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The UN World Health Organization declared a public health emergency over the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and Caribbean Sea regions.  Recognition of the seriousness of the outbreak unlocks the doors to more money, greater attention, and a coordinated global response.  Adults who catch the virus via infected mosquitoes most often show mild symptoms.  But officials are particularly concerned after large clusters of infected pregnant women gave birth to babies with abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development - around 4,000 in Brazil alone.  This is only the fourth time the WHO has declared a public health emergency.

The Afghanistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 20 people.  This happened outside a police station in Kabul, and most of the dead and injured were police officers. 

The leader of a group that rescues migrants washing up on the Greek island of Kos is welcoming a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Academics from more than 230 prestigious universities vote on the nominations, and a significant movement developed to nominate 16 volunteer groups.  One is Kos Solidarity, whose president George Chertofilis says the recognition would "give meaning to the work we do".

But in northern France, authorities ordered wrecking crews into the Calais "Jungle" to destroy a church and a mosque used by the 5,000 of migrants who've camped out in the tent and shanty city, waiting for a chance to cross the English Channel.  Local officials say the plan was to clear a 100 meter "security zone" around the camp's perimeter, but activists say the church and mosque were supposed to have been spared.  No one was injured and local officials say the migrants are free to put up new shanties to serve as a church and mosque.

Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila put on hold a plan to open his country home to a family of asylum seekers, and offer that got a lot of publicity when he made it last September.  Mr. Sipila said Finns should "look in the mirror and ask how we can help" new arrivals, and decided his vacation home was empty.  But the cabinet security chief now says the offer made the house too hot, and would attract anti-immigration protesters and worse to the small town in the country's north.

Singapore authorities seized a marge number of bank accounts linked to the trouble Malaysian "1 Malaysia Development Berhad" (1MDB), which was supposed to pay for major new economic and social developments in Malaysia.  Investigators say Singapore will not tolerate money laundering, and is "cooperating closely with relevant authorities, including those in Malaysia, Switzerland, and the United States." 

Lions have returned to an African preserve where it was thought they were extinct.  The Born Free Foundation says surveillance cameras captured images indicating a population of about 100 beasts in the Alatash area close to the border with Sudan.  These lions are believed to be a subspecies local to Central Africa.  Last year, a study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, says "many lion populations are either now gone or expected to disappear within the next few decades".