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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Contact: Engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Rush to help Covid-stricken India + 'Nomadland' wins big at pandemic Oscars + Russia cracks down on Navalny network + NASA helicopter takes third Mars flight + Cricket stars pull out of Indian league Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI The US and Britain rush ventilators and vaccine materials to India as the country battles a catastrophic, record-breaking coronavirus wave that has overwhelmed hospitals and set crematoriums working at full capacity. 750 words 1300 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-US-Oscars-film,WRAP HOLLYWOOD US road movie "Nomadland" emerges as the big winner at the Oscars with three major prizes, including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao, as Hollywood celebrates its most glamorous night with a unique pandemic-era gala. 900 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video. Graphic Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny-extremism,WRAP MOSCOW A Russian court orders Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption network to suspend its activities nationwide, dealing another blow to the Kremlin critic's movement after his imprisonment. 500 words 1030 GMT. Picture US-space-Mars-Ingenuity NEW YORK NASA's mini helicopter Ingenuity successfully completes its third flight on Mars, moving farther and faster than ever before, with a peak speed of 6.6 feet per second. 300 words moved. Picture Cricket-IND-IPL-health-virus,lead NEW DELHI Three Australian cricketers pull out of the Indian Premier League as pressure builds to scrap the lucrative competition during India's record-breaking coronavirus emergency. 500 words moved -- OSCARS -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-fashion,lead HOLLYWOOD For the past year, Hollywood's brightest stars have either been forced to wear ball gowns in their living rooms to accept awards -- or they have worn fancy pajamas. They arrived on the Oscars red carpet with flair. 600 words moved. Picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-McDormand,PROFILE HOLLYWOOD "Nomadland" star Frances McDormand joins Hollywood's most elite tier with her third acting Oscar -- for a characteristically unglamorous portrayal of a grieving widow living in an old van. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-picture-Nomadland,FOCUS Entertainment-China-US-film-Oscars-Zhao BEIJING Beijing-born Chloe Zhao is scrubbed from Chinese social media as a nationalist backlash airbrushes out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of colour to win the best director Oscar. 400 words moved Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-director-Zhao,PROFILE HOLLYWOOD Chloe Zhao, the Beijing-born filmmaker whose indie movies chronicle life in the US heartland, becomes only the second woman ever to win best director in the Oscars' 93-year history. 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-suppactress-SKorea-Youn,PROFILE SEOUL Septuagenarian Youn Yuh-jung, South Korea's first Oscar-winning actress, has spent decades portraying nonconformist characters, from a vicious heiress to an ageing prostitute, challenging social norms in both career and life. 800 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-actor-Britain-Hopkins,PROFILE LONDON Anthony Hopkins has spent a glittering career exploring the full depths of human experience, whether playing the sadistic Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" or a frail and frightened dementia sufferer in "The Father". Now he is a two-time Oscar winner. 750 words moved by James Pheby. File picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-France-Zeller,INTERVIEW HOLLYWOOD French writer Florian Zeller spoke of his "great joy" after winning the best adapted screenplay Oscar for "The Father" but is already focused on his next project, "The Son", a new take on one of his plays. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-suppactor-Britain-Kaluuya,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-moments,POINTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-winners,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-animated-Soul,FOCUS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-foreign-Denmark,FOCUS -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-Zimbabwe-poverty,FOCUS HARARE For years, Zimbabwean single mother Spiwe Tembo would sell buns on the streets of central Harare, earning enough to feed her three children. But her fortunes have dived. 600 words moved by Fanuel Jongwe. Picture. Video Health-virus-Yemen,FOCUS SANAA Musheer Farhan recalls how his pregnant wife was turned away from three Yemeni hospitals before dying in a fourth along with their unborn child -- victims of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in a country already on its knees due to war. 700 words 0930 GMT by Jamil Nasser. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Italy-economy,lead ROME Bars, restaurants, cinemas and concert halls will partially reopen across Italy Monday in a boost for coronavirus-hit businesses, as parliament debates the government's 220-billion-euro ($266-billion) EU-funded recovery plan. 600 words 1000 GMT by Alice Ritchie with Brigitte Hagemann in Milan. File picture. Video Health-virus-Palestinian-Gaza,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Slumped on his side in a hospital bed, his face obscured by an oxygen mask in an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Gaza, Hussein al-Hajj says before he can hope of being vaccinated, he'll need to survive Covid-19. 550 words 1130 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Health-virus-Germany-migrants-religion,FOCUS BERLIN Medical teams in Berlin are taking coronavirus testing to mosques, as part of a push by authorities in the German capital to raise Covid awareness among Muslims during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, and among migrant populations more generally. 600 words moved by Yannick Pasquet. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Ukraine-nuclear-environment-Chernobyl,WRAP CHERNOBYL, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the Chernobyl exclusion zone and addresses Ukrainians to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. 600 words 1100 GMT by Andriy Perun. Picture. Video Albania-vote,WRAP TIRANA Albania's prime minister looks set for a third term in power, early results suggest, after an ill-tempered campaign marked by intense personal rivalries. 450 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-army-unrest,WRAP KANO, Nigeria At least 31 Nigerian soldiers are killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambush a military convoy escorting weapons and overrun a base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, military sources say, in the deadliest attack against the army this year. 450 words 1000 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Graphic Somalia-unrest-politics,WRAP MOGADISHU Somali opposition fighters take up positions in parts of the tense capital Mogadishu, a day after clashes with government troops erupted over the president's bid to extend his mandate. 700 words 0930 GMT. Video Also moving: Somalia-unrest-politics,Q&A -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Biden-100,FOCUS WASHINGTON The daily (hourly) White House melodrama of the Trump era is history, but there has been nothing quiet about Joe Biden's 100 days rush to transform the country he inherited. 900 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Also moved: US-politics-Biden-100,FACTS -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-FRA-ESP-ManCity-Chelsea-PSG-RealMadrid,PREVIEW LONDON The cloud of a collapsed Super League project hangs over this week's Champions League semi-finals with three of the four clubs involved -- Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea -- among the breakaway 12 that shook European football. 550 words moved by Kieran Canning. File picture Egypt-basket-Oly-2020-2021-EGY-Gamal,INTERVIEW CAIRO When 3-on-3 basketball makes its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, referee Sarah Gamal will also be making a breakthrough, as an Arab and African woman officiating at the Games. 600 words moved. Picture fbl-Eur-C1-ManCity-PSG-diplomacy-QAT-UAE-ENG-FRA,FOCUS DOHA The Champions League semi-final between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City on Wednesday is as much a clash of footballing titans as a proxy battle between competing Gulf nations and visions for European football's future. 750 words moved by Gregory Walton. File Picture. File Video afp
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