[As it happened] Newsday: Friday, August 8

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Here are today’s leading stories:

- Barack Obama authorises ‘targeted’ US airstrikes in Iraq

- Israel-Gaza ceasefire breaks down and hostilities resume

- Ebola crisis will get worse before it gets better

- Paying the price of Russia’s food import ban

- MH17 probe says rebels shot down ‘wrong’ plane

- Ukraine: Nato calls on Russia to pull back from brink of war