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WHO says Ebola responders are 'playing catch-up'

The WHO chief says the Ebola epidemic in DRC is "extremely serious an difficult".

The head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said the Ebola outbreak in and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo is outpacing urgent efforts to scale up a response. We get the latest from our correspondent, and we speak to a community health worker in Sierra Leone and a woman who survived the outbreak in Liberia about a decade ago.

Pope Leo has warned of potential risks to humanity posed by artificial intelligence -- in terms of jobs, manipulation, the environment and in warfare. We get details from our religion reporter.

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has reversed his decision to close a private university following student protests. Our reporter from 麻豆社 Turkish has details.

And, we hear from two romance scams victims.

Presenter: Rahul Tandon.

(Photo: Red Cross workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walk in a formation as they disinfect the ground outside the house of an unidentified man who died of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, May 24, 2026. Credit: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters)

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