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Turkey's Presidential Election Not Immune From Neighboring Turmoil

11:15am August 08, 2014

Turks vote Sunday in their first direct presidential election. The vote's backdrop is the advance of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. David Greene talks to Milliyet columnist Asli Aydintasbas.

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West Africa's Ebola Outbreak Declared International Emergency

11:15am August 08, 2014

by Nurith Aizenman

On Friday, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response.

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Following 3-Day Truce, Rocket Fire Resumes In Gaza

11:15am August 08, 2014

by Jackie Northam

Gaza militants renewed rocket fire on Israel after a three-day truce expired on Friday. Israel fired back. Negotiations in Cairo on a new border deal for the coastal strip hit a deadlock.

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Author Fine Tunes Description Of China's Investment In Africa

11:15am August 08, 2014

In an interview with Steve Inskeep, author Howard French comments on Steve's discussion this week with National Security Advisor Susan Rice about U.S. and Chinese investment in Africa.

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Workers drive around Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Sunday, telling people about the dangers of Ebola.

Skeptics In Sierra Leone Doubt Ebola Virus Exists

3:31pm August 06, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Sierra Leone is at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak. But many people there don't think the virus is real. Others are so frightened by Ebola that they're afraid to take sick relatives to clinics.

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Sabrina Tavernise speaks Russian and covered Russia for The New York Times in the early 2000s. She has covered war and conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and Chechnya. She now reports on public health for The New York Times.

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Malaysia Flight Wreckage Was 'Like The End Of The World'

2:56pm August 06, 2014

The New York Times' Sabrina Tavernise was among the first to arrive at the site of the downed flight in Ukraine in late July. She says it's hard to get the faces of the dead out of her mind.

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Ebola Photographer Introduces The West To Outbreak's Victims

11:58am August 06, 2014

Audie Cornish talks with freelance photographer Tommy Trenchard, who has been shooting in Sierra Leone the last two years. He offers an on-the-ground account of the Ebola virus outbreak.

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Obama Calls On Business To Bridge Divide Between U.S. And Africa

9:47am August 06, 2014

by Brian Naylor

President Obama capped the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in downtown Washington, D.C., with a speech to the collected leaders and business people at the conference.

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Victim Of Insider Attack, Gen. Harold Greene Was An Engineer By Training

9:47am August 06, 2014

by Tom Bowman

NPR has confirmed that U.S. Army Major Gen. Harold Greene was killed in Tuesday's "green-on-blue" attack in Afghanistan. It was his first deployment to the country.

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A monkey sits on a car and eats an orange snatched from a fruit vendor in New Delhi in 2012. The city has tried numerous schemes to bring its large and rambunctious monkey population under control. Now it is employing men to mimic the calls of the aggress

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It's Bananas: India Hires 'Monkey Mimics' To Scare Away Real Ones

8:28pm August 05, 2014

by Julie McCarthy

New Delhi has tried countless schemes to control rambunctious monkeys. The latest: 40 men roam the streets, mimicking the call of the menacing langur monkey in an attempt to scare off other monkeys.

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