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U.N. nuclear agency says Iran sticking to nuclear deal

VIENNA - Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, a report by the U.N. nuclear agency finds. (IRAN-NUCLEAR/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Shadia Nasralla, 407 words)

Clinton criticizes Trump for comments on security briefing, Putin

WHITE PLAINS - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slams Republican rival Donald Trump for talking about things he learned in classified intelligence briefings and praising Russia's Vladimir Putin as a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Jeff Mason, 868 words)

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- USA-ELECTION/TRUMP (UPDATE 1), moved, by Steve Holland, 280 words

- USA-ELECTION/JOHNSON (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved, by Doina Chiacu, 425 words

- USA-ELECTION/POWELL (UPDATE 1, GRAPHIC), moved, by Jonathan Allen, 429 words

Turkey suspends thousands of teachers, wages 'biggest campaign' against Kurds

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkey is waging the largest operation in its history against Kurdish militants and the removal of civil servants linked to them is a key part of the fight, President Tayyip Erdogan says, as 11,500 teachers are suspended. (TURKEY-SECURITY/KURDS (UPDATE 2), moved, by Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay, 490 words)

Syria ready to cooperate with U.N. watchdog on gas attack accusations

AMMAN - Syria says it is ready to cooperate with the global chemical weapons watchdog over accusations it had used poison gas against insurgent-held areas. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-CHEMICALS, moved, 263 words)

EUROPE

Three suspected female militants seized in France, policeman stabbed

PARIS - Three women arrested in connection with a car laden with gas cylinders found abandoned near Paris's Notre Dame cathedral were likely planning an imminent attack, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE-CAR (UPDATE 3), moved, by Ingrid Melander and Richard Lough, 442 words)

Anti-immigrant AfD seen winning 15 pct of vote in Berlin election

BERLIN - The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is expected to win 15 percent of the vote in the Sept. 18 election in Berlin, a new poll shows, a result that would give the party seats in 10 of 16 German state assemblies. (GERMANY-ELECTION/POLL, moved, 265 words)

Dozens stuck overnight in Mont-Blanc cable cars

LYON - Some sixty people are stranded overnight in cable cars near Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc, when a ride between two mountain peaks came to an abrupt halt, police say. (FRANCE-CABLECAR/ITALY (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, 113 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Iraq gears up for late-year push to retake Mosul from Islamic State

QAYYARA AIRBASE - The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group's funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his "caliphate" two years ago. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-MOSUL (INSIGHT, UPDATE 1, PIX, GRAPHIC), moved, by Stephen Kalin, 1,271 words)

Top commander of former Nusra group killed in Syria -rebel sources

AMMAN - The top military commander of the militant Jabhat Fateh al Sham, a former al Qaeda offshoot in Syria, was killed in an aerial raid that targeted a meeting of the group's leaders, two rebel sources say. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-MILITANTS (UPDATE 1), moved, 236 words)

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- MIDEAST-CRISIS/ALEPPO (UPDATE 1), moved, 628 words

- TURKEY-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 1), moved, 246 words

UNITED STATES

Texas schoolgirl shoots fellow student, then kills herself -sheriff

AUSTIN - A 14-year-old girl shot and wounded a fellow student at Alpine High School in rural West Texas and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Brewster County sheriff tells reporters. (TEXAS-SHOOTING/ (UPDATE 6, TV), moved, by Jon Herskovitz, 397 words)

Senators seek to block $1.15 bln U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON - Four U.S. senators introduce a joint resolution seeking to block the U.S. sale of $1.15 billion of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, citing issues including the conflict in Yemen. (USA-SAUDI/DEFENSE-CONGRESS (UPDATE 3), moved, by Patricia Zengerle, 394 words)

Biden asks U.S. Congress to allow unencumbered Zika funding vote

WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden calls on the Republican-led U.S. Congress to allow an up-or-down vote on funding to combat the Zika virus without other provisions attached, calling the health threat posed by the pathogen a national emergency. (HEALTH-ZIKA/USA-BIDEN (UPDATE 2), moved, by David Morgan, 401 words)

AFRICA

South Sudan buys weapons as economy collapses-U.N. panel

UNITED NATIONS - South Sudanese government forces have acquired two jet fighters and truckloads of small arms ammunition and were seeking to manufacture bullets, while opposition troops have not received any significant arms shipments, U.N. sanctions monitors say in a confidential report seen by Reuters. (SOUTHSUDAN-SECURITY/UN (EXCLUSIVE, PIX), moved, by Michelle Nichols, 756 words)

Slowing Zimbabwe economy points to more anti-government anger

HARARE - Zimbabwe's economy is flatlining while the budget deficit is ballooning, the finance minister says, pointing to a worsening of financial difficulties that are already stoking rare protests against 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe. (IMBABWE-ECONOMY/ (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved, by McDonald Dzirutwe, 410 words)

Gabon opposition leader challenges election result in court

LIBREVILLE - Gabon's opposition leader lodges a challenge to the presidential election result at the constitutional court, hoping to overturn his defeat in a vote whose validity has been questioned at home and abroad. (GABON-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 5, PIX), moved, by Gerauds Wilfried Obangome, 525 words)

NOW THERE ARE FOUR

Tall tale: Study reveals that giraffes are four species, not one

WASHINGTON - Genetic research on the world's tallest land animal has found that there are four distinct species of giraffe, not just one as long believed, with two of them at alarmingly low population levels. (SCIENCE-GIRAFFE/ (PIX), moved, by Will Dunham, 393 words)

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