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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry (not seen) during a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 23, 2014.
(AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)


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Followers of the Shi’ite Houthi movement flee as riot police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse them along a main road leading to the airport in Sana’a, Yemen, on September 7, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)


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A medical worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gestures beside a woman inside the high-risk area of the Elwa hospital runned by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), where are being treated Ebola patients, on September 7, 2014 in Monrovia. (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)


Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back

Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back

Conakry, AP—Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbreak surfaced,...
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French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 3, 2014, after a weekly cabinet meeting. (AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD)


Opinion: An Education in Fearmongering

Opinion: An Education in Fearmongering

The French far-right magazine Minute recently decided to run a cover story decrying the “provocative” appointment of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem—a “Moroccan Muslim,” as the headline of the story ran—as the French minister of education. The editors of the magazine knew very...