A.M. Links: Ebola in New York, Maybe Terorrism Too, Boko Haram Kidnaps More Girls

  • Escape from New YorkDr. Craig
    Spencer
    of New York City, who treated Ebola patients in Guinea,
    was diagnosed with the disease. Mayor
    Bill de Blasio
    says the city is safe, which is true, but not
    because of him.
  • The gunman who killed a soldier in Ottawa, a recent convert to
    Islam, had attempted to go to
    Syria
    to join rebels there, according to the Royal Canadian
    Mounted Police, who say he had no ties to another man who killed a
    soldier in Quebec last week.
  • A man in
    New York City
    attacked two cops with a hatchet before police
    fatally shot him. The cops also unintentionally shot a 29-year-old
    woman. Police are investigating possible terror links.
  • Boko Haram kidnapped 25 more girls in an attack on a remote
    town in
    Nigeria
    after the government claimed to have negotiated a
    temporary ceasefire that would include the release of more than 200
    girls kidnapped earlier this year.
  • The European Union has calculated that the United Kingdom owes
    it 2.1 billion more euros on top of the 10.9 billion it contributes
    annually because of its relative economic health.
  • The governor of the Mexican state of Guerrero,
    Angel Aguirre
    , resigned amid revelations that 42 students in
    Iguala were disappeared by local cops working with drug gangs.

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