The Ebola death toll has climbed in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and now surpasses 600. Panic is spreading, both within these countries and their neighbors.

Early this morning, an air strike leveled several apartments in the city of Snizhne, killing at least four civilians. Friendly fire or Russian provocation? As the fog of war descends on Ukraine, Putin keeps pushing the limits of plausible deniability.

Madrid is set to permit exploratory well drilling for what looks to be a very promising offshore oil play off the coast of the tourist-magnet Canary Islands. Economic and energy security concerns are winning out over environmental wishes.

Hundreds of armed Turkish Kurds have entered Syria to save a Syrian Kurdish stronghold from ISIS. Meanwhile, the Iraqi Kurdish leader is in Ankara to talk independence and oil with Erdogan.

The NYT is finally admitting that the main goal of the ACA—expanding access—won’t bring down the costs of our health care system. If only we had heard this four years ago.

Radio Free Europe has published a fascinating interview with an Armenian volunteer sent by Russia to eastern Ukraine to fight as a separatist. It’s a fascinating look inside Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Cheap nuclear power and 24/7 Russian propaganda piped into your country: what’s not to like?

As if the college debt crisis wasn’t scary enough already, a rash of complaints nationwide indicate that settlement agencies are pushing vulnerable, broke grads even deeper into debt.

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for bombings yesterday in the port city of Lagos, in Nigeria’s Christian, oil-rich south.

A Paris mob attacked a synagogue when an anti-Israel march got out of hand on Sunday. Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in France and across Europe.