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Manning sues defense dept.

Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning asked a federal court Tuesday to order the Defense Department to provide hormone therapy and other treatment for her gender-identity condition while she serves her 35-year sentence in military confinement.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, says the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning is at a high risk of self-castration and suicide unless she receives more focused treatment for gender dysphoria at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Suspect in missing student case charged •CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The man authorities believe was the last person seen with a University of Virginia student before she disappeared has been charged with abduction, police said Tuesday night.

Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference that officers are looking for Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, after obtaining a felony arrest warrant from a magistrate on a charge of abduction with intent to defile. They also continue to search for 18-year-old Hannah Graham, who went missing early the morning of Sept. 13.

Official on house arrest during sex-abuse trial •VATICAN CITY — The Vatican put its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic under house arrest Tuesday after opening a criminal trial against him, the first time a high-ranking Vatican official has ever faced criminal charges for sexually abusing youngsters. Josef Wesolowski already had been defrocked in June after the Vatican’s canon law court found him guilty of abuse and imposed its toughest penalty under church law: laicization, or returning to life as a layman.

Firefighters added in Northern California •PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Nearly 2,000 firefighters were added Tuesday to battle a massive wildfire that threatened thousands of homes and fouled the air 50 miles away in Reno, Nev., which was blanketed by smoke.

The King fire east of Sacramento has scorched about 139 square miles. Fire crews increased containment to 35 percent after several days of more favorable weather but with dryer air and increasing winds in the forecast, reinforcements were brought in, pushing the number of firefighters on the scene to 7,400.

Kerry calls on North Korea to close prison camps •NEW YORK —U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is calling for North Korea to shut down its “evil system” of prison camps.

Kerry spoke at a gathering of foreign officials and activists Tuesday to draw attention to the findings of a U.N. commission of inquiry that in February concluded that North Korea’s authoritarian government had committed crimes against humanity.

The U.N. commission estimated that between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners are detained in four large camps, where deliberate starvation has been used as a means of control and punishment.

Journalist freed in Somalia •MOGADISHU, Somalia — A German-American journalist who was kidnapped in Somalia more than two years ago was freed Tuesday, according to a Somali police official and a leader of the Somali pirates who had held him.

The journalist, identified by the German weekly Der Spiegel as 45-year-old Michael Scott Moore, was immediately flown to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after being freed.

Karzai slams U.S. in address •KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed the United States during his farewell address Tuesday, saying the U.S. war effort had failed to make Afghanistan peaceful. Karzai, who will be replaced by President-elect Ashraf Ghani on Monday, accused the American government of spending the past 13 years focused on “its own interests” instead of what was best for the Afghan people.

“We don’t have peace because Americans didn’t want peace,” Karzai told a gathering of several hundred Afghan government employees.

U.S. prison population drops •WASHINGTON — The federal prison population has dropped in the past year by roughly 4,800, the first time in several decades that the inmate count has gone down, according to the Justice Department.

In a speech Tuesday in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department expects to end the current budget year next week with a prison population of roughly 215,000 inmates. It would be the first time since 1980 that the federal prison population has declined during the course of a fiscal year.

Denver Post wire services