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| - Duty Editor: Barry Parker Tel: +33 (06)4016 8343 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump election delay call ignites cross-party fire + Hong Kong democrats vows to resist crackdown + Historic slumps reveal vast economic cost of pandemic + Afghans pray for peace talks + Nepal reopens Everest US-politics-vote-Trump-delay,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump floats an unprecedented delay to the 2020 election -- which polls show him losing -- but the suggestion draws cross-party fire and has virtually no chance of being accepted. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. File picture HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong's democracy camp will continue to fight communist China's crackdown, activists vow after a devastating month of election disqualifications, arrests and protest figures fleeing overseas. 700 words 1100 GMT by Jerome Taylor and Yan Zhao. Picture. Video. Live video. Also moved: HongKong-China-politics,FACTS Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Nation after nation across Europe unveils the extent of historic economic devastation under the coronavirus crisis as resurgent caseloads force agonising new trade-offs between health and financial stability. 800 words 1300 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-economy Afghanistan-conflict-ceasefire-religion,WRAP KABUL Afghans offer prayers marking the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha as a three-day ceasefire between Taliban and government forces begins, with many hoping the truce will lead to peace talks and the end of nearly two decades of conflict. 600 words 1030 GMT by Mushtaq Mojaddidi. Video. Picture Nepal-mountaineering-virus-Everest KATHMANDU Nepal has reopened its mountains -- including Everest -- for the autumn trekking and climbing season in a bid to boost the struggling tourism sector, officials said Friday, despite coronavirus uncertainty. 430 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Science-space-Mars-Perseverance-US,WRAP CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launches on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet -- and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. 700 words moved by Gianrigo Marletta with Issam Ahmed in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-vote-Trump-Obama,WRAP WASHINGTON Former US leader Barack Obama launches his sharpest attack to date on President Donald Trump, condemning the use of federal agents against protesters and attempts at voter suppression. 750 words moved by Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video US-justice-SupremeCourt-Ginsburg-health,FOCUS WASHINGTON Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a darling of the US left and increasingly frail octogenarian, is taking center stage ahead of this November's presidential election, with the Supreme Court's balance hanging on her seemingly faltering health. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive US-children-migration-Trump,FOCUS WASHINGTON Jorge Benitez got the precious documents he needs to live and work in the US under a program that protects migrants who, like him, arrived illegally as children -- but his brother Bayron may never get them. 650 words moved by Ariela Navarro. Picture Health-virus-Brazil-favelas,FOCUS SAO PAULO When Priscila Tomas da Silva's husband lost his job loading trucks because of coronavirus shutdown measures in Sao Paulo, they faced a stark choice: pay the rent, or feed their six children. 700 words moved by Fernando Marron with Joshua Howat Berger in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-ceasefire-religion,WRAP KABUL Afghans offer prayers marking the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha as a three-day ceasefire between Taliban and government forces begins, with many hoping the truce will lead to peace talks and the end of nearly two decades of conflict. 600 words 1030 GMT by Mushtaq Mojaddidi. Video. Picture Health-virus-Australia,lead MELBOURNE Hopes that Australia may have escaped the worst ravages of the coronavirus pandemic are fast fading as a growing outbreak in its second-largest city has officials eyeing draconian measures to curtail the spread. 650 words moved by Tania Lee. Picture. Video Australia-media-internet-Google-Facebook,3rdlead SYDNEY Australia unveils a draft law to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a "world-leading" initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. 750 words moved by David Millikin Health-virus-India-film-work-unemployment,FOCUS MUMBAI India's coronavirus lockdown made little difference to Bollywood superstars but for the industry's vast army of low-paid, unskilled workers it meant unemployment, hunger and homelessness -- with no end in sight even as filming gradually resumes. 650 words moved by Udita Jhunjhunwala and Ammu Kannampilly. Picture -- EUROPE -- Entertainment-France-film-racism-Kassovitz,INTERVIEW PARIS Twenty-five years "La Haine" exposed police racism and brutality in France, lessons have still not been learned, says the classic film's director Mathieu Kassovitz. 700 words moved by Francois Becker and Fiachra Gibbons. File picture Entertainment-France-virus-ballet,FEATURE PARIS A global pandemic is no excuse for slacking for students at the Paris Opera Ballet School, arguably the world's best and most exacting. 750 words moved by Rana Moussaoui and Fiachra Gibbons. Video. File picture Health-virus-Spain-traders-SMEs,FOCUS MADRID Isabel has closed her Madrid bar and sent two workers home; Miguel's shoe shop has lost older customers: In Spain, the coronavirus has pushed small businesses to the brink of collapse. 650 words moved by Emmanuelle Michel. File picture. Video Albania-ecosystem-fishing,FOCUS DIVJAKE, Albania The blue crab's colourful claws are pretty but dangerous: ripping up fishing nets and upsetting local ecosystems off Albania's coast, the invasive species is a source of daily anguish for Balkan fishermen struggling to make ends meet. 600 words moved by Briseida Mema. Picture. Video Iceland-president,PROFILE REYKJAVIK When Vigdis Finnbogadottir assumed Iceland's presidency on August 1 1980, she made history as the first elected female head of state in the world, and four decades later the 90-year-old remains a role-model to Icelanders. 550 words moved by Jeremie Richard Greece-refugee-homelessness,FOCUS ATHENS When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be the end of a year-long odyssey. 650 words moved by Marina Rafenberg. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,WRAP MINA, Saudi Arabia Muslim pilgrims take part in the "stoning of the devil", using sanitised pebbles in the last major ritual of the scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities seek to prevent a coronavirus outbreak. 700 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Live video. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj-virtual,FOCUS KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia Faridah Bakti Yahra travelled alone to Mecca when she won the lottery of a lifetime to join this year's hajj, the smallest in living memory, but her family is relishing the experience virtually. 700 words moved by Hussein al-Hmaydan with Sarah Stewart in Dubai. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Libya-conflict-religion,FOCUS TAJOURA, Libya Worn down by conflict, poverty and the pandemic, many Libyans are gloomy this year on the eve of the holy Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, or Eid al-Adha, as they are unable to afford sacrificial animals. 600 words moved by Jihad Dorgham. Picture. Video. Sudan-coup-politics,FOCUS KHARTOUM After decades of searching for their loved ones' remains, the families of slain Sudanese officers who attempted a coup against strongman Omar al-Bashir are demanding the killers held accountable. 650 words 1000 GMT by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- France-economy-growth,3rdLead PARIS France's economy slumped a record 13.8 percent in the second quarter, a sharper decline than in many eurozone countries, as businesses bore the brunt of a strict coronavirus lockdown. 600 words 1000 GMT by Boris Cambreleng -- SPORT -- Basket-NBA-anthem-protest,WRAP ORLANDO, United States Players and coaches take a knee during the US national anthem as the NBA season restarts at Disney World in Florida, four months after the league shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words moved afp
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