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TOP STORIES

North Korea conducts fifth and largest nuclear test, drawing broad condemnation

SEOUL - North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain. (NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/ (UPDATE 6, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 8:10 a.m., 846 words, will be led)

Obama says provocative actions by North Korea will have serious consequences

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - President Barack Obama said on Friday any provocative actions by North Korea would have "serious consequences" after the reclusive North confirmed it had conducted its fifth nuclear test. (NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/OBAMA (PIX), moved at 1:30 a.m., 84 words) See also: Seoul says Obama will use all means to protect South from North Korea threat (NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/MEASURES, moved at 12:36 a.m., 103 words)

China slams North Korea's nuclear test but unlikely to do much

(NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/CHINA (UPDATE 2), moved at 5:09 a.m., 886 words)

South Koreans heading into holiday shrug off North's latest nuclear test

(NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR/SKOREA-VOX POPS (TV), moved at 8 a.m., 504 words)

Kerry tries again with Lavrov on Syria; U.S. says patience not infinite

GENEVA - Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov resume negotiations on a Syrian ceasefire plan, with U.S. officials saying they believed a deal was still possible but warning the talks could not go on forever. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-KERRY (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, 480 words)

China marks Mao anniversary but President Xi makes no mention

BEIJING - Chinese state media on Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, with articles praising him, but President Xi Jinping visited a school and did not mention the day. Mao, who died in 1976, remains a divisive figure. (CHINA-MAO/ (PIX), moved at 7:20 a.m., 416 words)

CAMPAIGN

Clinton, as polls tighten, shifts focus to herself instead of Trump

KANSAS CITY - Hillary Clinton reflected on her religious faith on Thursday during the first of a series of speeches her campaign said would focus on her values and vision rather than those of Republican opponent Donald Trump. The shift comes as opinion polls tighten between Clinton and Trump ahead 0of the Nov. 8 presidential election. (USA-ELECTION/CLINTON (PIX), moved at 9:13 p.m., by Jeff Mason, 440 words)

Trump would spend billions more on military, but for what? experts ask

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's U.S. military buildup plan would cost hundreds of billions of dollars - but with no apparent strategy, defense experts from across the political spectrum said on Thursday. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-MILITARY (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 10 p.m., 875 words) See also: Trump says he was against Iraq war all along, disputes Clinton (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP, moved, 145 words)

Mexico's new finance minister spurns Donald Trump

(USA-ELECTION/MEXICO (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 9 p.m., 421 words)

Pfizer CEO says Clinton plan to curb drug prices would hurt consumers

(PFIZER-CEO/CLINTON (UPDATE 1), moved, 395 words)

WASHINGTON

FAA tells air passengers not to turn on Galaxy Note 7 phones

WASHINGTON/SYDNEY - Airline passengers should not turn on or charge their Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smart phones during flights or stow them in checked baggage due to concerns over the phone's fire-prone batteries, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says. (SAMSUNG-USA/FAA (UPDATE 3, PIX), moved at 1:10 a.m., 446 words)

Wells Fargo will pay $190 million to settle customer fraud case

WASHINGTON - Wells Fargo has long been the envy of the banking industry for its ability to sell multiple products to the same customer but regulators on Thursday said those practices went too far in some instances. (WELLS FARGO-SETTLEMENT/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 6 p.m., 400 words)

SEPT 11 ANNIVERSARY

Sept. 11 drama on Air Force One unfolds in Bush aide's handwritten notes

WASHINGTON - The notes are handwritten on a legal pad and provide a verbatim account of the shock, pain and grim determination aboard Air Force One on Sept. 11, 2001. They were scribbled by Ari Fleischer, press secretary for President George W. Bush, six pages in all. "We're at war," Bush told Vice President Dick Cheney. Hanging up and turning to his aides, he added: "When we find out who did this, they're not going to like me as president. Somebody's going to pay." (USA-SEPT11/BUSH (PIX, TV), moved, by Steve Holland, 595 words)

Sorrow, selfies compete at New York's 9/11 memorial 15 years on

NEW YORK - The memorial in New York City at the site where the Twin Towers fell in the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago straddles two worlds: one of the living and one of the dead. A marker for where more than 2,600 people were killed, it attracts tourists from around the world. Some are drawn there to pause and reflect, others to satisfy a morbid fascination with the site of the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. They are expected to turn out in droves on Sunday for the 9/11 anniversary. (USA-SEPT11/MOOD (FEATURE, PIX, TV), moved at 6 a.m., by Gina Cherelus, 620 words)

FEATURE

Outside Havana, Cubans are still waiting for American visitors

HOLGUIN/SANTA CLARA, Cuba - U.S. visitors and their dollars are flooding into Havana as airlines and hotels take advantage of the thaw in relations between the Cold War antagonists, but in the provinces outside the Cuban capital, the promised tourism boom is more rumor than fact. (CUBA-USA/TRAVEL (PIX, GRAPHIC), moved at 7 a.m., by Sarah Marsh and Jeffrey Dastin, 587 words)

OTHER U.S. NEWS

University of Oregon strips Klan-linked name from dormitory

-- The University of Oregon's board of trustees has voted to strip the name of a 1920s Ku Klux Klan leader from a dormitory, a newspaper reported on Friday. The board voted unanimously on Thursday to remove the name of classics professor Frederic Dunn from the building, Eugene's Register-Guard newspaper said. (OREGON-RACE/KLAN, moving shortly, 156 words)

North Dakota governor calls in National Guard ahead of pipeline ruling

-- North Dakota's governor activated 100 National Guard troops on Thursday ahead of an expected ruling by a federal judge on a Native American tribe's request to halt construction of a crude oil pipeline that has drawn fierce opposition and protests. (USA-PIPELINE/NATIVEAMERICANS (PIX), moved at 9 p.m., 388 words)

Texas to consider Mexican-American textbook critics decry as racist

AUSTIN - The State Board of Education in Texas is expected to hear testimony next week from critics of a new textbook for Mexican-American studies who say the tome is riddled with mistakes and perpetrates demeaning stereotypes. (TEXAS-TEXTBOOKS/, moved at 7 a.m., by Jon Herskovitz, 415 words)

Wisconsin girl in Slenderman case to ask court for change of plea

MILWAUKEE - One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of attacking a classmate to please a fictional character named Slenderman is expected on Friday to ask a court to change her plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, local media reported. (WISCONSIN-CRIME/,moved at 6 a.m., by Brendan O'Brien, 389 words)

Denver Broncos' Marshall kneels in protest during national anthem

-- Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall became the latest athlete to kneel during the U.S. national anthem in a protest against social injustice before his team's game against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday. (SPORT-MARSHALL/ (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved at 1:57 a.m., 436 words)

Washington state will not charge police in Mexican laborer's slaying

SEATTLE - The state of Washington has decided not to file criminal charges against the three police officers who fatally shot an undocumented Mexican farm worker in 2015 after he threw rocks at them and ran through a crowded intersection. (USA-POLICE/WASHINGTON (PIX), moved at 11:25 p.m., by Eric M. Johnson, 400 words)

Cincinnati Zoo, site of gorilla slaying, evacuated over suspicious device

-- Cincinnati police found nothing on Thursday after receiving a phone threat of a suspicious device at a zoo where a gorilla was shot earlier this year to protect a child who had fallen into its enclosure. (OHIO-ZOO/ (UPDATE 1, TV), moved at 6:35 p.m., 145 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Air strike kills top commander of former Nusra group in Syria

AMMAN - The top military commander of the militant group Jabhat Fateh al Sham, the former al Qaeda offshoot in Syria, is killed in an aerial raid that targeted a meeting of the group's leaders, both the group and rebel sources say. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-MILITANTS (UPDATE 2), moved, 570 words)

Embattled Afghan forces encircled by Taliban in provincial capital

KANDAHAR - Exhausted Afghan security forces are surrounded by Taliban fighters in the capital of Afghanistan's south-central province of Uruzgan a day after they had fought off a concerted militant push, officials say. (AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 8:17 a.m., 386 words)

Iraq expels Islamic State families from local communities

TIKRIT, Iraq - Iraqi authorities are expelling the families of suspected Islamic State members from their homes as the jihadist group loses ground, raising fears of communal violence if people seek to settle old scores. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-DISPLACEMENT (PIX), moved at 8:46 a.m., 567 words)

Dozens protesting against teacher suspensions detained in Turkey's southeast

DIYARBAKIR - Turkish police detained dozens of people and used water cannon to disperse several hundred teachers demonstrating against their suspension from classrooms in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, union sources said and TV footage showed. (TURKEY-SECURITY/KURDS (TV, PIX), moving shortly, 364 words)

Aid group World Vision lays off contractors in Gaza after Israel allegations

GAZA - Christian aid group World Vision has laid off about 120 contractors in the Gaza Strip following allegations by Israel that the agency's operations manager in the territory had diverted funds to the Islamist group Hamas. (PALESTINIANS-GAZA/WORLDVISION (PIX), moved at 8:50 a.m., 544 words)

EU seeks to soothe Turkey ties, but no breakthrough on visa deal

(EU-TURKEY/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 8:42 a.m., 495 words)

European MPs call for FIFA to act against Israeli settlement soccer clubs

(ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/SOCCER, moved at 8:38 a.m., 444 words)

WORLD

Duterte says he told Obama he never insulted him, thinks UN's Ban a fool

JAKARTA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells Barack Obama he never called him a "son of a bitch," he says, but maintains a defiant stance on his war on drugs, saying U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is a fool for bringing up human rights. (INDONESIA-PHILIPPINES/DRUGS (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 6:21 a.m., 260 words)

Trapped Mont Blanc cable car passengers brought to safety

CHAMONIX, France - Rescuers brought 33 people trapped overnight in cable cars high over the glaciers of Mont Blanc to safety on Friday morning after technicians repaired the ride's tangled cables, the operator says. (FRANCE-CABLECAR/ (UPDATE 2, TV), moved, 240 words)

At least three dead after train derails in northern Spain

MADRID - At least three people are killed after a train derails in Galicia in north-western Spain, emergency services say. (SPAIN-CRASH/ (UPDATE 1, TV), moved, 165 words)

Scotland will not hold an independence vote for five years, says former leader

EDINBURGH - Scotland will not hold another vote on independence in the next five years because there is no sign it can be won, but the risk of secession from the United Kingdom is growing, a former Scottish first minister predicts. (BRITAIN-SCOTLAND/INDEPENDENCE (INTERVIEW, PIX), moved, 490 words)

Cambodian critic of PM Hun Sen sentenced to jail in absentia

PHNOM PENH - A Cambodian court sentences opposition leader Kem Sokha to five months in jail in absentia amid what activists say is a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen ahead of local and general elections. (CAMBODIA-POLITICS/ (PIX, TV), moved, 240 words)

Congolese warlord goes on hunger strike at criminal court

AMSTERDAM - A former Congolese rebel commander on trial at the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity has gone on hunger strike to protest at the conditions of his detention, his lawyer said on Friday. (WARCRIMES-CONGO/, moved at 9 a.m., 260 words)

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

New York to allow late-term abortions for health at-risk women

NEW YORK - New York will allow late-term abortions for women whose pregnancies endanger their health, a move that brings the state into federal compliance and ends decades of confusion faced by patients and providers of the procedure, state officials said. (NEW YORK-ABORTION/, moved, 400 words)

NASA probe blasts off on quest to collect asteroid samples

CAPE CANAVERAL - An Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Thursday carrying a robot space probe on NASA's first quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life. (SPACE-ASTEROID/LAUNCH (UPDATE 3, TV, PIX), moved at 10 p.m., by Irene Klotz, 511 words)

Even babies see social cues at mealtime

(HEALTH-BABIES/SOCIAL-FOOD, moved, 500 words)

When an airport scanner sees a cyst as a security threat

(HEALTH-CYST/AIRPORT-SECURITY, moved, 500 words)

ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE

'It will come back,' says horror master Stephen King on Carolina clowns

BOSTON - A spate of creepy clown sightings in South Carolina has perplexed police and worried parents, but their frightening appearance was no surprise to the U.S. maestro of fear -- best-selling horror author Stephen King. (USA-CLOWNS/KING, moving shortly, 296 words)

Western remake 'The Magnificent Seven' opens Toronto Film Festival

TORONTO - A merry band of outlaws and hired hands kicks off the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday in "The Magnificent Seven," leading a slew of action films and intimate true stories vying for early buzz leading into Hollywood's annual awards season. (FILMFESTIVAL-TIFF/MAGNIFICENTSEVEN (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 7 p.m., 384 words) See also: Toronto Film Review: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt in 'The Magnificent Seven' (VARIETY/ (ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/REVIEWS), moved, 1,287 words)

Nicholas K kicks off New York Fashion Week with 'Urban nomad' style

NEW YORK - Luxury brand Nicholas K kicked off New York Fashion Week on Thursday, bringing its desert inspired style to the city with a display of long caftan style dresses and asymmetrical jackets. (FASHION-NEW YORK/NICHOLAS K (PIX, TV), moved, 307 words)

Blatter and two other world soccer officials facing FIFA investigation over salaries

(SOCCER-FIFA/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 9:17 a.m., 456 words)

Andrew Lloyd Webber brings 'School of Rock' to West End stage

(THEATER-SCHOOLOFROCK/ (TV, PIX), moved, 243 words)

TV Review: 'Kevin Can Wait'

(VARIETY/ (ENTERTAINMENT-TV/REVIEWS), moved, 647 words)

Venice Film Review: 'Paradise'

(VARIETY/ (ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/REVIEWS), moved, 870 words)

Archer,' Chris Hardwick, Oculus Win Interactive Media Emmys

(VARIETY/ (ENTERTAINMENT), moved, 466 words)

BUSINESS TRENDS

Patchwork of state laws hurts U.S. effort to modernize mortgages

NEW YORK - As Chuck DeBonis was wrapping up his stint as a civilian paramedic at a military base in Kuwait earlier this year, he found a home he wanted to buy in the Virginia town of Bristow for his return. The problem? His mortgage lender wanted him to sign paperwork, in person, in front of a notary public. So the 30-year-old flew 6,500 miles to sign on the dotted line (USA-MORTGAGES/NOTARIES, moved at 7 a.m., by Suzanne Barlyn, 1,036 words)

Global airport traffic up 6.4 pct in 2015, fastest rate since 2010

MONTREAL - Global airport traffic grew at its fastest rate last year since 2010, rising 6.4 percent to 7.2 billion passengers, according to data published on Friday by an international trade association representing airports. (AIRPORTS-TRAFFIC/ (PIX), moved at 9 a.m., 340 words)

CONSUMER TECH

Norway's PM attacks Facebook "censorship" over Vietnam photo

OSLO - Norway's prime minister joined a campaign by a Norwegian newspaper on Friday accusing Facebook of undue censorship by barring an iconic Vietnam War era news photograph showing a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack. (NORWAY-FACEBOOK/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moving shortly, 484 words)

BUSINESS AND MARKETS

Increasingly risky to delay U.S. rate hike, Fed's Rosengren says

QUINCY, Mass. - The Federal Reserve, long hesitant to raise U.S. interest rates, increasingly faces risks if it waits too much longer so a gradual policy tightening is likely appropriate, a top Fed official said on Friday. In another sign that a U.S. rate hike is approaching, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said "risks to the forecast are becoming increasingly two-sided." (USA-FED/ROSENGREN, moved, 348 words)

Mastercard sued for $19 billion in Britain's biggest damages claim

LONDON - About 46 million people in Britain could potentially benefit from a legal case brought against Mastercard demanding $19 billion in damages for allegedly charging excessive fees, according to court documents filed in London. (MASTERCARD-LAWSUIT/BRITAIN (UPDATE 1), moving shortly, 365 words)

Kroger cuts 2016 sales, profit forecasts amid low food prices

-- Kroger, the biggest U.S. supermarket chain, cut its full-year sales and profit forecasts as it struggles with low food prices and stiff competition. (KROGER-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 9 a.m., 286 words)

Liberty Media takeover offers a longer-term vision for F1

LONDON - Liberty Media's takeover of Formula One promises a long-term strategy for the cash-rich sport with a sharper focus on new media markets and another attempt to expand in North America. (FORMULA ONE-M&A/LIBERTY MEDIA (PIX), moved, 700 words)

Iranian oil output stagnates for third month amid OPEC bargaining

LONDON - Iran's steep oil output growth has stalled in the past three months, new data showed, suggesting Tehran might be struggling to fulfill its plans to raise production to new highs while demanding to be excluded from any OPEC deals on supply curbs. (IRAN-OIL/, moved, 515 words)

U.S. crude stocks plunge as tankers delay arrival on storm warning

(USA-CRUDE/KEMP (COLUMN), moved at 8:11 a.m., by John Kemp, 760 words)

Hanjin Shipping funding plan faces further delay, Samsung tries to recover goods

(HANJIN SHIPPING-DEBT/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, 585 words)

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