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(SPAIN-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Angus Berwick and Andrés González, 848 words) - SPAIN-SECURITY/RIPOLL (TV, PIX), moved, by Angus Berwick, 700 words Bannon's exit unlikely to herald Trump shift to center WASHINGTON/BRIDGEWATER, N. J. - U. S. President Donald Trump's ouster of former chief strategist Steve Bannon is unlikely to mark the abandonment of the "America First" agenda that has unnerved investors and trade partners and split the White House into nationalist and globalist camps.
Updated : Aug 20, 2017, 07:26 AM IST
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Spain hunts for driver in van rampage, says Islamist cell dismantled
RIPOLL/BARCELONA - Police search for driver of van who killed 13 people in Barcelona, killing 13 people as they try to pin down whether up to two other suspected Islamist militants connected to the attack had died or were at large. (SPAIN-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Angus Berwick and Andrés González, 848 words)
- SPAIN-SECURITY/RIPOLL (TV, PIX), moved, by Angus Berwick, 700 words
Bannon's exit unlikely to herald Trump shift to center
WASHINGTON/BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - U.S. President Donald Trump's ouster of former chief strategist Steve Bannon is unlikely to mark the abandonment of the "America First" agenda that has unnerved investors and trade partners and split the White House into nationalist and globalist camps. (USA-TRUMP/ (PIX), moved, by John Walcott and Steve Holland, 707 words)
- USA-TRUMP/VOTERS, moved, by Robert Chiarito, 480 words
Moroccan asylum seeker "targeted women" in Finland knife attack
HELSINKI/TURKU, Finland - Eighteen-year-old Moroccan man arrested after knife attacks that killed two people in the city of Turku appears to have specifically targeted women, say police; incident being treated as terrorism-related. (FINLAND-STABBING/ (UPDATE 5, TV, PIX), moved, by Jussi Rosendahl and Tuomas Forsell, 787 words)
Iraq starts offensive to take back Tal Afar from Islamic State
ERBIL - Iraqi security forces launch an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-TAL AFAR (UPDATE 1, TV), by Maher Chmaytelli, 582 words)
ASIA
Train derails in India, at least 14 killed, says official
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - Train comes off tracks in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens more as carriages slam into each other, a local official says (INDIA-RAILDERAILMENT (UPDATE 3, TV), moved, by Tommy Wilkes and Sankalp Phartiyal, 418 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Syrian army pounds rebel areas near Damascus after Russian brokered truce
AMMAN - Syrian jets and artillery strike rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs a day after a Russian sponsored ceasefire with a rebel group agreed a halt of fighting in the last opposition enclave in the capital, rebels and witnesses say. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-CEASEFIRE (moved), by Suleiman Al-Khalidi, 517 words)
- MIDEAST-CRISIS/LEBANON-SYRIA (UPDATE 5), moved, by Tom Perry and Angus McDowall, 709 words)
AFRICA
Nigeria's Buhari returns home after three-month sick leave in Britain
ABUJA - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returns home from three months of medical leave in Britain where he received treatment for an unspecified ailment.(NIGERIA-BUHARI/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved, by Felix Onuah, 460 words)
UNITED STATES
Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos
BOSTON - Tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Boston to protest a "free speech" rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration. (USA-PROTESTS/ (UPDATE 6, PIX, TV), moved, by Scott Malone and Nate Raymond, 783 words)
Millions of Americans to gaze upon once-in-lifetime eclipse
Twilight will fall at midday on Monday, stars will glimmer and birds will roost in an eerie stillness as millions of Americans and visitors witness the first total solar eclipse to traverse the United States from coast to coast in 99 years. (SOLAR-ECLIPSE/USA (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, by Steve Gorman, 761 words)
Veteran NAFTA negotiators likely to deflect political pressures
WASHINGTON - Trade officials leading North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations are veterans in their field who will be able to resist political pressure for major rapid changes as pace of talks intensifies, trade and legal experts say. (TRADE-NAFTA/NEGOTIATORS (PIX), moved, by David Ljunggren, 682 words)
- TRADE-NAFTA/ORIGIN (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved, 400 words
AMERICAS
Venezuelan "congress in resistance" rejects new super-assembly
CARACAS -Venezuela's opposition-controlled Congress rejects self-proclaimed law-making authority of new legislative superbody elected at behest of President Nicolas Maduro, widening political divide in the crisis-hit country. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS, (UPDATE 2, TV, PIX), moved, by Hugh Bronstein and Diego Ore, 420 words)
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