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BREAKING
'We are not butchers': Philippines defends drug war at Asian summit
VIENTIANE - The Philippines on Tuesday defended a surge in killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president over two months ago, handing out a 38-page pamphlet at a regional summit praising his campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands have died. (LAOS-OBAMA/DUTERTE PAMPHLET (PIX), moved at 7:30 a.m., 347 words)
Nobel Assembly seeks resignation of two members over scandal
STOCKHOLM - The assembly that awards the Nobel Prize for medicine will demand the resignation of two of its members as a result of a scandal around a surgeon accused of scientific negligence, local news agency TT said on Tuesday. (SWEDEN-HEALTHCARE/SURGEON-NOBEL, moving shortly, 298 words) See also: Sweden fires board of institution handing out medicine Nobel after scandal (SWEDEN-HEALTHCARE/SURGEON, moved, 443 words)
Fox settles with Gretchen Carlson for $20 million on Ailes' behalf in harassment lawsuit - Vanity Fair
NEW YORK - Fox News has reached a $20 million settlement with former anchor Gretchen Carlson in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the network's former chief Roger Ailes, Vanity Fair said on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the deal. (TWENTY-FIRST FOX-AILES/SETTLEMENT, moving shortly, 97 words)
TOP STORIES
Trump raises possibility of eventual legal status for illegal immigrants
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - In a new twist to his immigration proposals, Donald Trump on Monday held out the possibility of legal status for millions of illegal immigrants but only after many other border enforcement steps are taken. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-IMMIGRATION (CORRECTED, PIX), moved at 7:12 p.m., 555 words)
Clinton voices concern about Russian interference in election
HAMPTON, Ill. - Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed concern about "credible reports" of Russian interference in the U.S. election and accused Donald Trump of being fixated on dictators including Russia's Vladimir Putin. (USA-ELECTION/CLINTON (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 8 p.m., by Jeff Mason, 4121 words) See also: Clinton rejects Mexico invitation after Trump's diplomatic ruckus (USA-ELECTION/CLINTON-MEXICO (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 10:40 p.m., 293 words)
Philippines scrambles to soothe tensions after Obama slur
VIENTIANE - New Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to defuse a fight with the United States on Tuesday, voicing regret for calling President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch" in a comment that prompted the White House to call off a bilateral meeting. The tiff between the two allies overshadowed the opening of a summit of East and Southeast Asian nations in Vientiane, Laos. (LAOS-OBAMA/DUTERTE (UPDATE 6, PIX, TV), moved at 8:50 a.m., 870 words)
Obama says North Korea sanctions must be implemented after missiles fired
VIENTIANE - President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the full implementation of sanctions against North Korea, a day after it fired ballistic missiles into the sea, adding Washington had no interest in taking an offensive approach towards Pyongyang. (LAOS-OBAMA/NORTHKOREA, moved at 6:32 a.m., 133 words)
U.S. gives Laos extra $90 million to help clear unexploded ordnance
VIENTIANE - The United States will provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos, heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, clear unexploded ordnance that has killed or injured more than 20,000 people. (LAOS-OBAMA/UXO (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, 430 words)
U.S. companies tout climate policies, fund climate skeptics
BOSTON/NEW YORK - U.S. companies that have expressed the most fervent public support for President Barack Obama's environmental agenda are also funding its biggest enemies - the scores of U.S. lawmakers who are climate change skeptics and oppose regulation to combat it. (USA-ELECTION/CLIMATE-DONATIONS (PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 7 a.m., by Richard Valdmanis and Grant Smith, 985 words)
CAMPAIGN
Trump, Clinton court Ohio as White House race enters final 2 months
CANFIELD, Ohio/CLEVELAND - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened a final two-month sprint to the Nov. 8 election on Monday with the Republican presidential nominee suddenly looking stronger as he and his Democratic rival took their bitter fight to Ohio. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 9 p.m., 973 words)
UN human rights chief says Trump, others fanning prejudice
THE HAGUE - The United Nations human rights chief accuse U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of spreading "humiliating racial and religious prejudice" and warns of a rise of populist politics that could turn violent. (UN-HUMAN RIGHTS/ZEIN (UPDATE 2), moved at 5:20 a.m., 235 words)
Trump allies falsely link Reuters to claim Detroit video feed was cut short
WASHINGTON - Conservative commentators on Sunday mistakenly accused Reuters of pulling the plug on the final moments of broadcast coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's appearance at a black church this weekend. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-VIDEO, moved at 7:55 p.m., 680 words)
WASHINGTON
GOP-led Congressional lull aiming to impede a Clinton presidency
WASHINGTON - Republicans in Congress are planning a light legislative agenda as they return from their long summer break, a strategy some say is designed in part to bog down Hillary Clinton if she becomes president. (USA-CONGRESS/LAMEDUCK (PIX), moved at 6 a.m., by Richard Cowan, 670 words)
G20 a success for China, but hard issues kicked down the road
BEIJING - China is lauding its successful hosting of the G20 summit in scenic Hangzhou, with open confrontation largely avoided and broad consensus reached over the fragile state of the global economy and the need for a wide range of policies to fix it. (G20-CHINA/ (PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Ben Blanchard, 732 words)
Puerto Rico debt fix unlikely to resemble Detroit's
NEW YORK - The federal appointees tapped to help map Puerto Rico's economic future are technocrats more than political actors and that could make the U.S. territory's fiscal turnaround look more like a corporate restructuring than a politically charged municipal bankruptcy in the vein of Detroit. (PUERTORICO-DEBT/CONTROLBOARD (ANALYSIS, PIX), moved at 7 a.m., by Nick Brown, 660 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
Cosby due back in Pennsylvania court for sexual assault case
-- Comedian Bill Cosby is scheduled to return to a Pennsylvania state court on Tuesday, two months after a judge rejected his latest bid to have criminal sexual assault charges dismissed. (PEOPLE-COSBY/ (PIX), moved at 6 a.m., by Joseph Ax, 284 words)
Hermine lingers off U.S. East Coast, high winds and rain expected
-- Hermine, the storm that raked Florida with hurricane-force winds last week, lingered on Tuesday off the East Coast where it was expected to produce heavy gusts and rain over the next two days. (STORM-HERMINE/ (PIX, TV), moved at 3 a.m., 368 words)
ITT Educational to shut institutes, lay off over 8,000 employees
-- ITT Educational Services Inc said it would discontinue operations at its ITT Technical Institutes, in line with the U.S. Department of Education's directive, affecting more than 8,000 employees. (ITT EDUCATION-LAYOFFS/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 7:36 a.m., 156 words)
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92
WASHINGTON - Phyllis Schlafly, who became a "founding mother" of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92. (PEOPLE-SCHLAFLY/ (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved at 10:06 p.m., by Bill Trott, 913 words)
NASA mission to target asteroid
CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA is getting ready to send a satellite to an asteroid and return bits of rock and soil samples to Earth for analysis. Scientists hope to learn more about what role asteroids played in the formation of rocky planets like Earth. (SPACE-ASTEROID/ TV), expect by 5 p.m., by Irene Klotz, 400 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Afghan forces end siege after suicide attacks in Kabul
KABUL - Afghan security forces end an 11-hour standoff in central Kabul, shooting dead the last of a group of attackers who struck hours after a separate suicide bombing killed and wounded dozens of security personnel and civilians. (AFGHANISTAN-BLAST/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, 460 words)
Abbas says no meeting with Netanyahu in Moscow planned
WARSAW - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that a proposed meeting in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be held for now. (ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/, moved at 7:14 a.m., 109 words)
Emirati on trial for trying to run over American
DUBAI - An Emirati man suspected of ties to a Syria-based militant group has gone on trial in the United Arab Emirates on charges of trying to kill an American and planning attacks on media outlets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, newspapers report. (EMIRATES-SECURITY/USA, moved at 4:19 a.m., 219 words)
Afghan refugees leave Pakistan over tougher measures on visits home
(PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN/REFUGEES, moved at 7:26 a.m., 417 words)
WORLD
Air passengers hit by BA tech glitch, London 'Black Lives Matter' protest
LONDON - Air passengers saw lengthy delays in Britain after a computer glitch hit British Airways check-ins and protesters from "Black Lives Matter" force their way on to the runway of London City Airport. (BRITISH AIRWAYS-DELAYS/ (UPDATE 4, PIX), moved at 8:20 a.m., 415 words)
Poroshenko says getting tougher to secure Western support against Russia
KIEV - It has become increasingly difficult for Ukraine to secure Western support in its fight against "Russian aggression" and a full-scale invasion from Russia cannot be ruled out, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/POROSHENKO (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, 325 words)
Germans test air defenses in Latvia as NATO expands in Baltics
LIELVARDE, Latvia - German and Latvian troops have begin a joint exercise in Latvia, not far from the Russian border, as part of a broad drive by NATO to shore up air defenses against a possible Russian attack. (GERMANY-NATO/LATVIA (PIX), moved, 395 words)
Putin urges Karimov's successors to continue his tough style of rule
ALMATY - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urges the successors to Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov to continue his policies - apparent encouragement for them to follow his authoritarian line and keep the lid on opposition at home. (UZBEKISTAN-RUSSIA/PUTIN (PIX), moved, 500 words) See also: Uzbekistan seeks stability in relations, says U.S. diplomat (UZBEKISTAN-USA/, moved at 1 a.m., 284 words)
Hundreds protest in Myanmar over Suu Kyi's panel on Rohingya Muslims
SITTWE, Myanmar - Hundreds rally in Myanmar against an advisory panel led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to conflict between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims that has cast a pall over democratic reforms. (MYANMAR-ROHINGYA/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, 567 words)
Tunisia fears jihadists returning home from Libya, seeks joint action
(LIBYA-SECURITY/TUNISIA, moved at 8:37 a.m., 265 words)
Tajikistan investigates threats by Islamic State
(TAJIKISTAN-ISLAMIC STATE/, moved at 6:46 a.m., 226 words)
Kyrgyzstan says Uighur militant groups behind attack on China's embassy
(KYRGYZSTAN-BLAST/CHINA, moved at 8:37 a.m., 78 words)
SPOTLIGHT
A year on, migrant crisis hangs over votes in Hungary, Austria
VAMOSSZABADI, Hungary/NICKELSDORF, Austria - On a warm morning in late August, two dozen migrants carrying stuffed plastic bags and backpacks boarded a bus outside a refugee center in Vamosszabadi, a village in northwest Hungary. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-AUSTRIA (PIX, TV), moved at 7:18 a.m., 911 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Tonix to stop testing drug for fibromyalgia, shares plunge
-- Tonix Pharmaceuticals said it would stop developing its drug for fibromyalgia and focus on a late-stage trial testing the treatment in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. (TONIX-STUDY/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 8:24 a.m., 224 words)
Classroom standing desks may help kids slim down
-- Standing desks in classrooms could help children maintain a healthy body weight, a new study suggests. These desks are set at a height that allows students to alternate between sitting on a stool or standing while working. (HEALTH-KIDS/SCHOOL-DESKS, moved, 680 words)
Singapore says will no longer isolate Zika patients
SINGAPORE - Singapore will no longer isolate people who test positive for Zika or are suspected of carrying it as the number of cases of the mosquito-borne virus increases across the city-state, the health ministry said on Monday. (HEALTH-ZIKA/SINGAPORE, moved, 300 words) See also: Zika could impact slowing economy, Singapore bank chief says (HEALTH-ZIKA/SINGAPORE-CENBANK (UPDATE 3), moved at 7:20 a.m., 577 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Dornan, Murphy tackle WWII roles for thriller "Anthropoid"
LONDON - "Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan joins "Peaky Blinders" actor Cillian Murphy for a World War Two thriller about the assassination of one of the main architects of the Holocaust. (FILM-ANTHROPOID/ (PIX, TV), moved at 8 a.m., 270 words)
Finnish politics play havoc with Guggenheim's Helsinki museum plans
HELSINKI - A plan to build a Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront - like those in New York, Bilbao and Venice - appears close to collapse because of a political row. (GUGGENHEIM-FINLAND/GOVERNMENT (PIX), moved at 7 a.m., 590 words)
Fans bid farewell to singer Juan Gabriel at Mexico City wake
MEXICO CITY - Thousands of fans paid their final respects to singer Juan Gabriel in Mexico City, many traveling from across the country to bid farewell to the entertainer who died late last month from a heart attack at the age of 66. (MEXICO-JUANGABRIEL/WAKE (TV, PIX), moved at 5:40 a.m., 119 words)
Resurgent McIlroy eyes golf's richest prize
(GOLF-USA-MCILROY/, moved at 8 a.m., 430 words)
Bridget Jones is back in new film, this time facing motherhood
(FILM-BRIDGETJONES/ (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved, 455 words)
Hugh O'Brian, Star of TV's 'Wyatt Earp,' Dies at 91
(VARIETY-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/OBITUARIES-PEOPLE-NEWS), moved, 887 words)
Italian Director Paolo Sorrentino to Shoot Film About Silvio Berlusconi
(VARIETY-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM/FESTIVALS), moved, 300 words)
CONSUMER TECH
Samsung trips on quality control in rush to pip Apple
SEOUL - In its rush to beat rival products to market, notably Apple's new iPhone, Samsung Electronics has accelerated new phone launch cycles, but its haste is raising concerns that it fell short on quality testing. (SAMSUNG ELEC-SMARTPHONES/ (PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Se Young Lee, 750 words)
BUSINESS TRENDS
Construction worker shortage weighs on hot U.S. housing market
DENVER - The drumbeat of hammers echoes most mornings through suburban Denver, where Jay Small, the owner of company that frames houses, is building about 1,300 new homes this year. (USA-HOUSING/LABOR (PIX), moved at 7 a.m., by David Randall, 1,150 words)
Laptops and cool tops: a strong year for U.S. back-to-school shopping
-- Along with the perennial run on leggings, students returning to America's classrooms this year are making a beeline for retro sneakers, "cold-shoulder" tops, versatile laptops and USB drives. (USA-RETAIL/BACKTOSCHOOL (PIX), moved at 7 a.m., 560 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Bayer sweetens Monsanto bid as talks enter final stretch
-- German pharmaceutical and crops manufacturer Bayer AG says its negotiations with Monsanto Co have advanced, and that it is now willing to offer more than $65 billion to acquire the world's largest seeds company (MONSANTO-M&A/BAYER (UPDATE 4), moved at 6:17 a.m., 682 words)
Canada's Enbridge to buy Spectra Energy in $28 billion deal
TORONTO - Enbridge, Canada's largest pipeline company, said on Tuesday it would buy Spectra Energy Corp in an all-stock deal valued at about C$37 billion ($28 billion) to create the largest North American energy infrastructure company. (SPECTRA ENERGY-M&A/ENBRIDGE INC (UPDATE 3), moved at 8:38 a.m., 463 words)
EOG Resources to buy Yates Petroleum in $2.5 billion deal
-- EOG Resources said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Yates Petroleum Corp and some of its subsidiaries and other entities in a deal valued at $2.5 billion to boost its assets in the Permian and Powder River basins. (YATES-M&A/EOG RESOURCES (UPDATE 1), moved at 8:12 a.m., 157 words)
Danaher to buy Cepheid in $4 billion deal to expand in diagnostics
-- Danaher Corp said on Tuesday it would buy molecular diagnostics company Cepheid in a deal valued at $4 billion, including debt, to strengthen its diagnostics business. (CEPHEID-M&A/DANAHER (UPDATE 2), moved at 7:50 a.m., 243 words)
PayPal, MasterCard reach deal for store payments
-- MasterCard said on Tuesday it had expanded its deal with payment processor PayPal which would allow customers to use PayPal's payment services in stores. PayPal's partnership with MasterCard follows a similar deal with Visa in July as the company looks to expand its payments network. (PAYPAL-MASTERCARD/ (UPDATE 2), moving shortly, 257 words)
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