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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Belarus isolation grows after activist arrest + Biden and Putin to meet next month + US marks one year since George Floyd death + Blinken vows support for Gaza truce + Outback comeback: Tasmanian devils rebound Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP MINSK Belarus's regime is increasingly isolated as Europe cuts air links and calls grow for more action over its diversion of an airliner and arrest of a dissident on board. 750 words 1530 GMT Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Belarus-politics-Lukashenko,PROFILE US-Russia-politics-diplomacy-summit,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit next month in Geneva, the White House says, setting the stage for a new chapter in the fraught relationship. 500 words 1500 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture US-justice-politics-race-Floyd,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden marks the anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd by hosting the African American man's family -- but without being able to celebrate hoped-for national police reform. 650 words 1600 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM US top diplomat Antony Blinken vows support to help rebuild the battered Gaza Strip and shore up a truce but insists the enclave's Islamist rulers Hamas will not benefit from any aid. 850 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-media Australia-animal-conservation SYDNEY Tasmanian devils have been born in the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the marsupials disappeared from the continent, conservation groups say, raising hopes that a major rewilding effort could succeed. 450 words moved. Video. Picture. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mozambique-unrest-children-therapy,FOCUS METUGE, Mozambique Twice a week, dozens of Mozambican children gather under the shade of a big mango tree for what looks at first glance like a community play date. 650 words moved by Sysan Njanji. Picture. Video IT-security-US-cyber-defense,FOCUS WASHINGTON If the Pentagon's Cyber Command launches an online attack and nobody knows about it, does it deter anyone? Many Americans are asking what the country's army of cyber warriors are doing after repeated attacks on US computer systems by Chinese, Russian and other hackers. 750 words moved by Paul Handley ** Please see AFP's special advisory on cybersecurity ** US-food-environment,PHOTOESSAY WASHINGTON After 17 years underground, swarms of cicadas are emerging across the eastern United States -- and for one Washington chef, the rare bug invasion was his cue for a cookout, with a side of food ethics. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-HongKong,3rdlead HONG KONG Hong Kong may soon have to throw away unused coronavirus vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warns. 600 words moved by Jerome Taylor. Graphic. File picture Health-virus-EU-vaccines,WRAP BRUSSELS EU leaders welcome the introduction of a bloc-wide Covid-19 pass that they hope will unlock a tourist surge this summer. 600 words 1600 GMT by Marc Burleigh. Picture. Video Health-virus-WHO-US-China-diplomacy,lead GENEVA The United States and other countries call for a more in-depth investigation of the pandemic origins, after an international mission to China earlier this year shed little light on the mystery. 550 words 1500 GMT by Nina Larson -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says Russian authorities have launched three new criminal probes against him in a move his allies fear could keep him behind bars for many more years. 540 words moved Italy-Brazil-crime-drugs-mafia-arrest,WRAP BRASILIA Brazilian police arrest Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy. 550 words 1500 GMT. Picture Britain-discrimination-Islam-politics,2ndlead LONDON Islamophobia within Britain's ruling Conservative Party is a problem both at an individual level and beyond but falls short of "institutional racism", an independent investigation concludes. 550 words 1430 GMT by Callum Paton -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-society,FOCUS RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories The latest escalation in the Middle East conflict served to unite the geographically fragmented Palestinian community in a way not seen in years, analysts say. 850 words moved by Claire Gounon. Picture. Video Iran-politics,WRAP TEHRAN Iran approves seven hopefuls to run in next month's presidential poll, a list dominated by ultraconservatives, at a time it also seeks to salvage its nuclear deal with world powers. 600 words moved -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO Political turmoil in the West African state of Mali deepens as the country's strongman pushes out transitional leaders tasked with steering the return to civilian rule following last August's coup. 700 words 1500 GMT. File picture. File video. Graphic Also moved: Mali-politics-conflict,CHRONO Mali-politics-conflict,COUNTRY FACTFILE DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, DR Congo Powerful aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano rock the eastern DR Congo city of Goma as the death toll from the disaster climbs to 32 and thousands are feared homeless. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- US-homicide-pandemic-weapons,FOCUS WASHINGTON The year-long surge in gun murders across the United States has shown no sign of easing as Covid lockdowns end, with a jump in shootings over the weekend that left dozens dead or injured. 600 words moved US-police-minorities,VIDEOESSAY CHELSEA, Massachusetts With US police under renewed scrutiny since George Floyd's murder, the attention is starting to weigh on officers in Boston, who feel good cops are being unfairly lumped in with the bad ones. 600 words 1530 GMT by Joseph Prezioso with Thomas Urbain in New York. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-Australia-US-NATO-conflict-diplomacy,WRAP KABUL Australia abruptly announces it will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan this week, expressing fears over the "increasingly uncertain security environment" in Kabul as foreign troops withdraw. 700 words moved by Emal Haidary and Andrew Beatty in Sydney. Photo China-disaster-race-CHN SHANGHAI A shepherd has been hailed as a hero in China after it emerged that he saved six stricken runners during an ultramarathon in which 21 other competitors died. 400 words moved. Picture KOLKOTA India-weather-cyclone A powerful cyclone heads for eastern India, forcing the evacuation of nearly two million people just a week after another huge storm claimed at least 155 lives on the west coast. 400 words moved. Picture Science-astronomy-moon-eclipse-Australia SYDNEY Stargazers across the Pacific Rim can cast their eyes skyward on Wednesday night and behold a "Super Blood Moon", as the heavens align to bring a rare celestial twin treat. 450 words moved -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TECH -- Germany-US-internet-antitrust-Google,WRAP BERLIN Germany's antitrust regulator says it has opened an investigation into Google over anti-competitive practices, wielding a new law that has already been used to scrutinise other US tech giants. 500 words moved by Femke Colborne -- SPORT -- Fbl-GER-DFB-Flick,3rdlead BERLIN Outgoing Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick will succeed his former boss Joachim Loew in the Germany dugout after Euro 2020, the German Football Association says. 500 words 1500 GMT by Kit Holden. File Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE -- Lifestyle-Brazil-eSports-poverty,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Coming of age in the Brazilian favela of Vigario Geral, Luiz Augusto Jr used to spend his money playing video games. Now, he makes a living as a gamer. 650 words moved by Luiz Claudio Amaral. Picture. Video afp
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