LOS ANGELES (CNN) - The Screen Actors Guild has told its 122,000 members to stay on the job even if the union fails to reach a deal with film and television studios before their current contract expires at midnight Monday.

SAG President Alan Rosenberg said no strike vote has been planned, and the union's negotiators are "coming to the bargaining table every day in good faith."

"Any talk about a strike or a management lockout at this point is simply a distraction," he said.

The talks have been complicated by a split between SAG and the smaller American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which has reached its own agreement with the studios. About 44,000 of AFTRA's 70,000 members belong to both unions, and SAG leaders have urged those members to vote against the deal.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, representatives of both sides said, as the Democrats sought to quash rumors that Clinton holds a grudge against the man who knocked his wife out of contention for the party's presidential nomination.

Obama called Clinton and they spoke for about 20 minutes Monday morning, the Obama campaign told CNN.

Clinton wants to campaign "with and for" Obama after the hard-fought primary campaign between Obama and Hillary Clinton, Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna said. Clinton "renewed his offer to do whatever he can to ensure Sen. Obama is our next president."

Obama "had a terrific conversation with President Clinton and is honored to have his support in this campaign," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, the Obama campaign told CNN.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Canadian seized by U.S. officials and sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured, has been dealt a major legal setback in his effort to sue U.S. government officials.

In the closely watched case of Canadian engineer Maher Arar, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that rejected, on procedural grounds, his lawsuit seeking damages from top U.S. law enforcement officials.

"Arar's complaint must be dismissed because Arar's allegations regarding his removal to Syria do not state a claim" against the government officials, said the ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Because the claims need not be considered, the ruling said, the panel did not have to reach any conclusion on the merits of the torture allegations.
–From Justice Producer Terry Frieden

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) - African Union leaders huddled in Egypt Monday to address demands that they reject the results of Zimbabwe's widely discredited runoff in which President Robert Mugabe was handed a shallow victory.

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro described the situation in Zimbabwe as "the single greatest challenge to regional stability in southern Africa, not only because of its terrible humanitarian and security consequences but also because of the dangerous political precedent it sets."

Mugabe is attending the two-day AU summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, a meeting described by a U.N. official as "a moment of truth."

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told CNN he is closely monitoring developments from Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.

(CNN) - Sen. John McCain's campaign on Monday called retired Gen. Wesley Clark's remarks that McCain lacks command experience "the lowest form of politics."

Clark, a military adviser for Sen. Barack Obama, questioned Sunday whether McCain's military experience qualified him to be commander in chief.

"I think it's kind of sad," McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said Monday on CNN's "American Morning."

Obama's campaign on Monday issued a response: "As he's said many times before, Sen. Obama honors and respects Sen. McCain's service, and of course he rejects yesterday's statement by Gen. Clark."

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Four Iraqi judges were the targets of separate bombing attacks in Baghdad on Monday, and one sustained injuries along with his wife and daughter, an Interior Ministry official said.

The other three escaped unharmed, although one judge's bodyguard was wounded.

Attacks on professionals have been common in Iraq during the war, with lawyers, judges, and professors the victims of violence.

(CNN) - The Sunday mid-air collision of medical helicopters in Arizona that killed six people is part of a "disturbing" national trend, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Monday.

"This has been a serious issue. Just this year there have been eight of these incidents," NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said in a news conference in Arizona. "We want to see if there are issues that we need to fix to prevent these mid-airs from happening."

Rosenker had not added the Arizona crash into his figures, an NTSB official said. According to NTSB data, it is the ninth collision or crash involving medical helicopters this year. In 2007, there were 14 such crashes.

The only person who survived Sunday's collision in Flagstaff was an emergency nurse, Arizona officials said Monday. She was in critical condition, said Flagstaff police Sgt. Tom Boughner. Both helicopters were headed to Flagstaff Medical Center at the time of the crash, said FAA spokesman Ian Gregor.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, making him the first person charged in the plot to attack the USS Cole, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann announced Monday.

Susan Crawford, who is effectively the judge in military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay, will now determine whether the prosecution should go forward and, if so, whether the death penalty should be considered.

Al-Nashiri, who is being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, says he was tortured into confessing to involvement in the bombing, according to transcripts released by the military.

The CIA has admitted to waterboarding al-Nashiri at a secret location in 2002; the tapes were destroyed in 2005.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The U.S. military will seek the death penalty against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused in the plot to attack the USS Cole, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann announced Monday.