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Trump pushes back against critics over Charlottesville remarks
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump fired back at a growing number of critics, including fellow Republicans, who denounced his response to the Charlottesville, Virginia violence, further fueling the latest controversy to engulf his seven-month-old presidency.
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Trump pushes back against critics over Charlottesville remarks
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump fired back at a growing number of critics, including fellow Republicans, who denounced his response to the Charlottesville, Virginia violence, further fueling the latest controversy to engulf his seven-month-old presidency. (USA-TRUMP/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moving shorlty, moved, 800 words)
U.S. says joint South Korea war games not on negotiating table
BEIJING/SEOUL - The United States and South Korea will go ahead with joint military drills next week, senior U.S. military official says, resisting pressure from North Korea and its ally China to halt them. (NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/ (WRAPUP 5, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Michael Martina and Christine Kim, 800 words)
South African borders on alert to ensure Grace Mugabe does not flee
JOHANNESBURG - Police have put a "red alert" on South Africa's borders to prevent any attempt by Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe, who is accused of assaulting a model in a Johannesburg hotel, to flee the country. (SAFRICA-MUGABE/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), expect 1600 GMT/12 PM ET, by Ed Cropley, 800 words)
Critics cry foul as Hong Kong democracy leaders jailed
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong appeals court jailed three leaders of the Chinese-ruled city's democracy movement for six to eight months, dealing a blow to the youth-led push for universal suffrage and prompting accusations of political interference. (HONGKONG-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 4, PIX, TV), by Venus Wu and James Pomfret, 1,050 words)
EUROPE
Britain "confident" of new phase in Brexit talks by October
LONDON - Britain says "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, PIX), moving shortly, by Elizabeth Piper, 600 words)
AFRICA
Hundreds still missing in Sierra Leone mudslide as search intensifies
FREETOWN - Soldiers and volunteers equipped with shovels and pick axes dig through the perilous site of a mudslide in Sierra Leone in search of hundreds of bodies that may still lie undiscovered. (LEONE-MUDSLIDE/ (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved, 445 words)
Uganda struggles to cope as million South Sudanese refugees pour in
BUSIA - The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda hits 1 million, the United Nations says, as hundreds of desperate families pour across the border every day seeking a haven from the civil war. (SOUTHSUDAN-UGANDA/REFUGEES (PIX, TV), moved, by Jason Patinkin, 630 words)
MIDDLE EAST
How Syria continued to gas its people as the world looked on
THE HAGUE - In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people briefed on the visit. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-CHEMICALWEAPONS (SPECIAL REPORT, PIX GRAPHIC), moved, by Anthony Deutsch, 2520 words)
Assad's march east compounds West's Syria dilemma
BEIRUT/AMMAN - Syria's war has entered a new phase as President Bashar al-Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Islamic State, using firepower freed by Russian-backed truces in western Syria. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (ANALYSIS, PIX), by Tom Perry and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, 1125 words
UN hopes for Syria peace talks in October or November
GENEVA - The United Nations hopes for serious negotiations between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura says (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-UN (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), expect by 1500 GMT/11 AM ET, by Stephanie Nebehay, 450 words)
First group of Qatari pilgrims enter Saudi Arabia by land -Saudi TV
DUBAI/DOHA - Qatari pilgrims began arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi media reported, after Riyadh said it was opening up its border and airports for those attending the annual haj pilgrimage despite a diplomatic rift that cut travel ties. (SAUDI-QATAR/HAJ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved, by Sylvia Westall and Tom Finn, 570 words)
ASIA
Philippines war on drugs and crime intensifies, at least 58 killed in three days
MANILA - At least 26 people die overnight in police operations in the Philippines capital Manila, authorities say, a second night of heavy bloodshed this week in an intensification of President Rodrigo Duterte's fierce war on drugs and crime. (PHILIPPINES-DRUGS/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV), moved, by Manuel Mogato, 690 words)
Reformed ex-militants in Indonesia mark Independence Day
TENGGULUN - Fifteen years since they were members of a radical Islamist group that killed 202 people on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali, Ali Fauzi and Sumarno are building peace instead of bombs. (INDONESIA-INDEPENDENCEDAY/MILITANTS (PIX, TV), moved, by Tom Allard, 620 words)
Cambodia arrests nearly 400 from China and Taiwan over telecoms fraud
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian authorities arrest nearly 400 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals this month on suspicion of operating a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, police say. (CAMBODIA-CHINA/TAIWAN (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, by Prak Chan Thul, 400 words)
AMERICAS
Venezuela's Socialist-run "truth commission" to investigate opposition
CARACAS - Opposition candidates running in Venezuela's October gubernatorial elections will be investigated to make sure none are involved in violent political protests this year, head of new pro-government truth commission says. (VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved, by Hugh Bronstein, 565 words)
+ See also:
- VENEZUELA-PRISON/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Maria Ramirez, 200 words
Thousands of Mexicans march to scrap NAFTA as government fights to save it
MEXICO CITY - While Mexican government negotiators fight tooth and nail to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of Mexican farmers and workers take to the streets demanding the deal be scrapped. (TRADE-NAFTA/MEXICO-PROTESTS (PIX, TV), moved, by Daina Beth Solomon, 450 words)
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