South Korea Struggles To Contain Deadly MERS Virus' Spread Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News South Korea Struggles To Contain Deadly MERS Virus' Spread Health officials in South Korea are coming under fire after cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, swelled from one to 13 inside of two weeks. Read this story Anthrax Was Accidentally Sent To 11 States, 2 Countries, Pentagon Now Says The numbers are more than the Pentagon's Thursday estimate of nine states and a U.S. Air Force base in South Korea. News organizations named Australia as the other country that received the samples. Read this story Reports: Ex-Speaker Hastert's Payments Linked To Sexual Misconduct Both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are reporting that Hastert was paying a man to not reveal that Hastert had abused him years ago. Read this story Egypt Agrees To Deport U.S. Citizen Sentenced For Protests In April, Mohamed Soltan, 27, was sentenced to life in prison for his ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. He had been on a more than year-long hunger strike. Read this story Mecca Becomes A Mecca For Skyscraper Hotels Mecca is the destination for Muslim pilgrims. To house the millions of worshippers, massive hotels are rising at a furious pace, upsetting those seeking to protect the city's traditional architecture. Read this story more news stories

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