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Sri Lanka's ousted leader hopes to return home: party
Sri Lanka's ousted leader hopes to return home: party

Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is seeking to return home from his exile in Thailand and has asked his successor to guarantee his safety, his party announced Friday. "Basil Rajapaksa requested the president to make arrangements for the former president to return home," the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party said in a statement.

WHO pushes two Ebola treatments found to boost survival rates
WHO pushes two Ebola treatments found to boost survival rates

The World Health Organization said Friday that two existing treatments dramatically reduced deaths from Ebola and should be given to people of all ages suffering from the often-fatal haemorrhagic disease. Ebola is an often-fatal viral haemorrhagic fever that was first identified in central Africa in 1976.