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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Hurricane Sally drenches US coast + Boeing 'gambled with public safety' + Israel bombs Gaza after Arab states deal + Barbados to drop Queen as head of state + Former global athletics boss convicted US-weather,WRAP MOBILE, Alabama Sluggish Hurricane Sally dumps torrential amounts of rain on the US Gulf Coast and threatens "historic and catastrophic" flooding in parts of Alabama and Florida. 600 words 2100 GMT by Gianrigo Marletta. Photo. Video. Graphic US-aerospace-accident-Boeing,WRAP NEW YORK Congressional investigators blame two deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes on "repeated and serious failures" by Boeing and air safety regulators, according to a report that calls for an overhaul of the US aviation regulatory system. 750 words 1930 GMT by John Biers. File Picture. Graphic Israeli-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY Israel bombs Gaza after militants fired rockets through the night, overshadowing the signing of landmark normalisation deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in Washington. 700 words moved by Sakher Abu El Oun with Guillaume Lavallee in Jerusalem. Picture. Video Barbados-Britain-politics-diplomacy-royal,lead ST JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda Barbados announces it plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic by November next year, as the Caribbean island nation seeks to move fully beyond its colonial past. 650 words moved. Video Athletics-doping-Russia-France-corruption-trial-Diack,WRAP PARIS The former head of global athletics, Lamine Diack, is found guilty by a French court of corruption in covering up Russian doping cases and sentenced to four years in prison, of which two years were suspended. 650 words moved by Andrea Bambino. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-fires,WRAP LOS ANGELES Devastating wildfires that have ravaged the US West Coast rage on as smoke from the deadly blazes reached across the country and even Europe. 550 words 1930 GMT by Jocelyne Zablit. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-vote-health-virus,WRAP WILMINGTON, Delaware Presidential hopeful Joe Biden addresses how to develop and "equitably" distribute an effective Covid-19 vaccine, challenging the optimistic predictions of his rival Donald Trump, whom the Democrat accuses of lying to Americans about the pandemic threat. 700 words 2030 GMT by Elodie Cuzin. Graphic. Picture. Video UN-Venezuela-investigation-rights,WRAP GENEVA Venezuela's president and top ministers are responsible for probable crimes against humanity including extrajudicial killings and the systematic use of torture, UN investigators say. 700 words moved by Nina Larson -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-religion-Ukraine-Israel,UPDATE NOVI YARYLOVYCHI Ukraine accuses Belarus of aggravating tensions along their shared border after Kiev barred entry to some 2,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims over coronavirus travel restrictions. 650 words moved by Maksym Saliy. Picture. Video. Graphic EU-politics-climate-health,WRAP BRUSSELS EU chief Ursula von der Leyen vows that Europe will lead the global search for a coronavirus vaccine while rebuilding its shattered economy with a green recovery plan. 750 words moved by Dave Clark. File Picture. Picture. Video Also moved: EU-Turkey-Greece-energy-diplomacy Italy-trial-US-murder ROME A US student on trial for killing an Italian policeman during a failed drug bust last year tearfully apologises, saying he will never forgive himself. 650 words moved by Alexandria Sage. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,SCENE SDEROT, Israel As Israel's prime minister celebrated signing landmark accords with two Gulf states in Washington, near the Israeli-Gaza border Tammy Shalev was hunkering down in a bomb shelter. 500 words moved by Claire Gounon. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-corruption,INVESTIGATION BEIRUT The huge explosion at Beirut's port last month laid bare a dockside institution riddled with graft which critics say is a microcosm of a corrupt Lebanese state. 1,300 words moved by Rouba El Husseini. File Picture -- AFRICA -- Guinea-vote-politics-protest,2ndlead CONAKRY A movement opposing Guinean President Alpha Conde's controversial bid for a third term in elections next month announces that it would stage a new round of protests from late September. 400 words 2000 GMT. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI Coronavirus infections in India soar past five million, as the EU's chief warns against "vaccine nationalism" in the frantic global race to battle the disease. 650 words moved by Jalees Andrabi, with AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographics Japan-vote-politics,WRAP TOKYO Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledges to keep coronavirus infections under control and kickstart an economy in recession, as Shinzo Abe leaves office after a record-breaking tenure. 700 words moved by Natsuko Fukue and Sara Hussein. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Japan-politics-Abe,POINTS Japan-politics-Suga,PROFILE Japan-politics-Abe,PROFILE -- SCIENCE -- Science-biology-anthropology-Saudi-Africa,FOCUS WASHINGTON Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today, according to a new study based on the discovery of ancient human and animal footprints. 600 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture Science-history-animal-Myanmar,WRAP BERLIN A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago. 600 words moved by David Courbet. Picture -- ECONOMY / BUSINESS -- Health-virus-US-economy-bank-rate,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve pledges to keep interest rates low for an extended period to boost the employment, but adds another plea for Congress to do more to support the Covid-19 battered economy. 700 words 2130 GMT by Heather Scott -- SPORTS -- Germany-trial-doping-GER-Ski-Cycling,WRAP MUNICH, Germany A German doctor accused of masterminding an international blood-doping network dismantled last year goes on trial in Munich. 550 words moved. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-music-Morocco-US-Hendrix-people,FOCUS ESSAOUIRA, Morocco Some claim to have seen him, others to have spoken with him -- 50 years after guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's untimely death, a village on Morocco's Atlantic coast pulsates with his memory. 700 words moved by Hamza Mekouar. Picture. Video afp
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