Ebola cases surpass 8,000 as DRC struggles to control outbreak
Fatalities near 4,000 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain.

Fatalities near 4,000 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain.



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Fully abolishing the veto would require the unlikely agreement of all five permanent Security Council members.
Syrian Kurds are beginning to return to their homes in Afrin after years in exile, but have different experiences.

Dozens of countries’ delegations walked out of or were absent for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s UNGA speech.

Fighting between Houthi and government-aligned forces forces families out of their homes in Yemen.
UN refugee agency says 400 people a day, about 20 times the previous daily rate, now cross from Sudan into eastern Chad.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih Al-Zaidi called for a sovereign state of Palestine at the 81st session of the UNGA.
More than a quarter of the nearly 2,900 children screened by UNICEF in recent weeks were acutely malnourished.

Al Jazeera’s Emma Withrow reports from a Free Palestine march, where Jewish demonstrators rejected Netanyahu.
Forty-nine passengers have been rescued and a search is under way for the missing.
UN trade body report says consequences of Israeli occupation have ‘skyrocketed’ with 90% unemployed in Gaza.