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Police in Canada say they believe the man accused of shooting dead a Canadian soldier and attacking the country's parliament on Wednesday acted alone. Police commissioner Bob Paulson told reporters that the investigations are continuing to see if 32-year old Michael Zehaf Bibeau, a Muslim convert, had support in preparing the attacks. He said there was no information to link the Ottawa attack with the killing of another soldier in Quebec earlier in the week.

There were concerns that initial stage of the emergency response there may have been more than one individual involved. Our partner of the Ottawa Police Service and the CRMP agree that yesterday's Zehaf Bibeau acted alone and that he is the same person that perpetrated the attacks in both the National War Memorial and on Parliament Hill. Investigations are ongoing. And we will rapidly determine if Zehaf Bibeau received any support in the planning of this attack. We have no information linking the two attacks this week in S. and in Ottawa.

Earlier the mother of the man behind Wednesday's attacks said she was crying for the victims of the shooting, not for her son.

The Nigerian government says it's investigating reports that dozens of women and girls have been adopted by Boko Haram militants in the northeast of the country in spite of a ceasefire announced by the military. A government spokesman Michael Merry told BBC that officials were still trying to verify exactly what had happened.

We are condemning it and the issue would be investigated. Whoever is found to be accountable or perpetrating it will be brought to book. Investigations are still ongoing to verify because reports from D. is given from 15 figures and situation of the event. So let us get our own proper commission for what happened.

The ceasefire with Boko Haram was announced last week but violence has continued.

The World Health Organization says there's no sign that Ebola had been contained in the three West African countries that have borne the brunt of the disease. After a meet in Geneva, the WHO said the spread of Ebola had been prevented in Nigeria and Senegal but the overall picture remained bleak and the disease was still a global public health emergency. The WHO said exit screenings of people leaving those countries, Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia should be strengthened.

Government in Guinea says it started paying compensation to the families of people who have died as a result of trying to help Ebola patients. The relatives of more than 40 doctors, nurses, porters and others will each receive a payment of 10,000 dollars. Most of the health workers died after contracting Ebola while treating or helping others. The Ebola epidemic started in Guinea.

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The former leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami has died aged 91. A year ago he was found guilty of war crimes and given a 90-year prison sentence for masterminding atrocities during the country's war of independence in the 1970s. During his trail el-Zaam, who was leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party in, until 2000, was described as the architect of pro-Pakistani militias accused of widespread atrocities.

Ecuador and Columbia are on amber alert over the increased seismic activities of two volcanoes along their boarder. The Chileans and S. Volcanoes are both over 4,000 meters high, a few kilometers apart. Columbia has asked 12,000 people to evacuate the area. A control center has been set up and tents and supplies brought in.

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels are attempting to agree the outlines of a new energy policy for the next 15 years that aimed to cut green house gases. Damian G. reports.

There are deep divisions among Europe's leaders now, meeting in Brussels over the future of the continent's energy supplies. Some, like France, said the EU's 28 nations need to be ambitious. They want countries to commit to steep cuts in green house gas emissions over the next 15 years and binding targets for how much energy comes from renewable resources. But Poland and Eastern European nations in particular relying on coal, worried about the economic costs. They want to water down the targets or get other supports. EU leaders have said there must be an agreement at this summit. Discussions may go late into the night.

Twenty ancient artifacts, some more than 1,800 years old have been returned by the US authorities to Peru. The objects include two colonial area church paintings and portrait artifacts looted from ancient Peruvian graves. They were found over several years by the US customs authorities.

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