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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe struggles to contain coronavirus epidemic + Modi appeals for calm as Delhi riots toll mounts + Egypt's Sisi pays respects to Mubarak at funeral + Climate crisis turning polar bears into cannibals + Tennis icon Sharapova calls match point on career Health-virus,WRAP ROME Coronavirus cases spread beyond the outbreak's European hotspot Italy, as the world scrambles to contain the deadly epidemic that is fast growing beyond China's borders. 800 words 2030 GMT by Jastinder Khera. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Health-virus-Italy-panic,SCENE Health-virus-Europe,FACTS India-unrest-religion,WRAP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for calm after Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 27 people dead and prompted demands for a military curfew. 700 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga and Aishwarya Kumar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: India-politics-unrest-religion India-unrest-religion,SCENE Egypt-politics-Mubarak,WRAP CAIRO Egypt lays to rest former president Hosni Mubarak, an autocrat who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011. 600 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video Russia-animal-climate-science-Arctic MOSCOW Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist says. 450 words moved. File picture Tennis-RUS-Sharapova PARIS Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable and highest-paid sportswomen, announces her retirement at the age of 32, and is hailed as a "legend" and "great champion". 650 words 2030 GMT by Luke Phillips. File picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Tennis-RUS-Sharapova,PROFILE Tennis-WTA-Sharapova,REAC Tennis-RUS-Sharapova-factfile,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS-- Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iranian police arrest 24 people accused of online rumour-mongering about the spread of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed 19 lives in the country. 650 words 2000 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-Brazil-LatAm SAO PAULO Brazil's health ministry says a Sao Paulo resident has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the first case recorded in Latin America. 350 words moved Pakistan-health-virus,WRAP KARACHI Pakistan has detectS its first two cases of novel coronavirus, a public health advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan says, days after Islamabad closed its border with Iran, where 19 people have died. 450 words 1930 GMT. File video Health-virus-screening PARIS Global screening efforts to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus are likely to fail, according to new research warning that even best-case screenings of air travellers will miss more than half of infected people. 550 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-NKorea,FOCUS SEOUL Loudspeakers blaring hygiene messages, foreign diplomats locked in their compounds and state media demanding "absolute obedience" to health authorities -- North Korea is keeping to type as it seeks to prevent a crippling coronavirus outbreak. 750 words moved by Sunghee Hwang Pakistan-Afghanistan-health-virus,FOCUS ISLAMABAD With porous borders, creaking hospitals and large illiterate populations, Afghanistan and Pakistan face a potentially devastating health crisis after the new coronavirus erupted in neighbouring Iran. 800 words moved by David Stout, with Maaz Khan in Taftan. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-spread WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump defends his administration's response to the novel coronavirus, accusing the media of spreading panic as he announces an evening news conference on the epidemic. 700 words 2100 GMT by Issam Ahmed Moved: Health-virus-US-IT-disinformation,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote,WRAP CHARLESTON, United States Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, fresh off a feisty debate showing, receives a key endorsement, boosting his hopes of winning the South Carolina primary and blunting the momentum of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. 600 words 2200 GMT by Leila Macor with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Sanders,FOCUS US-politics-vote-Democratic-candidates,POINTS -- EUROPE -- Italy-US-trial-murder,WRAP ROME Two US students appear in an Italian court on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust. 750 words 1930 GMT by Ella Ide and Alexandria Sage. Picture. Video Spain-US-opera-assualt-Domingo-people,WRAP MADRID Spain's culture ministry cancels opera star Placido Domingo's participation in an upcoming Madrid show, a day after he accepted "full responsibility" in a sexual harassment scandal. 600 words moved by Laurence Boutreux. File picture. File video Germany-euthanasia-court,WRAP KARLSRUHE, Germany Germany's highest court rules that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide is unconstitutional, saying in a landmark decision that people have "the right to a self-determined death". 650 words moved by Carsten Hauptmeier. Picture -- MIDEAST -- Iran-nuclear-politics-EU,WRAP VIENNA Iran says it is open "to any initiative" as Western powers step up efforts to try to save a 2015 deal to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions -- on life support since a 2018 decision by the US to withdraw and reimpose sanctions. 600 words moved by Blaise Gauquelin. Picture. Video US-Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-Qatar,FOCUS DOHA Providing neutral space for talks on ending Afghanistan's 18-year conflict has boosted Qatar's international profile and helped it defy a painful embargo enforced by neighbours and former allies. 800 words moved by Gregory Walton. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Pakistan-India-diplomacy-defence ISLAMABAD Pakistan Wednesday marks first anniversary of last year's standoff with India in which it had shot down and captured an Indian pilot in the disputed Himalyan region of Kashmir. 400 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Saudi-racing-diplomacy RIYADH Saudi Arabia this week hosts the world's richest horse race, with $20 million in cash prizes on offer in the latest international sports extravaganza designed to boost its battered global image. 750 words moved by Haitham El-Tabei afp
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