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Ebola death toll in Congo tops 4,000 in fastest-growing outbreak on record

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Bunia, Congo — Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities said as they struggle to contain the spread of the virus.

The latest figures were released by the health ministry on Thursday. They show that 4,018 people have died from among 8,300 confirmed cases in what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history .

More than 2,000 patients have recovered from the disease, the Reuters news agency notes.

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Man shot by ICE in Texas has surgery to remove bullet lodged in his back

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez remains in custody after surgery to remove bullet supporters say was stuck close to his spine The Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot and wounded by a federal immigration agent in Texas last month had surgery on Thursday to remove the bullet that had been lodged in his back for nearly two weeks. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, had appeared in court in a wheelchair on Wednesday, wearing a sling on his arm. He remains in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest.

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Does Philadelphia’s ‘house of horrors’ hold the key to seven missing women?

City on edge as police comb home of Raymond Horsch, pornographer who died last year, in grisly case involving disturbing pictures and film A dilapidated house, burned out above the second story, may hold clues to dark tales and – potentially – the darkest of endings as the FBI and police in Philadelphia try to unpick what took place at 417 West Chew Avenue for more than three decades. Last week, homicide investigators shifted their focus from examining an archive of a million photographs and film recovered from what is known locally as the “house of…