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Calls to keep borders open amid Ebola outbreak

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Organisations fighting the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have appealed for borders to be kept open after Rwanda briefly closed the main crossing near Goma, after the confirmation of a third death from Ebola in the city.

The US is set to formally withdraw from a nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.

The mayor of Somalia's capital Mogadishu has died a week after being wounded in a suicide attack that killed at least six other people. The female bomber blew herself up inside the office of Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman during a security meeting.

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