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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden ramps up US climate ambitions + 'Watershed' year for Hollywood diversity + India posts global record for Covid cases + Calls for reprisals against Super League rebels + Turkey crypto founder 'flees with $2 billion' US-summit-climate-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden sharply ramps up US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada in raising commitments at a summit whose promises bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change. 1,000 words 1530 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Pictures. Video Entertainment-US-film-diversity,WRAP LOS ANGELES Female and minority actors were proportionately represented in Hollywood for the first time last year in a "watershed moment for diversity," says an academic report suggesting the pandemic rather than activism may be the reason. 500 words 1800 GMT by Andrew Marszal. File picture Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-diversity,FOCUS Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India posts a global record for the number of coronavirus cases in a day, as US President Joe Biden hails his government's "stunning" vaccination drive. 700 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Health-virus-India,3rdlead Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1,WRAP PARIS Football's most powerful clubs face mounting calls for reprisals over the European Super League fiasco, although UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says next week's Champions League semi-finals are unlikely to be affected. 750 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Turkey-crypto-fraud,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkish prosecutors launch an investigation after the Istanbul-based founder of a cryptocurrency exchange freezes trading and leaves the country with a reported $2 billion in investors' assets. 600 words 1600 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Kenya-tourism-economy-transport,FOCUS LAMU, Kenya A decade ago, there were only two vehicles on the sleepy Kenyan island of Lamu: a motorcycle for the electricity company, and the district commissioner's 4x4. However in the past two years there has been an explosion in the number of noisy motorbike taxis known as "boda bodas", with the two-wheelers clogging ancient narrow lanes and threatening Lamu's coveted World Heritage status. 750 words moved by Simon Valmary. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG Both veteran Marxists who have spent decades campaigning for Hong Kong democracy, Chan Po-ying and Leung Kwok-hung viewed marriage as something of a patriarchal and unnecessary institution -- but when China's crackdown on Hong Kong dissidents came for Leung, 63, they finally tied the knot. 750 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture Turkey-drought-water,FOCUS KARAPINAR, Turkey Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. 750 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video Nigeria-unrest-women-aid,PROFILE MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Mariam Oyiza wants to shake things up in the mainly Muslim and conservative northeast of Nigeria. Faced with online threats and ageism, the 26-year-old runs a small but busy charity helping women and children in a region where a decade-long bloody jihadist insurgency shows no sign of ending. 700 words moved by Louise Dewast -- CORONAVIRUS -- France-health-virus-lingerie,lead PARIS Frustrated lingerie retailers in France are protesting their closure during lockdown by sending underwear to Prime Minister Jean Castex along with requests they be classed as essential businesses. 450 words 1500 GMT Health-virus-India-drugs-crime,FOCUS MUMBAI As Poonam Sinha fought for her life, her distraught son found himself fending off black marketeers for coronavirus drugs after the Indian hospital treating her ran out of supplies. 750 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly, with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and Uzair Rizvi in Lucknow. Picture. Video Nepal-mountaineering-virus-Everest KATHMANDU A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Everest confirms that he has tested positive for Covid-19, in a blow to Nepal's hopes for a bumper mountaineering season on the world's highest peak. 550 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Jordan-politics-royals,WRAP AMMAN Sixteen people detained in Jordan for "sedition" are released at the request of King Abdullah, prosecutors say, weeks after an alleged plot to destabilise the country was foiled. 450 words 1430 GMT Israel-Syria-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM A Syrian officer is killed and three soldiers wounded in strikes launched by Israel after a missile was fired towards a secretive nuclear site in the Jewish state, a monitor says. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee and Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Video Palestinians-vote-Hamas,INTERVIEW GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Any change to the timetable for the first Palestinian elections in 15 years would deal a heavy blow to efforts to reconcile the rival administrations in Gaza and the West Bank, a top Hamas official warns. 750 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Algeria-justice-religion,WRAP ALGIERS A renowned Algerian scholar on Islam, Said Djabelkhir, is handed a three year prison sentence for "offending Islam", but pledges to appeal and keep fighting for "freedom" of thought. 600 words moved -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-protest-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW The Kremlin downplays opposition protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny that saw nearly 1,800 people detained across Russia. 550 words moved by Anastasia Clark. Picture. Video Russia-Ukraine-conflict-Crimea,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's defence minister orders an end to massive military drills near Ukraine's borders that have involved tens of thousands of troops and dozens of warships and exacerbated tensions with the West. 500 words 1730 GMT. Picture. Video Britain-army-racism-politics-history,WRAP LONDON More than 100,000 African and ethnic minority soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire in World War I were not properly commemorated due to "pervasive racism", according to a new report. 650 words moved by James Pheby. File picture France-volcano-accident,lead SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION, France Two young hikers have been found dead on the erupting volcano of Piton de la Fournaise on France's Indian Ocean territory of Le Reunion, police say. 200 words moved Germany-politics-vote,FOCUS BERLIN A sea change in Germany began this week with two leading parties announcing their candidates to succeed Angela Merkel at September's elections, heralding a shift from steady-as-she goes politics to a more unpredictable era. 700 words moved by Kit Holden. File picture -- ASIA -- Indonesia-military-submarine,WRAP JAKARTA Indonesian warships lead the hunt for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard and only enough oxygen for a few days. 700 words moved by Sonny Tumbelaka. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Indonesia-military-submarine-Type209,FACTS Indonesia-military-submarine,FACTS Australia-China-diplomacy,WRAP BEIJING China says Australia's sudden scrapping of a Belt and Road Initiative deal risks "serious harm" to relations and warns of retaliatory actions against a country that insisted it would not be bullied. 600 words moved. File picture. Video Also moved: China-Australia-espionage-virus,FACTS HongKong-China-politics-media-court,WRAP HONG KONG An award-winning Hong Kong journalist is found guilty of improperly searching a public database of vehicle licence plates to help track down the perpetrators of an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists. 700 words moved by Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao. Picture. Video. Live video Pakistan-China-blast-unrest,WRAP QUETTA, Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for a deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country, as officials raise the death toll to five. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic. SKorea-Belgium-diplomacy-crime SEOUL Belgium's ambassador to South Korea apologises after footage showed his wife apparently slapping two shop staff in the head in a row over shoplifting. 250 words moved SKorea-court-enterprises-Samsung,lead SEOUL The jailed de facto leader of the giant Samsung group goes on trial over an allegedly manipulated takeover in proceedings that effectively put South Korea's conglomerate control system in the dock. 650 words moved by Claire Lee. File picture -- AFRICA -- Chad-politics-Sahel-unrest,FOCUS BAMAKO The sudden death of Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno has unleashed anxious speculation about how leadership change will affect a nation pivotal to events in the Sahel and beyond. 600 words 1500 GMT by Amaury Hauchard with regional bureaus Also moved: Chad-politics-Nigeria-conflict,FOCUS -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- ECB-EU-eurozone-rates-inflation,WRAP FRANKFURT Christine Lagarde underlines the European Central Bank's commitment to cheap money as the eurozone remains tightly in the grip of a coronavirus pandemic that has left the region's economic outlook shrouded in uncertainties. 650 words 1500 GMT by Jean-Philippe Lacour. Picture. Video US-economy-unemployment-real-estate,WRAP WASHINGTON New filings for US unemployment aid continue their decline in the surest sign yet that the world's largest economy is on the upswing from the layoffs wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic. 550 words 1530 GMT by Chris Stein Germany-politics-banking-fraud-Wirecard,WRAP BERLIN Germany's finance minister denies responsibility for the collapse of payments firm Wirecard in a parliamentary inquiry that will also put Chancellor Angela Merkel in the hot seat. 650 words 1500 GMT by Kit Holden and Florian Cazeres. Picture Switzerland-banking-earnings-CreditSuisse,WRAP ZURICH Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse, rocked by the bankruptcies of British financial firm Greensill and US hedge fund Archegos, posts a first-quarter loss as regulators open a second probe into the financial fiascos. 650 words moved by Nathalie Olof-Ors -- CLIMATE -- Climate-science-forests-oceans-tipping PARIS Global warming thresholds in Earth's climate system that could see the Amazon rainforest become savannah or tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting have "grace periods", giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers say. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood Also moved: Climate-energy-flood-Europe Climate-weather-science-Europe-Arctic,Q&A -- SPACE -- US-Europe-space-health,INTERVIEW KENNEDY SPACE CENTER From muscle wastage to radiation exposure and the psychological effects of confinement, spaceflight extracts a toll on those privileged enough to experience it. 600 words 1700 GMT by Issam Ahmed. 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