The death and unsafe burial of a 65-year-old woman in Mangina in Democratic Republic of Congo was the critical event that set alarm bells ringing in the latest Ebola outbreak in late July, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

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China has asked Sweden to extradite a man wanted by Beijing on suspicion of having embezzled millions of dollars and who has been on the run since 2011, Swedish court documents show.

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Russia's ambassador to North Korea said on Friday Moscow had not violated U.N. sanctions restricting the employment of North Korean labourers and not brought in any new workers from the country, Interfax news agency reported.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he might send the navy's most modern frigate to waters off Libya in a bid to "save" three Filipinos and a South Korean kidnapped last month from a water plant in the north African country.

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A suicide bomber attacked a Shi&ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing 25 people and wounding 40, police said.

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Temperatures in Spain and Portugal soared to near record highs on Friday as part of Europe's heatwave and governments put emergency services on alert for forest fires.

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