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• Al Qaeda identifies fighters behind attack in Burkina Faso

  Al Qaeda released a statement naming three attackers responsible for an attack in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The raid on Friday last week left 29 people dead with mostly westerners.

• Four Americans arrive in Nebraska to be monitored for Ebola virus

  Four Americans who may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone have arrived in the United States and are being observed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the hospital said on Sunday.

• North Korea, running scared from Ebola, bans foreigners from marathon

  North Korea has banned foreign runners from participating in an international marathon scheduled to be held in the capital in April, citing fears about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, a Beijing-based travel agency said on Monday.

• Sierra Leone's president calls for week of fasting, prayer over Ebola

  Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers on Thursday to end the Ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen.

• IMF focus on cutting debt over health spending worsened Ebola in Africa: study

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was partially responsible for the scale of the Ebola crisis in three West African countries as its policies hampered healthcare spending in these post-conflict states, according to a new study.

• FDA approves Roche Ebola test for emergency use

  Roche Holding AG said U.S. health regulators have approved its Ebola test for emergency use in response to the world's worst outbreak of the disease in West Africa.

• Ivory Coast army protests sow fears of return to unrest

  Protests by disgruntled soldiers in Ivory Coast have exposed the government's failure to reform its mutiny-plagued armed forces and its rapid capitulation sets a dangerous precedent in a country with bright economic prospects.

• U.S. nurses to protest, strike over Ebola measures

  Nurses across the United States will stage protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with the deadly Ebola virus.

• U.N.'s Ban warns against quarantining Ebola health workers

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Monday against "unnecessarily" strict restrictions on the movement of health workers who have been fighting the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.

• Hold U.S. envoy Power defends Ebola guidelines, warns on Guinea

  The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Friday defended federal guidelines for monitoring health workers returning from three Ebola-stricken West African countries while urging greater coordination to contain the outbreak in Guinea.

• Judge rejects strict limits on U.S. nurse who treated Ebola patients

  Declaring Ebola fears in the United States "not entirely rational," a judge rejected Maine's bid for a quarantine on a nurse who treated victims of the disease in West Africa but tested negative for it, and instead imposed limited restrictions.

• Maine nurse fights Ebola quarantine, says will not be bullied

  Saying she will not be bullied by politicians, a Maine nurse is giving the state an ultimatum: Lift her Ebola quarantine by Thursday or she will disregard the restrictions and go to court.

• White House questions new Ebola rules, nurse plans to sue

  The White House has told states that have imposed mandatory quarantines for some travelers from Ebola-hit West Africa that the policy could impede the fight against the disease, while the first health worker isolated under the rules plans to sue.

• Ebola patient dies in Texas; five U.S. airports to screen for fever

  The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died on Wednesday, underscoring questions about the quality of care he received, and the government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever.

• U.S. nears solution for safe disposal of Ebola waste

  The United States is days away from settling the critical question of how hospitals should handle and dispose of medical waste from Ebola patients, a government official said on Wednesday.

• U.S. pledges 3,000 troops to fight Ebola; experts say more needed

  The United States has pledged to send 3,000 troops West Africa, using its military muscle to battle the biggest ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, with an unprecedented mission to build treatment clinics and train health workers.

• Sierra Leone to impose 4-day, countrywide anti-Ebola "lockdown"

  Sierra Leone will impose a four-day, countrywide "lockdown" starting Sept. 18, an escalation of efforts to halt the spread of Ebola across the West African country, a senior official in the president's office said on Friday.