Subject: Morning Brief, Presented by "War Dogs": U.N. Worker Dies of Ebola in Germany
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:50:02 -0400 (EDT)

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U.N. Worker Dies of Ebola in Germany

U.N. Worker Dies of Ebola in Germany

<p><b>Top News: </b>The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people has claimed its first victim in Germany. A 56-year-old man who had worked for the United Nations in Liberia <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDeAea99>died</a> at the hospital in Leipzig where he was being treated, <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDfA7fcd>despite</a> being given experimental drugs. He was the third to receive treatment in Germany and the first to die.</p>
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<p>The recent spread of the disease outside of Africa has raised <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDgAd182>concerns</a> in Europe and America about the ability of healthcare systems to treat and contain the deadly virus. Last week <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDfA7fcd>a Spanish nurse</a> became the first person outside of Africa to contract the disease. The transmission to a nurse in Texas who was treating an Ebola victim has spurred the Center for Disease Control to <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDhAc9e8>reconsider</a> its plan to contain the disease.</p>
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<p>Dr. Margaret Chen, the director general of the World Health Organization, has said that the outbreak is "unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times." The crisis has grown, she <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDiA698a>said</a> on Monday, from a public health problem to "a crisis for international peace and security," as the outbreak has raised the grim possibility of state failure for poor countries that are afflicted.</p>
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<p>The head of the World Bank, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, has <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDjAf453>committed $400 million</a> of his organization's funds to fighting the disease -- one of the largest single sums donated -- the first $105 million reached the governments of the effected countries within nine days. The economic cost of the outbreak has been projected as high as <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDkAbc08>$32.6 billion</a> by the end of 2015.</p>
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<p><b>Middle East:</b> President Barack Obama will meet with military leadership from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and 19 other countries to <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0n1sPo8bnlqB8UA9bfd>establish a strategy</a> for fighting the Islamic State. Led by Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the meeting "is part of ongoing efforts to build the coalition and integrate the capabilities of each country into the broader strategy," according to a spokesman for White House National Security Council.</p>
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<p>The White House had stumbled into a <a style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;"  href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDlA4efe>controversy</a> earlier in the week after announcing that Turkey had given the green light for American fighter jets to use bases in Turkey to attack target in Iraq and Syria, which the government in Ankara quickly denied.</p>
 
Asia

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Australia's High Court will <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDmA8b01>hear two cases</a> challenging the country's treatment of asylum seekers.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Police in Hong Kong <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDnA5e43>dismantled barricades</a> built by protesters near the government offices. They claimed it was to unclog traffic, not dislodge the demonstrators.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;North Korean leader Kim Jong Un <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDoAf839>reappeared</a> after a 40 day absence, now walking with a cane.&nbsp;</p>     
Americas

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Protesters demanding the return of 43 missing students from a teachers' college in Mexico's Guerrero state <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDpAf7c1>set fire</a> to the state capital building.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two people have been <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDqAcd2b>arrested</a> for the murder of Venezuelan lawmaker Robert Serra, who was found stabbed in his home with his partner, Maria Herrera, earlier this month.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The U.S. Navy has retained custody of a Marine accused of <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDrA9ed1>murdering</a> a transgender woman in the Philippines, <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDsAcc4b>despite protests</a> demanding he be released to authorities in Manila.&nbsp;</p>     
Africa

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Somalia reintroduced its <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDtA8d4c>national postal service</a>, which the country had lacked since the collapse of President Siad Barre's regime in 1991.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;One of Sudan's main opposition parties <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDuAff9f>announced</a> that it would boycott elections this spring, claiming conditions in the country will not allow for a fair vote.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Madagascar's former president, Marc Ravalomanana, was <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDvA855a>arrested</a> after returning from a five-year exile in South Africa.</p>     
Europe

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;A preliminary document released from the midpoint of a landmark meeting of Catholic bishops <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDwA5997>called for</a> the Church to be more accepting of people who have divorced, unmarried couples, and gays and lesbians.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Britain's parliament <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDxA7292>overwhelmingly</a> voted in favor of a non-binding resolution that would recognize a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;London's Heathrow airport has begun <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDyAd078>screening</a> for Ebola after the death of an infected aid worker who had been evacuated to Germany.</p>     
Middle East

<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Egyptian authorities have <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UDzA82bb>arrested</a> nearly 100 students in an attempt to quash new protests against the military-backed government.</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;Representatives from Iran, the EU, and the United States will meet for talks in Vienna in an attempt to <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0ZBcPoNUeT2TCCA7116>reboot</a> negotiations over Iran's nuclear program ahead of the Nov. 24 deadline.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;The United Nations had condemned what it calls "<a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414;' href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71wfdk.1dis/VD0nGsPoNUeT2UD0A303c>provocations</a>" after Israeli police uncovered petrol bombs and stones at the compound of the Al Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem, where there have been clashes ahead of the holiday of Sukkot.</p>     
- By Thomas Stackpole 

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