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Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators hurling rocks in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected triad gang members at a train station last weekend.

RUSSIA-POLITICS-PROTESTS Russia detains more than 1,000 people in opposition crackdown

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power. U.S.

USA-TRUMP-CUMMINGS Trump tells black lawmaker to clean up 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested' district

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump hit out at a prominent African-American critic on Saturday, calling him a “brutal bully” who should concentrate on cleaning up his “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” Baltimore district rather than criticizing the work of U.S. immigration officers on the Mexican border. USA-COURT-WALL

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.

BUSINESS REFINITIV-M-A-LSE-EXCHANGE-ANALYSIS

LSE's bid for Refinitiv spotlights quest for data, globality LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s (LSE.L) planned purchase of Refinitiv in a $27 billion deal is the latest sign that exchange operators are focusing more on data products to increase revenue, while also trying to expand their global reach.

MYLAN-NL-M-A-PFIZER Pfizer in talks to merge off-patent drugs business with Mylan: source

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) is in talks to merge its off-patent drugs business with Mylan NV (MYL.O) in a stock deal, according to a source familiar with the matter. ENTERTAINMENT

TELEVISION-TRANSPARENT 'Transparent' musical finale aims for upbeat send-off after star's exit

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - Groundbreaking TV show “Transparent” will end with a musical episode in which the Pfefferman family grapples with the death of the character played by Jeffrey Tambor, the award-winning star fired after accusations of sexual misconduct. TELEVISION-WUTANG

Wu-Tang Clan gets back to its roots in new TV series LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The story of famed 1990s group Wu-Tang Clan is coming to television in a series that rapper RZA hopes will resonate beyond America’s hip-hop community.

SPORTS ATHLETICS-USA

Athletics: Felix misses U.S. team in 400, Kendricks soars in pole vault DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Allyson Felix missed out on an individual national team spot for the first time as a professional and Sam Kendricks became the third highest pole vaulter of all-time at the U.S. national championships on Saturday.

BASEBALL-MLB-NOTEBOOK MLB notebook: Twins add bullpen help with Romo

The Minnesota Twins acquired right-handed reliever Sergio Romo in a trade with the Miami Marlins on Saturday. UPCOMING

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CLIMATE-CHANGE/HEATWAVES (PIX)

Think the heatwave was bad? Climate already hitting key tipping points Europe's record temperatures have hammered home the reality of climate change for millions of people. But red warning lights have been flashing since the start of the year, from record melting of Arctic sea ice, to evidence that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet may have passed the point of no return, accelerating deforestation in the Amazon, and evidence of a mysterious surge in methane levels. Taken together, the indicators paint a picture of a climate system that has reached the verge of dangerous tipping points far more quickly than scientists had anticipated even a few years ago. Will growing public consciousness of the crisis – fuelled by the heatwaves -- translate into faster action?

28 Jul 03:00 ET / 07:00 GMT SAFRICA-LAND/

South African agriculture minister briefs media on land reform report South Africa's Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza briefs media on a report for President Cyril Ramaphosa on land reform. The report makes recommendations on accelerating the work of government to address historical land imbalances.

28 Jul 04:00 ET / 08:00 GMT BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

DBS-RESULTS/ Singapore's biggest bank DBS reports Q2 results

DBS, Southeast Asia's biggest bank by assets, reports results for April-June. 29 Jul 19:00 ET / 23:00 GMT

RELIGION INDIA-KASHMIR/PILGRIMAGE (PIX)

Record-breaking number of Hindu pilgrims travel to cave in Kashmir mountains A record-breaking number of Hindus go on Amarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage to a holy cave in the mountains of contested Kashmir, amid tensions over stringent security measures following a suicide attack in February.

28 Jul 09:30 ET / 13:30 GMT

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