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• New Jersey boy's death is first linked directly to enterovirus
• Egypt jihadist group releases video of beheadings
• Cuban migrants drank own blood, urine, adrift at sea for 23 days
• Nebraska hospital prepares for arrival of Ebola patient
• Ex-Haiti dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier dead at 63
• Hong Kong protesters agree to remove some barricades
• Ebola ruled out for ill passenger escorted off plane in Newark
• Mass grave found near Mexico town hit by violence
• Ebola patient in Dallas turns critical, no new U.S. cases
• Sister of suspected Pennsylvania sniper thinks he has fled area

New Jersey boy's death is first linked directly to enterovirus Posted: 05 Oct 2014 11:57 AM PDT (Reuters) - A New Jersey boy who went to bed last month in seemingly good health and died in his sleep is the first fatality linked directly to a strain of enterovirus that has infected more than 500 people, a local medical official said on Sunday. The 4-year-old boy, identified as Eli Waller of Hamilton Township, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Atlantic City, never awoke after going to sleep on the night of Sept. 24, Hamilton Township Health Officer Jeff Plunkett said. ...

Egypt jihadist group releases video of beheadings Posted: 05 Oct 2014 11:40 AM PDT A video released Sunday showed the execution of four men accused of spying for the army and for Israel's Mossad intelligence service.

Cuban migrants drank own blood, urine, adrift at sea for 23 days Posted: 05 Oct 2014 08:15 AM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food or water, according to survivors who reached the United States this week. "I'm happy I made it, alive, but it was something no-one should have to go through," said Alain Izquierdo, a Havana butcher, and one of 15 survivors of the 32 passengers. Six passengers are missing after they tried to swim to shore, while 11 others died of dehydration. ...

Nebraska hospital prepares for arrival of Ebola patient Posted: 05 Oct 2014 07:42 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Nebraska hospital is preparing for the expected arrival of an Ebola patient who contracted the disease in Liberia, a spokesman said on Sunday. Nebraska Medical Center spokesman Taylor Wilson declined to name the patient, who he said was a male U.S. citizen expected to be admitted on Monday. Fox TV in Boston has reported that Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman working for NBC who contracted Ebola in Liberia, is expected back in the United States on Sunday and will be treated at the Nebraska hospital. The Nebraska hospital last month treated and released Dr. ...

Ex-Haiti dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier dead at 63 Posted: 05 Oct 2014 07:22 AM PDT Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who ruled the impoverished Caribbean nation with an iron fist from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, died of a heart attack. He was 63.

Hong Kong protesters agree to remove some barricades Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:59 AM PDT HONG KONG (AP) — Students occupying the area outside Hong Kong's government headquarters agreed Sunday to remove some barricades that have blocked the building's entrance during weeklong pro-democracy protests, as police warned of taking "all necessary measures" to clear the streets by the beginning of the work week.

Ebola ruled out for ill passenger escorted off plane in Newark Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:54 PM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - U.S. disease-control agents in biohazard suits removed a sick passenger and his daughter from a United Airlines jet that landed on Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, but federal health officials later said they had ruled out Ebola as a concern. ...

Mass grave found near Mexico town hit by violence Posted: 04 Oct 2014 07:43 PM PDT IGUALA, Mexico (AP) — A clandestine grave site with multiple burial pits was found outside a town where violence last weekend resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students after a clash with police, Mexican officials said Saturday.

Ebola patient in Dallas turns critical, no new U.S. cases Posted: 04 Oct 2014 07:09 PM PDT By Jon Herskovitz and and Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States took a turn for the worse on Saturday, slipping from serious to critical condition in a Dallas hospital, as health officials reported tracking scores of possible cases around the country that proved to be false alarms. The case of Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived in Dallas from Liberia two weeks ago, has heightened concerns that the worst epidemic of Ebola on record could spread from West Africa where it began in March and has taken more than 3,400 lives. Dr. ...

Sister of suspected Pennsylvania sniper thinks he has fled area Posted: 04 Oct 2014 06:52 PM PDT By Joe McDonald CANADENSIS Pa. (Reuters) - The sister of the survivalist suspected of killing a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another three weeks ago said on Saturday she thought her brother had fled the area, and she urged him to surrender to authorities. Tiffany Frein, the 18-year-old sister of Eric Frein, said she believed an intensive manhunt, involving hundreds of officers, has failed to capture her brother because he was not in the deep woods of the Pocono Mountains where they have been searching. ...

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