This is AP News Minute.Ukraine sent an elite national guard unit to re-establish control over the city of Odessa.And troops fought a pro-Russia militia that had seized an eastern city.The twin moves, an apparent escalation of efforts to bring both regions back under Kiev's control.Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage girls abducted from a school in the remote northeast 3 weeks ago.For the first time, he also claimed responsibility for the mass abduction.Investigators are looking at a snapped clamp as they try to figure out why 8 circus acrobats plummeted to the ground during an aerial hair-hanging stunt.The parent company of Ringling Brothers, Barnum Circus says the prognosis of 8 acrobats hasn't been determined.The first American infected with a mysterious virus from the Middle East is expected to be released soon from an Indiana hospital.The man, who worked in heath care in Saudi Arabia, has been hospitalized since April 28 with MERS.Bob McCall, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.
