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Corrected - Turkey seeks U.S.-based cleric's extradition but not for coup: State Dept. | Reuters

Syria Kurds win battle with government, Turkey mobilises against them | Reuters

Sarkozy presidential bid seeks to tap mood shift after France attacks | Reuters

Exclusive: Civil war costs Yemen $14 billion in damage and economic losses - report | Reuters

Vote for Trump! Serbian ultra-nationalists chant as Biden visits | Reuters

German arrested on suspicion of selling gun to Munich shooter, prosecutor says | Reuters

Storms kill 16 in Texas, Oklahoma; Houston flooded | Reuters

HOUSTON Torrential rains have killed at least 16 people in Texas and Oklahoma, including four in Houston where floods turned streets into rivers and led to about 1,000 calls for help in the fourth-most populous U.S. city, officials said on Tuesday. The death toll is set to rise with numerous people still missing in Texas after the storms slammed the states during the Memorial Day weekend, causing record floods that destroyed hundreds of homes, swept away bridges, and even unearthed a coffin from a Houston cemetery

Hardline Buddhists in Myanmar, Sri Lanka strike anti-Islamist pact

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Myanmar monk accused of inciting violence against Muslims and a hardline Buddhist group in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday they would work together to rally other Buddhist groups and defend their faith against militant Islamists. Ashin Wirathu, who once called himself "the Burmese bin Laden" said the agreement with Sri Lanka's Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or "Buddhist Power Force", was the first step in a broad alliance against conversions by Islamists in the region. The deal gave no detailed indication what the groups were planning to counter what they said was the risk of Buddhists becoming "victims of conversions by extremists", but the agreement could stoke anti-Muslim attacks in both countries

French tax probe targets HSBC - prosecutor

PARIS (Reuters) - France has opened a probe into whether British bank HSBC( HSBA.L ) offered illicit products to help French clients avoid tax in Switzerland, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Tuesday. It is the latest sign of governments cracking down on tax evasion and money laundering after the financial crisis

Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help - UN

OSLO (Reuters) - Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.