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ST. LOUIS - Missouri's only abortion clinic lost its license to perform the procedure on Friday, though it remains open at least temporarily under a judge's order.

The state Health Department notified the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis that its abortion license will not be renewed. A letter from the state cited "serious and extensive" deficiencies.

The state's decision came at the deadline set by St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer. During a brief hearing, Stelzer said a preliminary injunction he previously issued would remain in place, meaning the clinic can continue to perform abortions at least until he issues a final ruling outlining the next steps. He offered no timetable for that ruling.

The fight between the Republican-led state government and Planned Parenthood has raged since the Missouri Health Department allowed the clinic's license to lapse effective June 1. Stelzer ruled earlier this month that the state needed to be more definitive and set the Friday deadline to either approve or deny the license.

The fate of the clinic has drawn national attention because Missouri could become the first state since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, without a functioning abortion clinic.

The state has said concerns about the clinic arose from inspections in March and that Planned Parenthood corrected just four out of 30 cited deficiencies.

M'Evie Mead, director of Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri, said the Health Department's concerns were addressed with "medically accurate and thorough responses."

Thousands in Hong Kong demonstrate against police

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's protest movement shifted its focus to the territory's embattled police force after thousands of demonstrators surrounded the department's headquarters Friday.

The tense standoff came a day after student groups demanded Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam fully retract an extradition bill that many viewed as a threat to the city's autonomy and for her to open an independent investigation of police conduct at a violent protest June 12.

The Hong Kong government issued a statement Friday that did not address the demands but did say it respected the public's right to procession and assembly while urging them to act "peacefully and rationally."

An independent investigation wasn't necessary, Lam said, because existing channels for complaints already exist.

After no-show, House panel to subpoena Russia-born exec

WASHINGTON - The House intelligence committee says it will subpoena Russia-born business executive Felix Sater after he did not appear for a scheduled interview Friday to discuss his behind-the-scenes role in Donald Trump's effort to build a skyscraper in Moscow during the 2016 presidential election.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said the committee will subpoena Sater after he "agreed to appear this morning and he did not show up."

Sater's lawyer, Robert Wolf, said he missed the interview for "unexpected health reasons" but "looks forward to voluntarily appearing at the next rescheduled date."

Sater worked with Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

US blacklists 5 Chinese groups working in supercomputing

WASHINGTON - The United States is blacklisting five Chinese organizations involved in supercomputing, calling them national security threats and cutting them off from crucial U.S. technology.

The move Friday by the Commerce Department could complicate talks next week between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, aimed at de-escalating a trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies.

The five organizations placed on the so-called Entity List are the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, supercomputer maker Sugon and three Sugon affiliates.

The organizations are involved in China's push to develop exascale high performance computing that can assist it's military modernization.

Ore. senators face fines for fleeing, threaten to sue

SALEM, Ore. - Republican state senators in Oregon continued a high-stakes game of brinksmanship Friday with Democratic lawmakers, saying they are prepared to sue if the Senate president goes through with a threat to impose a $500 fine for each day they delay a vote on a landmark climate plan.

Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick said Republicans have no legal course as the fine is explicitly written in statute.

Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police Thursday to try to round up 11 Republican senators who fled the Legislature - and in some cases, the state - to thwart the passage of a cap-and-trade proposal that would dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The GOP caucus wants the plan to be sent to voters instead of being instituted by lawmakers - but negotiations with Democrats collapsed.

Thousands call for climate action, target German mine

AACHEN, Germany - Thousands of students from across Europe protested Friday near a coal mine in western Germany, urging governments to take bolder action against climate change.

Organizers said up to 20,000 protesters from 16 countries took part in the rally in Aachen, near Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands.

It comes a day after European Union leaders failed to agree upon a plan to make the bloc's economy carbon neutral by 2050. Several large European countries - including Britain, France and Germany - have backed the target, but coal-reliant countries in the east, such as Poland, blocked consensus on the proposal, which entails an almost complete phase-out of fossil fuels. Friday's protest took place near the site of one of Germany's biggest lignite coal mines.

In Mexico: Mexico and El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement Thursday that includes a $30 million Mexican donation for reforestation in the Central American nation, amid increased pressure from the United States to slow a surge of migrants traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border.

The project to reforest some 124,000 acres, with the expected creation of 20,000 jobs, was presented as Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele met his counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in southern Mexico, where tens of thousands of mostly Central American migrants have crossed into the country. Lopez Obrador said similar pacts are in the works for Guatemala and Honduras.

Caption: Revelersgather at Stonehenge near Salisbury, England, on Friday to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Stonehenge is estimated to be 4,500 years old and is known for its alignment with the sun.

Aijaz Rahi/AP