The first case of Ebola virus in Nigeria has been documented in Lagos, the country's largest city, sparking fears that an epidemic, which has been slowly spreading through West Africa for months, may reach a new stage where it spreads exponentially faster.
The government of Germany has announced that it will take the same measures to prevent spying by the United States and United Kingdom as it takes to prevent spying by more traditional adversaries such as Russia and China.
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, has agreed to pay a $190 million settlement to resolve claims that a gynecologist in their employ furtively filmed his patients.
The United States has accused Russia of shelling Ukrainian military positions from inside of Russia as the Pentagon confirmed that the United States would be sending military advisers to aid the Ukrainian military.
Massive protests involving thousands broke out at an Israeli military checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem.
There is disagreement between the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Congress about the future of an aircraft carrier-based drone, which could have enormous implications for the projection of U.S. military power abroad.
The United Nations has called a meeting of various international air agencies in the wake of a spate of aircraft disasters ranging from crashes to missile strikes.
A political crisis is brewing in Ukraine as two ruling parties withdrew from the parliament, and the legal authorities try to ban the Communist Party.
Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed that the United States knew that the Islamic State was advancing on Iraqi territory from Syria and tried to warn the Iraqi government of the growing threat, but the Iraqis refused to listen and take appropriate defensive measures.
Israel opened fire on a United Nations school designated as a safe zone despite the UN having provided the exact coordinates of the facility to the Israeli Defense Forces.
It took the state of Arizona nearly two hours to complete the execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood, enough time for his lawyers to file a petition for a stay of execution even though the lethal drugs had already been administered.
Twitter has released data on the gender make up of its staff around the world and announced a variety of measures it is taking to help increase gender diversity, an issue for which tech companies like Twitter come in for regular criticism.
The Islamic State has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, ordering that all women in the city of Mosul undergo female genital mutilation.
Boko Haram marked the 100 day anniversary since they kidnapped more than 200 school girls from a Nigerian village with two separate bomb attacks that targeted an ex-president and a moderate Muslim cleric.
The Intercept has obtained the handbook that was created by the United States government as a guide for how and when to put someone on a terrorist watch list.
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