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UN: Ebola Disease Caseload Could Reach 20,000 Infections

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press
Ebola

GENEVA — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new road map for containing the virus, and scientists are fast-tracking efforts to find a treatment or vaccine. Ebola has menaced Africa for

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Between Deadlines And Deadlocks, Life Goes On In Pakistan

Protesters calling for Prime Minister Sharif to step down and for an investigation into alleged election fraud continue their sit-in despite two weeks of severe weather and leaders whose credibility may be slipping.

Zofeen Ebrahim
作者 Zofeen Ebrahim
Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan --- Over two weeks into their separate protests, thousands of followers of the Pakistani Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are continuing their sit-ins outside the parliament building in the federal capital, Islamabad, to topple the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. On Aug. 14, Pakistan's day of

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Call To Demilitarize Police Grows, Gains New Supporters

The far left, the far right and what seems like everyone in between are coming together on one particular issue: demilitarizing U.S. police forces.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese
NATO SUMMIT DEMONSTRATION IN CHICAGO

On Monday, over 100 progressive leaders -- including Reps. Marcia Fudge, Barbara Lee and John Lewis; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Co-Founder Ben Cohen and ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero -- signed a letter to President Obama imploring the president to sponsor drastic nationwide changes to the country’s police

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Bernie Sanders: “I Want To Know If Ordinary People Are Ready To Stand And Fight”

US Senator from Vermont is touring the country to capture pulse of populist sentiment and to see whether or not hunger exists for ‘political revolution’.

Jon Queally
作者 Jon Queally
Bernie Sanders

The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders has a hunch about the American electorate, but he says the only way to be sure is to go out and meet them. It's called the 'Fight For Economic Justice Tour,' but it's really what the self-identified Social Democrat described earlier this year as his attempt to travel the country in order to

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In Expanding War To Syria, US Could Attack Assad Too

Unwilling to cooperate with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, The US could just bomb everyone.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz

The Obama Administration has had a private turn-around on the situation in Syria. After years of pushing rebels in general as an alternative to the Assad government, the US is now keen to expand their new Iraq War into Syria to attack the largest of those rebels, ISIS. The US has even taken to sharing intelligence with the Assad government on

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VIDEO: Grandmother Facing 1 Year In Jail For Protesting Drones

Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home. While she waits on appeal, Grady Flores and her fellow protestors speak on the dangers of drone warfare, the right to dissent, and what she’ll do next.

MintPress News Desk
作者 MintPress News Desk
US Pakistan CIA Drones

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