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.