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TOP STORIES
Italy grieves as state funeral held for victims of powerful quake
ASCOLI PICENO, Italy - Weeping relatives hug each other and reach out to touch the simple wooden coffins at a state funeral held for some of the 290 people killed in an earthquake this week. (ITALY-QUAKE/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved at 11:48 a.m., 781 words)
Italy quake survivors fear family villages will become ghost towns
SANT'ANGELO, Italy - Tiny villages that dot the valley around the town of Amatrice, which was leveled by Wednesday's earthquake, were home to generations of families who once farmed the land but later moved to cities for work and now return for the holidays. "The fear is that they will now be abandoned," said Giancarla Celli, 50, standing outside the 300-year-old family villa that withstood the quake. (ITALY-QUAKE/VILLAGES (PIX, TV), moved at 8:11 a.m., 760 words)
Turkey ratchets up Syria offensive, says warplanes hit Kurdish militia
KARKAMIS, Turkey - Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria on Saturday as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes on Kurdish forces and Islamic State. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-VILLAGE (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV), moved at 12:30 p.m., 613 words)
U.N. Syria envoy presses for speedy Aleppo aid delivery
GENEVA - The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria called for all warring sides to agree by Sunday to allow the first safe delivery of relief supplies to the divided city of Aleppo. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-UN (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:18 p.m., 340 words)
Taliban fighters overrun district in eastern Afghanistan
GARDEZ, Afghanistan - Taliban insurgents overran a district in eastern Afghanistan, killing and wounding dozens of police and soldiers and threatening strategically important road routes to Pakistan, officials say. (AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN/, moved, 350 words)
Vatican has high hopes of better ties with China
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is hopeful it can improve ties with China after decades of tension, the Roman Catholic Church's highest-ranking diplomat said on Saturday, adding that warmer relations would benefit the whole world. (POPE-CHINA/, moved at 10 a.m., 400 words)
CAMPAIGN
Clinton attacks Trump's outreach to black voters in new ad
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton calls for voters to reject what she calls the "bigotry" of Donald Trump's White House campaign, issuing a television ad criticizing his efforts to appeal to black voters and saying she is reaching out to people from all parties who are troubled by his candidacy. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 7 p.m., 690 words)
Clinton leads Trump by 5 points in latest Reuters/Ipsos poll
(USA-ELECTION/POLL (POLL, PIX), moved, 399 words)
WASHINGTON
Justice Dept to decide charges against Arizona lawman Arpaio in racial profiling case
PHOENIX - The U.S. Justice Department will decide whether criminal contempt charges will be brought against Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio for violating court orders in a racial profiling case. (ARIZONA-SHERIFF/CONTEMPT, moved at 11:09 p.m., 404 words)
Iraq says will sell oil through Iran if talks with Kurds fail
BAGHDAD - Iraq's government will consider selling crude through Iran should talks with the autonomous Kurdish region on an oil revenue-sharing agreement fail, a senior oil ministry official in Baghdad tells Reuters. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-OIL (EXCLUSIVE), moved, 720 words) See also: Iraq says still set on expanding oil output to gain market share (IRAQ-OPEC/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 11 a.m., 464 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
Cousin of NBA star Wade killed in Chicago shooting
CHICAGO - The female cousin of NBA superstar Dwyane Wade was killed in a shooting while she pushed her child in a stroller on the South Side of Chicago on Friday (CHICAGO-CRIME/WADE (PIX), moved at 5:48 a.m., 322 words)
Kaepernick gets 49ers' support after he refuses to stand for anthem
-- Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of San Francisco 49ers refused to stand for the national anthem before a preseason game on Friday, drawing boos from some fans and criticism on social media, but his team said it backed his right to protest. "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick later told NFL Media in an article posted on Saturday. (NFL-KAEPERNICK/ (PIX), moved at 12:44 p.m., 444 words)
Kansas City area hit by floods after three days of downpour
KANSAS CITY - The Kansas City area has flooded after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri's largest city, officials said on Saturday. The flooding had receded within the city center later on Saturday afternoon but rivers in more rural regions north of the city were still overflowing. (MISSOURI-WEATHER/ (TV), moved at 12:47 p.m., 270 words)
Mississippi man arrested in stabbing death of two nuns
-- A Mississippi man has been arrested in the stabbing death of two Catholic nuns at their home earlier this week, police said on Friday. (MISSISSIPPI-MURDER/, moved at 1:55 a.m., 118 words)
Video emerges said to show North Carolina police pursuing deaf driver
-- A video has emerged purportedly showing the beginning of a chase that resulted with a Highway Patrol trooper fatally shooting a deaf driver two weeks ago. (NORTH CAROLINA-POLICE/DEAF, moved at 12:38 a.m., 307 words)
Gaston to become an Atlantic hurricane on Saturday
MIAMI - Tropical Storm Gaston is expected to become a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. The system, with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, was located about 820 miles east-southeast of Bermuda overnight with a turn west-northwest expected during the next couple of days. (STORM-GASTON/, moved at 5:42 a.m., 90 words)
Partial win in fight over North Carolina transgender bathroom law
(USA-LGBT/ (UPDATE 3, PIX), moved at 9 p.m., by Colleen Jenkins, 650 words)
BP, Shell evacuating some staff from Gulf of Mexico on storm threat
(USA-WEATHER/GULFMEXICO (UPDATE 1), moved at 8 p.m., 80 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Syria rebels battle rival force as Turkey presses operation
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels backed by Turkey fought fighters opposed by Ankara in northern Syria on Saturday, sources on both sides said, as a Turkish-backed operation targeting Islamic State and Kurdish influence at the border appeared to gather pace. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-BATTLE, moved at 10 a.m., 185 words)
Iran detects malware in petrochemical plants, says not linked to recent fires
DUBAI - Iran has detected and removed malicious software from two of its petrochemical complexes, a senior military official said on Saturday, after announcing last week it was investigating whether recent petrochemical fires were caused by cyber attacks. (IRAN-SECURITY/CYBER, moved at 8:40 a.m., 234 words)
Death penalty failing to deter drug trafficking in Iran
DUBAI - The death penalty has failed to reduce drug trafficking in Iran, a senior Iranian judiciary official says shortly before the scheduled execution of 12 people for narcotics-related offenses. (IRAN-RIGHTS/EXECUTIONS (PIX), moved, 410 words)
WORLD
Bangladesh security forces say kill mastermind of Dhaka cafe attack
DHAKA - Bangladesh security forces have killed four Islamist militants, including the mastermind of an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were slain, the head of police counter-terrorism in the capital says. (BANGLADESH-MILITANTS/ (UPDATE 3), moved at 8:19 a.m., 350 words)
Boko Haram land mine kills 4 Chadian soldiers
N'DJAMENA, Chad - A land mine planted by Islamist group Boko Haram killed four Chadian soldiers on patrol near Chad's border with Niger on Saturday, two security sources said. (NIGERIA-SECURITY/CHAD, moved at 11:18 a.m., 190 words)
Brazil court frees Ireland's Mallon arrested in Rio Olympic ticket scam
SAO PAULO - A Brazilian court said on Saturday it has authorized the release of Ireland's Kevin James Mallon, a director of international sports hospitality company THG who was arrested on Aug. 5 for the alleged illegal scalping of Olympic tickets. (OLYMPICS-RIO/TICKETS (UPDATE 2), moved at 10 a.m., 136 words)
Relative of Charlie Hebdo attacker investigated for Islamist ties
PARIS - A relative of one of the militants who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 has been put under formal investigation for Islamist ties and remanded in custody, a judicial source said on Saturday. (EUROPE-ATTACKS/INVESTIGATION, moved at 1 p.m., 117 words)
German rightists scale Brandenburg Gate to protest immigration
BERLIN - Members of the far-right Identitarian Movement scale Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and unfurl a banner to protest against the "Islamization" of Germany via mass immigration. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY-FARRIGHT (TV, PIX), moved at 9:40 a.m., 218 words)
Venezuela ex-mayor Ceballos sent to prison from house arrest
CARACAS - Venezuelan intelligence agents on Saturday took Daniel Ceballos, a former opposition mayor accused of fomenting violence, to prison from house arrest in the capital of Caracas. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/, moved at 12:16 p.m., 267 words)
Bongo aims to prolong 50-year family rule in Gabon election
LIBREVILLE - Gabon votes amid growing discontent over the failure to raise living standards despite its oil wealth, posing the potentially biggest challenge yet to President Ali Bongo, whose family has dominated the nation for half a century. (GABON-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 2, PIX), moving shortlyu, 682 words)
Fire kills 17 Kyrgyz nationals in Moscow printing plant
(RUSSIA-WAREHOUSE/FIRE (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved, 169 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
U.S. judge will not block California school vaccination law
-- A federal judge on Friday refused to block a California law tightening vaccination requirements for schoolchildren in the state. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit by parents and health and education-related nonprofits, challenging the law at the beginning of the first school year in which it was to go into effect. (USA-VACCINE/CALIFORNIA, moved at 8 p.m., 280 words)
Minnesota sets broadest U.S. limits on chemicals blamed for bee declines
-- Minnesota governor Mark Dayton on Friday ordered the broadest restrictions yet in any state on the use of agricultural pesticides that have been blamed for hurting bees. (USA-MINNESOTA/BEES, moved at 7:40 p.m., 490 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Burkina Faso bans big buttocks beauty contest
OUAGADOUGOU - The government of Burkina Faso has banned an annual beauty contest for women with the biggest buttocks, saying such events are sexist. Advertising for this weekend's third edition of 'Miss Bim-Bim', carrying an image of two fully clothed women with exaggeratedly large behinds, provoked an outcry on social media. (BURKINA-WOMEN/, moved at 6:38 a.m., 204 words)
Kenya arrests three officials over Rio mismanagement
NAIROBI - Kenya has arrested three top members of its Olympic committee, a Reuters witness said, after mismanagement of the contingent nearly derailed the country's participation in the Rio Games. (OLYMPICS-KENYA/ARRESTS, moved, 347 words)
Fire severely damages Templar series "Knightfall" set in Prague
PRAGUE - A fire severely damaged a set for the "Knightfall" television series at studios in Prague overnight, causing damage worth about $4 million, Czech media reported on Saturday. Shooting of the series depicting the final days of the Knights Templar in the 14th century was due to start in the Czech Republic this weekend after initial work in Croatia. (CZECH-FILM/KNIGHTFALL (TV), moved at 8:17 a.m., 170 words)
Box Office: 'Don't Breathe' Inhales $10 Million on Friday, Blows Away Competition
(VARIETY-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/BOX-OFFICE, moved at 12:55 p.m., 400 words)
Oscars: Controversy Erupts Over Brazilian Film 'Aquarius'
(VARIETY-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/IN-CONTENTION, moved at 1 p.m., 895 words)
Qatar Football Association backs official after FIFA investigator seeks ban
(SOCCER-FIFA/QATAR, moved at 9 a.m., 248 words)
CONSUMER TECH
Facebook changes 'Trending' feature to rely less on human editors
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has changed its popular "Trending" feature, which shows users the most-talked about topics of the day, to make it more automated and further eliminate the potential for human bias, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. The update is Facebook's latest attempt to stress neutrality as its influence grows with 1.7 billion people on the social network. (FACEBOOK-TRENDING/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 6 p.m., 294 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Wall Street Week Ahead - Jobs data in crosshairs for record-high stocks
SAN FRANCISCO - Wall Street will focus on a wave of U.S. economic data next week culminating in monthly payrolls data on Friday that could sway expectations about the timing of future interest rate hikes and spark more volatility in sky-high stock prices. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last week the case for a rate hike is strengthening but she left open the timing of what would be the first increase since December 2015. (USA-STOCKS/WEEKAHEAD (SCHEDULED COLUMN), moved, 480 words)
Japan pledges $30 billion for Africa over next three years
NAIROBI - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells African leaders that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development, education and healthcare expansion in the continent. (AFRICA-JAPAN/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, 450 words)
Milk price talks between Lactalis and producers collapse
PARIS - Negotiations over milk purchase prices between Europe's largest dairy group Lactalis and French farmers collapsed late on Friday without an agreement, a union official says. (FRANCE-MILK/LACTALIS, moved, 260 words)
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