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The Spanish government says a nurse infected with Ebola has tested negative with the disease. A second test is required before Teresa Romero can be declared free of Ebola. Nicolas Rusher has the details.
Teresa Romero tested positive of the virus two weeks ago. She contracted it while caring for two infected priests in a Madrid hospital. They both died. The 44-year-old has been treated with a drip of human serum containing antibodies from Ebola-sufferers who have survived the disease and that of the drugs. Now a committee set by the Spanish government to monitor the virus says she has tested negative. Fifteen people who should have come into contact with her before she was diagnosed, including her husband, had not yet shown any symptoms, but are being kept under observation in the hospital.
At the opening of the World Health Summit in Berlin, where talks are set to be dominated by the Ebola outbreak, Germany's foreign minister has called for a greater global effort in the battle to contain the virus. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said more medical expertise and equipments was needed to help the three worst-hit countries in West Africa where, he said, weak public health systems were on the brink of collapse. His comments came after an appeal for help by Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
José Manuel Barroso, who'll step down as President of the European Commission shortly, has said that Britain risks losing much of its global power influence if it leaves European Union. Mr. Barroso added that such a move could also lead to London with zero influence among its neighbors.
Britain is a great country, the great is true by it's 60 million people. Do you believe that Britain alone can discuss on an equal foot with the United States or with the giant like China. If you look at, for instance, German, Germany plays a very important power because it has real leverage of the European Union.
Mr. Barroso also called against any attempt by the British government to limit the principle of freedom of the movement within the Union ahead of a possible referendum on membership.
The Turkish president has ruled out giving weapons to a Kurdish party who is armed wing as fighting Islamist militants in Kobani in neighboring Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the Democratic Union Party as a terrorist organization, akin to the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK which is banned in Turkey. In Kobani itself there has been a low in the fighting, as K. K. reports from the Turkey-Syrian border.
An eerie quiet has descended on Kobani after a night of heavy clashes. Kurdish fighters say the Islamic militants used heavy weapons and car bombs throughout the night, but failed to make any progress. Kurdish fighters need heavy weapons but the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will not agree to a US arms transfer to them, further complicating Turkish relations with the Kurds as well as the US.
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At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide bomber attack outside a Shiah mosque in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. It's the latest in a string of attacks on Baghdad, as the Islamic State militants assert their control of Anbar Province which extends to the outskirts of the city.
An Israeli hospital has treated a daughter of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader in Gaza of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. A spokesman for the H. Hospital in Tel Aviv said Mr. Haniyeh's daughter had been treated there for a number of days. The latest conflicts between Israel and Palestinian militants ended just weeks ago. Israeli officials would not discuss medical admissions from Gaza. In a number of urgent cases Palestinian doctors have asked for patients to be transferred to better medical facilities in Israel.
Swiss scientists are hoping to have captured images of a comet as it sped past Mars showering dusts through the planet's atmosphere. Lenses on satellites in orbits around Mars as well as on robots on the planet's surface were being trained on the massive ice, frozen gas and rock known as sighting spring. Anne Miser is one of the astronomers at NASA who observe the comet.
An extraordinary thing happened today in the solar system, uh, a comet that came from the most outer parts of the solar system has recently had an incredibly close pass by the planet Mars. It actually got so close it was about a third of the distance from the earth to our moon. And that's really only about 132,000 kilometers. Now that sounds like a huge distance to our surflings, but this is an incredibly rare event in space. It, it probably only happens once in several millions of years.
The Prime Minister of Albania has postponed a visit to Serbia after a football match between the two countries descended into a brawl last week. The visit by Eddie Rama would have been the first by an Albanian prime minister in nearly 70 years. It will now take place in November.