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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – President Ernest Bai Koroma reinstated restrictions in Sierra Leone in response to the rise in confirmed cases of Ebola. Sierra Leone recorded 18 new cases of Ebola in the week ending Saturday, up from 16 new cases last week. This breaks the trend of declining cases …

JERUSALEM – An official Israeli analysis of the nuclear framework deal that world powers reached with Iran has drawn up a list of alleged shortcomings, providing a basis for what is expected to be months of furious lobbying by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel or amend the pact. The …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor says the Islamic State terror group has committed “crimes of unspeakable cruelty” in Syria and Iraq, but she does not have jurisdiction to open an investigation. Fatou Bensouda said in a written statement Wednesday that “the jurisdictional basis for opening a …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Authorities in Puerto Rico say they have arrested three police officers who face charges including kidnapping and aggravated robbery in a case involving a Dominican migrant. The arrest comes just days after a Dominican man complained that officers approached him this week and began to …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco has set up an emergency plan to supply drinking water to the capital of Villahermosa after oil thieves punctured a pipeline, contaminating rivers that normally supply the city. The spill late last week sent workers with the state-owned oil company scrambling …

UNITED NATIONS – Iran’s foreign minister is urging U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to try to end “the senseless aerial attacks” in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition and establish a cease-fire. Javad Zarif said in a letter Friday to the U.N. chief that the bombs are destroying hospitals, schools, roads, food …

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations secretary-general is warning Myanmar that stability in its most sensitive region can’t be achieved unless it addresses the issue of citizenship for minority Rohingya Muslims. Ban Ki-moon told a Myanmar delegation Friday that the U.N. has seen “already troubling signs of ethnic and religious …

BEIRUT – Syria’s main opposition group in exile says it will attend upcoming consultations in Geneva with the U.N. special envoy to Syria aimed at re-launching political negotiations. In a statement Tuesday, the Syrian National Coalition says its president, Khaled Khoja, informed the envoy, Staffan de Mistura, of the group’s …

NIAMEY, Niger – The governor of the southern Diffa region in Niger has ordered residents of inhabited islands on Lake Chad to evacuate to the mainland by Monday because of the Boko Haram threat. Niger’s government said a Boko Haram attack on Karamga island in Lake Chad last weekend resulted …

AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan has kicked off a two-week military exercise with some 10,000 participants from 18 countries, many members of a U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State group, which controls much of neighboring Iraq and Syria. The kingdom is hosting the “Eager Lion” drill for the fifth year, …