 1. WE are all in mourning today as we of Robin Williams remember the genius . The 63-year-old actor took his own life at his Californian home last night.
2. BRENDAN Gleeson The Academy has told an American radio show that he was when he was a child. molested by a Christian Brother Yeah, it’s odd. |
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A Russian convoy sets off amid Western warnings against using help as a pretext for invasion. |
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Ukraine said it would prevent the vehicles passing through a 60-mile stretch of rebel-held border because they had not been certified by the Red Cross and had provided no information on exactly what they are carrying or where they are heading. |
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* Convoy departs from near Moscow, has to travel 1,000 km. * West warns against using help as a pretext for invasion. * Kiev says will not allow Russian military escort for convoy. * Convoy will be accompanied in Ukraine by OSCE-Ukraine mediator By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Pavel Polityuk. |
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An elderly Spanish priest became the first European to die from a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, succumbing to the virus in a Madrid hospital five days after being evacuated from Liberia. |
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Ukraine said it would prevent the vehicles passing through a 60-mile stretch of rebel-held border because they had not been certified by the Red Cross and had provided no information on exactly what they are carrying or where they are heading. |
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The United States stressed on Tuesday it welcomes the rise of China and wants to work constructively with Beijing as it signed a deal to deploy 2500 Marines to Australia as part of its rebalance to Asia |