Mounting tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are likely to drive Ebola deeper into the country, an Irish doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) has warned. The warning followed an attack yesterday on an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo, which was set ablaze by people angered after they were stopped from recovering the body of a local man. About 600 suspected Ebola cases have been recorded in the DRC, along with more than 140 deaths, figures that led the World Health Organization to declare a…

Oil surges past $90 as war in Middle East chokes Strait of Hormuz, rattling fuel costs worldwide Oil prices spiked and showed no signs of easing a week after the United States and Israel launched major attacks on Iran, tipping the Middle East into war and choking off one of the world’s most vital energy arteries, the Strait of Hormuz. Commercial tankers carrying roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day are stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely pass through the narrow waterway bordered by Iran, as missile and drone…