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An Ebola health alert is displayed at the entrance to Bellevue Hospital in New York City, where Dr. Craig Spencer was quarantined after showing symptoms consistent with the virus.

American Volunteers In Liberia Are Anti-Quarantine

5:03pm October 28, 2014

by Michaeleen Doucleff

They fear that the threat of isolating a returning health worker for 21 days will cause a drop in the number of volunteers at a time when more medical staff is needed to quash the outbreak.

John Tory speaks to supporters Monday night after being elected as mayor in Toronto.

Ford Brothers Lose Toronto Mayor Race, Hold On To Council Seat

1:39pm October 28, 2014

by Chris Hopkins

Unofficial results show John Tory beat Doug Ford 40-34 for mayor, a race Rob Ford abandoned after his cancer diagnosis. The latter Ford did keep the Ward 2 council seat his family has held since 2000.

Three female members of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and an Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter stand near the front line in Makhmur, in northern Iraq, on Aug. 9. The Turkish and Iraqi Kurds have been fighting together against the Islamic State.

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Facing The Islamic State Threat, Kurdish Fighters Unite

1:17pm October 28, 2014

by Alice Fordham

Kurdish groups have often quarreled among themselves, or at least kept their distance. But Kurds from Iraq and Turkey have been fighting side by side in northern Iraq against the Islamic State.

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Untangling The Roots Of Recent Flare-Ups In Lebanon

1:17pm October 28, 2014

Fighting in Lebanon is spurring concerns over the country's stability. Renee Montagne checks in with New York Times Beirut bureau chief Anne Barnard to discuss why America needs to pay attention.

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Over A Cappuccino, Italian Mayor Wants To Hear Local Concerns

1:17pm October 28, 2014

A mayor in Italy is inviting his citizens to share their ideas over breakfast. Pino Palmieri asked residents of Roscigno to meet him at the town's main bar. He's using his own dough to pay the tab.

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Author Mimi Thorisson and her husband, photographer Oddur Thorisson, moved their six children and dogs from a Parisian apartment to a farmhouse in the Médoc region of France.

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A Family's Fall Harvest Blooms In 'A Kitchen In France'

1:06pm October 28, 2014

by Lauren Hodges

Since moving her large family from a Paris apartment to a historic farmhouse in the French countryside, author Mimi Thorisson has found a way to merge the best of the different worlds she has known.

Australia is no longer processing new visa applications from the three worst-hit countries in Africa's Ebola outbreak. Here, a jetliner prepares to land at Sydney's international airport.

Australia Blocks New Visas From West Africa Over Ebola Outbreak

12:57pm October 28, 2014

by Bill Chappell

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says Australia's steps to keep Ebola from crossing its borders include "temporarily suspending our immigration program, including our humanitarian program."

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has her temperature taken as she arrives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Monday. Power is on a visit to West Africa to get a first-hand look at the global response to the epidemic.

U.N. Ambassador Goes To Sierra Leone For Closer Look At Ebola Crisis

12:23pm October 28, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the U.N., is on a multi-nation swing through West Africa to see how the global response to the deadly virus is faring.

Medical Journal To Governors: You're Wrong About Ebola Quarantine

12:13pm October 28, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo have called for mandatory quarantine for "high risk" individuals returning from Ebola-stricken countries. The New England Journal of Medicine begs to differ.

Police officers stand guard in front of the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court in China's Anhui Province.

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China May Drop 9 Crimes From List Of Death Penalty Offenses

10:01am October 28, 2014

by Frank Langfitt

The move appears to be part of a trend to reduce the use of the death penalty in a country that still executes more people than any other.