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Albania

Heavy rains pound country

Torrential rain in Albania has cut supplies of power and water in the western part of the country, and authorities are investigating media reports that three people have died. Agriculture Minister Edmond Planarity said on Wednesday that the storm dumped 130 mm of rain in two hours overnight in the Lezhe and Lac districts, northwest of Tirana, causing power outages and flooding homes in those areas.

Sierra Leone

Cuban doctor contracts Ebola

A Cuban doctor in Sierra Leone to combat Ebola has contracted the virus and is to be urgently transported to Geneva for treatment, the head of the Cuban mission said on Wednesday. Doctor Feliz Baez Sarria, 43, "is in good condition" and in a Red Cross center close to the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, according to his director, Dr Jorge Delgado Butillo.

Indonesia

Widodo names Jakarta governor

Indonesian President Joko Widodo appointed Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese, on Wednesday to be governor of Jakarta, the capital city, until 2017, making him the first governor installed under the new regional governor election law. Basuki is the second ethnic Chinese appointed as governor of Jakarta. The first was Henk Ngantung, who served from 1964 to 1965 during the administration of Soekarno, Indonesia's first president.

Spain

Search begins for war graves

A search for unmarked Spanish Civil War graves has begun in southern Spain near where the acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca is believed to have been executed and buried at the start of the conflict in 1936. Andalusia's regional government said on Wednesday that work had begun to clear 300 square meters of forest land outside the village of Alfacar to bring it back to its prewar condition.

Kenya

Court to act for stripped woman

Kenyan authorities were expected to arraign some 90 people in court on Wednesday who were arrested in Nairobi for stripping a woman. The arrests come after the woman was stripped for supposedly dressing indecently in downtown Nairobi last week. A second woman suffered a similar fate in Mombasa, and a third was stripped inside a bus in Nairobi on Monday night

Italy

Action pledged on malnutrition

More than 170 governments pledged on Wednesday to do more to prevent malnutrition around the globe, adopting voluntary guidelines to promote healthy diets and reduce levels of obesity at the start of a three-day UN summit.

AP - AFP - Xinhua

(China Daily 11/20/2014 page11)