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UN Syria envoy bemoans lack of aid deliveries, seeks Aleppo truce
GENEVA - No aid convoys have reached civilians trapped in besieged areas of Syria this month and a humanitarian task force has been suspended as a warning to big powers to double down on securing a ceasefire, the U.N. peace envoy on Syria says. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-UN (UPDATE 2, TV, PICTURE), moving shortly, by Stephanie Nebehay, 430 words)
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- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-ALEPPO BOY (TV, PICTURE), moved, 270 words
- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-HASAKA (UPDATE 2), moved, 335 words
- MIDEAST-CRISIS/RUSSIA-IRAN , moved, 100 words
Bomb attacks kill seven, wound 224 in southeast Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Two bomb attacks blamed on Kurdish militants kill seven members of the security forces and wound 224 people in southeast Turkey, officials and security sources say, in a renewed escalation of violence across the region. (TURKEY-BLAST/ (UPDATE 4, TV, PICTURE), moved, 505 words)
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- TURKEY-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 2), moved, by Ayla Jean Yackley, 690 words
Brazil police pull U.S. swimmers from flight amid robbery probe
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police stop two U.S. Olympic swimmers from boarding a flight home to question them about how they and two team mates were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend, after a judge raised doubts over their accounts. (OLYMPICS-RIO/LOCHTE (UPDATE 8), moved, by Rodrigo Viga and Daniel Flynn, 860 words)
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- OLYMPICS-RIO/BRITAIN-ROBBERY (UPDATE 1), moved, 325 words
Trump to take 'optimistic' message to voters
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's new campaign manager promises the volatile Republican presidential candidate will stick to a more disciplined and uplifting message to voters in final 11-week dash to Election Day. (USA-ELECTION/, expect by 1500 GMT/11 AM ET, by John Whitesides, 600 words)
SPECIAL REPORT
Enslaved in Libya: One woman's extraordinary escape from Islamic State
On the night of June 2, 2015, gunmen blocked a highway on Libya's northern coast and stopped a white truck speeding toward Tripoli, the capital. The men trained their assault rifles on the driver. Three climbed aboard to search the cargo. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SLAVE (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Selam Gebrekidan, 3,680 words)
UNITED STATES
Portion of major highway reopens as California wildfire rages
A portion of a major highway connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas has been reopened, as a wildfire that forced the evacuation of some 80,000 Southern California residents continues to rage virtually unchecked. (CALIFORNIA-FIRE/ (TV, PICTURE), moved, 260 words)
AFRICA
S. Sudan opposition leader has left country to escape govt forces -spokesman
JUBA - South Sudan's former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar has left the country to escape government forces who are pursuing him since he withdrew from the capital during fierce fighting over a month ago, his spokesman says.(SOUTHSUDAN-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 2), moved, by Denis Dumo, 345 words)
EUROPE
Spain's Rajoy agrees to reform pact, to face investiture vote
MADRID - Spain's acting prime minister Mariano Rajoy says he has taken a decisive step towards forming a government by agreeing to the terms of a reform pact with a smaller rival, though he still lacks the majority he needs for a second term. (SPAIN-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURE, TV), moving shortly, 315 words)
Ukraine could introduce martial law if eastern fighting worsens - Poroshenko
KIEV - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he did not rule out introducing martial law and a new wave of military mobilization if the conflict with pro-Russian separatists worsen. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/POROSHENKO-ESCALATION (PICTURE, TV), moved, 305 words)
Germany treads cautiously in court case to ban far-right party
BERLIN - In his decade as a neo-Nazi skinhead in eastern Germany, Manuel Bauer says he beat up foreigners and disabled people, stabbed a cigarette in the eye of a 12-year old boy and assaulted a Muslim man and his pregnant German wife. (GERMANY-NPD/ (INSIGHT, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Madeline Chambers, 1,345 words)
Syrian refugees in discarded holiday homes dream of anything but Greece
MYRSINI, Greece - A small house close to the beach in western Greece is replete with a small rose garden, flowers in a vase, a thatched roof and a kennel, all created by its newly arrived refugee occupants. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GREECE-VILLAGE (PICTURE), moved, by Michele Kambas, 800 words)
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- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SERBIA-BORDER, moved, 305 words
In proudly multi-cultural London, many find Brexit hard to stomach
LONDON - Ask most people in inner city London how they felt when they found out that Britain had voted to leave the European Union, and the chances are the memories are not happy ones. (BRITAIN-EU/LONDON (PICTURE), moved, by Estelle Shirbon, 1,075 words)
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- BRITAIN-EU/ECONOMY (UPDATE 1, PICTURE), moved, by Andy Bruce and William Schomberg, 530 words
Britain launches soft drinks sugar tax to fight obesity
LONDON - Britain says it will tax companies which sell sugary soft drinks and invest that money in health programs for school children, part of a long-awaited strategy to curb childhood obesity that critics say is too weak. (BRITAIN-OBESITY/TAX (UPDATE 1), moved, by Kate Kelland, 460 words)
ASIA
For elite N.Korean defector, job and bodyguards await in South
SEOUL - Thae Yong Ho, the most senior North Korean diplomat to flee to the South, is likely to have round-the-clock protection and make a comfortable living at a think-tank run by Seoul's intelligence service, say elite defectors who followed a similar path. (NORTHKOREA-DEFECTOR/ (TV, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Ju-min Park and James Pearson, 800 words)
Australian state leader offers to house stranded asylum seekers
SYDNEY - The premier of Western Australia state, a member of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal Party, offers to accept refugees from Australian-funded offshore detention centers amid a growing scandal about conditions for the 1,350 people held in the camps. (AUSTRALIA-ASYLUM/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Matt Siegel, 575 words)
Myanmar's Suu Kyi assures China of solution to stalled dam
BEIJING - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told China's premier that her new government is willing to look for a resolution that suits both countries to a suspended Chinese-funded hydropower project in northern Myanmar, a senior Chinese diplomat says. (CHINA-MYANMAR/ (UPDATE 2, TV, PICTURE), movefd, by Ben Blanchard, 440 words)
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