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The remote town of Snuny was recently liberated from ISIS. But aside from Kurdish and Yazidi militia men, very few people have ventured back. There are no services, and the ISIS threat is still real.

There has been a dramatic shortfall of Ebola-related equipment in Sierra Leone and other countries battling the disease. NPR's Arun Rath talks with Steve McAndrew about the logistical challenges of responding to the outbreak.

On Sunday, tens of thousands of people from around the country packed onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a peaceful pilgrimage to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

Concern about a terrorist attack continues in Brussels where authorities have launched a series of security sweeps aimed at heading off what authorities call "a serious and imminent" terrorist threat.

An inquest into the deaths of 96 soccer fans in a British sports stadium has concluded that faulty policing was responsible. The supporters of Liverpool Football Club were crushed to death during a game in 1989. Their relatives had to fight for nearly 30 years to overcome a police cover-up, which included allegations that the fans themselves were to blame for the disaster.

A day after reports surfaced from Mount Everest that four climbers were found dead, Nepalese officials say other climbers would have seen the bodies and that no climbers had been reported missing.

More than 120 leaders are expected to attend the one-day summit sponsored by the United Nations. They have been instructed to arrive Tuesday with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures.

In the midst of worldwide panic over Ebola, Africa's most populous nation has started to celebrate. Nigeria's outbreak began in July, and now the country is on the verge of victory.

Multiple people are dead after a shooting Wednesday morning at a light rail facility in downtown San Jose, Calif. Law enforcement has said the shooter is also dead.

The U.S. will narrowly miss President Biden's July 4 vaccination goal but the country is still in a far better position than July 4, 2020.