| White House concerned about Ebola orders Posted: 26 Oct 2014 02:15 PM PDT  The Obama administration says the new quarantine measures could have unintended consequences.
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| Brazilian President Rousseff is re-elected Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:04 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff was re-elected Sunday in the tightest race the nation has seen since its return to democracy three decades ago, after a bitter campaign that divided Brazilians like no other before it.
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| Pro-Europe parties secure big election win in Ukraine: exit poll Posted: 26 Oct 2014 02:24 PM PDT  Pro-Europe parties led by a group backing President Petro Poroshenko swept a parliamentary election in Ukraine on Sunday, an exit poll showed, giving him a mandate to end a separatist conflict and pursue democratic reforms. The survey, issued after voting stations closed in the ex- Soviet republic, gave Poroshenko's bloc 23 percent of the votes cast for the 29 competing parties, ahead of the party of his ally, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, on 21.3 percent. ...
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| Washington state rampage baffles Native American community Posted: 26 Oct 2014 02:06 PM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson and Victoria Cavaliere MARYSVILLE Wash. (Reuters) - Members of a tight-knit Native American community in Washington state were struggling on Sunday to comprehend how a life-long friendship among cousins ended with one of them gunning down the other two, along with three friends, in a high school cafeteria. The shooter and one girl, identified by a family friend as Zoe Galasso, were killed, while the other freshmen students were gravely wounded in the Friday morning shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, an hour's drive north of Seattle. ...
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| White House questions new Ebola rules, nurse plans to sue Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:17 PM PDT  By Joseph Ax and Douwe Miedema NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has told states that have imposed mandatory quarantines for some travelers from Ebola-hit West Africa that the policy could impede the fight against the disease, while the first health worker isolated under the rules plans to sue. Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed in 21-day quarantine in a New Jersey hospital after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, will contest her quarantine in court, her attorney said on Sunday, arguing the order violates her constitutional rights. ...
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| Waiting on Jeb: Will another Bush run for the White House in 2016? Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:51 AM PDT  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Jeb Bush's flirtation with a possible run for the White House in 2016 has been so low key that some in his party aren't convinced he's prepared to take on the challenge. The former Florida governor with the famous family name is among the leaders in polls charting potential Republican contenders in 2016 and says he will decide late this year or early next year. But unlike some would-be competitors like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who are making forward-leaning statements, Bush is publicly expressing his uncertainty. ...
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| Florida to monitor health of travelers from Ebola-hit countries Posted: 26 Oct 2014 01:04 PM PDT  Florida will require 21-day health monitoring of people returning to the state from Ebola-affected countries in Africa, Governor Rick Scott said.
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| Tribe reels from Washington state school shooting Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:13 AM PDT  A close-knit community on the Tulalip Indian Reservation has struggled to find answers following the shooting at a high school on Washington's Puget Sound in which a young gunman from a prominent family opened fire, killing one person and injuring four others — including two of his cousins.
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| George P. Bush says dad 'moving forward' on 2016 Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:17 AM PDT  Jeb Bush is "moving forward" on a potential 2016 White House run and it appears more likely he'll enter the Republican race. That's the opinion of his son, who's running for office in Texas.
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| Thirty adolescents abducted in northeast Nigeria: local chief Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:31 AM PDT  Around 30 adolescents -- some of them girls aged as young as 11 -- have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the weekend by suspected Boko Haram rebels, a local village chief said.
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| U.N. climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:39 AM PDT  Climate change may have "serious, pervasive and irreversible" impacts on human society and nature, according to a draft U.N. report due for approval this week.
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| US disease expert argues against Ebola quarantine Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:37 PM PDT  Mandatory 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning from Ebola-ravaged West Africa can have the unintended consequence of discouraging them from volunteering, a top federal health official said.
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| Steenkamp was about to leave Pistorius, says mother Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:20 AM PDT  The mother of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend believes that her daughter was about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a South African judge ruled to be culpable homicide. June Steenkamp -- mother of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp -- also told Britain's newspaper The Times that she and her husband Barry were haunted by images of the shooting, for which Pistorius was sentenced to a five-year jail term. Pistorius, the first double amputee Paralympian to compete against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, said he shot Steenkamp four times through a locked door to the bathroom in his Pretoria home because he mistakenly believed there was an intruder inside. In "Reeva: a Mother's Story", June Steenkamp wrote that she was "shocked" that the athlete was found guilty only of culpable homicide, or manslaughter.
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| U.S. envoy Power arrives in West Africa Posted: 26 Oct 2014 03:37 PM PDT  By Michelle Nichols CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea plans to fight its deadly Ebola outbreak by drafting graduating medical students for national service and enlisting retired doctors and nurses, said Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, during a visit to West Africa to see how the global response is failing to stop the deadly disease. Power, who will also visit Sierra Leone and Liberia, said she had a "very robust" discussion with Guinea's President Alpha Conde on Sunday about the way forward and that Conde has "tremendous impatience ... wholly appropriate to the cause. ...
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| Four in five eurozone banks pass ECB health test Posted: 26 Oct 2014 12:39 PM PDT  A large majority of eurozone banks were given a clean bill of health Sunday by the European Central Bank, fuelling hopes that a major cause of economic uncertainty could soon be eliminated, analysts said. In the most in-depth and stringent audit of eurozone banks ever undertaken -- aimed at preventing a repeat of the crisis that nearly led to the euro's collapse -- the ECB found that 25 out of a total 130 banks had a combined capital shortfall of 25 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2013. "A period of stress and uncertainty ends for eurozone banks with the end of the exercise," said Berenberg Bank economist Christian Schulz. "You can say the banking sector is in good health, generally," said Damien Leurent of the Deloitte financial consultancy.
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