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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 4, PICTURES, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Andrés González and Richard Martin, 1,000 words)

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

Fellow Republicans assail Trump after he defends Confederate monuments

BRIDGEWATER - 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 6, PIX, TV), moved, by Steve Holland and Susan Heavey, 1,123 words)

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- 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

Top U.S. general reaffirms commitment to Japan amid N.Korea tensions

TOKYO - The top U.S. general repeats Washington's "ironclad commitment" to the security of its close Asian ally, Japan, amid regional tension over North Korea, telling his counterpart in Tokyo that "an attack on one is an attack on both of us". (NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/ (WRAPUP 1, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), moved, by Tim Kelly, 734 words)

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- 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)

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- 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

Hong Kong legal chief denies political motive in jailing democrats as criticism mounts

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's legal chief denies any "political motive" in seeking jail for three young pro-democracy activists, responding to a Reuters report that he had overruled other legal officials who had initially "not recommended" pursuing the case. (HONGKONG-POLITICS/ (PIX, TV), moved, by James Pomfret and Venus Wu, 577 words)

At least 80 dead after escalation in Philippines war on drugs

MANILA - Police kill at least 13 people in Manila on the third night of an escalation in President Rodrigo Duterte's ruthless war on drugs and crime, taking the toll for one of the bloodiest weeks so far to 80, Reuters witnesses and media say. (PHILIPPINES-DRUGS/ (PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Erik De Castro, 598 words)

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- HEALTH-BIRDFLU/PHILIPPINES (UPDATE 1), moved, by Manolo Serapio Jr, 266 words

"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)

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- 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 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, PIX), moved, by Ian Simpson, 430 words)

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

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

U.S. Navy, citing poor seamanship, removes commanders of warship in deadly crash

WASHINGTON/TOKYO - The U.S. Navy removes the two senior officers and the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. warship that almost sank off the coast of Japan in June after it was struck by a Philippine container ship, the Navy says. (USA-NAVY/ASIA (UPDATE 3), moved, by Idrees Ali and Tim Kelly, 655 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, PIX), by Laura Zuckerman, 706 words)

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- 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, Canadian government data show, as migrants worried about a U.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)

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