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GLOBAL NORTH KOREA-MISSILES/

N.Korea fires missiles, derides S.Korea's Moon as 'impudent' SEOUL - North Korea launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, South Korea's military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea's president as "impudent" and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over.

MIDEAST-IRAN/TANKER Iran tanker may leave Gibraltar on Friday, U.S. legal bid still looms

DUBAI/LONDON - An Iranian tanker whose detention exacerbated frictions between Tehran and the West could sail free from British territory Gibraltar on Friday, though a U.S. request to halt its passage could drag the saga back into court. The U.S.

EPSTEIN-AUTOPSY/ Jeffrey Epstein autopsy report shows a broken neck: sources

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - An autopsy of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, found his neck had been broken in several places, according to two law enforcement sources. USA-SHOOTING-OHIO/

Dayton gunman had cocaine, Xanax, alcohol in his system during attack The gunman who killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, had cocaine, Xanax and alcohol in his system at the time of the shooting rampage, the county coroner said on Thursday.

BUSINESS HONGKONG-CATHAY PACIFIC/

Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Rupert Hogg resigns HONG KONG - Cathay Pacific Airways said CEO Rupert Hogg had resigned and named Augustus Tang as the new chief following a week of scrutiny by the Chinese aviation regulator.

LSE-OUTAGES/ LSE's FTSE stock market suffers the longest outage in years

A technical glitch delayed the start of trading on Friday on the UK blue-chip FTSE 100.FTSE and midcap stock indexes in what was the longest outage at one of the world's top bourses in eight years. ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC-WOODSTOCK-RETROSPECTIVE/ 'Creating Woodstock': how the festival came together, and almost fell apart

LOS ANGELES - Mick Richards was among the 450,000 people at Woodstock in 1969, but he did not think much about his "uneventful" 24 hours there until years later when his teenage son started asking about the festival. ARGENTINA-FILM-BORENSZTEIN/

Amid fresh meltdown, the Argentine film gives the last laugh to victims of the 2001 crisis With Argentina once again reeling from a financial crisis, a film released on Thursday shows residents from a village outside Buenos Aires pursuing the dream of many of those left penniless by the country's 2001 debt default: getting their money back.

SPORTS TENNIS-CINCINNATI/

Federer stunned by Russian qualifier Rublev in Cincinnati Fearless Russian qualifier Andrey Rublev needed just over an hour to beat Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters on Thursday, the Swiss 20-time Grand Slam champion suffering his quickest defeat for 16 years.

GOLF-BMW/ Thomas and Kokrak in BMW driver's set as Woods stalls

Justin Thomas and Jason Kokrak matched the Medinah course record with seven-under 65s to share the first-round lead at the BMW Championship on Thursday while a fit-again Tiger Woods struggled to get anything going and finished the day six off the pace. UPCOMING

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EU-MERCOSUR/TRADE

Deforestation in Brazil, election in Argentina endanger EU-Mercosur pact Brazil%u2019s backsliding on Amazon conservation under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and the prospect of an opposition victory in Argentina could delay or even derail ratification of the EU-Mercosur agreement by European parliaments, raising concerns among European and South American diplomats who have worked decades to reach a free trade agreement.

16 Aug 13:00 ET / 17:00 GMT HONGKONG-PROTESTS/ (PIX) (TV)

Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing urges love in response to growing protests Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-Shing, urged people to "love China, love Hong Kong and love yourself" on Friday in his first public comments on the escalating pro-democracy protests that have disrupted the city for weeks and challenged China.

16 Aug 07:50 ET / 11:50 GMT INDIA-KASHMIR/UN (TV)

U.N. Security Council due to meet to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir The U.N. Security Council is due to meet behind-closed-doors on Friday at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats said.

16 Aug 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT RUSSIA-POLITICS/PROTESTS (PIX) (TV)

Opposition activists hold piquets in Moscow in support of free elections Russian capital prepares for unauthorized demonstrations after tens of thousands took to a street a week ago for free elections in a sanctioned rally. Moscow authorities did not fulfill the requests by the opposition for a protest march and a number of activists said they will stage piquets which do not require sanctioning.

17 Aug HUNGARY-GERMANY/IRON CURTAIN-PREVIEW (PIX) (TV)

Eye-witnesses of the Pan-European picnic in 1989 recall events ahead of the 30th-anniversary Eye-witnesses of the Pan-European picnic in 1989 recall events that led to the first breach of the Iron Curtain in the town of Sopron which is being commemorated on August 19 by leaders of Germany and Hungary.

17 Aug BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

CANADA-CRUDE/INTER US (PIX) Bid for Inter Pipeline highlights Canada's oil sector bright spot

The recent unsolicited bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd, which sparked a rally in the stock, highlights the surging profits of sometimes overlooked Canadian midstream companies that offer insulation from oil price volatility. The midstreamers, which own infrastructures such as gathering pipelines, gas-processing plants and storage tanks that are in high demand, have been a rare bright spot for the Canadian energy sector, but some say their full value has gone unrecognized. 16 Aug 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

USA-TRADE/SURFBOARDS (PIX) (TV) U.S. surfboard makers not so stoked about China tariffs

California surfboard makers say the Trump administration's new round of China tariffs - which slap the first-ever U.S. import taxes on surfboards - won't deliver on the President's promise to bring jobs back to the United States. 16 Aug 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC-WOODSTOCK/ (PIX)

50th Woodstock anniversary music and culture festival Three- day festival of music and culture celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock festival takes place on the original site, now owned by the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

17 Aug MUSIC-WOODSTOCK/REUNION

'By the time we got back to Woodstock, we were 50 years older' Plans for an ambitious 50th-anniversary festival fizzled, but those who attended the 1969 event - and those who wish they did – will have two venues for reliving the experience or imagining it.

17 Aug

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