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Editor: Paul Tait 612 9321 8169 Picture Desk: Singapore 65 6870 3775 Graphics queries: 65 6870 3595 (All times GMT/ET) TOP STORIES Spain hunts van driver who mowed down Barcelona crowd, killing 13 BARCELONA - Spain mounts a sweeping anti-terror operation after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people before fleeing, in what police suspect was one of multiple planned attacks.

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TOP STORIES

Spain hunts van driver who mowed down Barcelona crowd, killing 13

BARCELONA - Spain mounts a sweeping anti-terror operation after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people before fleeing, in what police suspect was one of multiple planned attacks. (SPAIN-BARCELONA/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Andrés González and Richard Martin, 1,000 words)

- EUROPE-ATTACKS/TIMELINE (FACTBOX), moved, 670 words

Fellow Republicans assail Trump after he defends Confederate monuments

BRIDGEWATER, N.J./WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump decries the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy, echoing white nationalists and drawing stinging rebukes from fellow Republicans in a controversy that has inflamed racial tensions. (USA-TRUMP/ (UPDATE 5, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Steve Holland and Susan Heavey, 1,040 words)

- USA-TRUMP/COHN (UPDATE 1), moved, by Steve Holland, 450 words

- USA-TRUMP/SENATE (PICTURES), moved, by Richard Cowan, 660 words

- USA-TRUMP/SUCCESSION (FACTBOX), moved, 640 words

- USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKER, moved, by Alex Dobuzinskis, 370 words

- USA-TRUMP/INFRASTRUCTURE (UPDATE 2), moved, 270 words

U.S., Japan step up defence cooperation to counter North Korea

WASHINGTON - The United States and Japan will step up their defence cooperation to deal with the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea as tensions in East Asia remain high, officials from the two allies say. (NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/ (WRAPUP 10, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Yeganeh Torbati, 950 words)

- NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/UN, moved, by Michelle Nichols, 410 words

- NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/USA-MILITARY (FACTBOX), moved, 870 words

- NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/NUCLEAR (ANALYSIS, GRAPHICS), moved, by Christine Kim and David Brunnstrom, 890 words

How Syria continued to gas its people as the world looked on

THE HAGUE - Nearly four years after President Bashar al-Assad's government promised to get rid of its stockpile of chemical weapons, gas attacks are still commonplace. What went wrong? (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-CHEMICALWEAPONS (SPECIAL REPORT, PICTURES, GRAPHIC), moved, by Anthony Deutsch, 2,520 words)

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-OPCW (TIMELINE), moved, 350 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-USA (EXCLUSIVE), moved, by John Davison, 650 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (ANALYSIS, PICTURES), moved, by Tom Perry and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, 1,120 words

- MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-UN (UPDATE 1, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Stephanie Nebehay, 530 words

ASIA

"Guardian angel" need for advisers in Afghanistan drives call for more troops

KABUL - Navigating a chaotic maze of cars and people, the convoy of British army armoured vehicles weaves slowly through Kabul. The job of about a dozen soldiers is to protect just two international advisers on their way to meet Afghan soldiers. The need to balance the force with more advisers is a driving factor behind the military's request for more troops, which has met with scepticism in Washington. (AFGHANISTAN-ADVISERS/ (PICTURES), moved, by Josh Smith, 830 words)

- USA-AFGHANISTAN/BLAST, moved, by Phil Stewart, 430 words

Lee Kuan Yew's grandson left Singapore because friends feared he would be detained

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - A grandson of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's late founding father and ruler for more than three decades, says he left the city-state in July after friends expressed concerns he might be detained by the authorities in a contempt of court case. (SINGAPORE-POLITICS/NEPHEW (EXCLUSIVE, PICTURES), moved, by Tim McLaughlin, 870 words)

UNITED STATES

Statue defaced as U.S. Confederate monument protests grow

WASHINGTON - A statue of a Confederate General Robert E. Lee is defaced at North Carolina's Duke University and there are more arrests over the toppling of a similar statue as communities in the U.S. South face a contentious debate over such divisive monuments. (USA-PROTESTS/STATUES-REACTION (UPDATE 1, PICTURES), moved, by Ian Simpson, 430 words)

- VIRGINIA-PROTESTS/ACLU (UPDATE 1, PICTURES), moving shortly, 270 words

- US-VIRGINAPROTESTS/TECH (UPDATE 1), moved, by Dustin Volz, 360 words

U.S. Navy to remove senior leaders of warship after deadly June crash

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy will relieve the two senior officers and the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. warship that collided with a Philippine container ship in June off the coast of Japan, the Navy says. (USA-NAVY/ASIA (UPDATE 2), moved, by Idrees Ali, 560 words)

Forest rangers, fire crews brace for eclipse watchers to descend on U.S. West

SALMON, Idaho - Forest rangers and fire managers across the U.S. West will be on high alert as motorists flock to Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming for next week's total solar eclipse, clogging roads and straining scarce resources at the height of summer wildfire season. (SOLAR-ECLIPSE/USA-TOURISM (UPDATE 1, PICTURES), moved, by Laura Zuckerman, 710 words)

- SOLAR-ECLIPSE/USA-COST (GRAPHIC, TABLE), moved, by Kimberly Chin, 530 words

- SOLAR-ECLIPSE/USA-PROJECTS (UPDATE 1, PICTURES, GRAPHIC), moved, by Irene Klotz, 610 words

- SOLAR-ECLIPSE/USA-HOLLYWOOD (PICTURES, TV), moved, by Lisa Richwine, 400 words

AMERICAS

Venezuela's new chief prosecutor vows to jail protest leaders

CARACAS - Venezuela will hunt down and jail leaders of violent protests that have rocked the country since April, its new top prosecutor says a day before a hate crimes law is expected to be approved despite fears that it will be used to crush dissent. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 1, PICTURES), moved, by Hugh Bronstein, 430 words)

Canada sees 'unsustainable' spike in asylum seekers at U.S. border

TORONTO/MONTREAL - The number of asylum seekers who illegally crossed the U.S. border into Canada more than tripled last month, according to Canadian government data, as migrants worried about the U.S. administration's immigration crackdown head north. (CANADA-IMMIGRATION/ (UPDATE 3, PICTURES), moved, by Anna Mehler Paperny and Allison Lampert, 550 words)

EUROPE

Britain 'confident' of new phase in Brexit talks by October

LONDON - Britain says it is "confident" talks with the European Union will move towards discussing their future relationship by October, in contrast to warnings from the top EU negotiator that the target is receding. (BRITAIN-EU/TALKS (UPDATE 4, PICTURES), moved, by Elizabeth Piper, 725 words)

AFRICA

Hundreds of mudslide victims buried in Sierra Leone, search for hundreds missing goes on

FREETOWN - Burials begin for 300 people killed in Sierra Leone's mudslide while the search goes on for hundreds of others still missing. (LEONE-MUDSLIDE/ (UPDATE 2, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Christo Johnson, 440 words)

South African borders on 'red alert' to stop Grace Mugabe fleeing

JOHANNESBURG - South African police put a "red alert" on the country's borders to prevent any attempted flight by Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe, who is accused of assaulting a model in a Johannesburg hotel with an electric cable. (SAFRICA-MUGABE/ (UPDATE 3, PICTURES, TV), moved, by Ed Cropley, 720 words)

 

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