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State of emergency called to quell Charlotte unrest over police shooting of black man

CHARLOTTE, N.C., - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, wake up to a state of emergency and the National Guard deployed to their city after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a black man. (USA-POLICE/ (TV, PICTURE), moved, by Greg Lacour and Andy Sullivan, 470 words)

Jets pound Aleppo's rebel-held areas, defying U.S.

BEIRUT - Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/-ALEPPO (UPDATE 1), moved, 255 words)

Trump vs Clinton: Debate will mark biggest moment of election

WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton, suddenly vulnerable in the presidential race, is under pressure to deliver a strong performance against Republican Donald Trump in their first debate on Monday, a moment that could be the most consequential yet of the 2016 election. (USA-ELECTION/DEBATE (PICTURE), moved, by Steve Holland and Amanda Becker, 900 words)

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- USA-ELECTION/RUBIO (PICTURE), moved, by Richard Cowan, 720 words

U.S. watchdog slams Afghan anti-corruption body and former president

WASHINGTON - An Afghan anti-corruption body formed in 2008 has been ineffective, lacks independence and never verified the asset declaration forms of former President Hamid Karzai, the U.S. government's top watchdog on Afghanistan says in a report published on Thursday. (USA-AFGHANISTAN/CORRUPTION, moved, by Idrees Ali, 345 words)

SPECIAL REPORT

Afghan boy's hope of new life in Europe ends in suicide

SVANGSTA, Sweden - Sweden has long welcomed young asylum-seekers. Last year, as Mustafa Ansari's story shows, it was overwhelmed. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SWEDEN (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Sven Nordenstam and Benjamin Lesser, 2,800 words)

WIDER IMAGE

Italian officials support each other in lonely stand against mafia

POLISTENA, Italy - Benedetto Zoccola wore a wiretap to put a mob boss in jail. To pay him back, the mafia planted a small bomb on the window sill of his office last year. (ITALY-MAFIA/THREATS (WIDER IMAGE, PICTURE), expect by 1200 GMT/8 AM ET, by Steve Scherer and Tony Gentile, 495 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Iraqi army says it reached center of key town south of Mosul

TIKRIT, Iraq - Iraq's military backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition seize the center of Shirqat, a northern town seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-SHIRQAT, moved, 405 words)

Turkey labor ministry sacks 785 employees since failed coup - minister

ANKARA - Turkey's labor ministry has so far sacked nearly 800 employees over links to a U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July, the minister says. (TURKEY-SECURITY/LABOUR (UPDATE 1), moved, 260 words)

EUROPE

Planned Serb referendum vote reawakens fears of strife in Bosnia

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA - Bosnia's autonomous Serb entity is set to defy its highest court with a referendum on a national holiday on Sunday that may stoke separatist sentiment lingering since the 1990s war. (BOSNIA-SERBS/REFERENDUM (PIX), by Daria Sito-Sucic and Gordana Katana, 547 words)

AFRICA

Gabon oil workers to stay home until final election result -union

LIBREVILLE - Gabon oil workers will stay at home from Thursday over concerns about potential violence when a court delivers a final verdict on the central African country's disputed election result, their union says. (GABON-ELECTION/OIL (UPDATE 1), moving shortly, 225 words)

Nigeria says would welcome U.N. help in negotiating schoolgirls' release

ABUJA - Nigeria's president says he will be open to U.N. bodies coming in to act as intermediaries in any talks with Boko Haram Islamist militants on the release of about 200 kidnapped schoolgirls. (NIGERIA-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 1), moved, 390 words)

ASIA

Violent past revisited as Afghanistan signs accord with notorious warlord

KABUL - Afghan officials sign a peace deal with a party led by one of the country's most notorious Islamist warlords, a move that inspires both hope and fear as it dredges up tensions dating back decades. (AFGHANISTAN-HEKMATYAR/, moved, by Josh Smith and Mirwais Harooni, 595 words)

China jails prominent rights lawyer for 12 years

BEIJING - A Chinese court sentences a prominent civil rights lawyer to 12 years in prison on fraud charges, his lawyer says, a punishment rights advocates call retaliation for his defense of high-profile clients who had challenged the government. (CHINA-RIGHTS/SENTENCING, moved, by Joseph Campbell, 450 words)

Pakistan's Sharif says world ignores South Asia tension at its peril

UNITED NATIONS - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif accuses nuclear-armed rival India of putting unacceptable conditions on dialog and says the world would ignore rising tension in South Asia at its peril. (UN-ASSEMBLY/PAKISTAN-INDIA (UPDATE 3), moved, by David Brunnstrom, 530 words)

UNITED STATES

Poet behind book about U.S. racism wins 2016 'genius grant'

A poet whose work explores the casual racism in the United States toward African-Americans is among the 23 winners of $625,000 "genius grants," the U.S. organization awarding them says. (USA-GENIUSGRANTS/, moved, 370 words)

AMERICAS

Venezuela election board sinks push for Maduro referendum in 2016

CARACAS - Venezuela's national election board dashes opposition hopes of holding a referendum this year to remove unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Kai, 420 words)

SPACE

Europe's Rosetta to wave goodbye in crash-landing on comet

FRANKFURT/BERLIN - After 12 years chasing a comet across more 6 billion km of space, European scientists will end the historic Rosetta mission by crash-landing the spacecraft on the surface of the dusty, icy body at the end of the month. (SPACE-ROSETTA/ (TV, PICTURE), moved, by Maria Sheahan and Victoria Bryan, 490 words)

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