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BBC:Global Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000 - WHO
Global Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000 - WHO
The number of deaths attributed to the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, the World Health Organization says.
The latest figures show there have been 4,024 confirmed or suspected deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Eight deaths are linked to the haemorrhagic fever in Nigeria and one in the US.
In total, there have been 8,399 confirmed or suspected cases, mostly in West Africa.
BBC:Concerns rise over US EU trade talks
Concerns rise over US EU trade talks
There are rising concerns in Europe over negotiations to liberalise trade with the United States.
The project, known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, aims to remove a wide range of barriers to bilateral commerce.
Opponents are planning demonstrations and protests across Europe on Saturday 11 October.
In Britain, events are planned in at least 15 cities and towns.
BBC:Brazil says it has a suspected Ebola case
Brazil says it has a suspected Ebola case
Brazil says it has identified a suspected Ebola case who arrived in the country on Thursday.
The patient, Souleymane Bah from Guinea, presented himself after coming down with a fever at a public health centre in the town of Cascavel in the southern state of Parana.
He has been flown to Rio de Janeiro to the National Institute of Infectology.
Doctors say he no longer has a fever and blood test results are expected on Saturday.
BBC:North and South Korea 'exchange land border fire'
North and South Korea 'exchange land border fire'
North and South Korea have exchanged fire across their land border, South Korean officials say.
The incident came as South Korean activists launched balloons containing leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Pyongyang had warned of "catastrophic" consequences if Seoul allowed the activists to go ahead.
The two sides exchange periodic fire across their disputed western maritime border but incidents on land are rare.
BBC:Putin wants Russian say in Moldova-EU trade agreement
Putin wants Russian say in Moldova-EU trade agreement
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Moldova that it must take account of Russia's interests before developing closer trade ties with the EU.
Mr Putin was speaking at a summit in Belarus with leaders of ex-Soviet republics, including Moldova.
He said he wanted Moldova to postpone a free trade deal with the EU until 2016, as Ukraine had agreed to do recently.
Russia supports separatists in Trans-Dniester, a long strip of land that broke away from Moldova in 1992.
BBC:Belarus: Football fans jailed for anti-Putin chant
Belarus: Football fans jailed for anti-Putin chant
A court in the Belarusian capital Minsk has jailed eight Ukrainian football fans after they sang an insulting song about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
One man was sent to prison for 10 days for possessing fascist symbols. Seven others were jailed for five days for using obscene language.
They had joined in anti-Putin chants and songs at the Euro 2016 qualifier between Ukraine and Belarus.
A number of Belarusian fans were also convicted and fined.
Reuters:FDA approves Eisai drug for chemotherapy-associated nausea
FDA approves Eisai drug for chemotherapy-associated nausea
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has approved Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai's drug Akynzeo to treat nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.
The drug combines two medications: palonosetron, an anti-nausea product approved in 2008 to prevent vomiting within the first 24 hours of chemotherapy, and Netupitant, a new drug to treat initial nausea and nausea that occurs up to 120 hours after chemotherapy.
Side effects of Akynzeo in the clinical trials included headache, weakness, indigestion and constipation.
(Reporting by Toni Clarke in Washington; Editing by Peter Galloway)
Reuters:Japan pitches nuclear restart in tightly controlled townhalls
Japan pitches nuclear restart in tightly controlled townhalls
(Reuters) - As part of a plan to restart its nuclear industry, Japan on Thursday began a controversial consultation process with local residents near idled reactors that was criticized for failing to give everyone in the region a say.
More than a year after Japan's last reactor was shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, officials began a series of townhall meetings to explain the approval process that cleared the Sendai plant in the southwest of the country for restart.
But local authorities set strict ground rules for the first meeting in Satsumasendai, the coastal city of 98,000 people 1,000 km (600 miles) southwest of Tokyo that hosts the two-reactor Kyushu Electric Power Co facility.
"As we saw in Fukushima, once there's an accident, the impact is felt across a large region," said Makoto Matsuzaki, an anti-nuclear legislator for Kagoshima prefecture, where Satsumasendai is located.
Reuters:Japan braces as super typhoon Vongfong powers north
Japan braces as super typhoon Vongfong powers north
(Reuters) - Japan was bracing on Friday for its strongest storm this year, a super typhoon powering north toward the Okinawa island chain that threatens to rake a wide swathe of the nation with strong winds and torrential rain.
Typhoon Vongfong, which at one point rivaled last year's devastating Haiyan in strength, was weakening slightly as it moved across the open ocean, but still packed winds gusting as high as 259 kph (160 mph).
"There is no question that it is an extremely large, extremely powerful typhoon," said an official at Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA).
"It's the strongest storm we've had this year, definitely, although it has lost some strength from its peak."
Reuters:Illegal Somali charcoal exports fuel Islamist rebels, warlords
Illegal Somali charcoal exports fuel Islamist rebels, warlords
(Reuters) - Illegal exports of Somali charcoal earned al Shabaab militants tens of millions of dollars in the past year and also financed violations of an arms embargo by clan-based militia that could fuel warlord tensions, U.N. investigators said in a new report.
The Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group, which oversees compliance with U.N. sanctions on the two countries, said it had counted 161 vessels exporting charcoal from Somalia's southern ports of Kismayu and Barawe between June 2013 and May 2014.
The U.N. Security Council banned charcoal exports from Somalia in February 2012 in a bid to cut off funds for al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-affiliated group that has been fighting for control of Somalia for years and enforces strict sharia law in areas it occupies.
"The total international market value of charcoal exported in 2013 and 2014 can be estimated as upwards of $250 million and could be much more, given that the Group may not have identified all shipments," the monitors said in a confidential 482-page annual report, seen by Reuters on Friday.
Reuters:South Africa signs nuclear agreement with France
South Africa signs nuclear agreement with France
(Reuters) - South Africa has signed a nuclear power agreement with France, the government said on Friday, three weeks after it reached a similar deal with Russia as part of Pretoria's first tentative steps towards building up to 9,600 MW of nuclear power.
The Sept. 20 agreement, which Russia touted as a $10 billion contract to build power plants, took many South Africans by surprise, compelling officials to clarify that it was in fact just the early stages of a long procurement process.
Energy officials also stressed that other intergovernmental agreements - with France, China, South Korea, the United States and Japan - were likely to follow.
A statement from President Jacob Zuma's office on Friday described the deal with France as "cooperation in the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy", but did not provide details.
Reuters:EU set to relax fishing limits because of Russia food ban
EU set to relax fishing limits because of Russia food ban
(Reuters) - EU ministers will on Monday debate whether European fishermen can extend their quota limits next year to compensate for the loss of Russian customers following Moscow's ban on Western food imports.
The European Union's fisheries chief said she would ask ministers to support her proposal to allow member states to carry over up to 30 percent of their 2014 fishing quotas to next year because of the ban.
Under the EU's reformed Common Fisheries Policy, member states are allowed to bank, or carry over, up to 10 percent of their annual catch limits to the following year if they do not hit their quotas.
"Since Russia has introduced an embargo on imports of European fisheries products this summer, we agreed that we need to help our fisheries sector in Europe – and quick," Maria Damanaki said in a statement.
USA Today:Kmart becomes latest retailer hit by data theft
Kmart becomes latest retailer hit by data theft
NEW YORK (AP) — Sears Holdings (SHLD) announced late Friday that it detected a data breach at its Kmart stores that started last month and that certain customers' credit and debit card accounts may have been hacked.
The data theft at Kmart is the latest in a string of incidents that have hit several big retailers, including Target (TGT), Supervalu (SVU) and Home Depot (HD).
For the Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based parent company, however, the breach comes at a time when it's struggling with losses and sales declines as it fights to stay relevant with shoppers.
Sears Holdings, which also operates Sears stores, says that Kmart's information technology department detected on Thursday that its payment data systems had been breached. But it couldn't provide the number of affected cards. However, it said that it was able to remove the malware.