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-- TOP STORIES --

+ Mexico party's new face claims presidential vote win

+ New H.K. leader vows to listen after massive protest

+ Apple pays $60 million to resolve iPad suit in China

+ Spain celebrates historic 4-0 victory in Euro champs

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MEXICO CITY

Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, wins a resounding victory in the country's presidential election, early exit polls show.

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HONG KONG

Hong Kong's new leader vows he will "humbly" listen to the public, but some media are already branding him a lame duck after the city saw its biggest protest for years on the anniversary of its return to Chinese rule.

650 words 0630 GMT by Beh Lih Yi. Picture

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BEIJING

US technology giant Apple has paid $60 million to a Chinese firm to settle a long-running dispute over the iPad trademark in China, a provincial court handling the case reports.

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MADRID

Spain's footballers are set to make a glorious homecoming, after successfully defending their European championship title and making history as the first team to record back-to-back wins in the competition.

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-- ASIA --

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SEJONG CITY, South Korea

South Korea inaugurates a mini-capital to house much of the nation's government, ending a decade of wrangling over a project seen by critics as driven by politics.

650 words 0530 GMT by Jung Ha-Won. Picture. Graphic. Video

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TOKYO

"Shadow shogun" Ichiro Ozawa and 51 of his followers break away from Japan's ruling party in protest at a sales tax hike, but fail to amass a big enough rebellion to overturn the government's majority.

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SENDAI, Japan

Google, at a conference in quake-prone Japan, urges governments to improve their delivery of information to allow citizens and first responders to make better use of the Internet during natural disasters.

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HONG KONG

The first China-born editor of Hong Kong's flagship English-language newspaper admits he made a "bad call" in cutting coverage of a mainland dissident's death, but denies he is a stooge for Beijing.

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-- AMERICAS --

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WASHINGTON

Utility crews make slow progress in restoring electricity to millions of households amid a record-setting heatwave in the eastern United States that shows no sign of abating soon.

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CARACAS

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez stages a huge rally despite his lingering health problems as he and rival Henrique Capriles formally launch their campaigns for October elections.

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-- MIDDLE EAST --

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DAMASCUS

The opposition and state media both brand an international plan for a transition in strife-torn Syria a failure, as the death toll from a weekend of violence nears 160.

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-- EUROPE --

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LONDON

The chairman of Barclays Bank is set to step down after the institution was fined for attempting to manipulate the inter-bank lending rate, according to reports.

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ATHENS

Ailing Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must face a crucial audit by Greece's creditors this week and may be tempted to push a change of rescue terms more in line with what was recently offered Spain.

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-- AFRICA --

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BAMAKO

Islamist rebels in northern Mali smash four more tombs of ancient Muslim saints in Timbuktu as the International Criminal Court warns their campaign of destruction amounts to a war crime.

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