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Current events of
November 5, 2014
(
2014-11-05
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Libyan Civil War
Battles between loyalist forces and militias have killed nearly 400 in three weeks, including at least 250 deaths in
Benghazi
and 140 near the capital
Tripoli
.
(Associated Press via
Washington Post
)
al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
A US drone strike kills five
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
operatives including Shawki al-Badani and Nabil al-Dahab, leader of
Ansar al-Sharia
in
Yemen
's
Al Bayda Governorate
.
(Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Syrian Civil War
Mortar fire
kills eleven children at a school in
Damascus
.
(Reuters)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
:
A vehicular attack in
Jerusalem
leaves one person dead and injures fourteen others as
Hamas
claims responsibility and calls for similar acts.
(AP)
(Times of Israel)
(ABC News)
Health
Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
The
World Health Organisation
appoints Dr Matshidiso Moeti of
Botswana
as its new
Africa
chief as the death toll from the virus passes 5,000.
(AP)
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