| schema:articleBody
| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hundreds snared in 'staggering' crime sting + France's Macron slapped in face at crowd stop + 'Butcher of Bosnia' Mladic's life sentence upheld + Trudeau slams 'terrorist' murder of Muslim family + Major media, govt websites hit by global outage US-Europe-Australia-crime-tech-police,WRAP THE HAGUE Police arrested more than 800 people worldwide in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by the FBI, law enforcement agencies say. 800 words 2100 GMT by Danny Kemp with Andrew Beatty in Sydney and Paul Handley in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Europe-Australia-crime-police-tech,Q&A France-Macron-politics,WRAP TAIN-L'HERMITAGE, France French President Emmanuel Macron is slapped in the face while greeting a crowd in southeast France, in a shock incident he shrugs off as "isolated" but which draws widespread condemnation in a tense political climate. 700 words 2000 GMT by Jerome Rivet with Adam Plowright in pris. Picture. Video Also moved: France-Macron-politics,FACTS Bosnia-Serbia-trial-genocide-warcrimes-UN,WRAP THE HAGUE UN judges uphold the genocide life sentence of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the final verdict on Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. 850 words moved by Danny Kemp with Rusmir Smajilhodzic in Srebrenica. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Bosnia-Serbia-trial-genocide-warcrimes-UN,SCENE Bosnia-Serbia-trial-genocide-warcrimes-UN,PROFILE Bosnia-Srebrenica-massacre,CHRONO Bosnia-Serbia-Kosovo-war,FACTS Canada-crime-racism-Islam,WRAP OTTAWA Relatives of four Canadian Muslim family members killed in a truck attack urge the nation to stand united against Islamophobia, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams what he calls a hate-driven "terrorist attack." 650 words 2100 GMT by Eric Thomas. Picture. Video World-media-internet,WRAP PARIS Major media and government websites, including the White House, New York Times, Reddit and Amazon, temporarily go down after being hit by a global outage blamed on a glitch from cloud computing services provider Fastly. 400 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- Kazakhstan-environment-antelope,FOCUS AMANGELDI, Kazakhstan Dropping to his knees to weigh a spindly-legged newborn saiga antelope, conservationist Albert Salemgareyev finds himself in the midst of the Kazakh steppe's most important baby boom. 800 words moved by Abduaziz Madyarov. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Virus-health-India-women,FOCUS NEW DELHI Tanya Ashnigdh is four months pregnant and terrified, one of millions of expectant women excluded from India's faltering inoculation drive despite being at greater risk from Covid-19. 600 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture -- AMERICAS -- UN-diplomacy-Guterres-term,WRAP UNITED NATIONS The United Nations Security Council votes to give Secretary General Antonio Guterres a second term, with conflict resolution set to top his agenda at the world body's helm. 600 words moved by Philippe Rater. File picture US-Europe-Australia-crime-tech-police,FOCUS WASHINGTON One drug trafficking suspect texted another that he had a "job" and a proven way to get it done: two kilograms of cocaine from Bogota using the French embassy's protected diplomatic pouch. 750 words moved by Paul Handley. Graphic US-Mexico-Guatemala-diplomacy-migration,WRAP MEXICO CITY US Vice President Kamala Harris hold talks with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a visit to the region aimed at tackling the "root causes" of a surge in migrant flows. 600 words 2100 GMT by Daniel Rook. Picture. Video Peru-vote-WRAP LIMA Peru is on edge as right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori cries foul after far-left rival Pedro Castillo takes a narrow lead in the final stretch of vote-counting to decide who will be the country's next president. 750 words 2130 GMT GMT by Francisco Jara. Picture. Video. Graphic -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM After weeks of political wrangling, the Israeli parliament will vote Sunday on whether to install a "change" coalition and end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12 consecutive years in power. 650 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File Picture. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics,CHRONO -- AFRICA -- Burkina-unrest-refugee-UN,WRAP OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso says that more than 7,000 people have fled the country's volatile north following the bloodiest massacre in a six-year-old jihadist insurgency. 650 words moved. File picture. Graphic -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-Spain-media,INTERVIEW MADRID It was only when he boarded the plane that would fly him to Europe that Mratt Kyaw Thu finally felt safe for the first time since Myanmar's military coup on February 1. 850 words moved by Hazel Ward. Picture. Video Pakistan-train-crash,WRAP DAHARKI, Pakistan Pakistani engineers re-open the nation's main north-south railway line after clearing the mangled wreckage of two trains that collided in a remote farming region, killing dozens and highlighting huge safety problems on the dilapidated network. 650 words moved by Ashraf Khan. Graphic. Picture. Video China-animal-environment-elephant BEIJING A herd of wild elephants in southwestern China have been captured on camera taking a breather from a 500-kilometre march of chaos that has caused more than $1 million in damage. 250 words moved. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY -- US-politics-economy-diplomacy-China,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate is poised to pass a huge industrial policy bill aimed at countering a surging economic threat from rival China, overcoming partisan divisions to pump more than $170 billion into research and development. 600 words 2200 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Also moving: US-politics-economy-diplomacy-China,POINTS US-taxation-personal-income-politics NEW YORK Several of the richest Americans have paid zero income tax in some years, according to an investigative report that comes as Washington weighs new proposals to address tax avoidance by the wealthiest individuals and companies. 500 words moved US-IT-security-hacking,FOCUS WASHINGTON The latest wave of ransomware attacks hitting the United States and globally portends a difficult battle against hackers, even as government and the private sector ramp up defenses. 750 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture WorldBank-economy-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Fueled by widespread Covid-19 vaccinations in advanced nations, the world economic recovery has picked up speed, but the upbeat outlook obscures a worrying picture in poor nations, the World Bank says. 700 words moved by Heather Scott -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova reaches her first Grand Slam semi-final at the 52nd attempt and will be favoured to make the French Open final when she takes on world number 85 Tamara Zidansek of Slovenia. 650 words 2200 GMT by Martyn Wood. Picture. Graphic Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-UKR-RUS-Ukraine-Russia-politics-diplomacy,2ndlead MOSCOW Russia sends a letter of complaint to UEFA over Ukraine's "political" Euro 2020 kit that features the outline of Moscow-annexed Crimea and is emblazoned with popular patriotic chants. 550 words moved Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-ENG-Southgate LONDON Gareth Southgate says his England players are "role models" as a row simmers over the team's decision to take the knee at Euro 2020 to highlight the issue of racial injustice. 500 words moved afp
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)