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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hopes dim for post-Brexit trade deal + UK readies vaccine as California locks down + Pope to visit Iraq in papal first + Ghana votes in close election race + Universal snaps up Bob Dylan's material Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS Hopes dim for an imminent breakthrough in post-Brexit trade talks between the EU and UK, as a leaders summit later in the week looms as the last chance for a deal. 650 words 1600 GMT by Alex Pigman and Dave Clark. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Britain is set to launch its world-first rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as 20 million people in southern California go into strict lockdown with hospitals close to being overwhelmed by record Covid-19 cases. 900 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic Vatican-pope-religion-Iraq,WRAP VATICAN CITY Pope Francis will make a historic visit to Iraq in March, the Vatican says, the first ever by a pontiff with a programme that includes a trip to Mosul. 600 words 1700 GMT by Catherine Marciano. Graphic. File picture. Ghana-vote,WRAP ACCRA Ghanaians vote in an election seen as a close fight between President Nana Akufo-Addo and his longtime rival John Mahama, vying to lead the country long viewed as a beacon of stability in a troubled region. 750 words 1600 GMT by Kent Mensah and Louise Dewast. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Entertainment-US-music-Dylan,WRAP NEW YORK Universal Music buys the entire back catalog of Bob Dylan's songs for a purported nine-figure deal in one of the most significant music publishing agreements of all time. 500 words 1430 GMT by Peter Hutchison. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain LONDON Britain prepares to start its biggest ever immunisation campaign but health officials warn the drive to inoculate millions against Covid-19 would be a "marathon" stretching well into next year. 650 words 1500 GMT by Jitendra Joshi and Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Romania-politics-vote,WRAP BUCHAREST Romania's left-wing opposition Social Democrats (PSD) pull off an upset by coming out on top in parliamentary elections, turning attention to how President Klaus Iohannis will navigate the surprise result. 600 words moved by Mihaela Rodina and Ionut Iordachescu. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-politics-Saudi-Qatar TEHRAN Iran flatly dismisses a call by Saudi Arabia for Gulf states to be consulted on any potential negotiations with the Islamic republic on its nuclear programme. 480 words moved Israel-Palestinians-conflict-rights-army,FOCUS MUGHAYIR, Palestinian Territories After waking up on Friday, the day he turned 15, Palestinian Ali Ayman Nasr Abu Aliya told his mother he was hoping for a birthday surprise. But in the early afternoon, Aliya was shot and killed during clashes with Israeli troops. 700 words 1430 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-church,SCENE UM RAQUBA, Sudan Under Sudan's merciless midday sun, an Ethiopian woman wearing a long white veil holds her hands up towards the sky in desperate prayer, her gaze fixed on a cross painted on a refugee church. 530 words moved by Peter Gume. Picture. Video Morocco-economy-IT-education,FOCUS KHOURIBGA, Morocco With its rows of sleek computers and ultra-modern study methods, Morocco's 1337 campus is a dream come true for budding geeks, in a country where IT skills are in high demand. 750 words moved by Sophie Pons. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflict-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says efforts were under way to restore order in Tigray, where doctors and humanitarian workers say fighting and lawlessness were hindering aid delivery to desperate civilians. 700 words by 1500 GMT. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Venezuela-parliament-vote,WRAP CARACAS President Nicolas Maduro seizes total control of Venezuela's political institutions with a predictable triumph in legislative polls boycotted by the main opposition parties and slammed as a farce by international powers. 600 words 1600 GMT by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video US-Germany-court-Nazis-treasure,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court hears a case involving an important medieval art collection that Nazi Germany acquired from Jewish dealers with works that are now on exhibit in a Berlin museum. 650 words 1700 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. File picture -- ASIA -- India-agriculture-demonstration-farms,SCENE KUNDLI, India Behind concertina wire and trucks blockading a major highway into India's capital, thousands of farmers are camping out in the bitter winter cold as they protest against agriculture reforms they fear could destroy their livelihoods. 550 words moved by Jalees Andrabi with Money Sharma. Picture Animal-China,FOCUS CHONGQING, China Twenty years ago, Wen Junhong saved an abandoned dog from the streets of Chongqing in southern China. She now shares her home with more than 1,300 of them, and they keep on coming. 650 words moved by Helen Roxburgh and Qian Ye. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Sweden-Ikea,WRAP STOCKHOLM Swedish furniture giant Ikea says it will stop printing its famed annual catalogue, ending a seven-decade tradition as customers are moving to digital alternatives. 500 words 1500 GMT by Marc Preel. File video. File Picture. -- SPORTS -- Cricket-RSA-ENG-health-virus,2ndlead CAPE TOWN England's cricket tour of South Africa is called off after a Covid-19 outbreak in the England touring party, prompting serious questions about the organisation of the tour. 500 words 1430 GMT. Picture Fbl-WC-2022-draw ZURICH European nations led by reigning champions France are set to learn their opponents in qualifying as they begin the long and congested road towards the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. 550 words 1830 GMT. Picture afp
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