Obama administration announced increased airport-screening for the Ebola virus. Holland America cruise line is latest to cancel port of calls to West Africa. Typhoons continue to hamper a Princess cruise sailing in Japan. Poachers strip an endangered palm tree from a Seychelles UNESCO World Hertitage site. England's Blackpool airport set to close next week.

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