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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are investigating the discovery of two bodies in a river along with a third man who says he made it out after being abducted, bound, robbed, stabbed and thrown into the water. Chief Inspector Scott Small says officers were called to the Schuylkill (SKOO'-kul) River in Fairmount Park just before 4 a.m. The 20-year-old man found with stab wounds said he had been abducted in a different part of the city. He's hospitalized.
BOSTON (AP) — A freed U.S. journalist says he's very moved at all the expressions of support from people as he made his way back to the United States. Journalist Peter Theo Curtis was freed by the al-Nusra Front extremist group in Syria where he had been held hostage for 22 months. He also says he is "deeply indebted" to the U.S. officials who worked to get him released.
BERLIN (AP) — A scientist from Senegal is being treated in Germany for Ebola. The World Health Organization says the man was working for them in Sierra Leone when he was infected. A Hamburg health department spokesman the city's UKE hospital "has the capabilities to carry out this kind of treatment." WHO says more than 240 health care workers in four West African countries have gotten sick and half have died.
GENEVA (AP) — The independent U.N. commission on Syrian war crimes is accusing the Islamic State group of widespread and systematic killings that add up to crimes against humanity. The four-member commission also says the forces of President Bashar Assad continue to perpetrate crimes against humanity through massacres and other atrocities.
JERUSALEM (AP) — After more than seven weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas have settled for an ambiguous interim agreement to stop shooting, though little else changes. Hamas remains in control of Gaza. Israel and Egypt will maintain a blockade despite Hamas' long-running demand that the border restrictions be lifted. But the open-ended cease-fire appears to be holding today.
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