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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Russia dismisses Navalny poisoning claims + Rage over US police shooting of black man + Melania Trump to address Republican convention + WHO to certify Africa polio-free + Socially-distanced Santas try to save Christmas Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny-Germany,WRAP MOSCOW Russia faces mounting international calls for a probe into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the Kremlin dismisses the findings of German doctors. 650 words 1530 GMT by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Graphic US-police-shooting-racism,WRAP KENOSHA, United States Buildings and cars are set ablaze and streetlights toppled in a second night of angry protests over the police shooting of African American Jacob Blake, who could be permanently paralyzed, according to his father. 650 words 1530 GMT by Robert Chiarito. Picture. Video US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and First Lady Melania Trump are to address the Republican National Convention after a first night featuring depictions of America under a Joe Biden presidency that were as apocalyptic as they were hyperbolic. 600 words 1630 GMT by Elodie Cuzin and Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video. Graphic Nigeria-vaccines-epidemic,WRAP LAGOS The World Health Organization is poised to certify that the African continent is free from wild polio after a relentless drive to wipe out its last vestiges in northeastern Nigeria. 650 words 1700 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. File picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: DRCongo-health-measles Health-virus-Britain-Christmas LONDON Santa School supremo James Lovell has already been thinking about how best to allow children to experience the magic of meeting Father Christmas, despite the coronavirus outbreak. 400 words moved by Phil Hazlewood. File picture -- EUROPE -- Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial,WRAP THE HAGUE Lawyers for Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic tell a UN court that he is mentally unfit to take part in his appeal hearing against a genocide conviction and is at risk of a "miscarriage of justice". 600 words 1500 GMT by Danny Kemp with Jovan Matic in Belgrade and Rusmir Smajlhodzic in Sarajevo. Picture. Video Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusians have risen up in a "peaceful revolution", their exiled opposition leader says, as authorities in the isolated ex-Soviet country crack down on protesters calling for new elections. 800 words 1500 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Belarus-vote-unrest-politics-Russia,FOCUS PARIS Protesters in Belarus have shaken President Alexander Lukashenko with a movement unprecedented for the ex-Soviet state in its depth and diversity, but must gird for a long struggle if they are to realise their ambitions. 750 words 1530 GMT by Stuart Williams. Picture Europe-migrants-Spain-Canaries,FOCUS MADRID Heightened security in the Mediterranean is pushing more migrants seeking a better life in Europe to try the longer -- and more dangerous -- Atlantic crossing to Spain's Canary Islands, which have seen a surge in arrivals. 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque and Thomas Perroteau. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Sudan-US-Israel-UAE,WRAP KHARTOUM Sudan says it cannot form relations with Israel now, dashing hopes for a speedy diplomatic breakthrough during a visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. 750 words 1430 GMT by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Also moved: Sudan-politics,FOCUS Iran-nuclear-politics-UN,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's nuclear body says it has held "constructive" talks with the visiting head of the International Atomic Energy Agency amid tensions over a US bid to reimpose UN sanctions. 650 words 1500 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-water-Kurds-Turkey,FOCUS HASAKEH, Syria Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid says her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. 800 words moved by Delil Souleiman. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-Syria,FOCUS BEIRUT Ahmad had saved his family from Syria's brutal war by bringing them to Lebanon, but then Beirut's massive blast ripped his wife and two of their daughters away forever. 730 words moved by Rouba El Husseini. Picture. Video Egypt-agriculture-jasmine,FOCUS SHUBRA BELOULA, Egypt At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day's work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta. 700 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-politics-family-Trump,FOCUS NEW YORK Donald Trump is keeping it all in the family at this week's Republican convention, giving his four children prime speaking slots alongside his wife Melania and highlighting the unprecedented role they have played in the political affairs of the United States. 700 words 1600 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. File Picture US-weather-Haiti-Cuba,WRAP NEW ORLEANS Storm Laura is upgraded to a destructive hurricane and forecast to make landfall along the Texas or Louisiana coasts on Wednesday night, after earlier causing 20 deaths in Haiti. 500 words 1630 GMT by Gianrigo Marletta. Picture. Video US-execution-minorities WASHINGTON The only Native American on federal death row, a Navajo man convicted of a double murder nearly 20 years ago, is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday -- against the wishes of the Navajo Nation which calls the sentence an affront to its sovereignty. 500 words 1700 GMT by Cyril Julien Health-virus-Chile-poverty-food SANTIAGO Long months of a pandemic lockdown and economic crisis have revived a scourge Chileans thought they had beaten forever: hunger. 600 words 1430 GMT by Paulina Abramovich. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Hard-hit Spain says it will call in the army to try to curb a surge in cases of the new coronavirus, even as the UN health agency's latest data suggests the pace of transmission is easing in most regions. 700 words 1530 GMT by Daniel Silva with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,FOCUS GAZA, Palestinian territories In global terms four new cases of coronavirus aren't even a blip on the screen -- but in overcrowded Gaza, the first outbreak confirmed outside the Palestinian enclave's closely monitored quarantine centres has triggered a massive shutdown and rising fears. 500 words 1600 GMT. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Turkey-app ISTANBUL Turkey's coronavirus tracking app is facing fire from privacy advocates for adding a feature allowing users to report social distancing rule violations, with the option to send photos. 550 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan -- ASIA -- India-accident-collapse,4thlead MAHAD, India Rescuers in India pull a four-year-old boy from the rubble of a collapsed building to loud cheers, hours after the five-storey apartment block came down "like a house of cards", killing 13 and burying up to 60 others. 600 words 1530 GMT by Punit Paranjpe. Live video. Video. Picture NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court CHRISTCHURCH Two impassioned survivors of the New Zealand mosque massacre abandon prepared statements to vent their anger directly at gunman Brenton Tarrant in a Christchurch court, drawing applause from fellow victims as they called him a terrorist who deserved to die. 650 words moved by Chris Foley. Picture. Video Bangladesh-Myanmar-Rohingya-refugee,WRAP KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Almost a million Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh mark three years since escaping from Myanmar, with coronavirus forcing them to hold a day-long "silent protest" inside their flimsy, leaky huts. 600 words moved by Sam Jahan. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-CapeVerde-Japan-virus-travel-health,FOCUS TOKYO A pair of Japanese honeymooners stranded in Cape Verde by the coronavirus pandemic have been named unlikely ambassadors for the tropical paradise's Olympic team at next year's Tokyo Games. 600 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-auction-music-rap-Sothebys NEW YORK Teenage Tupac's love letters and fellow rapper Biggie's iconic crown will hit the auction block next month in Sotheby's first ever sale devoted to hip hop. 550 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture afp
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