Marburg virus outbreak kills six in Rwanda
KIGALI, Sept 29 (BBC): Six people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the health minister has announced.Sabin Nsanzimana said most of the victims were healthcare workers in the intensive care unit. Twenty cases have been identified since the outbreak was confirmed on Friday.Marburg, with a fatality...
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Hezbollah leader's death won't go unavenged: Iran
JERUSALEM, Sept 29 (AFP/BBC/AP): Iran's supreme leader has said the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "will not go unavenged", a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of mourning in Iran in response to what he called the "martyrdom...
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Search resumes for 48 missing migrants off Spanish Canaries
PUERTO DE LA ESTACA, Sept 29 (AFP): Rescue teams on Sunday resumed searching for at least 48 migrants who went messing the day before when their boat overturned just as it was being rescued off Spain's Canary Islands, killing at least nine people.Hopes of finding survivors were slim as sea...
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Coldplay concert ticket resold for millions in India
MUMBAI, Sept 29 (BBC): If you were in India and had 900,000 rupees ($10,800; £8,000), what would you buy? A car? A trip around the world? Diamond jewellery? Or a Coldplay concert ticket?The British rock band is set to perform three shows of their Music of the Spheres world tour...
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Nepal flood toll hits 148: Dozens missing
KATHMANDU, Sept 29 (BBC): Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed more than 148 people across the Himalayan nation, officials have reported.Dozens more were still missing on Sunday after two days of intense rainfall, which has inundated the valley around the capital Kathmandu.Residents said they "jumped from one roof...
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12 pro-Iranian fighters killed in Syria attacks
BEIRUT, Sept 29 (AFP): Twelve pro-Iranian fighters have been killed in air strikes of unknown origin in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Sunday, adding that a large number of people were wounded."Twelve pro-Iranian fighters were killed in air strikes of unknown origin targeting their positions in the city of...
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UK MP quits party over PM's 'hypocrisy'
LONDON, Sept 29 (AFP): The new government of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reeled from its first resignation Saturday, as lawmaker Rosie Duffield quit the Labour Party, accusing him of "hypocrisy" over his acceptance of free gifts.In a blistering resignation letter, Duffield denounced Starmer for pursuing "cruel and unnecessary" policies."The...
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