| Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster Posted: 07 Sep 2014 11:24 AM PDT  New studies show one shot of this experimental vaccine can trigger fast protection.
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| Cease-fire in east Ukraine frays, woman killed by shelling Posted: 07 Sep 2014 02:31 PM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska and Aleksandar Vasovic DONETSK/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) - A woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday, jeopardizing a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists. The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people and caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Shelling resumed near the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov late on Saturday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a phone call that the truce was holding. Fighting also broke out early on Sunday on the northern outskirts of rebel-held Donetsk, the region's industrial hub.
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| Obama says Afghan power-sharing deal needed soon Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has told Afghanistan's two presidential candidates that it's important to complete a power-sharing deal as soon as possible so the country can form a new government.
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| U.S. Coast Guard calls off search for crashed U.S. plane Posted: 07 Sep 2014 03:05 PM PDT  By Horace Helps KINGSTON Jamaica (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday it abandoned its search for a small, private American plane that strayed into the Caribbean on a flight to Florida before apparently crashing near Jamaica, with the pilot and at least one passenger presumed dead. The plane, whose pilot became unresponsive during the flight, went down northeast of Jamaica on Friday after veering off course and triggering a U.S. Coast Guard had deployed a cutter, search helicopter and other crews to assist in looking for wreckage and possible survivors, but those units returned to base on Sunday, said Petty Officer Sabrina Laberdesque.
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| Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:38 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton and Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to Americans and consult with lawmakers this week to sell his plan to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, but is trying to head off public concern about another big military escapade. Obama said that in his remarks on Wednesday he would "describe what our game plan's going to be." He will meet congressional leaders on Tuesday to seek their support for his strategy to halt the militant Islamist group. Obama indicated he did not believe he needed additional authorization from Congress to carry out the plan, although he intends to consult with lawmakers and might seek approval for additional funds. "I'm confident that I have the authorization that I need to protect the American people," Obama said.
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| Obama: U.S. must fight Ebola now or face long-term risk Posted: 07 Sep 2014 07:04 AM PDT  The United States needs to do more to help control West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak to stop it becoming a global crisis that could one day threaten Americans, President Barack Obama said in an interview. Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the outbreak, which has killed 2,100 people in African five countries, was unlikely to spread to the United States in the short term. "If we don't make that effort now, and this spreads not just through Africa but other parts of the world, there's the prospect then that the virus mutates. "If we do that, then it's still going to be months before this problem is controllable in Africa," he said.
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| U.S. launches airstrikes around Iraq's Haditha Dam Posted: 07 Sep 2014 04:38 AM PDT  Islamic State insurgents are targeted there for the first time in a move to prevent the group from capturing the vital dam.
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| Obama to give speech Wednesday on Islamic State Posted: 07 Sep 2014 08:11 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday and giving a speech Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. |
| Ukraine shelling claims lives, sets houses ablaze Posted: 07 Sep 2014 11:52 AM PDT SPARTAK, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after it took hold. |
| Abbas may end unity with Hamas over Gaza governance Posted: 07 Sep 2014 08:51 AM PDT  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas if the Islamist movement does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip. Abbas's accusation that Hamas was effectively running a parallel administration in Gaza drew an angry reaction from the Islamist movement, which denounced his allegations as "baseless."
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| Monsoon floods kill nearly 300 in India, Pakistan Posted: 07 Sep 2014 06:07 AM PDT  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in large swaths of northern India and Pakistan, officials said Sunday.
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| Explosions in east Ukraine threaten cease-fire Posted: 07 Sep 2014 02:47 PM PDT  Mariupol (Ukraine) (AFP) - Fighting around two flashpoint cities in eastern Ukraine on Sunday rattled a tenuous truce between government troops and pro-Russian rebels less than 48 hours after it came into force.
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| U.S. missionary with Ebola showing signs of improvement, wife says Posted: 06 Sep 2014 08:15 PM PDT  Dr. Rick Sacra, a 51-year-old Boston physician, arrived Friday at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for treatment after being flown there from Liberia, one of five West African countries affected by an outbreak of the virus. "Rick is very sick and weak, but slightly improved from when he arrived yesterday," Debbie Sacra said Saturday. Sacra said she and the couple's 22-year-old son are in Nebraska, but they visited with Rick, isolated in the hospital's biocontainment unit, for about 25 minutes over a video link. She said he remembered little of his journey from Liberia and that she was "relieved to see his face and hear his voice again." Dr. Sacra contracted Ebola while working at a hospital in Liberia on behalf of the North Carolina-based Christian group SIM USA.
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| North Korea sets trial date for detained American Posted: 06 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT  SEOUL (Reuters) - Matthew Miller, one of three detained Americans in North Korea, will face trial next week, a short statement carried by state media said on Sunday, without elaborating any further on what charges the U.S. citizen faced. Miller, of Bakersfield, California, will go to trial in North Korea on Sept. 14, the short statement said. The 26-year old was arrested in April for tearing up his visa upon his arrival in the isolated country, state media said at the time. The statement did not mention fellow U.S. ...
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