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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says the death toll from the worst record outbreak of Ebola has reached 887. That's an increase of 158 since the global health body released figures just a few days ago. WHO said in a statement that there now have been more than 1,600 cases of Ebola since the disease emerged in Guinea earlier this year. The news comes as Nigeria announced today that it now has confirmed a second case in Africa's most populous nation. The patient is a doctor who treated the man who died in Nigeria last month.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The Liberia airport authority says a chartered evacuation plane that will take home the second American sick with Ebola has landed at the airport in the capital. It is scheduled to take off early tomorrow with American Nancy Writebol aboard. Writebol, a long-time missionary from North Carolina, will be treated at the same Atlanta hospital where an American doctor has been taken.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it has resumed its attacks on the Gaza Strip, ending a self-declared, seven-hour cease-fire that was in effect for much of the day. Israel said it declared the cease-fire to allow humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. Late in the day, Palestinian officials said an Israeli airstrike hit a target next to a desalination plant in Gaza, killing two people and wounding 16. Palestinian officials say more than 1,880 people have been killed, most of them civilians. Sixty-seven people, all but three were soldiers, have been killed on the Israeli side.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is closing emergency shelters at military base shelters in Texas, Oklahoma and California being used to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children caught crossing the border. A Health and Human Services spokesman says operations at the shelters will soon be suspended because there have been fewer child immigrants caught at the border and the government has expanded capacity at other shelters.
CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — A detective says the shooting deaths of five family members in a quiet part of north-central Virginia are being investigated as a murder-suicide. The sheriff's detective says a relative found the bodies inside the family's home just outside Culpeper last night. Two adults, both 35, and three school-age children were found inside.
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