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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + US probes claim outbreak came from Chinese lab + US job losses hit 22m as Trump plots reopening + Virus-hit India suspends lucrative IPL cricket + S. Korea's ruling party wins in landslide vote + Mother meets baby she birthed in COVID-19 coma Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON China faces growing pressure over the coronavirus pandemic from Western powers led by the United States, which says it is probing whether the disease that has killed more than 140,000 people originated in a Wuhan laboratory and was covered up. 1,000 words 2030 GMT by Shaun Tandon with AFP bureaus. Pictures. Graphic. Video Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-building,WRAP WASHINGTON Job losses from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States reach 22 million, government data says, as President Donald Trump vows to unveil plans to re-open the world's largest economy. 700 words 2000 GMT by Chris Stein Cricket-virus-health-India-IND NEW DELHI The world's richest cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League, has been indefinitely suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. 450 words moved by Faisal Kamal. Also moved: Cricket-IND-IPL,POINTS SKorea-politics-vote,WRAP SEOUL South Korea's left-leaning ruling party wins a landslide victory in the country's general election after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in President Moon Jae-in's favour. 600 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-US-coma-birth WASHINGTON A woman in New York has met for the first time the baby she gave birth to in early April while she was on a ventilator in an artificial coma because she had a serious form of COVID-19. 400 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain,4thlead LONDON Britain extends its lockdown to tackle the coronavirus for "at least the next three weeks", as it remains among the countries worst-hit by the pandemic with hundreds dying daily from the disease. Moved 600 words by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Health-virus-Russia-military-history-politics,WRAP MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin postpones a landmark military parade to honour the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II, as Russia struggles to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Moved 600 words by Anna Smolchenko and Jonathan Brown. File Picture. File video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-NewYork NEW YORK New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extends the state's shutdown order until May 15, citing data showing conditions were improving but insisting on the need to maintain vigilance. 600 words 1930 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's parliament is tasked with forming a government after speaker Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin miss a deadline to seal an alliance, but negotiations between the sides resume. 650 words moved by Ben Simon. File Picture Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-politics-government,CHRONO Health-virus-Syria-conflict-Idlib-displaced,FOCUS ARIHA, Syria His home in volatile northwest Syria may have been destroyed, but Hassan Khraiby decided returning was better than risking his 10 children catch the coronavirus in a packed displacement camp. 600 words moved by Aaref Watad. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Ethiopia-Eritrea-politics-refugees,lead ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia plans to shutter a camp for Eritrean refugees and resettle thousands of its inhabitants in other camps that the UN considers already full, despite concerns this could make them more vulnerable to COVID-19. 600 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet Health-virus-Nigeria-rights-killing,2ndlead LAGOS, Nigeria Nigerian security forces have killed 18 people in their enforcement of measures to curb coronavirus, a figure higher than the documented toll inflicted by the disease, the country's human rights body says. 600 words moved Health-virus-SAfrica-alcohol,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG All South African waitress Thabile Vilakazi needs is some maize meal, sorghum malt and three litres of water to concoct five litres of traditional beer. Since an alcohol ban as part of a coronavirus shutdown, booze-deprived South Africans have turned to homebrew fermenting. 650 words moved by Michelle Gumede. File picture -- ASIA -- Bangladesh-Myanmar-Malaysia-refugee-unrest,2ndlead TEKNAF, Bangladesh Sixty Rohingya died on a boat crammed with hundreds of people stranded in the Bay of Bengal for more than two months, two survivors told AFP. 600 words moved -- ECONOMY & TECH -- Health-virus-economy-recession-IMF-WorldBank,WRAP WASHINGTON The severe economic crisis ignited by the coronavirus pandemic requires rapid deployment of every available financial lifeline to help countries survive, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said. 550 words 2000 GMT by Heather Scott. File picture. Graphic Virus-health-US-IT-disinformation-Facebook,lead LONDON Facebook says it will start sending tailor-made warnings to users highlighting facts about the coronavirus pandemic, after the world's leading social media platform was accused of tolerating the spread of outlandish conspiracy theories. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi Health-virus-US-smallbusiness-aid-politics, WRAP NEW YORK The administrator of a key US small business lending program to support companies devastated by coronavirus shutdowns says it has run out of funds due to massive demand. 650 words by John Biers afp
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