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TRANSFER GOSSIP For a list of confirmed transfers, check out the transfers page. Arsenal have made a £12m offer for Borussia Dortmund's Greece centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos, 26. (Daily Mail)   Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is trying to buy Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal, 27, and Ajax defender Daley Blind, 24, before the transfer window closes on 1 September. (Daily Mirror)   United will have to pay £20m to sign Netherlands international Blind from the Eredivisie club with Ajax director of football Marc Overmars demanding "the absolute top price". (Sun - subscription required)   Daily Star's back page The Old Trafford club want a pay-as-you-play deal for Vidal due to concerns about his right knee. (Daily Mirror)   Liverpool are still pushing to sign ex-Arsenal midfielder Alex Song, 26, who is currently at Barcelona. (Metro)   Arsena...

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U.S. official says 1,000 Russian troops enter Ukraine By Victoria Butenko, Laura Smith-Spark and Diana Magnay, CNN updated 10:59 AM EDT, Thu August 28, 2014 Your video will begin momentarily. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Lithuania requests an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine U.S. official: Intelligence indicates up to 1,000 Russian troops are in southern Ukraine Donetsk rebel leader: Up to 4,000 Russians are fighting; some are active servicemen U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says Russia is "now directly involved in the fighting" Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- A top Ukrainian army officer said a "full-scale invasion" of his country was under way Thursday, as a U.S. official said up to 1,000 Russian troops had crossed Ukraine's southern border to fight alongside pro-Russian rebels. U.S. officials said Russian troops were directly involved in the latest fighting, despite Moscow's denials. Rebels backed by Russian tanks ...

By  Debo Popoola  on August 8, 2014 2 12 boko haram has recruited and trained hundreds of young Cameroonians to carry out attacks in their own country, according to the police and civilians. As the militant group seeks to gain a foothold in the poor, rural north of Cameroon, experts warn that violence may spread beyond border areas to other parts of the central African country. “boko haram has recruited many young people” from Cameroon’s  Far North region, a police officer from the area told reporters on condition of anonymity.  The hardline movement, whose loosely translated name means “Western education is forbidden”, has for years sown terror throughout Nigeria’s northeast, then trained youths “to attack Cameroon”, the officer said. “They are now asking them to prove themselves on home ground,” he said. On Wednesday, the Islamists murdered nine passengers on a bus and a soldier in a separate vehicle in a remote norther...

2 5 Professor Isaac Adewole, the Vice chancellor, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, has hinted that the institution has set up a Committee on Ebola Prevention and Preparedness, to try and produce Ebola vaccine. Nigerian Tribune reports that the Vice chancellor, while speaking at a town hall meeting in Ibadan, further revealed that the institution’s virology laboratory would be expanded and make sure it produce a vaccine that could be used to prevent Ebola. Professor Adewole said the university had concluded plans to spearhead Ebola vaccine production, and advised residents to dispel their fears as they would be adequately equipped with necessary information about the virus. He urged the federal government to investigate the allegation that the late Patrick Sawyer was paid to import the virus to Nigeria, and cautioned people against handshake. He also advised the public to avoid sick people as Ebola virus spreads quickly through body fluids of...

1 According to the attorney general, the new measure would help to resolve the crisis. Sierra Leone has been one of the hardest hit by the epidemic, with 374 deaths and 907 cases since the outbreak began. “A maximum of two years jail term will be imposed on anyone caught hiding somebody who is believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola disease,”  Attorney General Frank Kargbo said after introducing the bill into parliament. With tensions over the outbreak running high, the majority leader of the house, Ibrahim Bundu, criticised neighbouring countries that he said had abandoned Sierra Leone. “We are appalled by the slow pace of response by some of our development partners and the abandonment and isolation from those we viewed and believed to be our biggest friends at sub-regional, regional and global levels,”  he said in a statement. He called the cancellation of flights and closing of borders to contain the virus “ugly deve...