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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump says Democrats trying to 'steal' election + Rage builds over US police shooting of black man + Hospital says Navalny tests 'indicate poisoning' + Dozens trapped in India building collapse + TikTok files suit to challenge Trump-ordered ban US-politics-vote-Republicans-Trump,WRAP CHARLOTTE, North Carolina US Republicans launched their national convention Monday with a full-throated endorsement of President Donald Trump's record and laid out a bleak vision of how American life would change for the worse under a Joe Biden administration. 750 words moved by Brendan Smialowski with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video US-police-shooting-racism,WRAP KENOSHA, Wisconsin Police fire tear gas when a protest demanding racial justice in the city of Kenosha in Wisconsin turns violent, as rage builds once more in the US at the shooting of a black man by a white officer. 700 words moved by Robert Chiarito. Picture Germany-Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP BERLIN The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says that test results indicate he was poisoned, although Russian doctors quickly respond that they had not found the toxin in question. 800 words moved by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video Also moved: Germany-Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,FACTS India-accident-collapse,lead MAHAD, India Rescue teams and sniffer dogs search the rubble for survivors after the collapse of a five-storey apartment building "like a house of cards" in western India buried dozens of people. 500 words 0700 GMT by Punit Paranjpe. Live video. Video. Picture US-IT-China-politics-TikTok,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Video app TikTok files a lawsuit challenging the US government's crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat. 700 words moved by Glenn Chapman -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-education-Mexico,lead MEXICO CITY Tens of millions of Mexican schoolchildren begin a new school year with lessons through their televisions in a nationwide experiment in distance learning prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-Conways,FOCUS WASHINGTON The coronavirus pandemic is forcing parents across the United States to make all manner of adjustments to cope with children who will be at home instead of at school. 750 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- Weather-Cuba-US-Haiti-Dominican,WRAP HAVANA Tropical Storm Laura pounds Cuba with heavy rains as it barrels toward the US, where forecasters predict it will strengthen to a hurricane after leaving 24 people dead and a swath of destruction in the Caribbean. 500 words moved by Moises Avila with Amelie Baron in Port-au-Prince. Picture. Video Canada-environment-conservation-pandemic,FOCUS TORONTO In the shadow of Canada's largest cluster of skyscrapers, Toronto is looking to preserve a majestic, centuries-old oak tree -- but efforts have been complicated by the pandemic. 650 words moved by Olivier Monnier. Picture US-politics-vote-diplomacy-MiddleEast-Pompeo,FOCUS WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is accused of using US foreign policy to support President Donald Trump's reelection bid after embarking on a trip to the Middle East, where he plans to remotely deliver an address to the Republican National Convention. 650 words moved by Francesco Fontemaggi -- ASIA -- NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court CHRISTCHURCH Two impassioned survivors of the New Zealand mosque massacre abandon prepared statements to vent their anger directly at gunman Brenton Tarrant in a Christchurch court Tuesday, drawing applause from fellow victims as they called him a terrorist who deserved to die. 550 words 0600 GMT by Chris Foley. Picture. Video Bangladesh-Myanmar-Rohingya-refugee,WRAP KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Almost a million Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh mark three years since escaping from Myanmar, with coronavirus forcing them to hold a day-long "silent protest" inside their flimsy, leaky huts. 600 words 0700 GMT by Sam Jahan. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-CapeVerde-Japan-virus-travel-health,FOCUS TOKYO A pair of Japanese honeymooners stranded in Cape Verde by the coronavirus pandemic have been named unlikely ambassadors for the tropical paradise's Olympic team at next year's Tokyo Games. 600 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Belarus-vote-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusian authorities step up arrests of political opponents and strike leaders, after the latest demonstration at the weekend against President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election. 800 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video. Graphic Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial,WRAP THE HAGUE International judges are to begin hearing an appeal by Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic against his life sentence for genocide over the Srebrenica massacre and other war crimes. 600 words moved by Sara Magniette with Jovan Matic in Belgrade and Rusmir Smajilhodzic in Sarajevo. File picture Also moved: Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial-Mladic,PROFILE Italy-migrants-politics,FOCUS ROME Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Italy's second generation of immigrants is renewing the fight for automatic citizenship in a land where migration is at the heart of the political debate. 700 words moved by Riccardo Antoniucci. File picture -- MIDEAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-conflict-water-Kurds-Turkey,FOCUS HASAKEH, Syria Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid said her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. 800 words moved by Delil Souleiman. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-Syria,FOCUS BEIRUT Ahmad had saved his family from Syria's brutal war by bringing them to Lebanon, but then Beirut's massive blast ripped his wife and two of their daughters away forever. 750 words moved by Rouba El Husseini. Picture. Video Egypt-agriculture-jasmine,FOCUS SHUBRA BELOULA, Egypt At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day's work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta. 700 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-vaccines-epidemic,WRAP LAGOS The World Health Organization is set to certify that the African continent is free from wild polio, four years after the last cases appeared in northeastern Nigeria. 700 words moved by Sophie Bouillon with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. File picture. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Cycling-Tour-FRA-2020 PARIS Tough, unsentimental and dominant in cycling for more than a decade, Dave Brailsford wielded his axe ahead of the Tour de France this week and was then compared by one of his earlier victims to former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. 550 words moved. File picture afp
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