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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus spread in US not inevitable: Trump + Gunman kills 5 in US brewery + Saudi Arabia bars pilgrims over virus fears + Shrinking habitat is starving polar bears: study + Tennis legend Sharapova calls time at 32 Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump insists that the United States could avoid a major coronavirus outbreak, even as infections ricochet around the world, prompting a ban on pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. 700 words 0600 GMT by Issam Ahmed with Jastinder Khera in Rome. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-panic,FOCUS Health-virus-Europe,FACTS Health-virus,CHRONO US-crime-shooting,WRAP WASHINGTON A gunman kills five co-workers at one of America's best-known breweries before turning the weapon on himself in the latest burst of mass gun violence in the US. 600 words 0600 GMT by Torrence Otten. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Saudi,WRAP RIYADH Saudi Arabia suspends visas for pilgrims planning to visit Islam's holiest sites, in an unprecedented move triggered by coronavirus fears that raises questions over the hajj which this year starts in July. 550 words 0600 GMT by Anuj Chopra Russia-animal-climate-science-Arctic MOSCOW Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist says. 450 words moved. File picture Tennis-RUS-Sharapova PARIS Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable and highest-paid sportswomen, announces her retirement at the age of 32, and is hailed as a "legend" and "great champion". 650 words moved by Luke Phillips. File picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Tennis-RUS-Sharapova,PROFILE Tennis-WTA-Sharapova,REAC Tennis-RUS-Sharapova-factfile,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-NKorea SEOUL North Korea has postponed the new school term to prevent the possible spread of the new coronavirus, the latest measure as the ill-equipped country ramps up efforts to prevent a devastating outbreak 400 words 0600 GMT. Picture. Video. Health-virus-China-US,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says it is not inevitable that the novel coronavirus would continue to spread in the United States, even as the administration considers fresh travel restrictions on hard-hit countries like Italy and South Korea. 800 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video Health-virus-China-Iran-SKorea,FOCUS BEIJING A month of containment measures to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus in China seems to be working, but the rise of overseas cases means the country is now facing a fresh challenge -- keeping it out. 650 words 0630 GMT by Helen Roxbourgh Health-virus-SKorea,WRAP SEOUL The US and South Korean militaries postpone forthcoming joint exercises as the Asian country reports its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases to date. 600 words 0830 GMT by Sunghee Hwang. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-SKorea-religion-social,BACKGROUND Fbl-Asia-CHN-transfers-health-virus,FOCUS HONG KONG A double blow of the coronavirus and a new salary cap has seen the bottom fall out of Chinese football's transfer market, while Odion Ighalo led what could become an exodus of foreign stars. 650 words 0600 GMT by Peter Stebbings. File picture -- AFGHANISTAN -- US-Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-Qatar,ADVANCER DOHAThe United States and the Taliban prepare to sign a deal on Saturday that seeks a way out of their decades-old conflict through a staged withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and the start of negotiations between the insurgents and Kabul. 800 words 0800 GMT by Greg Walton. File picture. File video. Also moving: Afghanistan-conflict,CHRONO Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban,FACTS Already moved: US-Afghanistan-conflict-military,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote,WRAP CHARLESTON, United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, fresh off a feisty debate showing, receives a key endorsement, boosting his hopes of winning the South Carolina primary and blunting the momentum of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. 600 words moved by Leila Macor with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Sanders,FOCUS US-politics-vote-Democratic-candidates,POINTS US-politics-justice-NYTimes-Trump-Russia WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign files suit against The New York Times over an OpEd article about links to Russia, the first legal action of its kind after his regular criticism of the "failing" newspaper and other traditional media organizations. 500 words moved. File Picture US-entertainment-abuse-trial-Weinstein-assault,ANALYSIS NEW YORK Prosecutors have long been hesitant to take on cases of acquaintance rape but the conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein on charges of rape and sexual assault should move the needle on such cases, and open the door to more prosecutions, legal experts say. 900 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File Picture -- EUROPE -- Slovakia-vote-politics,ADVANCER BRATISLAVA Slovakia's populist coalition is fighting for survival in a weekend general election overshadowed by the 2018 gangland-style murder of a journalist that has upended politics in the eurozone country hounded by graft. 750 words moved by Laszlo Juhasz and Martina Konik. Pictures by Vladimir Simicek, Video by Martina Konik Also moved: Slovakia-vote-politics-leaders,PROFILE Slovakia-vote-culture,FACTS Switzerland-religion-Protestant-Catholic,FOCUS GENEVA There was a riot last time St Pierre's cathedral in Geneva hosted a Catholic Mass, in 1535. The first since that day in what became a centre of the Protestant Reformation promises to be a more sedate affair on Saturday. 450 words 0600 GMT. -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-JordanValley,FOCUS UM ZUKA, Palestinian Territories When the Israeli army's surveillance drone swooped down, briefly scattering a Palestinian shepherd's flock, activist Guy Hirschfeld rightly predicted trouble. 800 words moved by Joe Dyke. Picture. Video. -- ASIA -- India-unrest-religion,WRAP NEW DELHI The death toll from Delhi's worst sectarian clashes in decades rises to 32, although thousands of riot police prevented major incidents overnight. 500 words 0630 GMT by Jalees Andrabi and Bhuvan Bagga. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: India-demonstration-unrest-law-religion,SCENE India-politics-unrest-religion,POINTS Myanmar-minorities-tradition-tattooing,FOCUS LONGWA, Myanmar Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their victory. 650 words moved by Richard Sargent. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Angola-economy-corruption,FOCUS LUANDA Entrepreneur Antonio Almeida has learned to navigate around the potholes of doing business in Angola. 900 words moved. Picture. Video Seychelles-tourism-environment,FOCUS AU CAP, Seychelles It is the world's largest seed, and with a shape suggestive of a woman's hips and myths of love-making powers, the coco de mer is an icon of the Seychelles. 700 words moved. picture. Video afp
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