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Liberian teen becomes hero for finding and returning $50,000
A teenager in Liberia who has become a national hero after finding $50,000 and returning it to its rightful owner said he will meet the country’s president next week.
Ex-Liberian warlord accused of rape, eating man's heart goes to trial
An international trial of a former Liberian rebel leader -- accused of heinous war crimes including rape, cannibalism and recruiting child soldiers -- kicked off in Switzerland on Thursday. A...
Lawyer wins environmental prize for saving forest from palm oil company
BOSTON — When Alfred Brownell arrived in a remote Liberian village, the surrounding tropical rainforest had been leveled by bulldozers. Burial grounds were uprooted, religious shrines were desecrated and a...
US doctor who survived Ebola honored for service in Liberia
HOLDEN, Mass. — Almost five years have passed since he nearly died of Ebola in Liberia, but Richard Sacra has never wavered from his commitment to the struggling West African...
How I ended up as a modern-day slave in the middle of NYC
Living in a cramped concrete house in the heart of Liberia’s sweltering capital, 8-year-old Famatta Massalay always dreamed of seeing snow. One day, her mother told her she was about...
Ebola survivor likely spread virus a year after she was infected
LONDON — A Liberian woman who probably caught Ebola in 2014 may have infected three relatives a year after she first fell sick, doctors reported in a study published Monday....
Soccer legend George Weah elected president of Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia — Former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah has been elected Liberia's new president by a wide margin as the West African nation faces its first...
Ex-corporal cops plea in DEA agent assassination plot
A former German corporal who authorities say is a deadly sniper copped a plea Tuesday to being part of a squadron of elite ex-military personnel that plotted to assassinate a...
Ebola doctor says no-contact rules are hard on patients
It’s the gift he most wishes he could give this holiday season — but he can’t because it might kill him. Dr. Ken Marx has been risking his life treating...
Passenger at Newark Airport being tested for Ebola
A passenger arriving at Newark Airport from West Africa on Tuesday was being evaluated for possible Ebola. The flier was transported to a hospital when a screening detected symptoms similar...
Travel ban could stop Ebola virus from spreading: Obama critics
Banning travel from Ebola-stricken West African countries could keep the deadly virus from spreading in the United States, say critics of President Obama’s claim that such a ban would only...
Obama: Ebola travel ban could make things worse
President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to avoid hysteria over Ebola, and played down the idea of travel bans from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, explaining that restrictions could...
'We are Liberian, not a virus': SI immigrants face Ebola stigma
Their accents clear subway cars. They are denied work as soon as anyone hears where they are from. And their kids are being bullied at school. Residents of Staten Island’s...
Obama expected to send National Guard to Liberia to fight Ebola
President Obama is expected to issue an executive order to put National Guard boots on the ground in Liberia to help stop the spread of Ebola, according to a report...
UN volunteer dies from Ebola virus
A United Nations volunteer who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Liberia has died in Germany, hospital officials said Tuesday. The unnamed Sudanese health worker arrived in Leipzig last...
Massachusetts medical center shuts down amid Ebola scare
BRAINTREE, Mass. — A patient who had been to Liberia and complained of a headache and muscle aches forced a brief shutdown of a Braintree medical center on Sunday, and...
The agonizing last days of the first Ebola patient in the US
Despite five days of intensive treatment, Thomas Eric Duncan's condition was deteriorating. By the morning of Oct. 2, nurses noticed blood in the Liberian man's urine, and his stools were...
41 UN staffers under Ebola observation
MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberia's United Nations peacekeeping mission has placed 41 staff members, including 20 military personnel, under "close medical observation" after an international member of its medical team was...
Liberian leader seeks more power to fight Ebola
MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberian lawmakers debated Friday whether to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf more power to restrict movement and public gatherings in the fight against Ebola as one parliamentarian...
Ebola outbreak leaves thousands of kids without parents
MONROVIA, Liberia -- First 16-year-old Promise Cooper's mother complained of a hurting head and raging fever, and she died days later on the way to the hospital. The following month,...