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lowing the aid convoy.“This is another example of the

Russians saying that they want tode-escalate the situation but tak-ing action that clearly has the op-posite effect,” said Col. SteveWar-ren, a Pentagon spokesman.

Ukrainian President Petro Po-roshenko said his artillery haddestroyed a large part of the col-umn that apparently crossed theborder late Thursday, and stoodready to fight any incursion.

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Kiev was trying to prevent itshumanitarian aid convoy fromreaching conflict-torn regions.

Elsewhere, Russian columnsof as many as several dozen ar-mored vehicles cruised alongroads near the border on theRussian side Friday in plainsight of Western reporters fol-

Ukraine said it destroyed muchof a column of Russian armoredvehicles that had rolled over theborder into territory held by pro-Moscow rebels, marking the mostdirect military clash between theex-Soviet neighbors since theconflict began.

Western officials said the ap-parent incursion lays bare Rus-sia’s role in stoking the conflictin eastern Ukraine, where gov-ernment forces have battled theinsurgents for four months.

Russia denied Friday sendingfighters and vehicles across theborder, and complained that

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Ferguson, Mo., police re-leased more details in the

death of an unarmed African-American teenager, but theinformation stirred new mis-trust in the community. A3 A coalition of libertariansand liberals are calling forcurbs on the use of military-style force by police. A4n Texas Gov. Perry was in-dicted for alleged abuse ofpower after threatening toveto funding for state publiccorruption prosecutors. A4n Kiev said it destroyed muchof a Russian armored columnthat entered Ukraine. A1n The U.S. is preparing toincrease assistance to Iraqnow that Nouri al-Maliki hasstepped aside. A1n Iraqi leaders cautiouslyembraced Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi. A5n An influx of children atthe U.S. border is divertingresources for refugees fromother parts of the world. A3n Israel and Palestiniansconsidered their next movesahead of Egypt-mediatedtalks on Monday. A8n Protesters streamed intoIslamabad on Friday, seekingto oust Nawaz Sharif. A8n The Ebola toll could havebeen mitigated, health work-ers say, with the help of dis-posable rubber gloves. A1n Los Angeles’s Ethics Com-mission voted to consider of-fering cash prizes in a bid toboost voter turnout. A4

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WASHINGTON—The Obama ad-ministration is preparing to signif-icantly increase U.S. diplomatic,military and economic assistanceto Iraq now that Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki has stepped aside,hoping to push back gains by Is-lamic State militants, senior U.S.,Iraqi and Kurdish officials said.

Mr. Maliki’s announcement onThursday that he wouldn’t seek athird term marked a diplomaticcoup for the administration, whichhad worked behind the scenes inBaghdad for months to find a suc-cessor who could begin unitingIraq’s ethnic and religious factions.

The U.S. now faces theequally, if not more, difficultchallenge of confronting thegrowing threat from IslamicState militants and promoting afunctioning government in Bagh-dad. The increase in U.S. assis-tance isn’t expected to result in amajor expansion of military op-erations in Iraq, though therecould be selected increases.

Iraq’s parliament on Mondaynominated Haider al-Abadi, an-other Shiite politician from Mr.Maliki’s al Dawa party, to be thenext prime minister. He has 30days to form a government.

U.S. officials said they arehopeful Mr. Abadi can do moreto heal ties between Baghdad

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BY JAY SOLOMONAND DION NISSENBAUM

AfterMaliki,U.S.EyesIraqAidBoost in AssistanceIs Planned to BluntMilitants’ Gains

SERGEANT KOLLIE TOWN, Liberia—Rubbergloves were nearly as scarce as doctors in this partof rural Liberia, so Melvin Korkor would swaddle hishands in plastic grocery bags to deliver babies.

His staff didn’t bother even with those when awoman in her 30s stopped by complaining of aheadache. Five nurses, a lab technician—then a localwoman who was helping out—cared for her withtheir bare hands.

Within weeks, all of them died. The woman witha headache, they learned too late, had Ebola.

Somewhere in the workplace exchange of hand-shakes and sweat, Dr. Korkor caught the virus, too.For five days, he read the Bible on a cot in an Ebolaward, watching his colleagues bleed to death froma disease they weren’t equipped or trained to treat.Across the room, a nurse pregnant with what wouldhave been her third child slipped away. “She told me‘Doc, I’m dying,’ ” he recalled Kou Gbanjah saying.

Though Dr. Korkor survived, his hospital has

BY DREW HINSHAW

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ForWant of Gloves, Ebola Doctors Die

A data breach that hit custom-ers of nearly 1,000 grocerystores around the U.S. is likely tointensify a push by banks and re-tailers to introduce a new gener-ation of credit cards designed tobe more secure.

A string of high-profile intru-sions at retailers such as TargetInc. and Neiman Marcus Groupand restaurant chain P.F. Chang’sChina Bistro Inc. had alreadykick-started a drive to roll outcards embedded with micro-chips, which are widely usedaround the world.

The latest breach—involvinggrocery chain Supervalu Inc.—shows consumers remain vulner-able to the loss of personal infor-mation while banks and retailersmake the slow and costly swapof millions of computer termi-

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BY ROBIN SIDEL, DANNY YADRONAND ANNIE GASPARRO

BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y.—Es-tate sales are booming this sum-mer here in the Hamptons, thetony vacation playground of NewYork’s elite, but some shopperssay the experience is getting alot less stately.

On the damp Fri-day before MemorialDay weekend, real-estate agent PamJackson joined morethan 100 people justinside the gates of amansion here for ascheduled sale. Thebustling crowdteemed with casualestate-sale goers likeMs. Jackson, there for the thrillof hunting for a treasure or two,as well as professional antiquesand fine-art dealers from statesaway, some of whom haddropped by the night before to

stake out their territory at thefront of the line.

Private security guards keptthe throng at bay until the 9:30a.m. start time, when the buzz-ing group began to shout for thedoors to open.

When Ms. Jackson finally en-tered the premises,about 80th in line,most of the items—including convex mir-rors, Chinese blue-and-white porcelainand exotic taxiderm-ied birds—were al-ready sold. Shepicked over the spo-ken-for items beforebuying a pair of ze-bra-print shoes and a

faux tortoise shell wastepaperbasket for $80.

“It’s kind of an upscale barba-rism,” said Ms. Jackson, 59 yearsold, of Southampton, N.Y. “There

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closed, as have dozens of other health centers in Li-beria, Sierra Leone and Guinea. It is a devastatingsetback for countries facing a range of deadly dis-eases in addition to Ebola. The World Health Orga-nization estimates the region’s Ebola outbreak haskilled 1,145 people, roughly half the 2,127 believedto have been infected. West African countries thathad only begun to climb out from civil war and pov-erty have slipped into economic disarray.

Much of this toll could have been avoided or at leastmitigated, hospital workers on the front lines say, ifthey had been providedwithmedical basics, startingwith one of the simplest: disposable rubber gloves.

Instead, health workers have been treating manypatients with unprotected hands, greatly increasingthe risk the Ebola virus will kill the very profession-als trying to fight it.

As of Tuesday, at least 36 health workers in Libe-ria had died from the disease, according to healthministry records. Many who have caught but sur-vived the virus are traumatized, as are colleagues,

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Per physician:71,429

Sierra Leone 45,455

Guinea 10,000

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In a school building used to quarantine Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia, Umu Fambulle stands over her infected husband after he fell.

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