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12/08/2014
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Ebola experimental drugs
Africa to get Ebola trial drugs; Libya rendition; comedians & depression
Iraq prepares to fight
Iraq's former foreign minister; a doctor's fight against Ebola; Lauren Bacall remembered
Missouri tensions
US shooting anger; Kurdish fighter interview; the joy of Sanskrit
Yazidi rescue in doubt
UN says refugee crisis in Iraq, Cliff Richard search, Email ban on holiday .
Iraqi Premier Maliki Resigns
Iraqi PM resigns; Obama says no need to evacuate Yazidis; Shells hit Donetsk city centre
15/08/2014
Six months to control Ebola
MSF "6 months to curb Ebola"; Russian military column "destroyed"; Humans of NY in Iraq
Islamic State forces advance
Reports of IS massacre; On the front line against Ebola; Russians in London.
Northern Iraq violence
Erbil nurse and Mosul dam latest; Race and Ferguson; football's vanishing spray inventor
Mosul dam latest
Battle for Mosul Dam; tensions mount in Ferguson, Missouri; escaping the mafia in Naples
Battle for Mosul Dam
Mosul Dam recaptured? Ebola centre raided; skateboarding legends: Tony Hawk on Jay Adams.
18/08/2014
National Guard sent to Missouri unrest
Missouri Governor calls in National Guard; Anti-Semitism in the UK; Rogue superheroes
The Battle for Mosul Dam
What now for Islamic State in Iraq?; Missouri unrest; African elephants facing extinction
19/08/2014
Tenth night of unrest in Missouri
Police say demonstrators shot at them; Israel resumes air strikes; Suarez returns
Ukraine Fighting
Donetsk under sustained attack; air traffic controllers asleep on job; is Google evil?
20/08/2014
US journalist's 'barbaric murder'
James Foley 'beheading' condemned; Yoga guru dies at 95; China's War Horse
Confronting Islamic State
Iraq's former VP on Foley's death;US Attorney General in Missouri;Neanderthals and humans
The hostage dilemma
Former CIA and MI6 analysts on Foley case; 3 Hamas leaders killed; seals and tuberculosis
US: ISIS remains long-term threat
should US wipe out ISIS? Ebola awareness song; mother traces son to Lockerbie
Western intervention in Syria
How to combat IS in Syria; the 14-year hunger strike; and the robot hitchhiker.
US & Syria's common enemy
President Assad's adviser; Russian convoy "violation"; new Doctor Who
Ukraine: a 'dangerous escalation'
Inside Luhansk; Sunni leader on Iraq's future government; Indira Gandhi film blocked