Fwd: AlertNet Expresso - Your daily shot of humanitarian news

Here are the top humanitarian news on trust.org today.

AFRICA

Swiss test GSK Ebola vaccine in some volunteers going to Africa

• SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Libya getting "very close" to point of no return -UN envoy

INTERVIEW-Opposition leader suggests "soft exit" for Sudan's Bashir

ASIA

Sri Lanka landslide kills at least 10, with over 250 missing

Five years after war, Sri Lanka refugees reluctant to leave India-survey

• SPOTLIGHT: Sri Lanka conflict
• VIDEO: REPORTER'S VIDEO DIARY: The women de-mining Sri Lanka

Afghan forces prepare to fight alone as foreign troops leave

• SPOTLIGHT: Afghanistan turmoil

MIDDLE EAST

Iran envoy rejects U.N. investigator's charges of rights abuses

Iraqi peshmerga fighters head for Syria to fight Islamic State

• SPOTLIGHT: Iraq divided and in crisis

EUROPE

UK charities group launches appeal for Ebola, first for a disease

Britain says opposes future migrant rescue missions in Mediterranean

GLOBAL

Recession drives 2.6 mln more children into poverty in affluent nations-UN

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