After a month in a hospital in Rome, Italy’s only Ebola patient fully recovers and is released from the hospital after contracting the virus in West Africa. Gavino Garay reports.

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Amateur video that Reuters can’t verify claims to show Kurdish forces battling Islamic State fighters, as IS militants voice their resolve to take Kobani or die trying. Mana Rabiee reports.

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A Kenyan student is sentenced to a year in jail for insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta on social media. …read more      

Thousands say farewell to Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Omar Karami who is laid to rest in Tripoli after his death, aged 80. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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Tug boats two the burnt-out ferry that caught fire off the coast of Greece into the southern Italian port of Brindisi. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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Hosts of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, Equatorial Guinea are set to appoint Esteban Becker to replace Andoni Goikoetxea.

Equatorial Guinea have opted not to renew Coach Goikoetxea’s contract, which expired on December 31.

The country’s football association (FEGUIFUT) claims Goikoetxea breached his contract by not travelling to Portugal with the team on 16 December.

Becker would have just over two weeks with the team before they kick off the Nations Cup against Congo on January 17.

He was previously in charge of Equatorial Guinea’s women’s team, whom he led to the 2012 Nations Cup title.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced in November 2014, that Equatorial Guinea would host the 2015 African Nations Cup.

This was after Morocco was stripped of the event hosting right, having asked for it to be postponed over fears of the spread of the Ebola virus.

The oil-rich Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea is one of Africa’s smallest countries with a population of just over 600,000.

It hosted the 2012 finals with neighbours Gabon but will take on the 16-team tournament on its own from January 17 to February 8.

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(WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Search teams criss-cross the seas off Borneo hunting for the wreck of AirAsia flight 8501 while forensic teams rush to ID the bodies that have so far been found. Mana Rabiee reports.

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An official has said that 30 bodies have been recovered along with pieces of the broken-up AirAsia plane in the Indonesian-led search for Flight QZ8501 that is concentrated on 1,575 square nautical miles of the northern Java Sea.

Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather again hindered the search for the plane and the black box flight recorders that should reveal why it crashed.

Strong winds and heavy seas have stopped divers from looking for the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200, which plunged into the water on Sunday while en route from Indonesia’s second-biggest city, Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

“Waves were between 3 and 4 meters today, making it difficult to load bodies onto ships and between ships,” Head of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, told reporters in Jakarta, adding that some vessels would search through the night.

“Tonight we are sending tug boats which should make the (body) transfers easier.”

The multinational search operation based in Pangkalan Bun, the town in southern Borneo closest to the search area, was bolstered on Friday by experts from France’s BEA accident investigation agency, which attends all Airbus crashes.

Officials said that the French team’s hydrophones – sophisticated underwater acoustic detection devices – and towed sonar equipment brought by other international experts could not be used on Friday because of high waves.

But naval vessels from Indonesia, the United States and Singapore with in-built anti-submarine capabilities were using sonar to sweep the sea floor.

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Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather again hindered the search for the plane and the black box flight recorders that should reveal why it crashed.

An official said 30 bodies had been recovered, along with pieces of the broken-up plane, in the Indonesian-led search for Flight QZ8501 that is concentrated on 1,575 square nautical miles of the northern Java Sea.

Strong winds and heavy seas have stopped divers from looking for the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200, which plunged into the water on Sunday while en route from Indonesia’s second-biggest city, Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

“Waves were between 3 and 4 meters today, making it difficult to load bodies onto ships and between ships,” Head of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, told reporters in Jakarta, adding that some vessels would search through the night.

“Tonight we are sending tug boats which should make the (body) transfers easier.”

The multinational search operation based in Pangkalan Bun, the town in southern Borneo closest to the search area, was bolstered on Friday by experts from France’s BEA accident investigation agency, which attends all Airbus crashes.

Officials said that the French team’s hydrophones – sophisticated underwater acoustic detection devices – and towed sonar equipment brought by other international experts could not be used on Friday because of high waves.

But naval vessels from Indonesia, the United States and Singapore with in-built anti-submarine capabilities were using sonar to sweep the sea floor.

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The head of the UN team fighting Ebola, Anthony Banbury, says the outbreak will be ended in 2015 but admits the end is “not close”. …read more