Ebola vaccinations

KINSHASA: Ebola vaccinations begin tomorrow in the two rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo where the latest deadly outbreak was declared this month, the health ministry said yesterday, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 35, including 10 deaths.

A vaccination campaign is under way in Mbandaka, where four Ebola cases have been confirmed.

About 100 health workers have been vaccinated as front-line workers are high risk.

UK detainee freed

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia says it is releasing an Ethiopia-born British national detained in Yemen in 2014 under the country’s infamous antiterror law.

Andargachew Tsige was secretary-general of the opposition group Ginbot 7 based mainly in Ethiopia’s arch- foe Eritrea.

The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports that Andargachew was pardoned under “special circumstances” with the intervention of the attorney-general.

Air raid on convoy

CAIRO: Egypt’s air forces destroyed 10 vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition near the country’s western border with Libya on Thursday, the Egyptian army said.

The raid was part of a massive operation that was aimed at eliminating terrorists, as well as preventing border infiltration and smuggling activities, the army said.

Terrible fate for art

MOSCOW: A vandal seriously damaged Ivan the Terrible and

His Son Ivan, one of the bestknown paintings exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

The man broke into the hall where the painting by Ilya Repin hangs just before closing on Friday and hit the artwork several times with a metal bar.

He made three holes in the canvas, the gallery said.

‘No pork meals’

JUNEAU: A judge has ordered prisons in the US state of Alaska to provide Muslim inmates with nutritionally sufficient, pork-free meals when they break their Ramadaan fasts at night.

The Council on Americanislamic Relations Legal Defence Fund sued on behalf of two Muslim inmates this week.

Sources: Xinhua/ap/dpa/sputnik/ana