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Defiant Erdogan attacks EU, backs restoring death penalty

ANKARA/ISTANBUL - President Tayyip Erdogan defiantly steps up his attacks on the European Union, saying Turkey has to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passed it.(TURKEY-SECURITY/ANNIVERSARY (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved, by Daren Butler and Tuvan Gumrukcu, 715 words)

Supreme Court gives Hawaii until Tuesday to answer Trump travel ban motion

WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court asks Hawaii to respond by Tuesday at noon to President Trump's motion to block a judge's ruling that prevented his travel ban from being applied to grandparents of U.S. citizens and refugees being processed by resettlement agencies (USA-IMMIGRATION/COURT (UPDATE 1), moved, 250 words)

Trump campaign paid lawyer now representing son $50,000 in June

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's presidential re-election campaign made a $50,000 payment in June to the law office now representing Donald Trump Jr. before revelations the president's son had met with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. (USA-TRUMP/RUSSIA-SON (UPDATE 1), moved, by Ginger Gibson, 375 words)

Australia-U.S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru

SYDNEY/WASHINGTON - U.S. officials interviewing refugees held in an Australian-run offshore detention centre left the facility abruptly, three detainees told Reuters, throwing further doubt over a plan to resettle many of the detainees in America.(USA-TRUMP/AUSTRALIA, moved, by Colin Packham and Yeganeh Torbati, TV, graphic, 790 words)

Round 1: Brexit talks start in Brussels with 20 months to go

BRUSSELS - Brexit Secretary David Davis launches a first round of negotiations on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union when he meets the EU's Michel Barnier on Monday for four days of talks between their teams in Brussels. (BRITAIN-EU, expect by 2205 GMT/6.05 PM ET, by Alastair Macdonald, 560 words).

See also: BRITAIN-EU/ (UPDATE 2), moved, by Kylie MacLellan, 660 words

EUROPE

Merkel says must tackle bottlenecks before boosting investment

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects criticism from her SPD challenger that she was neglecting the country's infrastructure, pointing to already increased investment levels and capacity bottlenecks in some parts of the economy (GERMANY-ELECTION/MERKEL (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved, by Michael Nienaber and Andreas Rinke, 493 words)

ASIA

As Washington ponders Afghan mission, Marines toil in Helmand

CAMP BASTION - While Washington wrangles over sending more troops to Afghanistan, U.S. forces on the ground are grappling with building an army in the middle of a war their commanders say is locked in stalemate (AFGHANISTAN-USA/ (PIX), moved, by James Mackenzie, 829 words)

Australia urges China to release dissident Liu Xiaobo's widow

SYDNEY - Australia calls for China to lift curbs on the widow of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died of liver cancer in custody last week. (AUSTRALIA-CHINA/ (UPDATE 1), moved, by Harry Pearl, 244 words)

China leadership contender under investigation -sources

BEIJING - A senior Chinese official who was considered a contender for top leadership has been put under investigation, three sources with ties to the leadership said, ahead of a Communist Party congress in the autumn where Xi Jinping will cement his grip on power. (CHINA-POLITICS/CORRUPTION (PIX), moved, by Philip Wen and Benjamin Kang Lim, 765 words)

Rohingya villagers tell media of abuses during army crackdown

KYAR GAUNG TAUNG, Myanmar - Rohingya Muslim women line up to tell reporters of missing husbands, mothers and sons as international media were escorted for the first time to a village in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state affected by violence since October. (MYANMAR-ROHINGYA (PIX, GRAPHIC), moved, by Simon Lewis, 790 words)

UNITED STATES

US Senate delays healthcare vote as McCain recovers from surgery

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate will delay its consideration of healthcare legislation while Arizona Senator John McCain recuperates from surgery, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says. (USA-CONGRESS/MCCAIN (UPDATE 2), by David Morgan, 280 words)

Probe into fatal Hawaii residential tower fire gets under way

HONOLULU - Fire officials hope to determine the cause of a blaze that tore through three upper floors of a 36-story residential tower in Hawaii's capital, killing at least three people.(HAWAII-FIRE/, moved, by Alex Dobuzinskis, 440 words)

AFRICA

Five Congo rangers killed in operation to save U.S. journalist

KINSHASA - Five park rangers are killed in a joint operation with the army to rescue an American journalist and three park rangers, who went missing in a wildlife reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said (CONGO-VIOLENCE/, (UPDATE 1), moved, 262 words)

MIDDLE EAST

Israel reopens Jerusalem's Noble Sanctuary after deadly shooting

JERUSALEM - Israel reopens Jerusalem's Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound, drawing a protest by Muslim religious authorities over the installation of metal detectors at entrances two days after a deadly shooting. (ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ (PIX, TV), moved, by Jeffrey Heller, 420 words)

AMERICAS

Venezuela opposition votes en masse in plebiscite to defy Maduro

CARACAS - Lining up before dawn and honking horns, Venezuelans vote massively in an unofficial referendum held by the opposition to push for President Nicolas Maduro's exit and an end to nearly two decades of socialist rule.(VENEZUELA-POLITICS/ (UPDATE 3, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moving shortly by Alexandra Ulmer and Girish Gupta, about 900 words)

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