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EU hits Apple with 13 billion euro Irish tax demand

BRUSSELS/DUBLIN - The European Commission order Apple Inc. to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) as it rules the firm has received illegal state aid. (EU-APPLE/TAXAVOIDANCE (UPDATE 4, TV, PICTURE, GRAPHICS), moving shortly, by Foo Yun Chee and Padraic Halpin, 955 words)

France urges halt to EU-US trade talks

PARIS - Trade talks between the European Union and the United States should be halted and a new set started, France's trade minister say, adding his voice to calls from within Germany for an end to the negotiations. (EU-USA/TTIP (UPDATE 3), moved, 510 words)

Turkey signals no let up in Syria campaign, despite Western concerns

ISTANBUL - Turkey's army chief signals no let up in a Syria offensive Washington has criticized for targeting U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters as well as jihadists, and say its successes show last month's failed coup has not dented the military's power. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-TURKEY (UPDATE 1, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Edmund Blair and Asli Kandemir, 575 words)

+ See also:

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/TURKEY-FRANCE (UPDATE 1), moved, 290 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-UN (UPDATE 1, TV), moved, 205

France's Macron expected to resign in step towards presidency run

PARIS - France's Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron will resign on Tuesday, sources close to him say, clearing the way for a presidential bid by one of the country's most popular politicians. (FRANCE-POLITICS/MACRON (UPDATE 2, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Emmanuel Jarry and Leigh Thomas, 455 words)

SPECIAL REPORT

Why an emblematic American city has turned to Trump

MUNCIE - One night a month, retired auto workers shuffle into a former elementary school classroom here to discuss their legal fight against the company that canceled their health care benefits seven years ago. (USA-INSECURITY/MUNCIE (SPECIAL REPORT), moved, by Timothy Aeppel, 2,440 words)

MIDDLE EAST

U.N. says 10,000 killed in Yemen war, far more than other estimates

SANAA - At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations, approaching double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016. (YEMEN-SECURITY/TOLL (UPDATE 2, TV, PICTURE), moved, by Mohammed Ghobari, 325 words)

Oil fires cast black cloud over Iraqi town retaken from Islamic State

QAYYARA - It gets darker earlier these days in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara, which Islamic State militants abandoned about a week ago after setting fire to many of the region's oil wells. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-QAYYARA (TV, PICTURE), moved, by Stephen Kalin, 1,020 words)

AFRICA

Car bomb outside Somali President's Palace kills at least 10

MOGADISHU - At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, are killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when a car bomb claimed by al Shabaab explodes outside the Presidential Palace and also damage two nearby hotels, an official says. (SOMALIA-BLAST/ (UPDATE 3, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar, 380 words)

EUROPE

Migrant arrivals to Greek islands jump to highest in weeks

ATHENS - More than 460 migrants and refugees arrive on Greek islands from Turkey, the highest in several weeks, despite a European Union deal with Ankara agreed in March to close off that route. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GREECE (UPDATE 1, TV), moved, 420 words)

+ See also:

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA, moved, 395 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/DENMARK (UPDATE 1), moved, 320 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SERBIA-BORDER, moved, 280 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/ITALY (TV), moved, 190 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/CALAIS, moved, 330 words

Italy to hold mass funeral as search for bodies continues

AMATRICE, Italy - Italy hurriedly revise preparations for a mass funeral for earthquake victims after protests by bereaved relatives, as crews continue to dig for bodies under mounds of rubble. (ITALY-QUAKE/ (TV, PICTURE), moved, by Matteo Berlenga and Iona Serrapica, 370 words)

France's Hollande says Paris climate agreement far from implemented

PARIS - An international agreement on climate change struck in Paris last year is still far from being implemented, French President Francois Hollande says, and he urged countries to ensure it was ratified by year-end. (CLIMATECHANGE-FRANCE/HOLLANDE (UPDATE 1, TV, PICTURE), moved, 316 words)

UK PM has no legal obligation to consult parliament on EU divorce -spokesman

LONDON - The British government has no legal obligation to consult parliament on triggering the formal divorce procedure with the European Union, but lawmakers will have a say, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May says. (BRITAIN-EU/ARTICLE50 (UPDATE 1), moved, 250 words)

UNITED STATES

Trump hovers over McCain, Rubio U.S. Senate re-election contests

WASHINGTON - Republican voters in Arizona and Florida are expected to pick Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio as their respective U.S. Senate nominees when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but one name not on either ballot, Donald Trump, looms large. (USA-ELECTION/REPUBLICANS (PICTURE), moved, by Richard Cowan, 640 words)

Six U.S. senators urge Obama to prioritize cyber crime at G20 summit

NEW YORK - Six U.S. senators have urged President Barack Obama to prioritize cyber crime at this weekend's Group of 20 summit in China, in the wake of the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, according to a letter obtained by Reuters. (CYBER-HEIST/G20 (UPDATE 5, EXCLUSIVE), moved, by Jonathan Spicer, 730 words)

ASIA

Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan hit by suspected suicide car bomb

BISHKEK - A suspected suicide car bomber rams the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, killing the attacker and wounding at least three other people, officials say. (KYRGYZSTAN-BLAST/CHINA (UPDATE 4, TV, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Olga Dzyubenko, 440 words)

U.S., India pledge deeper security and commercial ties

NEW DELHI - The United States and India pledge to deepen security and commercial ties at the start of an annual U.S.-India strategic dialog in which tension with Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region will also be discussed. (INDIA-USA/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURE, TV), moved, by Lesley Wroughton, 635 words)

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