Ebola returns to Liberia      AFP, MONROVIA: Liberia announced the return of the deadly Ebola virus yesterday, more than six weeks after the country eradicated the disease. A new case of Ebola has been reported in Margibi County. The person has died and was confirmed positive before death.…

 AFP, SANAA: An attack on Huthi rebel leaders inYemen's capital claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 28 people, medics said yesterday, the latest anti-Shiite assault by the Sunni extremists. Yemen was previously the preserve of IS's jihadist rival Al-Qaeda, which controls…

AFP, TOKYO: A man set himself on fire on board a moving bullet train in Japan yesterday, killing himself and one other person.  Several other passengers had to be treated for smoke inhalation after the man doused himself in flammable liquid and lit a cigarette lighter on the train as it hurtled…

AFP, JUBA: South Sudan's army raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign marked by "new brutality and intensity", a UN rights report said yesterday. Rights investigators from the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) warned of "widespread human rights…

BBC, HELSINKI: Matti Makkonen, who helped to launch the worldwide sensation of texting, has died at the age of 63 after an illness. Makkonen became known as ‘the father of SMS’ after developing the idea of sending messages via mobile networks. In 2012, he told BBC News - in an SMS interview…

AFP, ROME: The Italian navy on Monday said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous sea journey to Europe. The April 18 tragedy was the deadliest sinking in the…

AFP, BEIRUT: At least 28 people were killed yesterday in Syrian government air strikes on a village in northwestern Idlib province and a suburb of Damascus, a monitor said. At least 18 people died in government raids on the village of Ehsim in northwestern Idlib province, the Syria Observatory for Human…

AFP, BUJUMBURA: Burundi election officials finished vote-counting yesterday, a day after internationally condemned polls boycotted by the opposition, with the ruling party expected to win a sweeping victory. The counting is completed in all the polling stations throughout Burundi, election commission…