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UPDATE 9-Kurds expect to enter and clear Sinjar soon

* 7,500 Kurdish and Yazidi fighters backed by coalition firepower

UPDATE 1-Azerbaijan frees rights campaigner's husband from prison

BAKU, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan on Thursday released Arif Yunus, the husband of human rights activist Leyla Yunus, from prison on health grounds, and his lawyers said they would press now to secure her release as well.

U.N. investigators to visit Qatar to probe work conditions

TORONTO, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The International Labour Organization will send a delegation to investigate working conditions in Qatar following complaints that the wealthy nation is engaged in systematic rights abuses and human trafficking, a trade union leader said on Thursday.

With lending tight, miners look to swap cash for royalties

SYDNEY, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A slump in mineral prices that's making it tough for miners to borrow is providing more opportunities for companies such as Anglo Pacific Group Ltd , whose business is exchanging cash for production royalties on commodities out of favour with lenders.

Hurting Canadian oil producers signal further cuts to come

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Canadian energy companies, especially those at higher cost oil sands producers, are signalling they will cut capital spending for a second straight year in 2016 as they adjust to a painful new reality of oil near $40 a barrel.

UPDATE 1-Clinton proposes $30 bln plan to help coal-producing areas

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed a $30 billion plan to help displaced workers in coal-producing areas find new jobs and continue receiving health benefits as the country shifts to using renewable energy and more natural gas.

Deadly clashes in north Iraq close main road to Baghdad - sources

BAGHDAD, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Clashes between Kurdish and Shi'ite Arab paramilitary forces turned a northern Iraqi district into a battlefield on Thursday and cut a strategic road linking Baghdad to the northern oil city of Kirkuk, security sources and local officials said.

UPDATE 1-Brazil levies initial fines of $66 million against mine for burst dams

MARIANA, Brazil, Nov 12 (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday announced preliminary fines worth 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in southeastern Brazil where two dams burst, killing at least seven people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.

UPDATE 1-Maduro defends record at UN rights forum, blasts US

* U.S. spokesman decries curbs on Venezuela freedoms (recasts after speech, adds U.S. spokesman remarks)

UPDATE 8-Kurds report advances in battle to retake Iraq's Sinjar town

* Rivalries among local forces had delayed long-expected strike

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