Ebola Response Includes Emergency Airlifts
The World Food Program is airlifting emergency supplies to the Ebola-stricken countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The U.N. agency said the Ebola response goes beyond its traditional role of providing food aid.
The WFP said it’s “shifted gears to support the international community to stem (阻止) the unprecedented (前所未有) virus outbreak.”
Following the refusal by America’s Supreme Court to hear appeals against same-sex marriage, courts in Alaska and North Carolina struck down bans in those states on gay couples getting hitched (結婚). The Supreme Court also turned down another request to hear an appeal against gay marriage, this time from Idaho.
An “extraordinary synod (宗教會議)” of Catholic bishops (天主教主教) meeting at the Vatican (梵蒂岡) produced a shift towards conciliatory (撫慰的, 懷柔的) language on homosexuality, as well as recognition of the “positive aspects of civil unions and cohabitation (共存)” among heterosexual (異性戀) couples.
The World Health Organisation warned that within two months 10,000 new cases of Ebola could emerge (發生,浮現) each week in west Africa unless the international effort to tackle its spread is stepped up (加強). The first infections in the United States were reported: two nurses in Dallas who contracted Ebola after (英式發音有點像 of...) caring for a patient there. A medical worker died in Berlin after being flown in (被空運送進...) from Liberia (賴比瑞亞). More airports and hospitals increased their screening procedures. Recorded Ebola cases reached some 9,000 and deaths neared 4,500, though (發音聽起來像 as...) the actual total is much higher.
