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The World Health Organization says a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed about 2,000 people and is on course to surpass the deadliest outbreak on record. WHO also says the epidemic began before it was officially declared, a delay coverage links to the difficulty of containing it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel rejects President Donald Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan and will not withdraw its military until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed. Hamas says relinquishing heavy weapons depends on Israel ending its attacks and withdrawing, leaving the sequence of disarmament and withdrawal as the central dispute.
A magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Aug. 10, collapsing buildings in cities including Cali and Pereira and prompting a national emergency. BBC reporting on Aug. 11 put the official death toll around 181, with local aggregates higher and still rising as rescuers search for survivors.
NOAA says July set a new heat record for the contiguous United States, capping a summer of widespread heat waves. Multiple national outlets carried the agency’s finding with mainly framing differences.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to finance a $567 million abatement program after finding that harms associated with Facebook and Instagram rose to the level of a public nuisance. Most of the money is earmarked for treatment, with the remainder funding prevention, screening and oversight; Meta plans to appeal.
German police defused an explosive-equipped drone found near the south runway at Leipzig/Halle Airport, close to parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes. Investigators have not identified who launched it, why it was there or whether a separate object that struck a cargo aircraft was another drone.
More than 48,000 migrants returned to Morocco after mass crossings into Spain's North African enclaves, according to international broadcasters tracking the border surge and its diplomatic fallout.