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FREETOWN, (Reuters) – The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published today.

KADUNA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna targeting opposition leader and former president Muhammadu Buhari at a busy market and a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead a crowd in prayer.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two U.S. judicial panels yesterday injected new uncertainty into the future of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with conflicting rulings over whether the federal government can subsidize health insurance for millions of Americans.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was declared the winner of Indonesia’s presidential election yesterday, bringing the promise of major reforms to the world’s third-largest democracy.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip yesterday, saying no ceasefire was near as top U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government believes that pro-Russian separatists most likely shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet “by mistake,” not realizing it was a civilian passenger flight, U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s President Ollanta Humala said yesterday he is replacing his prime minister following an embarrassing political scandal that marks the start of his sixth cabinet and his third year in office.

MAIDUGURI, (Reuters) – A raid on an army base in northeast Nigeria and massacres of civilians in nearby villages at the weekend have left Boko Haram free to move unopposed in a strategic garrison town, witnesses and security sources said.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ordered Argentina and investors who did not participate in the country’s past debt restructurings to meet “continuously” with a court-appointed mediator until a settlement is reached, warning of the threat of a new default.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – An Australian couple who lost a son and daughter-in-law on a Malaysian Airlines jet that disappeared in March are again mourning after more relatives were killed when their plane was downed in Ukraine, media reported on Friday.

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were making their way to the Netherlands today as a senior Ukrainian separatist leader handed over the plane’s black boxes to Malaysian experts.

CAIRO (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry began a diplomatic push yesterday to secure a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, but senior US officials acknowledged this would be difficult.

SHANGHAI/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Yum Brands Inc and McDonald’s Corp are facing a new food safety scare in China, denting the fast-food companies’ efforts to shore up reputations and businesses that were hurt by a 2012 safety scandal in one of their biggest markets.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – When 9-year-old Genesis stepped off a plane in Honduras after being deported from the United States, she was excited at the thought of seeing her cousins.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – The head of Iraq’s largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out of Mosul were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad.

HRABOVE, Ukraine/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims’ remains.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Hamas’s armed wing said yesterday it had captured an Israeli soldier, as fighting in Gaza led to the bloodiest losses in a nearly two-week military offensive, with some 100 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers killed.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as Israel shelled a Gaza neighbourhood and battled militants today in the bloodiest fighting in a near two-week-old offensive.