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• Obama says Afghan power-sharing deal needed soon
• Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster
• Obama to give speech Wednesday on Islamic State
• Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State
• Civilian killed in Ukraine shelling despite truce
• Abbas may end unity with Hamas over Gaza governance
• Defense cuts, Ex-Im bank weigh on aerospace companies
• Monsoon floods kill nearly 300 in India, Pakistan
• U.S. launches airstrikes around Iraq's Haditha Dam
• U.S. missionary with Ebola showing signs of improvement, wife says
• Wreckage of small U.S. plane believed sunk in ocean, Jamaica says
• Singer Simone Battle found dead at West Hollywood home
• Wreckage of small U.S. plane spotted off Jamaica
• Somali extremists name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge

Obama says Afghan power-sharing deal needed soon Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:55 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.

Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster Posted: 07 Sep 2014 11:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way.

Obama to give speech Wednesday on Islamic State Posted: 07 Sep 2014 07:29 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.

Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State Posted: 07 Sep 2014 06:25 AM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States. Obama will make a speech on Wednesday to "describe what our game plan's going to be," and meet congressional leaders on Tuesday to seek their support for his strategy to halt the militant Islamist group, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq. "I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it and to have confidence that we'll be able to deal with it," Obama said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that aired on Sunday.

Civilian killed in Ukraine shelling despite truce Posted: 07 Sep 2014 05:53 AM PDT DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — One civilian was killed in shelling in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and large explosions were heard near the airport in Donetsk early Sunday, raising fears that a cease-fire signed two days ago is on the verge of collapse.

Abbas may end unity with Hamas over Gaza governance Posted: 07 Sep 2014 05:38 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. The threat drew an angry reaction from Hamas, which denounced the president's allegations as "baseless" and raised fresh questions over the future of a fragile intra-Palestinian unity deal aimed at ending years of bitter rivalry. "We will not accept the situation with Hamas continuing as it is at the moment," Abbas said on arrival in the Egyptian capital late Saturday, in remarks published by official Palestinian news agency WAFA. "We won't accept a partnership with them if the situation continues like this in Gaza, where there is a shadow government... running the territory," he said.

Defense cuts, Ex-Im bank weigh on aerospace companies Posted: 07 Sep 2014 04:35 AM PDT Commercial aviation and defense companies are grappling with dwindling U.S. After surging in 2013, both sectors have struggled in 2014 as investors feared more cost pressure on defense contractors and an end to the boom in commercial aircraft orders. The 10th annual Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit will delve into these and other questions in meetings with top government officials and executives from U.S. The failure of a Pratt & Whitney F135 engine in June grounded the entire fleet of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35s for several weeks during the summer, thwarting the advanced warplane's international debut at two UK air shows.

Monsoon floods kill nearly 300 in India, Pakistan Posted: 07 Sep 2014 03:00 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.

U.S. launches airstrikes around Iraq's Haditha Dam Posted: 07 Sep 2014 12:54 AM PDT Islamic State insurgents are targeted there for the first time in a move to prevent the group from capturing the vital dam.

U.S. missionary with Ebola showing signs of improvement, wife says Posted: 06 Sep 2014 08:39 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.

Wreckage of small U.S. plane believed sunk in ocean, Jamaica says Posted: 06 Sep 2014 08:08 PM PDT The plane, with an unresponsive pilot, crashed on Friday after veering far off its course to Florida and triggering a U.S. The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority said the wreckage is believed to have sunk into the ocean in an area about 6,600 feet (2,000 meters) deep. "We would have to assume that the debris sank because we didn't find it at the surface," Jamaica Coast Guard Commander Antonette Wemyss-Gorman said at a news conference on Saturday. The Jamaica Defense Force "conducted searches overnight and this morning in same location where they spotted an oil spill," she said.

Singer Simone Battle found dead at West Hollywood home Posted: 06 Sep 2014 03:53 PM PDT (Reuters) - Singer Simone Battle, a member of the band G.R.L. and former contestant on the "The X-Factor" television show, has been found dead in her West Hollywood home, authorities said on Saturday. Battle was found on Friday morning and an autopsy could be conducted as soon as Sunday, said Lieutenant David Smith from the Los Angeles County Coroner's Department. "Simone's incredible talent was only surpassed by the size of her heart." News of Battle's death was first reported by celebrity website TMZ.

Wreckage of small U.S. plane spotted off Jamaica Posted: 06 Sep 2014 03:05 PM PDT By Aileen Torres-Bennett KINGSTON (Reuters) - Rescuers were searching on Saturday for the wreckage of a small U.S. The plane, with an unresponsive pilot, crashed on Friday after veering far off its course to Florida and triggering a U.S. "Our pilots are very confident that the sighting is consistent with that of a high impact debris field, and this has since been corroborated by a United States Coast Guard C-130 aircraft involved in the operation," the Jamaica Defence Force said in a statement on Friday. The crash killed two people aboard the plane: Larry Glazer, a real-estate executive from Rochester, New York;

Somali extremists name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge Posted: 06 Sep 2014 02:17 PM PDT By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. Western governments and neighboring countries want to neutralize a group that they say has exploited Somalia's chaos to attract jihadists and train them to fight. In a statement, al Shabaab reaffirmed its affiliation to al Qaeda, and named its new leader as Sheikh Ahmad Umar Abu Ubaidah, warning its enemies to "expect only that which will cause you great distress". Little is known of al Shabaab's new leader, but a local elder who asked not be named said he had joined al Shabaab in 2006 and, like Godane, hailed from the Dir clan.

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