Venezuela Healthcare Crisis: Under Maduro, Medical Shortages Reaching Critical Level

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Pregnant women lie on beds at a maternity hospital in Maracaibo, Venezuela, June 19, 2015. Around 58 percent of pregnant women in Venezuela receive no prenatal care due to lack of resources in the healthcare system, according to human rights groups. Reuters/Isaac Urrutia

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Thousands break Ebola quarantine to find food

FILE-In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, Healthcare workers load a man, center, onto a ambulance as he is suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone. A doctor in Sierra Leone has died of Ebola — the fifth local doctor in the West African nation to die of the disease, authorities said Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

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Blockade Calais, mayor urges townsfolk as anger rises at migrant crisis

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French police officers stand near migrants who clashed during a distribution of food in Calais. Photograph: Francois Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images

Lack of food and shelter fuels ever more desperate attempts to reach UK and sparks call for Cameron to act

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Philippine aid convoy ambushed as troops quell looting

Philippine troops killed two armed insurgents who attacked an aid convoy en route to typhoon-devastated Tacloban on Tuesday, the military said, as soldiers were deployed to quell looting by hungry survivors. (AFP, Noel Celis)

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