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Trump to make dramatic trip to Mexico before immigration speech

WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in a hastily arranged visit to Mexico hours before delivering a highly anticipated speech on how he will tackle illegal immigration. (USA-ELECTION/ (PICTURE, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Steve Holland, 900 words)

+ See also:

- USA-ELECTION/CLINTON, moved, 315 words

North Korea executes vice premier in latest purge - South

SEOUL - North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea says, which, if true, will mark a new series of measures by leader Kim Jong Un to discipline top aides. (NORTHKOREA-EXECUTION/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Ju-min Park, 410 words)

British PM May gathers ministers to hear views on Brexit

LONDON - After a summer of political drama followed by a few weeks of holiday calm, Prime Minister Theresa May will meet members of her government to discuss how Britain is to leave the European Union. (BRITAIN-EU/ (PICTURE), moved, by Elizabeth Piper, 545 words)

+ See also:

- BRITAIN-EU/CLACTON (TV, PICTURE), expect by 1100 GMT/7 AM ET, By Sarah Young, 740 words

Brazil Senate expected to dismiss Rousseff in impeachment vote

SAO PAULO - Brazil's Senate is expected to vote to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff, finalizing a nine-month impeachment process and confirming the country's shift to the right with the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule. (BRAZIL-IMPEACHMENT/, moved, by Brad Haynes, 400 words)

EUROPE

Irish cabinet may need more time to decide on Apple appeal- minister

DUBLIN - Ireland's cabinet may be given more time to decide on whether to back the finance minister's recommendation that Dublin appeal the European Commission's ruling against its tax dealings with Apple, another minister says. (EU-APPLE/IRELAND (PICTURE, TV), moved, by Padraic Halpin, 380 words)

Frankfurt airport departure hall evacuated after passenger breaches security

BERLIN/FRANKFURT - Frankfurt airport's Terminal 1 departure hall is evacuated after a passenger gets into the departure gate area without completing the security check, possibly by mistake, the airport's operator and police say. (GERMANY-SECURITY/AIRPORT (UPDATE 1), moved, 150 words)

A year after height of migrant crisis, Merkel's party dips in poll

BERLIN - Support for Angela Merkel's conservatives has slipped as more voters turn to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), a poll shows, a year after the chancellor prompted criticism by saying Germany will cope with the migrant crisis. (GERMANY-MERKEL/POLL, moved, 300 words)

Islamic State axe attacker planned to move to Germany - sources

VALERIK, Russia - An Islamic State supporter who was shot dead in Russia after he attacked police officers with an axe had planned to travel to Germany to join members of his family there, two people who knew him told Reuters. (RUSSIA-GERMANY/ISLAMISTS-ATTACKS (EXCLUSIVE, PICTURE), moved, 1,035 words)

Spain's Socialists to vote against government, raising risk of new election

MADRID - Spain's Socialists will vote against the government of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in a confidence vote on Wednesday, party leader Pedro Sanchez told parliament, potentially triggering the countdown to a third national election in a year. (SPAIN-POLITICS/ (PICTURE, TV), moved, by Jesús Aguado, 390 words)

Britain's Corbyn to win bigger mandate in Labour leadership vote-poll

EDINBURGH - Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing head of Britain's opposition Labour party, is set to win a leadership race with even more support than when he was first elected last year, according to a YouGov poll in The Times. (BRITAIN-POLITICS/LABOUR, moved, 270 words)

AFRICA

Tense Gabon braces for disputed election result

LIBREVILLE - Gabon braces for an election result that looks likely to be hotly disputed between bitter rivals President Ali Bongo and his main challenger Jean Ping. (GABON-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURE), expect by 1030 GMT/6.30 AM ET, by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome, 500 words)

Africa forest elephants may take almost a century to recover from poaching-study

JOHANNESBURG - Rare forest elephants that play a key role in replenishing central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers because of their slow birth rate, a study says. (WILDLIFE-FORESTELEPHANTS/ (PICTURE), moved, by Ed Stoddard, 545 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia says Houthis will not be allowed to take over Yemen

BEIJING - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says the Iranian-allied Houthi movement will not be allowed to take over Yemen, as he accuses Iran of seeking to sow unrest around the region. (YEMEN-SECURITY/SAUDI (UPDATE 1), moved, 395 words)

ASIA

Kerry says no military solution to South China Sea dispute

NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calls on China and the Philippines to abide by an international tribunal's decision on the disputed South China Sea and says there is no military solution to the problem. (SOUTHCHINASEA-RULING/KERRY (UPDATE 2), moved, by Lesley Wroughton, 390 words)

Kerry urges Pakistan to push harder against extremists

NEW DELHI - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Pakistan has made progress in the fight against extremism in recent months, but urges Islamabad to push harder against militants hiding within its borders as tensions with neighboring India rise amid more violence in the disputed region of Kashmir. (INDIA-USA/PAKISTAN (UPDATE 1), moved, 280 words)

Myanmar's Suu Kyi kicks off peace conference with appeal for unity

NAYPYITAW - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi launches a major push to end decades of fighting between the military and myriad rebel groups with an appeal to the country's ethnic minorities to overcome their differences to achieve peace. (MYANMAR-POLITICS/PEACE (PICTURE, TV), moved, by Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Antoni Slodkowski, 582 words)

+ See also:

- MYANMAR-ROHINGYA/, moved, by Simon Lewis and Wa Lone, 570 words

Philippines' Duterte to workers returning from Saudi: Don't do drugs

MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, heavily criticized for a brutal anti-narcotics drive in which hundreds have been killed, welcomes home more than 100 Filipinos abandoned in desert camps in Saudi Arabia with a warning - don't do drugs. (SAUDI-LABOUR/PHILIPPINES (PICTURE), moved, by Neil Jerome Morales, 305 words)

Indonesia's Widodo masters the politics, but reform agenda fades

JAKARTA - As he heads towards the end of his second year as Indonesia's president, Joko Widodo has never looked stronger: a crowd of political parties backs him, he is riding high in opinion polls and the economy is beginning to bounce off the bottom. (INDONESIA-PRESIDENT/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURE), moved, by John Chalmers, 850 words)

Ukraine ends visa-free deal with North Korea to keep out "ineligible persons"

SEOUL - Ukraine has revoked a Soviet-era deal that allows visa-free travel for North Koreans, the latest setback for isolated North Korea which has been under growing pressure since the UN Security Council imposed toughened new sanctions in March. (NORTHKOREA-UKRAINE/, moved, by Ju-min Park and Jane Chung, 324 words)

Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people's home

TOKYO - Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people's home in Japan, police say, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. (ASIA-STORM/JAPAN (UPDATE 1, PICTURE), moved, by Kaori Kaneko, 275 words)

After blast, China tells citizens in Kyrgyzstan to avoid going out

BEIJING - China advises its citizens in Kyrgyzstan to avoid going outside or visiting crowded places, after a suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in its capital of Bishkek. (KYRGYZSTAN-BLAST/CHINA, moved, by Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina, 340 words)

Hostage video aimed at pressuring Afghan govt over militant case-Taliban source

PESHAWAR - The release of a video showing a U.S. and a Canadian citizen held hostage by the Taliban is designed to pressure the Afghan government not to impose the death sentence on the son of a feared militant leader, a Taliban source says. (AFGHANISTAN-USA/HOSTAGE, moved, by Jibran Ahmad, 305 words)

Australia's Turnbull hit over same-sex marriage as parliament opens

CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull comes under pressure over same-sex marriage and from within his own party as parliament returns for the first time since a poor showing by his coalition government in elections last month. (AUSTRALIA-POLITICS/, moving shortly, by Matt Siegel, 365 words)

+ See also:

- AUSTRALIA-POLITICS/CHINA (UPDATE 2), moved, by Tom Westbrook, 457 words

AMERICAS

First U.S.-Cuba scheduled flight in decades set to depart

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century is set to depart on Wednesday, starting a new chapter in the Obama administration's bid to open trade and travel with the former Cold War foe. (CUBA-USA/FLIGHTS (PICTURE), moved, by Jeffrey Dastin, 405 words)

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