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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Moderna request boosts vaccine hopes + Pandemic pushes global aid need to $35bn + Azerbaijan forces enter key district + Amazon deforestation at 12-year high + Argentina dump rugby captain over tweets Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump's controversial coronavirus adviser resigns while hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 receive a further boost with an announcement from US firm Moderna. 800 words 0230 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video. Graphics Health-virus-UN-aid-conflict GENEVA The UN says $35 billion will be needed for aid in 2021, as the pandemic leaves tens of millions more people in crisis, and with the risk of multiple famines looming. 700 words moved by Nine Larson. Picture. Video. Graphic Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP LACHIN, Azerbaijan Azerbaijani forces move into the final district given up by Armenia in a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. 700 words 0800 GMT by Emmanuel Peuchot. Picture. Video Brazil-environment-politics SAO PAULO Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged again over the past year, hitting a 12-year high, according to official figures that drew a chorus of condemnation of President Jair Bolsonaro's government. 400 words moved. File Picture Rugby-ARG-Tri-2020-racism-Matera,3rd lead SYDNEY Argentina rugby skipper Pablo Matera is stripped of the captaincy and suspended along with two other players over "discriminatory and xenophobic" tweets. 500 words 0600 GMT. -- AMERICAS -- Mexico-politics,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marks two years in office faced with a soaring coronavirus death toll and economic crisis that have had little obvious impact on his popularity. 700 words 0600 GMT by Yussel Gonzalez US-politics-economy-government,WRAP WASHINGTON President-elect Joe Biden announces he will nominate former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to lead the Treasury, topping a slate of economic officials who would break racial and gender barriers in the US government. 750 words moved by Chris Stein. File Picture US-politics-court-census,WRAP WASHINGTON The right-leaning US Supreme Court appears doubtful about President Donald Trump's plan to exclude potentially millions of illegal immigrants from the national census count, which could shift the balance of US politics over the next decade. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive Entertainment-fashion-style-Clooney-US WASHINGTON Pandemic hair getting out of control? Take a tip from George Clooney: the Hollywood style icon reveals he trims his signature silver locks with a Flowbee -- a quirky home-styling device that attaches to a vacuum cleaner. 250 words moved. File Picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Year2020,FOCUS WUHAN, China One year after the coronavirus began spreading from the city, Wuhan next-of-kin are no nearer to closure as the Chinese government's refusal to take responsibility for early failures in the outbreak complicates the task of coming to terms with their loss. 800 words moved by Dan Martin. Video. Picture Please see our separate advisory on a year of the pandemic. Vietnam-censorship-Facebook-YouTube-Google HANOI Facebook and Google are fast becoming "human rights-free zones" in Vietnam, Amnesty International warns, accusing the tech titans of helping censor peaceful dissent and political expression in the country. 500 words moved by Alice Philipson HongKong-China-politics-prison,FOCUS HONG KONG When Hong Kong protester Hei saw fellow activists put behind bars for taking part in last year's democracy protests, she was determined to keep the flame burning by writing them letters. 600 words moved by Yan Zhao. Picture -- EUROPE -- France-police-protest-law,WRAP PARIS Four French police officers are charged over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, as President Emmanuel Macron scrambles to contain the political fallout from a case that has sparked outrage. 650 words moved by Guillaume Daudin and Jurgen Hecker. Picture. Video NATO-diplomacy-defence,WRAP BRUSSELS The NATO alliance should seek a more political role as the lynchpin of the West, ministers will hear this week, despite disputes about its strategy. 700 words moved by Christian Spillmann. Picture. Video Netherlands-Britain-Shell-energy-climate-oil THE HAGUE Environmental groups will face off against Shell at a Dutch court in a landmark bid to force the oil giant to meet emissions targets in the Paris climate accord. 500 words moved by Sara Magniette. File picture Ukraine-Russia-conflict-food,FOCUS KIEV Ukrainian chef Ievgen Klopotenko never expected to find himself at the centre of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. But that's just what happened when he pushed to have borscht -- the traditional beetroot and cabbage dish -- recognised as part of Ukraine's historical heritage. 650 words moved by Olga Shylenko. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-nuclear-attack,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says Israel and an exiled opposition group used new and "complex" methods to assassinate its leading nuclear scientist, as it buries him in a funeral befitting a top "martyr". 800 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Graphic UN-nuclear-Iran,INTERVIEW VIENNA Iran has nothing to gain from ending inspections of nuclear facilities, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog tells AFP, as tensions rise following the assassination of a top nuclear scientist. 650 words moved by Jastinder Khera and Anne Beade. Picture. Video Also moved: Iran-nuclear-attack-scientist,PROFILE Syria-conflict-doctors,FOCUS AZAZ, Syria Mohammed Mostafa al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by Bakr Al-Kasem. Picture. Video Kuwait-politics-vote-health-virus,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Lavish banquets served in opulent marquees are nowhere to be seen this election season in oil-rich Kuwait, where the coronavirus pandemic has forced a ban on traditional over-the-top campaign events. 650 words moved by Salima Lebel. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA The leader of the ruling party in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region said Monday his forces were continuing to battle the national army, two days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the country's internal conflict "completed". 850 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video Also moved: Ethiopia-unrest-Sudan-refugees,FOCUS -- SPORT AND LIFESTYLE -- China-lifestyle-sport-wingsuit,FOCUS ZHANGJIAJIE, China Zhang Shupeng appears untroubled as he surveys the jagged mountains of a national park in central China -- before diving head-first off a cliff to bullet down at 230 kilometres (140 miles) an hour. 600 words 0200 GMT by Ludovic Ehret. Picture. Video afp
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