Fire at Russian mental health clinic in Voronezh region kills 23

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said it had taken more than 270 people and 50 vehicles to deal with the blaze and police investigators said the bodies of 23 people had been recovered after the fire had been put out. The police said they had begun an investigation into possible negligence and experts from Moscow would be brought in to help out. “Investigators will look into every possible version of how the fire started and led to such tragic consequences,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement, saying it considered the incident a crime.
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Liberia’s last Ebola contacts finish quarantine

Cassius Kollie, 24, one of four people discharged on Monday from an Ebola treatment unit, receives a certificate for being cured of the disease in PaynesvilleMore than 160 people deemed at risk of catching Ebola in Liberia finished their mandatory surveillance period on Friday, taking the worst affected country a step closer to ending the epidemic. Liberia was the first of West Africa&;s three most badly hit countries to be declared Ebola-free, once in May and again in September, but each time new cases have mysteriously re-emerged. "We went 21 days and nobody became symptomatic," said Tolbert Nyenswah, the head of Liberia&039;s Ebola response.

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UK to take no further action over tabloid phone hacking allegations

Former Editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson arrives for sentencing at the Old Bailey court house in LondonBritish prosecutors said on Friday they would take no further action against Rupert Murdoch&;s News UK and 10 people at rival publisher Mirror Group Newspapers over alleged phone hacking. Reporters on tabloid newspapers have admitted hacking into phones to find stories, a practice that caused uproar when it became public in 2011, resulting in the closure of Murdoch&039;s News of the World title. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had brought 12 prosecutions and secured nine convictions for these serious offences over the last three years, but would take no further action.

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