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WHO employee to receive treatment in Hamburg for Ebola

A Senegalese epidemiologist who contracted Ebola while working for the organisation. The current outbreak has killed at least 120 healthcare workers.

Assad is not to blame for Syria chemical attacks, says Kurdish party leader

Kurdish Democratic Union Party leader Saleh Muslim doubts Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is behind the chemical attacks near Damascus.

Liberia’s Taylor ordered cannibalism, court told

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered his militias to eat the flesh of captured enemies and United Nations soldiers, a former close aide testified on Thursday at…

Court told of brutal tactics incited by Charles Taylor

A witness calling himself Charles Taylor’s death squad commander told a court on Wednesday he killed men, women and babies on the former Liberian leader’s orders and supplied…

Beatles’ Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies

The guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home on February 5, aides said on February 6. He was said…

Taylor trial resumes with tales of brutality

A blood-diamond expert and an account from a Sierra Leonean miner who said laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family opened the war-crimes trial against…

Taylor’s war-crimes trial delayed until 2008

Judges on Monday postponed until January 2008 the war-crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone after his…

Liberia’s Taylor boycotts trial again

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor failed to appear in court on Monday when his war-crimes trial resumed, saying through an official the court did not give him adequate…

UN court sentences rebel Serb leader to 35 years

The United Nations war crimes tribunal sentenced the former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia, Milan Martic, to 35 years in jail for ordering atrocities committed while rebel…

Warlord Taylor’s home is lonely Dutch prison

Once surrounded by African presidential splendour, former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor now lives in a Dutch prison with only a Congolese militia chief for company and food…