After numerous reports of unwarranted civilian deaths and attacks on United Nations designated shelters in the Gaza Strip, Israel is denying Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch entry into the besieged territory.
The most violent clashes yet between protesters and police since the death of Michael Brown occurred the night of Aug. 17, causing Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to announce that he will deploy the National Guard to enforce a nightly curfew that took effect Sat. Aug. 16.
Armed men stormed a quarantine facility in Monrovia, Liberia, allowing around 30 people believed to have Ebola to escape, raising new concerns about the efficacy of quarantines in countries coping with the outbreak of the Ebola virus.
The Ukrainian military seized a key city in eastern Ukraine while pro-Russian fighters shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet.
Clashes defined the late night hours in Ferguson on the one-week anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown.
The governor of Texas Rick Perry has been indicted on corruption charges.
The Ukrainian military said it destroyed a line of armored vehicles as it crossed into Ukraine from Russia, while a nearly 300-truck convoy said to be carrying aid was stalled on the Russian side of the border.
The police have released new details about the shooting of Michael Brown and the incidents that led up to his death.
Thousands of people around the United States came together for a moment of silence to commemorate victims of police brutality after a series of incidents in which unarmed men were killed by the police.
The distribution of the first doses of an experimental vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus is at least a month away as international aid agencies consider using air drops to deliver supplies to communities that have been quarantined.
Two commanders of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have resigned from their positions as the Ukrainian military continues to bombard their positions, and has encircled their last two remaining strongholds.
President Barack Obama and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon both weighed in on the controversy in Ferguson, Missouri, which has seen police aiming rifles at peaceful protesters as well as teargasing and arresting journalists.
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind the online payment service PayPal, electric car company Tesla Motors and private space company SpaceX has found himself the target of lawsuits over illegal and unsavory treatment of his employees.
Numerous reports and images show that police in Ferguson, Missouri aimed their weapons at peaceful crowds of protesters and arrested journalists, a violation of the First Amendment.
The Israeli government and Gazan authorities have agreed on a five day long extension of an already in place ceasefire despite the fact that rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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