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The US is planning measures to screen incoming air passengers for Ebola, President Barack Obama has said.

The likelihood of an Ebola outbreak in the US is «extremely low», Mr Obama said, but «we don’t have a lot of margin of error».

More than 3,400 people have died in West Africa in the world’s deadliest outbreak of the viral disease.

Mr Obama’s comments came six days after a Liberian man became the first case of Ebola diagnosed on American soil.

Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted the disease in Liberia, is in a critical condition in a hospital isolation unit in Dallas.

Meanwhile, on Monday a plane carrying American journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, landed in Nebraska, where he will undergo treatment for the deadly disease.

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Lebanese towns and villages are increasingly imposing curfews on Syrian refugees, restricting their movements, Human Rights Watch says.

Police, and in some places vigilante groups, were enforcing the curfews in 45 municipalities, the group reported.

The restrictions were contributing to a «climate of discriminatory and retaliatory practices», HRW warned.

Almost 1.2 million Syrian refugees are living in Lebanon, which has a population of only 4.5 million.

Tensions have risen since August, when clashes between Lebanese security forces and jihadists militants in and around the border town of Arsal left dozens dead.

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Sweden is to «recognise the state of Palestine», Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said, the first long-term EU member country to do so.

«The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a two-state solution,» he said during his inaugural address in parliament.

It should be «negotiated in accordance with international law», he said.

Sweden last month voted out the centre-right Alliance coalition of Fredrik Reinfeldt after eight years.

That allowed the Social Democrats led by Mr Lofven to form a government with other parties on the left including the Greens.

«A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to peaceful co-existence. Sweden will therefore recognise the state of Palestine,» Mr Lofven said on Friday, without giving a timeline for the recognition.

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The Pakistani Taliban have expressed their support for Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq.

In a statement marking the Muslim festival of Eid, the group appealed to Islamists there to unite against the «enemy» — the US-led alliance.

IS has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq, but has also been battling al-Qaeda-linked rival militant groups.

The Pakistani Taliban has been waging its own insurgency against the Islamabad government since 1997.

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The parents of a US hostage who is being held by Islamic State militants in Syria, have released a letter he has written in captivity.

Abdul-Rahman Kassig, known as Peter Kassig before he converted to Islam, wrote in June that he was «scared to die» and saddened by the pain his ordeal was causing to the family.

Last week IS posted a video showing the beheading of UK hostage Alan Henning.

It ended with a threat to kill 26-year-old Mr Kassig.

It was the fourth such video released by the militant group, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Previous victims were American reporter James Foley, American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and British aid worker David Haines.

IS said they were killed in retaliation for US-led air strikes on the group’s targets.

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