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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Tel: +33 783578721 -- TOP STORIES -- + Ousted Myanmar party demands Suu Kyi's release + Russia's Sputnik vaccine 91.6% effective: trial + Kremlin trying to 'scare millions': Navalny to court + Biden in push to streamline immigration process + Snowstorm hits US east coast, delaying vaccinations Myanmar-politics-army,WRAP YANGON The party of Myanmar's toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi demands her immediate release after a military coup that triggered international condemnation and sanctions threats from the new US president. 800 words 1430 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccine-Russia,2ndlead PARIS Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published in The Lancet that independent experts say allays transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling out. 600 words 1430 GMT by Kelly Macnamara Russia-politics-court-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny accuses the Kremlin of trying to "scare millions" as a Moscow court considers whether to jail him for several years despite mass protests and Western condemnation. 750 words 1500 GMT by Anna Smolchenko. Picture. Video Also moving: Russia-politics-Navalny-trial,FACTS Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,PROFILE US-politics-immigration,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden is set to call for his administration to streamline the naturalization of nine million migrants, as part of a raft of steps aimed at rolling back the "failed" policies of his hardline Republican predecessor. 600 words 1630 GMT by Charlotte Plantive US-weather-storm,WRAP NEW YORK A huge snowstorm brings chaos to the United States east coast, canceling thousands of flights, closing schools and forcing the postponement of coronavirus vaccinations as New York steels itself for possibly one of its heaviest snowfalls ever. 600 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video. Live video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Iran-justice-rights-France,FOCUS PARIS In October 2019, Iranian dissident Ruhollah Zam was running a widely followed news site based in France. But just over a year later he was hanged in Iran. How did Zam go from relative comfort to the hangman's noose? 1,000 words moved by Stuart Williams and Cecile Feuillatre. File Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Final-stage trial results find that Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 91.6 percent effective, as the number of vaccinations administered worldwide passes 100 million. 700 words 1500 GMT by Gina Doggett. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-toll Health-virus-hospital Health-virus-EU-politics,FOCUS BRUSSELS EU chief Ursula von der Leyen faces the deepest crisis of her mandate so far, under fire from all sides over delays to vaccine deliveries and a bungled export control plan. 600 words 1530 GMT by Dave Clark and Anne-Laure Mondesert Health-virus-Germany,FOCUS MUNICH, Germany A year after Germany's first Covid-19 patient was admitted to a Munich hospital, exhausted doctors at the establishment say the fight against the disease is far from over, despite a recent decline in cases. 650 words moved by Pauline Curtet. Picture. Video Health-virus-Peru-oxygen,PHOTOESSAY LIMA While loved ones are fighting for breath at home, hundreds of Peruvians have taken to sleeping on the street, sometimes for days on end, in lines of people desperate for oxygen amid a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Ernesto Tovar. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-Japan-virus-health,2ndlead TOKYO The pandemic-postponed Olympics will go ahead this summer "however the coronavirus evolves", Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori says, brushing aside doubts about the event. 500 words moved by Natsuko Fukue. Picture. Video. Also moved: Oly-Paralympics-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus-Parsons,INTERVIEW -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-army-SuuKyi,FOCUS YANGON The Myanmar military's detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week's coup has revived memories of her 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during decades of junta rule. 600 words moved. Picture. File video Myanmar-politics-army-coup-US-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON Myanmar's military coup marks an early test case of President Joe Biden's determination to advocate for democracy but, unlike a decade ago when the United States nurtured a transition there, he has limited options. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon Indonesia-Rohingya-refugee-Malaysia LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia have been trafficked into Malaysia to reunite with their husbands, several sources tell AFP. 450 words moved. Picture. File video Indonesia-Britain-terror-immigration,lead JAKARTA Indonesia has detained a British woman named on a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations, authorities tell AFP. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Britain-NIreland-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP DUBLIN The British government condemns threats to port workers implementing controversial post-Brexit trade checks in Northern Ireland, calling for clear heads to ease fears of an upsurge in sectarian tensions. 650 words 1430 GMT by Joe Stenson. File picture Russia-politics-trial-US-France,WRAP MOSCOW A prominent US investor and French banker deny they are guilty of embezzlement on the opening day of a trial in Moscow that has rattled Russia's business community. 650 words moved by Andrea Palasciano. Picture. Video Ukraine-Syria-conflict-women,FOCUS KOZYN, Ukraine Six years after she left Ukraine, following her husband and false promises of a dignified life under the Islamic State group in Syria, Alime Abbasova arrived home on New Year's Day hopeful for a fresh start. 700 words moved by Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-SKorea-shipping-diplomacy,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says it has allowed some 20 crew members of a South Korean tanker seized almost a month ago for alleged pollution to leave the country as part of a "humanitarian move". 400 words 1500 GMT Health-virus-Israel-marriage-Judaism,FOCUS JERUSALEM The advertisement for a meet-up spot for single Orthodox Jews might, before the pandemic, have seemed bizarre. "Terrace with a view of Jerusalem," it reads. "Bring warm clothes. We offer hot drinks! An ideal spot for marriage proposals!" 650 words moved by Delphine Matthieussent. Picture -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-social, FOCUS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Residents of the northeastern Nigerian city Maiduguri have been struggling with a power blackout for a week after jihadists blew up supply lines, causing water shortages and disrupting businesses and daily life. 500 words moved by Audu Abba Kurama with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. Picture. Video. -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-abuse-AOC WASHINGTON Prominent US lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals she is a survivor of sexual assault, in an emotional video message in which she also describes fearing for her life during the deadly storming of the US Capitol on January 6. 400 words moved US-politics-impeachment-attorney,FOCUS WASHINGTON The two lawyers former president Donald Trump has hired to defend him in his Senate impeachment trial are confident, tough and media-honed criminal case experts who could liven up what is already set to be a nationally televised spectacle. 650 words moved by Paul Handley US-internet-games-politics-GameStop,FOCUS NEW YORK Recent stock market mayhem has done what appeals to rise above self-interest could not -- gotten US politicians of all stripes to agree. 700 words moved by Daniel Hoffman Brazil-politics-vote-Bolsonaro,3rdlead BRASILIA Brazil's Congress elects two allies of President Jair Bolsonaro to head the Senate and lower house, an important victory for the far-right leader as he seeks to re-galvanize his reelection efforts for 2022. 550 words moved. 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Video -- SCIENCE -- Nature-economics-biodiversity-review,WRAP PARIS Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature", according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. 650 words moved by Patrick Galey -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON Prospects for stronger oil demand push crude prices up to near pre-pandemic levels, while global stocks extend their rallies on hopes for more US fiscal stimulus. 550 words 1530 GMT by Roland Jackson US-oil-environment-earnings-ExxonMobil,WRAP NEW YORK Exxon Mobil reports huge quarterly and annual losses on the hit from Covid-19 as it unveils a new low-carbon business in response to intensifying pressure from environmentalists. 600 words 1600 GMT by John Biers -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-transfers-health-virus,WRAP LONDON Premier League spending slumps by more than two-thirds to a nine-year low of just £70 million ($96 million) in the January transfer window as the coronavirus crisis hits budgets even in Europe's richest football league. 650 words moved by John Weaver. File picture Also moved: Fbl-ENG-Pr-Liverpool-Kabak,PROFILE Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Buccaneers-diversity,FOCUS LOS ANGELES If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers upset the odds and defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, it will be a victory for diversity as well as Tom Brady. 650 words moved by Rob Woollard Also moved: Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl-Buccaneers-Brady -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The unveiling of the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday will jumpstart a Hollywood awards season like no other, with pandemic-related theater closures and blockbuster delays expected to boost smaller, stay-at-home movies like Netflix's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "Mank." 750 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture afp
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