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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A search-and-rescue operation has resumed off Jamaica's northeast coast as crews try to solve the mystery of a private plane that made a 1,700-mile journey from Rochester, New York, after the pilot was apparently incapacitated at the controls. The high-performance plane was carrying Rochester real estate developer Laurence Glazer and his entrepreneur wife, Jane. Both were experienced and enthusiastic pilots.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center say a doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is sick but in stable condition and communicating with his caregivers. Dr. Rick Sacra (SAY'-krah) is the third American aid worker sickened with the virus. He is being treated at a special isolation unit built to handle patients with highly infectious and deadly diseases.
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian airstrikes targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State extremist group have killed at least 25 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 16 civilians were killed, alongside nine Islamic State fighters in the northeastern city of Raqqa, which is ruled by the extremists. The Observatory says at least one strike hit a bakery on a busy street, and that the death toll is likely to rise.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official says Tehran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork. A U.S. official says Iranian authorities radioed the plane's crew, ordering them to return to Afghanistan because of missing paperwork, but the pilots said they did not have enough fuel. At that point, they were told to land in Iran.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's top prosecutor says ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi will be tried for leaking national security secrets to Qatar during his turbulent year in office. The prosecutor alleges that Morsi and two of his assistants leaked classified documents, including information on military deployments, to Qatari intelligence as popular anger rose against Morsi.
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