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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Some $3.4 billion in pledges were made at the United Nations on Friday to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea stamp out Ebola and begin rebuilding health systems and economies devastated by the worst outbreak on record of the deadly hemorrhagic fever. The United Nations had said that $3.2 billion was needed to support the three states’ national recovery plans for the next
By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial on Saturday for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said. Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and “apostolic nuncio”, or Vatican ambassador, in Santo Domingo, is accused of paying boys to perform sexual acts, of downloading and buying paedophile
Strawbridge, who is also a technical advisor to the Samoa national rugby team, was admitted to an Apia hospital on Tuesday with an infection in his right eye after taking ill on a flight from New Zealand before his condition “deteriorated rapidly”. “The family has been overwhelmed by the support that has been shown,” the Chiefs said in a statement on Saturday confirming Strawbridge’s current condition.