LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES,France (AP) — On the dayshe left for Syria, Sahrastrode along the train plat-form with two bulky school-bags slung over her shoulder.In a grainy image caught onsecurity camera, the Frenchteen tucks her hair into aheadscarf.

Just two months earlierand a two-hour drive away,Nora, also a teen girl, had em-barked on a similar journey insimilar clothes. Her brother

later learned she’d been leav-ing the house every day injeans and a pullover, thenchanging into a full-body veil.

Neither had ever set footon an airplane. Yet both jour-neys were planned with theprecision of a seasoned trav-eler and expert in deception,from Sahra’s ticket for theMarch 11 Marseille-Istanbulflight to Nora’s secret Face-book account and overnightcrash pad in Paris.

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Nora El-Bahty are amongsome 100 girls and youngwomen from France who haveleft to join jihad in Syria, upfrom just a handful 18 monthsago, when the trip was noteven on Europe’s securityradar, officials say.

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Texas Makes Ebola Procedural Changes DALLAS (AP) — Thomas Eric Duncan’s temperature

spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit toan emergency room — a fever that was flagged with an ex-clamation point in the hospital’s record-keeping system,his medical records show.

Despite telling a nurse that he had recently been inAfrica and displaying other symptoms that could indicateEbola, the Liberian man who would become the only per-son to die from the disease in the U.S. underwent a batteryof tests and was eventually sent home.

Duncan’s family provided his medical records to TheAssociated Press — more than 1,400 pages in all. Theychronicle his time in the ER, his urgent return to the hospi-tal two days later and his steep decline as his organs beganto fail.

In a statement issued Friday, Texas Health PresbyterianHospital said it had made procedural changes and contin-ues to “review and evaluate” the decisions surroundingDuncan’s care.

Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from hishome in Liberia, though he showed no symptoms when heleft for the United States. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20and fell ill several days later.

Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Nations Rift NEW DELHI (AP) — One is Muslim, the other Hindu.

One a Pakistani, the other Indian. One a school girl juststarting out in life, the other a man with decades of experi-ence.

Despite their many differences, 17-year-old MalalaYousafzai and 60-year-old Kailash Satyarthi will be foreverlinked — co-winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, hon-ored for risking their lives for the rights of children to edu-cation and to lives free of abuse. Their selection waswidely acclaimed, their heroism undeniable.

But something more was at work here: In awarding theprize Friday, the Nobel Committee also sent a blunt mes-sage to the rival nations of India and Pakistan that if two oftheir citizens can work for a common goal, their govern-ments too could do better in finding common ground.

The two nations have almost defined themselves bytheir staunch opposition to one another. They became ene-mies almost instantly upon gaining independence in 1947from imperial Britain, and have since fought three full-scalewars over various issues, including competing claims tothe Himalayan region of Kashmir that sits between them.Just this week, their troops have hurled mortar shells andfiring guns at one another across the Kashmir border, withcivilian casualties in double digits.

The Nobel Committee’s chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland,acknowledged his panel gave the prize to Yousafzai andSatyarthi partly to nudge the two countries together,though he cautioned that the impact of the award shouldnot be overestimated.

Pakistan Struggles For Girls EducationISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Malala Yousafzai’s strug-

gle for girls to be educated in deeply conservative parts ofPakistan led to her being shot and nearly killed by the Tal-iban two years ago, while her relentless campaign forwomen’s rights was rewarded Friday when she was jointlyawarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Malala, who moved to Britain for treatment and latersettled there, tirelessly continued her campaign for awoman’s right to an education in Pakistan and won interna-tional recognition for her struggle.

In Pakistan her campaign lives on, as young girls andwomen struggle to get an education.

Here are a series of images by Muhammed Muheisenand the late Anja Niedringhaus focusing on the educationof young girls in Malala’s hometown of Mingora, in theSwat Valley, and in the outskirts of the capital Islamabad.

Taken in makeshift schools set up in slums andmosques, many show adult volunteers teaching childrenwith the limited resources they have.

U.N. Warns Syria Of Potential Massacre MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — In a dramatic appeal, a

U.N. official warned that hundreds of civilians who remaintrapped in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani near the bor-der with Turkey were likely to be “massacred” by advanc-ing extremists and called on Ankara to help prevent acatastrophe.

Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. Syria envoy, raised thespecter of some of the worst genocides of the 20th centuryduring a news conference in Geneva to underscore con-cerns as the Islamic State group pushed into Kobani fromthe south and east.

“You remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot.And probably we never forgave ourselves for that,” he said,referring to the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslims byBosnian Serb forces.

He spoke to reporters at a press conference in Genevawhere he held up a map of Kobani and said a U.N. analysisshows only a small corridor remains open for people toenter or flee the town.

His warning came as the Islamic State group seized theso-called “Kurdish security quarter” — an area where Kur-dish militiamen who are struggling to defend the townmaintain security buildings and where the police station,the municipality and other local government offices arelocated.

Membership In Girl Scouts Drops NEW YORK (AP) — For the second straight year, youth

and adult membership in the Girl Scouts has droppedsharply, intensifying pressure on the 102-year-old youth or-ganization to find ways of reversing the trend.

According to figures provided to The Associated Press,the total of youth members and adult volunteers droppedby 6 percent over the past year — from 2,994,844 to2,813,997. Over two years, total membership is down 11.6percent, and it has fallen 27 percent from a peak of morethan 3.8 million in 2003.

While the Girl Scouts of the USA have had an array ofrecent internal difficulties — including rifts over program-ming and serious fiscal problems — CEO Anna MariaChavez attributed the membership drop primarily tobroader societal factors that have affected manyyouth-serving organizations.

BY JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEHAND ROBBIE COREY-BOULETAssociated Press

MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberian lawmak-ers on Friday rejected a proposal to grantPresident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power tofurther restrict movement and public gather-ings and to confiscate property in the fightagainst Ebola. One legislator said such a lawwould have turned Liberia into a police state.

The proposal’s defeat came as the WorldHealth Organization once again raised thedeath toll attributed to the Ebola outbreak.The Geneva-based U.N. agency said that4,033 confirmed, probable or suspectedEbola deaths have now been recorded.

All but nine of them were in the threeworst-affected countries, Liberia, SierraLeone and Guinea. Eight of the rest were inNigeria, with one patient dying in the UnitedStates.

On Friday, David Nabarro, the U.N. specialenvoy for Ebola, said the number of Ebolacases is probably doubling every three-to-four weeks and the response needs to be 20times greater than it was at the beginning.

He warned the U.N. General Assemblythat without the mass mobilization of theworld to support the affected countries inWest Africa, “it will be impossible to get thisdisease quickly under control, and the worldwill have to live with the Ebola virus forever.”

Nabarro said the U.N. knows what needsto be done to catch up to and overtakeEbola’s rapid advance “and together we’regoing to do it.”

“And our commitment to all of you is toachieve it within a matter of months — a few

months,” he said.The defeat of Sirleaf’s proposal in the

House of Representatives came as U.S. mili-tary forces worked on building a hospital forstricken health workers in Liberia, the coun-try that has been hit hardest by the epi-demic.

“The House felt it was not necessary togrant her additional measures,” Speaker AlexTyler told The Associated Press. He spokeafter lawmakers rejected the president’s pro-posal to give her further power to restrictmovement and public gatherings and the au-thority to appropriate property “without pay-ment of any kind or any further judicialprocess” to combat Ebola.

Liberia has recorded 2,316 deaths duringthe Ebola outbreak, according to the WorldHealth Organization — more than any othercountry. Sirleaf’s government imposed athree-month state of emergency beginningAug. 6, but critics have accused the NobelPeace Prize winner’s approach to fightingEbola since then as ineffective and heavyhanded.

“I see a kind of police state creeping in,”lawmaker Bhofal Chambers, a one-time Sir-leaf supporter, said before the vote.

In August, a quarantine of Monrovia’slargest shantytown sparked unrest and wasderided as counterproductive before beinglifted. The Committee to Protect Journalistshas accused Sirleaf’s government of trying tosilence media outlets criticizing its conduct.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military was rushingto set up a 25-bed hospital to treat healthworkers who may contract Ebola. Rear Adm.Scott Giberson, the acting U.S. DeputySurgeon General, said the facility would beready within weeks.

BY MICHAEL BIESECKERAND MITCH WEISSAssociated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — Afederal judge in North Car-olina struck down thestate’s gay marriage banFriday, opening the wayfor the first same-sex wed-dings in the state to beginimmediately.

U.S. District CourtJudge Max O. Cogburn, Jr.,in Asheville issued a rulingshortly after 5 p.m. declar-ing the ban approved bystate voters in 2012 uncon-stitutional.

Cogburn’s ruling fol-lows Monday’s announce-ment by the U.S. SupremeCourt that it would nothear any appeal of a Julyruling by the 4th CircuitCourt of Appeals in Rich-mond striking down Vir-ginia’s ban. That court hasjurisdiction over NorthCarolina.

“North Carolina’s lawsprohibiting same-sex mar-riage are unconstitutionalas a matter of law,” wroteCogburn, who was ap-pointed to the federalbench by President BarackObama. “The issue beforethis court is neither a polit-ical issue nor a moral issue.It is a legal issue.”

Though Cogburn’s fed-eral judicial district onlycovers the western third ofthe state, North CarolinaAttorney General RoyCooper said through aspokeswoman that the fed-eral ruling appliesstatewide. Cooper, a Demo-crat, had previously de-cided not to continuedefending the ban afterconcluding that all possiblelegal defenses had been ex-hausted. He declined to beinterviewed.

Buncombe County Reg-ister of Deeds DrewReisinger kept his Ashevilleoffice open late to begin is-suing marriage licenses tothe dozens of waiting cou-ples the moment the banwas struck down. When thecrowd gathered in thelobby heard the news, theyerupted in cheers.

“It’s a historical day forthe state of North Car-olina,” Reisinger said. “It’sautumn in Asheville and it’sa beautiful time to get mar-ried.”

Asheville is a progres-sive bastion nestled in theNorth Carolina mountainsknown for its vibrant down-town nightlife, art galleriesand microbreweries. In an-ticipation of the ruling ear-lier this week, an enormousrainbow flag was drapedacross the front ofAsheville’s landmarkart-deco city hall to signalsupport for gay rights.

Islamic Extremists Build NetworksTo Lure Young Women To Jihad

MICHAEL AINSWORTH/DALLAS MORNING NEWS/MCTDr. Kent Brantly, who survived Ebola with the help of experimental medication, speaks at AbileneChristian University with his wife Amber in Abilene, Texas on Friday.

WHO: Ebola Death TollRises To Over 4,000

Judge StrikesDown NC GayMarriage Ban