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TOP STORIES
Syria truce largely holds, aid preparations underway
BEIRUT - A nationwide ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia was mostly holding across Syria on Tuesday and efforts to deliver badly needed aid to besieged areas including the northern city of Aleppo got cautiously underway. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (WRAPUP 2, TV, PIX), moved at 8:56 a.m., by Lisa Barrington, 898 words) See also: Syria truce mostly holding, monitor says (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-CEASEFIRE (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved at 8:17 a.m., 334 words)
China calls for avoiding tension after U.S. bombers fly over South Korea
BEIJING - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that all sides should avoid taking steps that increase tension after two U.S. B-1 bombers flew over South Korea in a show of solidarity in response to North Korea's nuclear test last week. (NORTHKOREA-NUCLEAR-CHINA, moved at 9:08 a.m., by Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina, 63 words)
CAMPAIGN
In Pennsylvania, Trump to propose childcare deduction tax break
WASHINGTON - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday will propose allowing families to deduct the cost of childcare expenses from income taxes, his campaign said, a move aimed at bolstering his support among women voters. (USA-ELECTION/TRUMP (PIX), moved at 8:53 a.m., by Steve Holland, 424 words)
Paul Ryan's challenges will not start until after Nov. 8 election
WASHINGTON - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is expected to cruise to re-election in his Wisconsin congressional district on Nov. 8, the day before his real political problems are likely to start. (USA-ELECTION/RYAN (PIX), moved at 6 a.m., by Susan Cornwell, 677 words)
WASHINGTON
FDA's sharing of grand jury information comes under criticism
WASHINGTON - An office inside the Food and Drug Administration routinely shares details internally about criminal matters pending before grand juries, a step some lawyers say may run afoul of rules meant to safeguard investigations. (USA-FDA/JURY, moved at 7 a.m., by Sarah N. Lynch, 994 words)
U.S. House committee set to approve Dodd-Frank revamp
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is expected on Tuesday to pass a revamp of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, but the bill is not anticipated to receive President Barack Obama's signature if it ever reaches his desk. (USA-CONGRESS/DODDFRANK, moved at 7 a.m., 389 words)
FEATURE
After Ebola, ban on pregnant pupils sours return to school in Sierra Leone
ebKAMBIA - Beaten at home by her parents and unable to go to school due to the Ebola outbreak which devastated Sierra Leone, 15-year-old Rugiatu Conteh had nowhere to go, and no one she could turn to. After getting pregnant, the teenager took solace in resuming her education when schools reopened in April last year, after nine months of closure in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. But her sense of hope was short-lived.(LEONE-EDUCATION/WOMEN (FEATURE), moved at 2 a.m., by Kieran Guilbert, 1039 words)
Freed from bondage, laborers trapped again in cycle of debt in India
BALANGIR - For three years, Srikrushna Rajhansiya worked 14-hour days making bricks. He hardly ate and barely slept. But no amount of labor was enough to earn his freedom. His reality was a form of slavery known as debt bondage, which campaigners say ensnares tens of thousands of laborers each year who are trafficked to brick kilns to feed India's booming construction industry.(INDIA-WORKERS/BONDAGE (FEATURE, PIX), moved at 2 a.m., by Anuradha Nagaraj, 977 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
New Hampshire to defend ban on ballot-box selfies in court
BOSTON - New Hampshire officials on Tuesday will try to persuade a federal appeals court that a 2014 law banning voters from posting online photos of their ballots on election day does not violate the U.S. right to free speech. (NEW HAMPSHIRE-ELECTION/SELFIES, moved at 6 a.m., by Scott Malone, 347 words)
South Africa bans U.S. pastor over anti-gay views
CAPE TOWN - U.S. pastor Steven Anderson has been banned from visiting South Africa over his anti-gays views, which the country's home affairs minister on Tuesday equated with hate speech. (SAFRICA-USA/GAYS (PIX), moved at 8:52 a.m., 291 words)
Opening statements to begin in Oregon refuge takeover case
PORTLAND - Armed protesters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon were exercising their rights to freedom of speech and assembly in a bid to expose the U.S. government's illegal ownership and mismanagement of public lands in the West, lawyers for the defendants are expected to argue at trial on Tuesday. (OREGON-MILITIA/ (PIX), moved at 6 a.m., 416 words)
Monday Night Football shines spotlight on national anthem protests
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick brought his protest against racial inequality to a nationally televised Monday Night Football audience, kneeling on the field rather than standing as the national anthem played. (NFL-ANTHEM/ (UPDATE 4, TV, PIX), moved at 9:18 a.m., by Lily Jamali, 466 words)
North Carolina loses college sports championships over 'bathroom' law
The governing board for U.S. college athletics said on Monday it will move seven championship sporting events out of North Carolina to protest a state law it deems discriminatory to transgender individuals. (USA-LGBT/NORTHCAROLINA (UPDATE 1), moved at 3:18 a.m., 265 words)
MIDDLE EAST
U.S. agrees 10-year military aid deal with Israel worth at least $38 bln - sources
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The United States and Israel have reached final agreement on a record new package of at least $38 billion in U.S. military aid and the 10-year pact is expected to be signed within days, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. (USA-ISRAEL/ (URGENT), moved at 6:00 a.m., by Matt Spetalnick and Luke Baker, 96 words)
Turkey formally requests U.S. arrest of cleric Gulen over coup plot - NTV
ISTANBUL - Turkey has made a formal request to the United States for the arrest of U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on charges of orchestrating an attempted military coup on July 15, Turkish broadcaster NTV said on Tuesday. (TURKEY-SECURITY/USA-CLERIC (UPDATE 1), moved at 5 a.m., 285 words)
WORLD
China police fire rubber bullets as 'democracy' village erupts after arrests
HONG KONG - Chinese riot police on Tuesday fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in a village once dubbed a symbol of grassroots democracy, residents and Hong Kong media said, less than a week after the elected village chief was jailed for corruption. (CHINA-WUKAN/PROTESTS (UPDATE 2), moved at 6:55 a.m., by Venus Wu and James Pomfret, 773 words)
Philippines guarantees U.S. deal intact as Duterte's salvos test ties
MANILA - The Philippines moved to shore up relations with the United States on Tuesday with guarantees that a treaty between them would be honored and security ties were "rock solid," despite President Rodrigo Duterte's railings against Washington. (PHILIPPINES-USA/ARMY (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 5:30 a.m., by Enrico Dela Cruz and Manuel Mogato, 604 words)
India's tech hub companies shut down after violent clashes
BENGALURU - Indian and foreign technology companies including global outsourcing firm Accenture closed offices and told staff to stay home in the technology hub of Bengaluru on Tuesday after riots over the diversion of water from a river. (INDIA-PROTESTS/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, GRAPHIC), moved at 8:53 a.m., by Robin Paxton and Mamidipudi Soumithri, 713 words)
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in east despite truce
KIEV - Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 15 wounded in the past 24 hours in fighting with pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday, the first major casualties since a ceasefire came into force on Sept. 1. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/CASUALTIES, moved at 7 a.m., 257 words)
Russia: Multinational group behind Chinese embassy attack in Kyrgyzstan - RIA
MOSCOW - A senior official from Russia's FSB security service said on Tuesday that individuals linked to Russia, China and Tajikistan were behind a suicide bomb attack on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek last month, the RIA news agency said. (KYRGYZSTAN-BLAST/CHINA-RUSSIA (URGENT), moved at 4:25 a.m., 120 words)
Germany arrests 3 Syrians, sees same network as Paris attacks
BERLIN - Three young Syrian men arrested in Germany on Tuesday were Islamic State members brought into the country by the same network that smuggled militants into France to carry out deadly attacks last November, the German government said. (GERMANY-SECURITY/ARRESTS (UPDATE 2, TV, PIX), moved at 8:51 a.m., by Erik Kirschbaum and Madeline Chambers, 500 words)
EU should expel Hungary over treatment of migrants, Luxembourg minister says
BERLIN/BUDAPEST - Hungary should be excluded from the European Union for anti-migrant policies that undermine EU values, including erecting a razor-wire fence, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said in comments published on Tuesday. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-ASSELBORN (UPDATE 2), moved at 7:15 a.m., by Madeline Chambers and Marton Dunai, 491 words)
Czech parties gear up to clip wings of billionaire finance minister
PRAGUE - He is a vivacious billionaire businessman who has emerged as his country's most popular politician, offering Czechs a break with old parties tainted by graft. But opponents who see in Andrej Babis a threat to democracy are pressing him to choose between his commercial empire and political power. (CZECH-POLITICS/BABIS (PIX), moved at 2 a.m., by Jan Lopatka, 733 words)
Newly married in a Mogadishu camp
MOGADISHU - To loud cheers from their family and friends, newlyweds Mohamed Noor and Huda Omar walk arm-in-arm through the place that will be their home - a camp for the internally displaced in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. (SOMALIA-WEDDING/ (PIX), moved at 8 a.m., 442 words)
Bulgaria says sticking to its U.N. candidate for now after talk of change
SOFIA - Bulgaria said on Tuesday it was sticking to its candidate for the top U.N. job, Irina Bokova, for now, after speculation that it was considering switching to backing EU commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. (UN-ELECTION/BULGARIA, moved at 7:42 a.m., 325 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Hidden data: The new weapon that could beat hunger
LONDON - With a single smartphone app, you can now get a pretty accurate forecast of the weather anywhere in the world. That's largely thanks to a decision by science agencies, a decade ago, to put online their satellite data and make it available for free. Now science, computer and agricultural experts hope to achieve something similar for farming and food data. (AGRICULTURE-DATA/TECH (ANALYSIS), moved at 6:35 a.m., by Laurie Goering, 870 words)
About 200 Zika cases recorded in Thailand - ministry
BANGKOK - Thailand has recorded about 200 cases of Zika since January, the health ministry said on Tuesday, making it a country with one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases in the region. (HEALTH-ZIKA/THAILAND (PIX), moved at 6:49 a.m., 395 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Scottish killings and Californian satire on shortlist for Man Booker Prize
Novels on subjects ranging from murder in 19th century Scotland to classical music in revolutionary China were short-listed on Tuesday for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, considered one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. (BOOKS-MANBOOKER/ (PIX), moved at 7:39 a.m., by Peter Hobson, 349 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Wells Fargo to end sales goals for retail bankers
Wells Fargo & Co, the largest U.S. bank by market capitalization, said on Tuesday it would eliminate all product sales goals in retail banking, starting next year. (WELLSFARGO-SETTLEMENT/, moved at 7:31 a.m., 189 words)
Goldman Sachs: Likelihood of Sept Fed rate hike down to 25 pct
Goldman Sachs has further cut its view on the likelihood of a rate hike next week by the U.S. Federal Reserve, dropping it to just 25 percent from 40 percent after the final round of Fed speakers on Monday declined to nudge markets in the direction of further policy tightening. (USA-FED/GOLDMAN, moved at 8:41 a.m., 394 words)
Hanjin Shipping secures $45 mln, more may take "considerable time"
SEOUL/SYDNEY - The chairman of Hanjin Group transferred 40 billion won ($36 million) to Hanjin Shipping on Tuesday to help unload cargo stranded on the troubled shipper's vessels, a spokesman said, but regulators warned that securing further funds could take "considerable time." (HANJIN SHIPPING-DEBT/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 8:19 a.m., by Hyunjoo Jin and Cecile Lefort, 712 words)
Former AIG chief Hank Greenberg finally goes on trial
NEW YORK - Opening arguments are set to begin on Tuesday in the trial of former American International Group Inc chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg over accounting fraud at the insurance giant some 16 years ago. (GREENBERG-AIG/CASE, moved at 6 a.m., by Karen Freifeld, 399 words) *****************
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