25 October 2014 Last updated at 04:04
Australia’s trade minister says the free trade deal should be concluded by the year’s end
Ebola crisis: 'Many exposed' to infected Mali girl
The authorities in Mali have confirmed the death of the country's first Ebola patient, a two-year-old girl.
The World Health Organisation said the toddler had travelled hundreds of kilometres by bus from Guinea through Mali showing symptoms of the disease.
More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined.
The girl was being treated in the western town of Kayes, after arriving at a hospital on Wednesday.
The child had travelled more than 1,000 km (600 miles) from Guinea through the capital, Bamako, to Kayes.
Trans-Pacific Partnership taking shape behind closed doors, Andrew Robb says
Australia’s trade minister says the free trade deal should be concluded by the year’s end
The trade minister, Andrew Robb, says the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement is starting to take shape and should be concluded by year’s end.
The deal would send a signal about the importance of the Asia-Pacific region, especially during a time of economic and geopolitical instability, Robb told ministers from 12 nations involved in negotiating the pact in Sydney on Saturday.
The deal is set to cover 40% of the global economy.
“We are trying to make as many final decisions as we can and bring this thing to conclusion,” Robb told counterparts including those from the US, Malaysia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand.
Reyhaneh Jabbari executed: Iran hangs woman for murder of her alleged attempted rapist
Ukraine city near conflict zone engulfed by cloud of suspicion about oligarchs
As people prepare for an election, Ihor Kolomoisky is the focus of allegations
On the approach to Dnipropetrovsk airport, plane passengers see thick pillars of grey, white and even grimy orange smoke rising towards them.
It’s not typical postcard material, but residents of this industrial Ukrainian city have a certain pride in their belching factories.
“It shows we’re not like Donetsk or Luhansk,” says Ihor, a taxi driver at the terminal, nodding towards regions to the east where Ukrainian troops are fighting Russian-backed separatists.
WHO plans Ebola vaccine trials for Africa in December 2014
October 25, 2014 - 12:29PM
Geneva: Ebola vaccine trials could start in West Africa in December, with hundreds of thousands of doses potentially being rolled out by mid-2015, the World Health Organisation said.
The organisation's assistant director general Marie-Paule Kieny said that hundreds of thousand of doses could be made available in the "first half" of next year.
Ms Kieny spoke after the UN agency held talks on potential vaccines with medical experts, officials from Ebola-affected nations and other governments, pharmaceutical firms and funding agencies.
Mexico's missing students expose nexus of crime and politics
Patience is wearing thin among activists seeking the return of 43 Mexican students that went missing last month. Some accuse the government of trying to buy time, and fear a return of guerrilla violence in Guerrero.
IGUALA, MEXICO — In what some critics believe is a political miscalculation, President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government has mustered only tepid action to resolve the case of 43 missing student teachers who disappeared nearly a month ago, hoping the scandal will blow over.
Instead, the Peña Nieto government now confronts a bruising series of public demonstrations and the specter of a rise in violent radicalism in the Pacific Coast state of Guerrero.
Tens of thousands of people clogged the streets of central Mexico CityWednesday night in a candlelight vigil for the missing students, and marches unfolded in at least 30 cities.
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