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Fed's Yellen sees stronger case for interest rate hike
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Federal Reserve is getting closer to raising interest rates again, head of the U.S. central bank and other policymakers say in comments that leave door open for hike as early as next month. (USA-FED/ (WRAPUP 1, PIX, TV), moved, by Jason Lange and Ann Saphir, 653 words)
Clinton attacks Trump's outreach to black voters in new ad
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton calls for voters to reject what she calls "bigotry" of Donald Trump's White House campaign, issuing television ad criticizing his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she is reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled by his candidacy. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Emily Stephenson, 647 words)
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- USA-ELECTION/POLL (POLL, PIX), moved, by Chris Kahn, 399 words
French court suspends burkini ban, controversy goes on
PARIS - French court suspends ban on women wearing full-body "burkini" swimsuits on a Mediterranean town's beach, but prime minister says debate is not over, calling outfit symbol of "backwards, deadly Islamism." (RELIGION-BURQA/FRANCE (UPDATE 4, TV, PIX), moved, by Ingrid Melander and Chine Labbé, 645 words)
Turkey signals no quick end to Syria incursion as truck bomb kills police
ISTANBUL/KARKAMIS, Turkey - Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse border of Islamic State and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says, after truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents kills at least 11 police officers. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-TURKEY (WRAPUP 2, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved, by Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk, 1,173 words)
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- MIDEAST-CRISIS/KERRY-LAVROV (TV, PIX), moved, 124 words
Italy quake death toll hits 281, state funeral planned
PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy - Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake fade, with death toll rising to 281 and rescue operation in some of stricken areas called off. (ITALY-QUAKE/ (UPDATE 7, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved, by Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri, 1,084 words)
UNITED STATES
Declining inventories crimp U.S. growth, consumer spending surges
WASHINGTON - U.S. economic growth is slightly more tepid than initially thought as businesses aggressively run down inventories, offsetting spurt in consumer spending. (USA-ECONOMY/ (WRAPUP 2, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved, by Lucia Mutikani, 829 words)
FDA recommends Zika testing for all blood donated in U.S.
CHICAGO - U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends that all blood donated in United States and its territories be tested for Zika virus, as it moves to prevent transmission of virus through blood supply. (HEALTH-ZIKA/BLOOD (UPDATE 4), moving shortly, by Julie Steenhuysen and Letitia Stein, 1,100 words)
Judge keeps in place Calif. law allowing physician-assisted suicide
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - California judge refuses to suspend new state law allowing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, citing need to protect them from pain, but he allows legal challenge to proceed. (CALIFORNIA-ASSISTEDSUICIDE/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, by Paula Lehman-Ewing, 490 words)
AMERICAS
Brazil police seek graft charges against ex-President Lula
SAO PAULO - Federal police in Brazil urge prosecutors to bring corruption charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa, according to police documents seen by Reuters. (BRAZIL-CORRUPTION/ (UPDATE 3), expect by 0200 GMT/10 PM ET, by Eduardo Simões and Daniel Flynn, 400 words)
Colombia's FARC rebels face tricky return under peace deal
CORDILLERA ORIENTAL, Colombia - Peace deal between Colombia's government and guerrilla leaders will end half century of war and allow rebels to set up political party and seek power peacefully, at ballot box. But reintegrating 7,000 fighters of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - many of whom spend at least half their lives at war - will be crucial part of making peace deal work, and it is no easy task. (COLOMBIA-REBELS/PEACE (FEATURE, TV, PIX), moved, by Helen Murphy and Luis Jaime Acosta, 1,151 words)
Second case of babies switched at birth at same hospital shakes Canadian community
WINNIPEG, Manitoba - For second time in less than year, two men from same remote Canadian community discover they were switched at birth four decades earlier, adding to concerns about quality of health care for Canada's indigenous people. (CANADA-BIRTHS/, moved, by Rod Nickel, 306 words)
Man charged in Toronto crossbow deaths was bank robber -police
TORONTO - Bank robber known as "fake beard bandit" is charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three people are killed in a crossbow attack on a quiet suburban street, police in Canada's largest city say. (CANADA-TORONTO/CROSSBOW (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved, 262 words)
EXCLUSIVE-Venezuela renews drilling tender after earlier collapse -sources
CARACAS/HOUSTON - Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA, relaunches large tender for drilling of 600 oil wells in world's largest crude reserves, sources with knowledge of tender say, after similar project collapsed last year amid concerns about transparency and political favoritism. (VENEZUELA-PDVSA/CONTRACT (EXCLUSIVE, PIX), moved, by Girish Gupta, Alexandra Ulmer and Marianna Parraga, 583 words)
AFRICA
No 'Arab Spring' in Zimbabwe, Mugabe warns protesters
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe warns protesters there will be no "Arab Spring" in Zimbabwe after anti-government demonstrations descend to some of worst violence seen in southern African nation in two decades. (ZIMBABWE-PROTEST/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV), moved, by MacDonald Dzirutwe, 696 words)
WIDER IMAGE
Searching for history along the Thames
LONDON - Torch on his head, Jason Sandy scours nighttime London foreshores of Thames River, searching for objects that could offer glimpse of life in British capital hundreds of years ago. (BRITAIN-MUDLARKS/ (PIX, WIDER IMAGE), moved, 429 words)
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