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Inside Uganda: Home of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world
Paris photo exhibit glorifies Palestinian terrorism, Jewish group says
French Jews accused the medical group Doctors without Borders of glorifying Palestinian terrorism in a photo exhibition on militants, which opened with municipal assistance.
Afghan hospital ‘mistakenly struck’
The deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was a mistake made within the U.S. chain of command, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.
Ebola cases in the United States
Nine cases of Ebola have been seen in the United States since the beginning of August. A Liberian man who died Oct. 8 in a Dallas, Texas, hospital was the first person diagnosed with the virus on U.S. soil.
Fear and indifference leave West Africa desperate for Ebola staff
When Australia offered more than $2 million last month to the medical charity leading the fight against Ebola in West Africa, Medecins Sans Frontieres bluntly rejected it.
Israel prepares to fight Ebola in West Africa
Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced new measures on Oct. 12 to screen for Ebola cases at Israel’s points of entry, officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Health had worked over the weekend to put in place an emergency response program to help combat the epidemic on the ground in West Africa.
West Africa Ebola outbreak could infect 20,000 people, WHO says
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect over 20,000 people and spread to more countries, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed to overcome the outbreak.
Experiencing Exile
here are some 39 million refugees and displaced persons in the world today, and Angelenos can get a hint of how they live and survive at \”A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City\” exhibition, now in Exposition Park through Oct. 22.