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The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.
BBC News – Africa

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Stagnating growth in the eurozone has put pressure on the European Central Bank to take further measures to boost the economic bloc, say analysts.
BBC News – Business

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki is to step aside in favour of Haider al-Abadi, ending the country’s political deadlock, state TV says.
BBC News – Middle East

Brazil’s president declares three days of mourning after the death of socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in a plane crash.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A controversial Russian aid convoy remains parked near Ukraine’s border, still waiting for permission to cross the frontier.
BBC News – Europe

Britain would “favourably consider” any request for arms from the Kurds in their battle with extremists in Iraq, the BBC understands.
BBC News – UK

Hundreds of people are taking part in a peaceful protest in Ferguson, in honour of a black unarmed teenager killed by police, after four nights of unrest.
BBC News – US & Canada

The UN’s health agency says the scale of the Ebola outbreak appears to be “vastly underestimated”, as the death toll reaches 1,069.
BBC News – Africa

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The UK unemployment rate falls to 6.4% in the three months to June, close to a six-year low but wage growth is the slowest on record.
BBC News – Business

French President Francois Hollande says France will supply arms to Iraq’s Kurds “in the coming hours”.
BBC News – Middle East

Eight gunmen in Chile steal more than $ 10m (£6.2m) from an armoured van carrying cash to Santiago airport in the biggest robbery in the country’s history.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A landslide in Switzerland derails a train in a “serious accident” amid reports that carriages plunged into a ravine.
BBC News – Europe

Britain will “play a role” in an international mission to rescue Yazidi refugees who have fled Islamic extremists in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
BBC News – UK

Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood’s biggest post-war stars, has died at home in New York after a career spanning seven decades.
BBC News – US & Canada

The World Health Organization classifies Kenya as a high-risk country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
BBC News – Africa

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Electricity company EDF temporarily shuts down two of its nuclear power stations, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool.
BBC News – Business

US President Barack Obama says the nomination of Haider al-Abadi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate is a “promising step forward”.
BBC News – Middle East