News Headlines - 07 August 2014
A young man lies dead in the streets of Liberia, left to rot in view of passers-by and local children.
He is just one of many Ebola victims to have been dragged out of their homes and dumped on the country's roads by terrified relatives in a desperate bid to avoid being quarantined.
▽BBC News - UN Security Council condemns attacks by Iraqi jihadists
The United Nations Security Council has condemned attacks by Iraqi jihadists , after hundreds of thousands of people from minority groups fled from militants.
The Islamic State (IS) group has seized Qaraqosh, Iraq's biggest Christian town, prompting residents to flee.
▽US considers air strikes and air drops to help Iraqis trapped on mountain by Isis | The Guardian
The Obama administration is considering US air strikes and humanitarian air drops to help besieged religious minorities chased up a mountain by militants in Iraq.
The move comes as Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, was all but abandoned as the jihadist group Islamic State (Isis) advanced through minority communities in the country's north-west and towards the Kurdish stronghold of Irbil.
▽China China Tightens Restrictions on Messaging Apps - WSJ
China for the first time placed restrictions on instant-messaging services—an increasingly popular platform in the country for discussion and debate.
Beijing said the restrictions were instituted to "help build a clean cyberspace" and safeguard national security.
▽Ishiba Says Diet May Need to Debate Asahi Reporting, Sankei Says - Bloomberg
Japan’s parliament may need to debate the Asahi newspaper’s erroneous reporting on the “comfort women” issue, the secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party was quoted as saying in the Sankei newspaper.
