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Liberia Restricts 'Invasive' Media Coverage of Ebola

Ren Benavidez   | Oct 10, 2014 11:02 PM EDT

Liberia has recently passed a new law which prohibits the press from taking “invasive” coverage of the Ebola outbreak in the country. read more

Las Vegas Announces False Alarm Amid Global Ebola Scare

Ren Benavidez   | Oct 11, 2014 02:00 AM EDT

Las Vegas airline and health officers gave the Delta Airlines plane a green light to fly, after announcing that the Ebola scare in the plane was a false alarm. read more

Kurds, Assad May Be Fighting Together In Kobane

Ren Benavidez   | Oct 11, 2014 01:03 AM EDT

Islamic State (ISIS) militants posted a video Tuesday that showed they were fighting not only Kurdish troops in the city of Kobane, but also against President Bashar Assad's supporters, a first since the civil war started three years ago. read more

Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize is For 'All Girl Students of Pakistan'

Ren Benavidez   | Oct 10, 2014 11:00 PM EDT

Malala Yousafzai is now the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and was at school when it was announced on Friday. read more

Great Wall of China Attracts Record 8 Million Visitors In One Day During 'Golden Week'

Dan Weisman   | Oct 10, 2014 11:15 PM EDT

Golden Week, which celebrates in China lived up to its name this week when an estimated 16 million people turned the Great Wall of China into a veritable human traffic jam. Those numbers included 8 million people visiting the wall in one day, the most in one day since 2009. Accessible public sections designed for tourists last week were packed like Nanjing Road in Shanghai with wall-to-wall human traffic. read more

Fort Hood Shooter Wrote Letter For Pope Francis

Acsilyn Miyazaki   | Oct 10, 2014 08:00 PM EDT

Fort Hood massacre shooter Nidal Hasan wrote a six-pages letter addressed to Pope Francis and asked his lawyer to send it. read more

Ebola Death Toll Rises to More Than 4,000 - WHO

Ren Benavidez   | Oct 10, 2014 08:00 PM EDT

Over 4,000 people have died because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization announced Friday. read more

Is Kim Yo Jong Running North Korea?

Rafael Ross   | Oct 10, 2014 06:22 AM EDT

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un, is rumored to be running the hermit kingdom ever since her brother's month-long absence from the public eye. read more

GOP's Campaign Attacks Obama Administration For Inability to Ensure Public Safety

Rubi Valdez   | Oct 10, 2014 09:01 PM EDT

With barely a month before the U.S. midterm elections on November 4, the Grand Old Party (GOP) is ramping up commercials on television and radio highlighting President Barrack Obama and his administration's failure to ensure public safety. read more

Saudi Arabia Silences Critics Through Ruthless Campaign – Amnesty International

Rubi Valdez   | Oct 11, 2014 04:50 AM EDT

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is conducting deliberate and "ruthless" series of persecution against civilian activists to pacify government critics since the Arab Spring Uprising in 2011, the Amnesty International said. read more

Gwyneth Paltrow Speechless, Says U.S. President Barack Obama Is Handsome

Kat De Guzman   | Oct 10, 2014 08:39 AM EDT

United States President Barack Obama spoke before a crowd during a fundraising event hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow in her estate located at Brentwood, California on Thursday and the actress allegedly told the president he was so handsome she couldn't even speak. read more

Top Chinese Court To Curb Paid Deletion Of Web Posts

Bianca Ortega   | Oct 10, 2014 04:18 AM EDT

China's top court on Thursday issued a new guideline that will outlaw the paid deletion of web posts and online information, subjecting violators to penalties. read more

Palestinian Unity Government Challenged To Choose Between Peace And Terror

Christl Leong   | Oct 10, 2014 08:00 AM EDT

Israel on Thursday called on the Palestinian Authority to establish a new leadership based on peace, stressing that a move towards the path of extremism and terror would defeat the peace it recently achieved. read more

And The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is…

Kristina Fernandez   | Oct 10, 2014 08:00 AM EDT

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will on Friday announce the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the world’s most prestigious and often controversial award. read more

No Sign of Kim Jong-un At Major North Korean Event

Kristina Fernandez   | Oct 10, 2014 07:28 AM EDT

For the first time since he came to power in 2011, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un missed Friday’s founding anniversary of the ruling party, further sparking rumors about his ill health and his grip on power. read more

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