DHAKA: Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies on Saturday vowed to do all they can to ‘extinguish’ the deadly Ebola outbreak in west Africa.

‘G-20 members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the outbreak and address its medium-term economic and humanitarian costs,’ the G-20 leaders said in a statement during their summit in Brisbane.

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BDST: 1548 HRS, NOV 15, 2014