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An elderly Spanish priest became the first European to die from a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, succumbing to the virus in a Madrid hospital five days after being evacuated from Liberia. The 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, had been treated in Spain with an experimental US serum, ZMapp, after being flown to Madrid on August 7. He was the first patient to be evacuated to Europe from the African outbreak, which has claimed 1,013 lives since early this year, according to the World Health Organisation. The Spanish priest contracted Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hosp
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ital in the Liberian capital Monrovia where he worked with infected patients. He died at 9:28am 0728 GMT , a spokeswoman for Madrid s La Paz-Carlos III hospital said, confirming that he had been treated with ZMapp. The priest s remains will be incinerated to avoid any risk to health professionals, the hospital said in a statement. A few days before the Spaniard s evacuation, two US missionary workers with Ebola were repatriated from Monrovia. They are being treated with ZMapp at an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The unproven medicine arrived at Madrid s La Paz-Carlos III hospital on Saturday after Spain s drug safety agency exceptiona
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lly cleared its import to treat the missionary. The wolf is Ebola Acting as a spokeswoman for the priest s family, Begona Martin, his cousin, compared the Ebola outbreak to the fable of the boy who cried
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wolf. The Myna Five militants killed by US drone in Pakistan
The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday reiterated that the fall of Kilinochchi, the LTTEs political nerve centre, was imminent and that the army had surrounded it from all sides. HT Image Sri Lanka army SLA troops were engaged in fierce fighting with the LTTE cadres making a last-ditch attempt to push them back. The troops however had made regular advances in the past few weeks braving torrential rain, it said. Keheliya Rambukwella, minister and national security spokesperson, told the media that pitched battle betw
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een SLA soldiers and the LTTE were continuing around Kilinochchi, which is located about 350 km north of Colombo. There is fierce fighting going on but the fall of Kilinochchi is imminent, Rambukwella said. The LTTE did not immediately react to the claims of the government. The Tigers had also released photographs from the battle field. The government would want to capture the important rebel town to send a strong message to the Tigers even
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as leader V Prabhakaran celebrates his 54th birthday on Wednesday. Political analysts are also eagerly waiting the LTTE leaders annual speech slated to be
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delivered on Thursday. Vaiko wants ban on LTTE lifted Vaiko pleaded for India and Britain to lift the ban on LTTE during a 45-minute impassioned speech at the Committee Room in the House of Commons in London. Addressing the All Party Parliamentary Tamil Committee members, he said that Tamils are ready for negotiated talks. Read breaking news, latest.