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Nigeria Declared Free From Ebola
The World Health Organization has declared the country free of the highly contagious virus after six weeks with no new infections.
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16 Dead After Vent Collapses At South Korea K-Pop Concert
Fans gathering to watch girl band 4Minute fell more than 60 feet when a grate collapsed beneath them.
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Live Updates: Ebola In The U.S.
The latest from BuzzFeed News on the Texas Ebola cases and what officials are doing about the outbreak.
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Facebook Launches "Safety Check" Feature For Major Disasters
The social media giant has announced a feature which allows users to let family and friends know they're safe if they're located in a disaster zone.
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Second Nurse With Ebola Was Given OK To Fly; Obama Orders "SWAT Teams"
The second Texas health care worker infected with Ebola should not have flown from Dallas to Cleveland and back again because she had a low fever, CDC Director Tom Frieden says. President Obama called for "more aggressive" patient monitoring and said he kissed nurses who treated Ebola patients.
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Turkish Forces Reportedly Bomb Rebel Kurdish Fighters As ISIS Fight Threatens To Derail Shaky Truce
The conflict against ISIS militants is in danger of spilling into Turkey.
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U.N. Medical Worker Dies Of Ebola In Germany
Despite "intensive medical procedures", the 56-year-old died after contracting the virus in Liberia.
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French Economist Jean Tirole Wins Nobel Economics Prize
Tirole has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for the analysis of market power and regulation.
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As It Happened: Oscar Pistorius Given Five Years In Prison
The athlete was sentenced to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The Olympian and Paralympian was also handed a three-year sentence for a gun charge, but it was suspended and he won't have to serve it.
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Masked Crowd Moves On Hong Kong Democracy Protest
Hundreds of angry people attempted to charge the barricades erected by demonstrators calling for a free vote in Hong Kong's 2017 chief executive elections.
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North And South Korea Exchange Fire After North Shoots At Anti-Kim Balloons
The two nations exchanged machine-gun fire across the border Friday after North Korea shot at balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets. The incident came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was absent from a key anniversary ceremony.
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Malala Yousafzai And Kailash Satyarthi Win The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
They won "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
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Two Bombs Kill Dozens Of People In Yemen
Two blasts — one in the south of the country and one in the capital, Sanaa — have resulted in multiple casualties.
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French Author Patrick Modiano Has Won The 2014 Nobel Prize In Literature
The Swedish Academy awarded the novelist the prize "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."
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15 Spectacular Images Of Last Night's Blood Moon Eclipse
Last night, the moon, the sun, and Earth aligned to create a rare and spectacular lunar display that appeared to turn the moon a shade of red when seen from parts of the Americas, Asia, and Australia.
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Trio Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize For Work In Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy
Americans William E. Moerner and Eric Betzig and German Stefan W. Hell are this year's recipients for their work, which has improved the resolution of light microscopes.
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Reports: 40% Of Kobani Is Under ISIS Control
Updated: Multiple sources in the Kurdish city of Syria say ISIS has taken over the Kurdish headquarters and government buildings. Developing...
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Four People Quarantined In Spain Following Nurse's Ebola Diagnosis
The number includes the nurse herself, who is the victim of the first known transmission outside of West Africa, her husband and two other people. More than 50 others are being monitored .
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Inventors Of Blue LED Lights Win Nobel Prize In Physics
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura have been awarded the prize for "enabling bright and energy-saving white light sources."
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Iraqi PM "Totally" Opposes Arab Nations' Involvement In Airstrikes In Iraq
Haider al-Abadi said he is against Arab states in the international coalition against ISIS joining airstrikes in the country.
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