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TOP STORIES

Clinton makes history with Democratic nomination for president

PHILADELPHIA - Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic Party's U.S. presidential nomination, coming back from a stinging 2008 defeat in her first White House run and surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S. history. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 12, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), expect by 0400 GMT/MIDNIGHT ET, by Luciana Lopez and Amy Tennery, 850 words)

- USA-ELECTION/TRUMP (PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Steve Holland, 720 words

- USA-ELECTION/OBAMA-RUSSIA (UPDATE 1), moved, by Eric Beech, 260 words

- USA-ELECTION/LABOR (UPDATE 2), moved, by Bernie Woodall, 430 words

- USA-ELECTION/POLL (POLL, GRAPHIC), moved, by Chris Kahn, 420 words

Islamists attack French church, slit priest's throat

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France - Knife-wielding attackers interrupt a French church service, force a priest to his knees and slit his throat, a murder made all the more shocking as one of the assailants was a known Islamist militant under supposedly tight surveillance. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/FRANCE (UPDATE 10, PICTURES, TV), moving shortly, by Noemie Olive, 800 words)

- EUROPE-ATTACKS/GERMANY (UPDATE 5, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Michelle Martin, Andrea Shalal, Hans-Edzard Busemann and Thorsten Severin, 255 words

Kerry hopes to work with Russia on Syria, U.N. aims to restart talks

VIENTIANE/GENEVA - The United States says it hopes to announce in early August details of planned military cooperation and intelligence sharing with Russia on Syria, and a United Nations envoy says he would also aim to resume peace talks next month. (SYRIA-CRISIS/ (WRAPUP 2, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Lesley Wroughton and Stephanie Nebehay, 1,040 words)

Turkish troops hunt remaining coup plotters as crackdown widens

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Turkish special forces backed by helicopters, drones and the navy hunt a remaining group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill President Tayyip Erdogan during a failed coup, as the crackdown on suspected plotters widens. (TURKEY-SECURITY/ (WRAPUP 3, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHICS), moved, by Daren Butler and Orhan Coskun, 1,110 words)

ASIA

Malaysia's Najib gets new powers amid planned protests over fund scandal

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak will get sweeping security powers amid planned protests calling for his resignation over U.S. allegations that millions of dollars from a state fund wound up in his personal bank account. (MALAYSIA-SCANDAL/LAW (PICTURES, GRAPHIC), moved, by A. Ananthalakshmi, 680 words)

Knife attacker in Japan moved from jail to see prosecutors

SAGAMIHARA, Tokyo - A Japanese man accused of breaking into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo before stabbing and killing 19 patients is taken from a regional jail to see prosecutors. (JAPAN-ATTACK/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), expect by 0500 GMT/1 AM ET, by Elaine Lies, 450 words)

SPECIAL REPORTS

In Turkish sweatshops, Syrian children sew to survive

ISTANBUL, Turkey - To stem the flow of migrants to Europe, Turkey agrees to house and protect those Europe ejects. But Ankara is proving unable to protect all its Syrian refugee children. Many work illegally, including in the $40 billion textiles industry. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/TURKEY-CHILDREN (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURES, GRAPHIC), moved, by Dasha Afanasieva, 2,220 words)

In Venezuela's murky oil industry, the deal that went too far

CARACAS/BOGOTA - Even for Venezuela's notoriously opaque economy, it was a sweetheart deal that went too far. A multi-billion-dollar public tender let out by PDVSA provides a window onto the deep dysfunction plaguing the oil-rich socialist nation. (VENEZUELA-PDVSA/CONTRACT (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURES), moved, by Alexandra Ulmer and Girish Gupta, 1,730 words)

UNITED STATES

U.S. issues first government guide on responding to cyber attacks

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - The White House issues the U.S. government's first emergency response manual for a major cyber attack, though some officials acknowledge it lacks clear guidance on possible retaliation against hacker adversaries. (USA-CYBER/ (UPDATE 5, PICTURES), moved, by Dustin Volz and Karen Freifeld, 720 words)

AMERICAS

U.S. expands Central American refugee screening program

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announces a broad expansion of a program to let people fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras enter the United States as refugees, and says Costa Rica agreed to temporarily shelter some of those with no other recourse. (USA-IMMIGRATION/ (UPDATE 5, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Julia Edwards and Patricia Zengerle, 655 words)

Venezuela gov't aims to sink Maduro recall, opposition protests

CARACAS - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government seeks to scupper a push by the opposition to oust him this year via a referendum, while his opponents call for protests. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURES), moved, by Andrew Cawthorne, 410 words)

AFRICA

UN Western Sahara mission still recovering from Morocco dispute

UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara is still not fully functional, the U.N. Security Council president says, months after Morocco expels dozens of civilian staff in anger at remarks by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. (MOROCCO-WESTERNSAHARA/UN, moved, by Michelle Nichols, 390 words)

SPORT

EXCLUSIVE-Scrutiny on global sport bodies as they decide Russians' Olympic fates

MOSCOW/BELGRADE - The International Olympic Committee's decision to let individual sport federations decide whether to ban Russians from the Rio games over doping puts Moscow's links to governing bodies under scrutiny. (SPORT-DOPING/RUSSIA-INFLUENCE (EXCLUSIVE, PICTURES), moved, by Christian Lowe and Aleksandar Vasovic, 1,240 words)

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