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Warplanes hit Aleppo in heaviest attack in months, defy U.S.

BEIRUT - Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, as Russia and the Syrian government spurn a U.S. plea to halt flights, burying any hope for the revival of a doomed ceasefire. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (WRAPUP 2, PICTURE), expect by 1500 GMT/11 AM ET, by Tom Perry and Ellen Francis, 850 words)

+ see also:

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/TURKEY-SYRIA (UPDATE 2), moving shortly, by Ayla Jean Yackley, 490 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-AID (UPDATE 2, TV), moved, by Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles, 420 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-HOPES UPDATE 1), moved, by Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay, 335 words

Charlotte, N.C. in state of emergency after 2nd night of violence

CHARLOTTE, N.C., - Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, find city in a state of emergency with National Guard troops deployed on the streets after a second night of violent protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man. (USA-POLICE/ (UPDATE 3, TV, PICTURE), moved, by Greg Lacour and Andy Sullivan, 730 words)

Migrants tell of clamor to survive as teeming boat sinks off Egypt

BURG RASHID, Egypt - Mohamed Mabrouk hoped to sail from Egypt to a better future in Europe. But just before sunrise on Wednesday, the teen called his uncle in a panic as the boat carrying him and hundreds more migrants across the Mediterranean was overwhelmed by water. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/EGYPT-SURVIVORS (PICTURE, TV), moving shortly, by Amina Ismail, 565 words)

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- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/EGYPT (PICTURE, TV), moved, 300 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/FRANCE-BELGIUM (TV), moving shortly, 340 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-BRITAIN, moved, by Guy Faulconbridge and Marton Dunai, 395 words

- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SERBIA, moved, 365 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)

+ See also:

- USA-ELECTION/DEBATE-MOMENTS (TIMELINE), moved, 965 words

- USA-ELECTION/POLICE (PICTURE), moved, 415 words

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

SPECIAL REPORT

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

SVANGSTA, Sweden - Mustafa Ansari's journey ended one April morning in his bedroom in a quiet Swedish village. At around 7 a.m., staff at the young asylum-seekers' center where Ansari was staying found him dead. The sheets of his metal bunk bed were tied so tightly around the Afghan teenager's neck, an inquiry later learned, the staffer who found him had to cut the noose with a knife. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/SWEDEN (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Sven Nordenstam and and Benjamin Lesser, 2,810 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 (UPDATE 1), expect by 1500 GMT/11 AM ET, 400 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

Spain's regional rift makes third election more likely

GUERNICA, Spain - At the back of a council building in the Spanish town of Guernica, people take photos of each other in front of an oak sapling, a direct descendent of sacred trees under whose branches village elders held assemblies in medieval times. (SPAIN-ELECTION/REGIONS (PICTURE), moved, by Sonya Dowsett, 875 words)

Planned Serb referendum reawakens separatism fears in Bosnia

SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - Bosnia's autonomous Serb region 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 (UPDATE 1, PICTURE), moved, by Daria Sito-Sucic and Gordana Katana, 635 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), moved, 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)

UNITED STATES

Prosecutors, public defender squabble over status of accused NY bomber

NEW YORK - Prosecutors and New York's top federal public defender squabble over when the suspect in the series of weekend bombings around the city and New Jersey will get a lawyer. (USA-ATTACKS/, moved, by David Ingram, 590 words)

Ex-Cuomo aide, eight others charged in New York corruption case

NEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors say nine men including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former "right-hand man" have been charged in a wide-ranging corruption and fraud case involving state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars and other activities. (NEW YORK-CORRUPTION/ (UPDATE 1), moving shortly, by Nate Raymond, 385 words)

AMERICAS

Brazil police arrest former finance minister in Petrobras probe

SAO PAULO - Brazilian police arrest former Finance Minister Guido Mantega as a sweeping corruption investigation closed in on the inner circle of the leftist Workers Party leaders who ran the country for 13 years. (BRAZIL-CORRUPTION/ (UPDATE 2, PICTURE), moved, by Brad Haynes and Patricia Duarte, 350 words)

Venezuela opposition furious as door slams on 2016 Maduro vote CARACAS - Foes of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro accuse election authorities of abusing constitution and mocking popular will by quashing their push for referendum this year on recalling unpopular socialist leader. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (PICTURE, TV), expect by 1500 GMT/11 AM ET, by Andrew Cawthorne, 400 words)

ASIA

Philippines' Duterte invites 'devil' UN chief, EU to debate rights

MANILA - Firebrand Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte invite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union to investigate his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, after hurling insults at them for interfering in it. (PHILIPPINES-DUTERTE/ (UPDATE 1, TV), moved, by Manuel Mogato and Karen Lema, 575 words)

Violent past revisited as Afghanistan initials accord with notorious warlord

KABUL - Afghan officials initialed a peace deal with a party led by one of the country's most notorious Islamist warlords, a move that inspired both hope and fear as it dredged up tension dating back decades. (AFGHANISTAN-HEKMATYAR/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Josh Smith and Mirwais Harooni, 615 words)

+ See also:

- USA-AFGHANISTAN/CORRUPTION, moved, by Idrees Ali, 345 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)

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), moved, by Steve Scherer and Tony Gentile, 495 words)

SPACE

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft to end epic trek with comet crash landing

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/ (UPDATE 1, TV, PICTURE, GRAPHIC), moved, by Maria Sheahan and Victoria Bryan, 490 words)

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