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Macron aims for huge parliament majority; voter turnout low
PARIS - Vote count begins after second round of France's parliamentary election, with President Emmanuel Macron expected to win a landslide majority to help push through far-reaching pro-business reforms; voter turnout at a record low.
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Macron aims for huge parliament majority; voter turnout low
PARIS - Vote count begins after second round of France's parliamentary election, with President Emmanuel Macron expected to win a landslide majority to help push through far-reaching pro-business reforms; voter turnout at a record low. (FRANCE-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moving shortly, by Ingrid Melander and Maya Nikolaeva, 760 words)
At least 62 killed in forest fire still raging in Portugal
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal - Huge forest fire kills at least 62 people, most as they try to flee in their cars; "We don't have memory of such a human tragedy," says prime minister. (PORTUGAL-FIRE/TOLL (UPDATE 4, PIX), moved, by Andrei Khalip, 400 words)
Iraqi forces launch final assault on IS-held Mosul Old City
MOSUL - Iraqi forces begin storming the Islamic State-held Old City of Mosul, an assault they hope will be the last in the eight-month-old campaign to seize the militants' stronghold. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-MOSUL (UPDATE 6, TV, PIX), moving shortly, by Hamuda Hassan and Maher Chmaytelli, 830 words)
Resort outside Mali's capital under attack
DAKAR - A luxury resort popular with Western expatriates outside Mali's capital Bamako under attack by gunmen, a spokesman at the Security Ministry says. (MALI-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 1), moving shortly)
U.S. destroyer almost foundered after collision
YOKOSUKA, Japan - The bodies of missing sailors were found in flooded compartments of the USS Fitzgerald, which came close to sinking after a collision with a container ship off Japan tore a gash under the warship's waterline, the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet commander says. (USA-NAVY/ASIA (UPDATE 5, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved, by Tim Kelly and Linda Sieg, 630 words)
Britain hurtles into the Brexit unknown
LONDON - With her strategy unclear and her position insecure, Prime Minister Theresa May plunges this week into tortuous divorce talks with the European Union that will shape Britain's prosperity and global influence for generations to come. (BRITAIN-EU/ (PIX, TV), moved, by Guy Faulconbridge, 1,150 words)
Lockheed nears $37 bln-plus deal to sell F-35 jets
EXCLUSIVE - Lockheed Martin Corp LMT.N is in the final stages of negotiating a deal worth more than $37 billion to sell a record 440 F-35 fighter jets to a group of 11 nations including the United States, two people familiar with the talks say. (AIRSHOW-PARIS/F35 (EXCLUSIVE, UPDATE 1, PIX), by Mike Stone, moved, 670 words)
EUROPE
NATO war game defends Baltic weak spot for first time
SUWALKI GAP, Polish-Lithuanian border - U.S. and British troops have carried out the first large-scale NATO defensive drill on the border between Poland and Lithuania, rehearsing for a possible scenario in which Russia might try to sever the Baltic states from the rest of the Western alliance. (NATO-RUSSIA/SUWALKI-GAP (PIX), moved, by Andrius Sytas, 540 words)
After fire, May says government will act to protect Britons
LONDON - Britain will act on any recommendations from a probe into a fire that ripped through an apartment block and killed at least 58 people, ministers say, responding to a tragedy their critics say shows something has gone "badly wrong" in the country. (BRITAIN-FIRE/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, by Elizabeth Piper and Paul Sandle, 500 words)
ASIA
Six police killed in attack on Afghan police headquarters
GARDEZ, Afghanistan - At least six police are killed and dozens of people wounded when as many as six gunmen and a suicide bomber attack a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. (AFGHANISTAN-SECURITY/POLICE (UPDATE 3), moved, by Samihullah Paiwand, 400 words)
China bankers surge into Hong Kong as expats retreat
HONG KONG - A flood of Chinese bankers is changing the social fabric of Hong Kong as they rapidly expand their footprint in one of the world's premier financial centres, even as Beijing struggles to tame the former British colony politically. (HONGKONG-ANNIVERSARY/BANKING, moved, by Jess Macy Yu and Julie Zhu, 800 words)
AFRICA
South Sudan's displaced see little chance of peace
JUBA - When South Sudan's civil war erupted in 2013, Nyayath Uluak was caught in crossfire and a bullet tore her leg apart. She survived, but the lower half of her limb didn't. Now home is a camp ringed by barbed wire. (SOUTHSUDAN-WAR/ (PIX), moved, by David Lewis, 600 words)
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