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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Kremlin critic Navalny ends hunger strike + Indian hospitals hammered by Covid + Chad's slain president buried + Malaria vaccine trials show promise + Anger mounts over LeBron James police tweet Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he is ending a 24-day hunger strike he launched to demand medical treatment behind bars, after allies said his life was in danger. 650 words 1530 GMT by Anastasia Clark. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI Hospitals in India launch desperate appeals for oxygen as the nation's Covid crisis spirals, while Japan issues a state of emergency in some areas just three months before the Olympics are due to open. 800 words 1600 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Chad-politics-Deby-funeral,WRAP N'DJAMENA Chad stages a state funeral for veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno, a key figure in the fight against the Sahel's jihadist insurgency, as France and regional allies voice backing for his son and successor, Mahamat Idriss Deby. 650 words 1630 GMT by Djimet Wiche. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-vaccines-Africa-children-malaria-research LONDON A new malaria vaccine has achieved over 75 percent efficacy in trials on African children, becoming the first to achieve the World Health Organization target, researchers say. 600 words 1530 GMT by Anna Malpas Basket-NBA-Lakers-James-police-shootings,WRAP NEW YORK Anger mounts on the US conservative right over an inflammatory tweet by NBA star LeBron James targeting a police officer who shot dead a knife-wielding 16-year-old Black girl in his home state of Ohio. 500 words 1600 GMT by Thomas Urbain -- SPOTLIGHT -- Yemen-conflict-Saada,VIDEOESSAY SAADA, Yemen At the end of a treacherous road winding its way through jagged ridges, dozens of families have turned a desolate mountainside into a safe haven of sorts from Yemen's years-long war. 500 words moved. File Picture. Video Ukraine-environment-nuclear-animals-Chernobyl,SCENE CHERNOBYL, Ukraine Down an overgrown country road, three startled wild horses with rugged coats and rigid manes dart into the flourishing overgrowth of their unlikely nature reserve: the Chernobyl exclusion zone. 500 words moved by Ania Tsoukanova. Picture. Video Philippines-religion-internet,FOCUS MANILA After delivering sermons and visiting slums, Philippine priest Fiel Pareja tends to his Gen-Z flock on TikTok, creating videos of himself praying, dancing and lip-syncing Christian pop music for 1.6 million followers. 800 words moved by Mikhail Flores and Lucille Sodipe. Picture. Video Indonesia-court-crime-virus,FOCUS JAKARTA Indonesia has sentenced scores of prisoners to death over Zoom and other video apps during the pandemic in what critics say is an "inhumane" insult to those facing the firing squad. 700 words moved by Haeril Halim -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India,4thlead NEW DELHI Delhi hospitals issue desperate appeals for oxygen and 13 Covid patients die in a fire, as India's healthcare system buckles under a new wave of infections. 650 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga with Ammu Kannampilly in Mumbai. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Virus-health-India,BACKGROUND Health-virus-India-UAE-travel Health-virus-Oly-2020-2021-Japan,4thlead TOKYO Japan announces a new virus state of emergency in Tokyo and three other regions, as the country battles surging infections just three months before the Olympic opening ceremony. 600 words moved by Natsuko Fukue and Sara Hussein. Picture. Video Also moved: Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus-vaccine,FOCUS Health-virus-EU-vaccines,2ndlead PUURS, Belgium The European Union is closing in on a deal to reserve 1.8 billion doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine and plans to have effectively immunised its adult population by the end of July. 550 words 1600 GMT by Julien Girault. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-Ukraine-conflict-army,WRAP MOSCOW Russia begins withdrawing troops that had been running drills near the borders of Ukraine, the defence ministry says, following weeks of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over the buildup. 500 words 1430 GMT by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video France-attack-police,WRAP RAMBOUILLET, France A police worker is stabbed to death by a Tunisian man at a police station southwest of Paris, reviving fears of the terror attacks that have struck France in recent years. 500 words 1500 GMT by Alice Lefebvre, Tiphaine Liboux. Picture. Graphic Turkey-fraud-cryptocurrency-Albania,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkey issues an international arrest warrant for the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who fled with a reported $2 billion in investors' assets, state media reports. 600 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan. File picture. Video Switzerland-EU-diplomacy-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen calls for "flexibility" as talks with Switzerland's president fail to make a breakthrough towards sealing a long-delayed cooperation agreement. 650 words moved by Max Delany with Agnes Pedrero in Geneva. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Jerusalem,WRAP JERUSALEM Over 100 Palestinians and 20 Israeli police are wounded in overnight clashes in annexed east Jerusalem, as tensions mount over a ban on gatherings and videos of attacks on youths. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Indonesia-military-submarine,WRAP BALI, Indonesia Indonesia's desperate search for a missing submarine and its 53 crew is focused on a signal from an unidentified object, with just hours to go before the stricken vessel's oxygen reserves run out. 700 words moved by Sonny Tumbelaka. Picture. Video. Graphic Myanmar-politics-military-unrest YANGON Protesters march through downtown Yangon to demand that regional leaders "stand with Myanmar people", ahead of a weekend ASEAN summit to be attended by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Pakistan-France-religion-protests,WRAP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's parliament resumes debating the fate of the French ambassador after the government appears, for now, to put a lid on bloody anti-France protests that rocked the country for a week. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- CLIMATE -- US-summit-climate-diplomacy,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON Could the planet finally be on track to limiting the worst scenarios of climate change? Much more remains to be done but, after a summit convened by US President Joe Biden, more experts are -- cautiously -- saying yes. 700 words 1730 GMT by Shaun Tandon -- SPACE -- US-Europe-space-SpaceX,WRAP KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida SpaceX launches its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise, recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: US-Europe-space-health,INTERVIEW -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euros-2020-20201-Eur-C1-Super-UEFA,WRAP-UPDATE LAUSANNE UEFA drops Dublin and Bilbao as Euro 2020 hosts over a failure to guarantee fans' attendance and holds fire over any reprisals it might mete out to the 12 clubs involved in the failed Super League project. 700 words at 1430 GMT by Coralie Fevre. File picture Cricket-IND-IPL-Woakes,INTERVIEW NEW DELHI IPL cricket stars are the "lucky" ones as they play the world's richest Twenty20 tournament while a coronavirus emergency ravages India, England bowler Chris Woakes tells AFP. 650 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Spirit-Awards-award LOS ANGELES Chloe Zhao voices her excitement about the looming Oscars as her road movie "Nomadland" tops the Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning best feature in its relentless award season charge. 500 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,ADVANCER HOLLYWOOD The Oscars on Sunday will mirror the movie industry they honor: transformed by the pandemic, forced to experiment with new venues and formats, and likely to be dominated by "Nomadland." 800 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-moments,POINTS afp
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