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Police hunt for driver of Barcelona attack van
BARCELONA - Spanish police hunt for suspected driver of a van that killed 13 people in Barcelona as investigators focus on a group of youths from a small Pyrenean town who fell under the influence of a Muslim preacher.
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TOP STORIES
Police hunt for driver of Barcelona attack van
BARCELONA - Spanish police hunt for suspected driver of a van that killed 13 people in Barcelona as investigators focus on a group of youths from a small Pyrenean town who fell under the influence of a Muslim preacher. (SPAIN-SECURITY/ TV, PIX), expect by 1130 GMT, by Angus Berwick, 600 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 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 2, TV), epxpect by 1000 GMT/6 AM ET, by Maher Chmaytelli, 582 words)
EUROPE
Britain calls on EU to move Brexit talks forward
LONDON - Brexit minister David Davis calls on European Union to relax its position that the two sides must first make progress on a divorce settlement before moving on to discussing future ties in Brexit talks. (BRITAIN-EU/DAVIS (PIX), moving shortly, by Elizabeth Piper, 400 words)
Britain won't rule out EU oversight of UK borders after Brexit
LONDON - Britain will not rule out the possibility that the European Union may retain oversight of customs controls at UK borders after it leaves the bloc, as the country seeks ways to retain unhindered access to EU markets following Brexit. (BRITAIN-EU/CUSTOMS), by Tom Bergin, moved, 800 words)
Germany bets on second time lucky with migrant workers
GESCHER, Germany - As Germany struggles to absorb more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa, the government is hoping to avoid the mistakes it made half a century ago when it brought in a generation of guest workers from Turkey. (GERMANY-ELECTION/MIGRANTS (INSIGHT, TV, PIX, GRAPHIC), moved, by Joseph Nasr, 1,000 words)
ASIA
India investigates after fourth major train accident in past year kills 23
NEW DELHI - India investigates train crash in which 23 people were killed, the fourth major accident over the past year on the world's fourth biggest rail network which is grappling with chronic under-investment and over-crowding. (INDIA-RAILDERAILMENT/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, 400 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Iraq starts offensive to take back Tal Afar from Islamic State
BAGHDAD/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 says. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-TALAFAR, UPDATE 2), by Raya Jalabi and Phil Stewart, moving shortly, 700 words)
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)
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 7, 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)
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)
AFRICA
Grace Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe after South Africa assault allegation
HARARE - Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room. (SAFRICA-MUGABE/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Kuda Chideme, 400 words)
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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