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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Resurgent Biden scores big on Super Tuesday + Virus protective gear in short supply + US hits Taliban, raising peace doubts + Tornadoes kill 25 people in Tennessee + Italy marks 500 years since Raphael died US-politics-vote,WRAP HOUSTON, Texas A resurgent Joe Biden seizes the momentum in the race to become the Democratic challenger to President Donald Trump with a string of Super Tuesday victories, including key prize Texas, against rival Bernie Sanders. 800 words 1100 GMT by Julia Benarrous with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING Masks are in short supply in some countries as panic buying, hoarding and thefts spread over fears of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, with global health officials warning that stocks of protective gear were rapidly shrinking. 750 words 1100 GMT by Laurent Thomet. Picture. Video. Graphic. Afghanistan-US-conflict-Taliban,WRAP KABUL The US launches an airstrike against Taliban fighters to defend Afghan forces as violence spirals following a string of deadly attacks by the insurgents, throwing the country's nascent peace process into grave doubt. 650 words 0930 GMT by Ammu Kannampilly, with Hakim Hasas in Kunduz US-weather-Tennessee-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON Tornadoes rip through Tennessee, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying buildings and toppling power lines hours before the southern US state voted in Super Tuesday primaries. 600 words moved by Becca Milfeld. Picture. Video. Graphic Italy-art-painting-Raphael ROME After a year spent celebrating Leonardo da Vinci, Italy is marking 500 years since the death of fellow Renaissance master Raphael with a blockbuster show featuring a quarrel over a disputed portrait. 600 words 1100 GMT by Kelly Velasquez. Picture -- SUPER TUESDAY -- US-politics-vote-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON For a US presidential candidate left for dead just weeks ago, Joe Biden has scored a dramatic comeback capped by victories over chief rival Bernie Sanders in a majority of the 14 states contested on Super Tuesday. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture US-politics-vote-Sanders,SCENE ESSEX JUNCTION, Vermont Bernie Sanders' supporters had hoped Super Tuesday would put their candidate in an unassailable position but after a string of projected victories for Joe Biden they left a rally in Vermont with little certainty. 500 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-Bloomberg,FOCUS US-politics-vote,RESULTS US-politics-vote-bar,SCENE US-politics-vote-SuperTuesday,POINTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-measures,SCENE WENZHOU, China Constant temperature checks, a "no mask, no service" ethos, and high-tech people-tracking: welcome to the new normal in China, where reminders of the country's national mobilisation against the coronavirus lurk around every corner. 750 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-China-economy-employment,FOCUS BEIJING China's coronavirus epidemic turned a Lunar New Year family reunion into an enforced quarantine for factory worker Hu Aihua, trapping him at home and preventing him from returning to his job. 800 words moved by Beiyi Seow. File Picture China-health-virus-Indonesia JAKARTA Indonesian police seize over half a million face masks from a Jakarta-area warehouse after the country's first confirmed cases of coronavirus sparked panic buying and sent prices for prevention products skyrocketing. 350 words moved. Picture Health-virus-Europe-ECDC,FOCUS STOCKHOLM As the new coronavirus spreads globally and with thousands of cases now in Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has become a key cog in the fight to stem the spread of the virus. 650 words 1100 GMT by Johannes Ledel. Video. Picture -- EUROPE -- EU-environment-economy,WRAP BRUSSELS Europe unveils a landmark law to achieve "climate neutrality" by 2050, under the stern gaze of teenage activist Greta Thunberg who slams it as meaningless. 600 words 1000 GMT by Marine Laouchez. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict-Idlib BEIRUT The fighting in northwest Syria has rendered large parts of the region uninhabitable for years for civilians now crammed into an ever-shrinking area where conditions are dire, says a new report analysing satellite images. 440 words moved Israel-politics-Netanyahu-trial,FOCUS JERUSALEM Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims an election victory but still faces a corruption trial, and one group has already appealed to the supreme court arguing he is unfit to serve. 600 words 1200 GMT by Stephen Weizman. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-health-abortion-politics-court,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States Supreme Court will hear what may be its most significant case in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. 550 words moved by Charlotte Plantive Also moved: US-health-abortion-politics,INTERVIEW Argentina-politics-abortion,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will fulfill an election pledge next week when he brings a bill before Congress aiming to legalize abortion, setting off the latest salvos in a debate that has bitterly divided the traditionally Catholic South American nation. 750 words moved by Carlos Reyes and Nina Negron. Video. File Picture -- ASIA -- Pakistan-agriculture-climate-weather-locusts,FOCUS PIPLI PAHAR, Pakistan Pakistan's farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms devastate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring. 650 words moved by Kaneez Fatima. Picture. Video -- ARCHITECTURE -- Ireland-architecture-award-US-Pritzker,WRAP NEW YORK Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are awarded the Pritzker prize -- the first time a female duo has scooped architecture's most prestigious award. 650 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture afp
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