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UKRAINE

Prosecutor general, security chief dismissed

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on late Sunday that he had decided to dismiss Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, the presidential press service reported. In his address to the nation, Zelensky blamed Venediktova and Bakanov for insufficiently dealing with a large number of traitors in their agencies. As of Sunday, Ukrainian authorities had launched 651 criminal proceedings on charges of "treason and collaboration activities" in law enforcement agencies, Zelensky said.

GHANA

Two cases confirmed of highly infectious virus

Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by a laboratory in Senegal for the cases to be considered confirmed, the World Health Organization said. The disease previously occurred in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Uganda and Kenya.

Agencies - Xinhua