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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Ousted Myanmar party demands Suu Kyi release + Moscow court mulls prison term for Navalny + Huge snowstorm blankets US east coast + Virus won't stop Olympics: Tokyo 2020 head + Economic growth has 'devastating cost to nature' Myanmar-politics-army,WRAP YANGON The party of Myanmar's toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi demands her immediate release after a military coup that triggered international condemnation and sanctions threats from the new US president. 800 words 1000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. Russia-politics-court-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW A Moscow court begins hearing whether jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should face several years in prison, after his arrest last month triggered protests across Russia and a massive police clampdown. 600 words 1030 GMT by Anna Smolchenko. Picture. Video Also moving: Russia-politics-Navalny-trial,FACTS Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,PROFILE US-weather-storm,WRAP NEW YORK A huge snowstorm brings chaos to the United States east coast, canceling thousands of flights, closing schools and forcing the postponement of coronavirus vaccinations as New York steels itself for possibly one of its heaviest snowfalls ever. 600 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video. Live video Oly-2020-2021-Japan-virus-health,2ndlead TOKYO The pandemic-postponed Olympics will go ahead this summer "however the coronavirus evolves", Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori says, brushing aside doubts about the event. 500 words 1000 GMT by Natsuko Fukue. Picture. Video Nature-economics-biodiversity-review,WRAP PARIS Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature", according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. 650 words 1030 GMT by Patrick Galey -- SPOTLIGHT -- Iran-justice-rights-France,FOCUS PARIS In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France. But just over a year later he was hanged in Iran. How did Zam go from relative comfort to the hangman's noose? 1,000 words moved by Stuart Williams and Cecile Feuillatre. File Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- US-politics-economy-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden meets a group of Republican senators who have proposed an alternative to his massive Covid-19 relief plan, but their measure excludes key programs Democrats consider essential. 650 words moved by Chris Stein Health-virus-hospital PARIS Covid-19 treatments and improved hospital care have reduced death rates in intensive care by more than a third since the early months of the pandemic, but this progress might be stalling, according to research. 400 words moved by Kelly Macnamara Health-virus-Israel-marriage-Judaism,FOCUS JERUSALEM The advertisement for a meet-up spot for single Orthodox Jews might, before the pandemic, have seemed bizarre. "Terrace with a view of Jerusalem," it reads. "Bring warm clothes. We offer hot drinks! An ideal spot for marriage proposals!" 640 words moved by Delphine Matthieussent. Picture Health-virus-Germany,FOCUS MUNICH, Germany A year after Germany's first Covid-19 patient was admitted to a Munich hospital, exhausted doctors at the establishment say the fight against the disease is far from over, despite a recent decline in cases. 650 words moved by Pauline Curtet. Picture. Video Health-virus-Peru-oxygen,PHOTOESSAY LIMA While loved ones are fighting for breath at home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in lines of people desperate for oxygen amid a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Ernesto Tovar. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-army-SuuKyi,FOCUS YANGON The Myanmar military's detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week's coup has revived memories of her 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during decades of junta rule. 600 words 0930 GMT. File picture. File video. Picture. Myanmar-politics-army-coup-US-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON Myanmar's military coup marks an early test case of President Joe Biden's determination to advocate for democracy but, unlike a decade ago when the United States nurtured a transition there, he has limited options. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon Indonesia-Rohingya-refugee-Malaysia LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia have been trafficked into Malaysia to reunite with their husbands, several sources tell AFP. 450 words moved. Picture. File video. -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-trial-US-France,WRAP MOSCOW The trial in Moscow begins of US financier Michael Calvey and French banker Philippe Delpal, nearly two years after they were arrested on embezzlement charges in a case that has rattled Russia's business community. 500 words 100 GMT by Andrea Palasciano Picture. Video Ukraine-Syria-conflict-women,FOCUS KOZYN, Ukraine Six years after she left Ukraine, following her husband and false promises of a dignified life under the Islamic State group in Syria, Alime Abbasova arrived home on New Year's Day hopeful for a fresh start. 700 words moved by Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment-attorney,FOCUS WASHINGTON The two lawyers former president Donald Trump has hired to defend him in his Senate impeachment trial are confident, tough and media-honed criminal case experts who could liven up what is already set to be a nationally televised spectacle. 650 words moved by Paul Handley US-internet-games-politics-GameStop,FOCUS NEW YORK Recent stock market mayhem has done what appeals to rise above self-interest could not -- gotten US politicians of all stripes to agree. 700 words moved by Daniel Hoffman Brazil-politics-vote-Bolsonaro,3rdlead BRASILIA Brazil's Congress elects two allies of President Jair Bolsonaro to head the Senate and lower house, an important victory for the far-right leader as he seeks to re-galvanize his reelection efforts for 2022. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-abuse-EvanRachelWood-MarilynManson,WRAP NEW YORK "Westworld" star Evan Rachel Wood accuses goth industrial rock icon Marilyn Manson of being a "dangerous man" who subjected her to years of abuse starting when she was a teenager. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File Picture -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-internet-advertising SAN FRANCISCO Executives at Google parent Alphabet will report quarterly earnings, seeking to highlight the internet titan's money-making success while being mindful of regulators concerned about the internet firm's clout. 650 words moved -- SPORT -- Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl LOS ANGELES The final countdown to the Super Bowl gets off to a low-key start with a pared-down virtual media launch as the spectre of Covid-19 hovered over the biggest event in the US sporting calendar. 650 words moved by Rob Woollard Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Buccaneers-diversity,FOCUS LOS ANGELES If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers upset the odds and defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, it will be a victory for diversity as well as Tom Brady. 650 words moved by Rob Woollard Also moved: Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Buccaneers-Brady Oly-Paralympics-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus-Parsons,INTERVIEW TOKYO Paralympics chief Andrew Parsons is confident the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games will go ahead this year, and will be "a platform to change to world" -- with or without spectators. 650 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The unveiling of the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday will jumpstart a Hollywood awards season like no other, with pandemic-related theater closures and blockbuster delays expected to boost smaller, stay-at-home movies like Netflix's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "Mank." 750 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture Entertainment-France-US-film,FOCUS LOS ANGELES An elderly lesbian romance with an Italian first-time director and a veteran German star, "Two of Us" is certainly a daring choice for France's entry to this year's Oscars. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet afp
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