World leaders vow to 'extinguish' Ebola

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World leaders vow to 'extinguish' Ebola

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/g20-leaders-commit-extinguish-ebola-outbreak-083640465.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/33qV6XBqQNkbjvNjD8jL2Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par8026615-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A health worker wearing protective gear works on November 11, 2014 in the red zone of the Hastings treatment centre, outside the Sierra Leone capital Freetown" align="left" title="A health worker wearing protective gear works on November 11, 2014 in the red zone of the Hastings treatment centre, outside the Sierra Leone capital Freetown" border="0" /></a>The world's most powerful economies vowed on Saturday to &quot;extinguish&quot; the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa, as the vast desert nation of Mali scrambled to prevent a new outbreak of the killer disease. Despite some hopeful signs from Africa -- where Liberia has lifted its state of emergency and the DR Congo announced the end of its own, unrelated, outbreak of Ebola -- the recent deaths of three people in Mali have fuelled fears of a new hotspot. As pop stars recorded a new &quot;Band Aid&quot; single in London to help combat a disease that has killed more than 5,100 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, global leaders meeting in Brisbane made no new pledges of cash. &quot;G20 members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the outbreak and address its medium-term economic and humanitarian costs,&quot; the leaders said in a statement, as they welcomed the International Monetary Fund's initiative to release $300 million (240 million euros) to combat Ebola.</p><br clear="all"/>

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