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    TOP STORIES
    
    GLOBAL
    ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/JORDAN-SHOOTING
        Gunman from Jordan kills three Israelis at border
crossing, Israeli army says
  
    NEAR ALLENBY BRIDGE CROSSING, West Bank, Sept 8 (Reuters) -
A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the
Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before
security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities
said.
    
  
    VENEZUELA-ELECTION/ 
        Venezuela opposition leader Gonzalez lands in Spain
seeking asylum
  
    MADRID/CARACAS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition
presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on
Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting his
country amid a political and diplomatic crisis over July's
disputed election.
    
    U.S.
    KENTUCKY-SHOOTING/
        Kentucky highway shooting suspect still at large amid
manhunt
  
    Sept 8 (Reuters) - Kentucky police were searching a remote,
heavily wooded area on Sunday for a suspected gunman who
authorities say opened fire on vehicles traveling a rural
stretch of Interstate 75 on Saturday, shooting and injuring five
people.
    
  
    USA-ELECTION/TRUMP-GEORGIA 
        Trump and Harris battle for Black voters in must-win
Georgia
  
    VALDOSTA, Georgia, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Vivian Childs, a
staunch supporter of Donald Trump, schooled a roomful of
Republicans on how to win over Black voters in the battleground
state of Georgia.
    
    BUSINESS
    BOEING-LABOR/
        Boeing reaches tentative labor deal with 25% pay hike,
new plane commitment
  
    Sept 8 (Reuters) - Boeing BA.N said on Sunday it has reached
a tentative agreement with a union representing more than 32,000
workers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, in a deal that could help
avert a possible crippling strike as early as Sept. 13.
    
    WALT DISNEY-DIRECTV/DISPUTE
        DirecTV files FCC complaint against Disney for
anti-competitive practices
  
    Sept 8 (Reuters) - Satellite TV provider DirecTV has filed a
complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
accusing Walt Disney DIS.N of failing to negotiate in good faith
and engaging in anticompetitive behavior, the company said on
Sunday.

    ENTERTAINMENT
    TENNIS-USOPEN/ 
        Tennis-Taylor Swift headlines celebrity rush at U.S.
Open men's final
  
    NEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Taylor Swift headlined the list
of celebrities present at the U.S. Open final on Sunday, as
another Taylor - Fritz - aimed to end a 21-year American men's
major drought on Arthur Ashe Stadium against Italian top seed
Jannik Sinner.
    
  
    FILMFESTIVAL-TORONTO/THE WILD ROBOT
        TIFF 2024: 'The Wild Robot' depicts technology and
nature coexisting
  
    TORONTO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - “The Wild Robot,” an animated
science fiction story by DreamWorks, explores both the good and
the bad sides of technology, its star Lupita Nyong’o said on
Sunday at the feature's world premiere in Toronto.
    
    SPORTS    
    TENNIS-USOPEN/
        Tennis-Sinner beats Fritz to win U.S. Open men's
championshipNEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Italian Jannik Sinner
beat American 12th seed Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-4 7-5 in the U.S.
Open men's final on Sunday.DATELINE IN CAPS - Lede or nutgraf
    
  
    PARALYMPICS-2024/ 
        Paralympics-Paris Games come to a close with rainy
electro party
  
    PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Paris 2024 Games came to a
close like they started, in the rain, but amidst a festive
atmosphere with an electro-party at the Stade de France to
conclude the Paralympics on Sunday.

    UPCOMING STORIES 
    SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY
    LATAM-DROUGHT/RIVER (PIX) 
    South America's rivers hit record lows as Brazil drought
impact spreads
    South America's major Paraguay River, a key grains
thoroughfare, has hit a record low in that country's capital
Asuncion, with water levels depleted by a major drought upriver
in Brazil that has hindered navigation along waterways in the
Amazon 
    9 Sep 
    ASIA-WEATHER/VIETNAM (PIX) (TV) (GRAPHIC) 
        Vietnam counts cost of Typhoon Yagi after weekend of
devastation
  
    Vietnam will assess trhe damage of Typhoon Yagi, Asia's most
powerful storm this year, which killed at least 18 people, with
many missing and risks of floods and landslides still present.
Yagi was downgraded to a tropical storm, but caused power and
telecoms outages and forced the closure of swatches of factories
crucial to its economy
    9 Sep 
    BUSINESS / ECONOMICS
    TURKEY-ECONOMY/BANKRUPTCY (PIX) 
        Turkey faces wave of bankruptcies as part of economic
reckoning
  
    Turkish companies face a wave on bankruptcies in the months
ahead, on the heels of Ankara's more than year-long drive to
slow economic growth and rein in soaring inflation. In Corum, an
central industrial city, high prices and borrowing costs and
diminishing demand is pushing many companies to shut down
factories and apply for court debt protection.
    9 Sep 
    CAPRI HOLDINGS-M&A/TAPESTRY 
        US FTC's bid to block Tapestry-Capri merger goes to
trial
  
    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will urge a federal judge
in New York to block Tapestry's  TPR.N  $8.5 billion merger with
rival handbag maker Capri Holdings  CPRI.N  at a trial beginning
in New York on Monday, arguing it will eliminate fierce
competition in the market for "accessible luxury."
    9 Sep 
    MERCADOLIBRE-ARGENTINA/CEO (TV) 
        MercadoLibre: Latin America's e-commerce king says 'huge
room for growth'
  
    Marcos Galperin, chief executive of Latin American
e-commerce giant MercadoLibre Inc  MELI.O  - already the
region's most valuable listed firm - says the company is just
getting started.
    9 Sep 
    EU-ECONOMY/DRAGHI (PIX) 
        Draghi presents much-anticipated report on EU
competitiveness
  
    Former ECB chief Mario Draghi to expected to present
400-page report he has been preparing for  over a year on EU
competitiveness and recommendations on how to boost it. The
report is seen as guiding EU economic policy for the next
five-year cycle.
    9 Sep 09:00 ET / 09:00 GMT
    BARCLAYS-CEO/ 
        Barclays CEO and CFO to speak at Barclays Global
Financial Services Conference
  
    Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan and Chief Financial
Officer Anna Cross will speak at the Barclays Global Financial
Services Conference in New York.
    9 Sep 12:30 ET / 12:30 GMT
    TECH-ANTITRUST/GOOGLE-ADTECH (PIX) 
        Google's antitrust trial over online advertising begins
  
    The U.S. Department of Justice's second antitrust trial
against online juggernaut Google -- this time over its alleged
monopoly in online advertising technology -- is scheduled to
begin on Monday, September 9, with opening statements.
    9 Sep 13:00 ET / 13:00 GMT
    TRADE-WTO/ 
        WTO releases global trade report
  
    WTO releases report on global trends.
    9 Sep 14:30 ET / 14:30 GMT
    CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE
    NETHERLANDS-PAKISTAN/COURT 
        Dutch court rules on Pakistanis charged with threatening
Wilders
  
    A Dutch court will deliver its verdict in the case against
two Pakistanis over public calls for the murder of far-right
anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilders.
    9 Sep 
    RELIGION
    POPE-ASIA/ (PIX) (TV) 
    Pope Francis visits in East Timor, third stop on
Asia-Pacific tour
    Pope Francis arrives in East Timor, the third country on his
four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific, his longest yet. Francis
will meet the country's president and diplomatic corps and is
expected to give an address in the evening to political leaders
    9 Sep 
    POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    USA-AFGHANISTAN/CONGRESS 
    US House Republican report blasts Biden, Harris over chaotic
Afghan withdrawal
    U.S. House of Representatives Republicans will release a
long-awaited report on Monday blasting the administration of
Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
for failures surrounding the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal
from Afghanistan in Augut 2021.
    9 Sep 
    UN-RIGHTS/ (TV) 
        UN Human Rights Council opens in Geneva
  
    The U.N. Human Rights Council starts its four-week session
where crises in Sudan and Aghanistan and are set to be
discussed. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Volker Turk will open the session with a speech on crises around
the world.
    9 Sep 08:00 ET / 08:00 GMT
    USA-CONGRESS/SHUTDOWN 
        US Congress returns from summer break for mad dash to
avert government shutdown
  
    The U.S. Congress returrns from its summer break with one
major deadline approaching fast -- it must pass a measure to
keep the government funded or see a partial shutdown begin on
Oct. 1. Lawmakers are expected to avert this in the final weeks
of the presidential camapign, with the main question being how
long of a stopgap funding measure they will pass.
    9 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT
    USA-ELECTION/RUSSIA 
        Russia focusing on American social media stars to
covertly influence voters
  
    Russia is increasingly turning to unwitting American social
media stars to covertly influence voters ahead of the 2024
presidential election, according to U.S. officials and recently
unveiled criminal charges.
    9 Sep 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT
    IRAN-NUCLEAR/IAEA 
        IAEA chief Grossi holds news conference
  
    U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi holds a news
conference on the opening day of a quarterly meeting of his
agency's 35-nation Board of Governors.
    9 Sep 11:00 ET / 11:00 GMT
    TURKEY-POLITICS/ERDOGAN 
    Turkey's Erdogan chairs cabinet meeting
        Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan chairs a meeting of his
cabinet of ministers, with issues on the agenda expected to
include the conflict in Gaza.
    9 Sep 12:00 ET / 12:00 GMT
    USA-ELECTION/GROUNDGAME 
        Trump, in tight race with Harris, hunts for the 'holy
grail' of US politics - infrequent voters
  
    The Trump campaign and its allies are putting an
unprecedented focus on targeting infrequent voters, a
high-risk/high-reward strategy that could bring in a wave of new
voters but could also fall short if their targets ultimately
stay home in November.
    9 Sep 13:00 ET / 13:00 GMT
    CONFLICTS / WAR / PEACE
        UKRAINE-CRISIS/SERBIA-RUSSIANS (PIX) (TV) 
  
    A mini Russia emerges in Serbia as thousands flee war
On a sweltering summer morning in Serbia's capital Belgrade,
Vadim Morus, a professional ice skater from Russia, glides
across an outdoor rink. Morus is 1000 miles from his native
Moscow, but is beginning to feel at home. He fled Russia with
his fiancee in 2022, part of a wave of thousands to come to
Serbia after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's a long way to
come, but many chose Belgrade for its ancient cultural and
religious ties to Moscow.
    9 Sep 06:00 ET / 06:00 GMT