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World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 5 March

Associated Press Friday, 6 March 2015, 06:58 Last update: about 10 years ago

EBOLA VACCINE

LONDON — The World Health Organization says it will soon start large-scale testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine in Guinea to see how effective it might be in preventing future outbreaks of the dreaded virus.

RUSSIA-GULAG MUSEUM

MOSCOW — An independent Russian organization says it has been ousted from the Gulag prison camp museum that it has run from 1992. Under the new operators, the group says, "there was no talk of political repression, no talk of Stalin. 

CYPRUS-REFEREE-BOMBINGS

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Police say a new group — the "Armed Gate Niners Urban Guerrillas" — has emerged in Cyprus to claim responsibility for two of five bomb attacks targeting soccer referees in the past year, police said Thursday. 

RUSSIA-ITALY

MOSCOW —Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is visiting Moscow for talks focusing on Russia-EU ties, which have been badly strained by the Ukrainian crisis.

UKRAINE-MINE BLAST

DONETSK, Ukraine — Officials in a separatist rebel-held city in east Ukraine say the death toll from an accidental explosion at a coal mine has risen to 32. The self-appointed government in Donetsk says one person remains unaccounted for.

SPAIN-UKRAINE-ARREST

MADRID — Spanish police have arrested former Ukraine finance minister Yuri Kolobov, who is accused of embezzling millions of euros in state funds.

TURKEY-MILITARY-PLANE-CRASH

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's military says a fighter jet has crashed during a training mission, killing its two pilots. 

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