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A health worker checks the temperature of a baby entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, on October 2, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney)

Mali’s first Ebola case, a 2-year-old girl, dies: officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 25, 2014 | World

Bamako, Reuters—A two-year-old girl who was Mali’s first case of Ebola died on Friday, shortly after the World Health Organization warned that many people had potentially been exposed to the virus because she was taken across the country while ill. The girl had...

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This image from a close circuit video shown during an October 23, 2014, press conference at Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Ottawa shows supected shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (circled) running towards the Canadian Parliament. Zehaf-Bibeau is suspected in the October 22 attack which killed a soldier and turned into a firefight in parliament’s halls the […]

Opinion: The Zombies of ISIS

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Oct 25, 2014 | Opinion

A Canadian national named Michael Zahaf-Bibeau, aged 32, made the headlines this week when he carried out a terrorist attack in Ottawa, killing one soldier standing guard at a war memorial before storming the nearby parliament. He was killed in the subsequent...

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ISIS fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province in Syria on June 30, 2014. (Reuters)

Opinion: ISIS scores another propaganda win

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 25, 2014 | Opinion

Why was the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) eager to promote a video showing its fighters stoning a girl to death as her father stands by, unwilling to forgive her alleged adultery? This video is one of the most dreadful videos to emerge that debases Islam. At...