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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Defiant Lukashenko defends airplane diversion + Shell told to cut emissions in landmark case + 150 feared dead in Nigerian ferry sinking + Eight killed in US rail yard mass shooting + Amazon buys MGM to boost streaming ambitions Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP MINSK A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko defends Belarus's diversion of a European flight and arrest of a dissident on board, lashing out at critics at home and abroad. 850 words 1930 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Belarus-politics-aviation-law,FOCUS Netherlands-Britain-Shell-energy-climate-oil-court,WRAP THE HAGUE A Dutch court orders oil giant Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions targets in a landmark victory for climate activists. 600 words moved by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video Nigeria-accident-boat,WRAP KANO, Nigeria More than 150 people are feared to have drowned in northwest Nigeria after an overloaded boat ferrying passengers from a market sank in the Niger River, local officials say. 400 words 2000 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Graphic US-shooting-California-crime,WRAP SAN JOSE An employee shoots dead at least eight people at a rail yard in California, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. 500 words 2100 GMT. Picture. Graphic US-IT-lifestyle-cinema-Amazon-MGM,WRAP WASHINGTON Amazon has agreed to buy the storied MGM studios for $8.45 billion, giving the US tech giant a vast library to further its ambitions in the fast-evolving streaming media market 700 words 2000 GMT by Rob Lever. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- IT-security-US-hacking-markets,FOCUS NEW YORK The cyberattack against Colonial Pipeline that paralyzed fuel supply to part of the United States in May sent a shudder through the US finance sector -- with stock exchanges well aware they could be next in line to be targeted by hackers. 700 words moved by Daniel Hoffman ** Please see AFP's special advisory on cybersecurity ** Nigeria-unrest-fbl,VIDEOESSAY JOS, Nigeria For years, the central Nigerian city of Jos was a flashpoint for ethnic strife pitting Christian and Muslim youths against each other. But football has brought the communities back together, easing tensions and building team spirit along the way. 450 words moved by John Okunyomih. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-politics-China-US probe,3rdlead WASHINGTON President Joe Biden orders US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. 650 words moved Health-virus-treatments,FOCUS WASHINGTON The hunt is on for a coronavirus treatment that be taken as a pill soon after a confirmed positive, halting the disease in its tracks so that cases that might have been severe end up being nothing more than a bad cold. 700 words 2100 GMT by Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-EU-vaccines-AstraZeneca-court Health-virus-WHO-variants,lead Health-virus-Switzerland Health-virus-Taiwan-China-politics -- EUROPE -- Britain-politics-health-virus,WRAP LONDON The British government "disastrously" failed the public by mishandling the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former top adviser and Brexit architect Dominic Cummings tells lawmakers. 650 words moved by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Also moving: Britain-politics-health-virus,POINTS Also moved: Britain-politics-Cummings,PROFILE Italy-accident-cablecar-Israel,WRAP VERBANIA, Italy Italian police arrest three managers from the operator of a cable car that crashed into a mountain killing 14 people, accusing them of deliberately disabling the emergency brake. 550 words moved by Giovanni Grezzi. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-justice-Trump-election,FOCUS WASHINGTON Would Donald Trump run for president under indictment? No charges have been filed, but a grand jury may bring findings this year that put the former president in legal jeopardy and pose grave risks to his 2024 ambitions. 700 words 2000 GMT by Michael Mathes -- MIDEAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US,WRAP AMMAN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up a Mideast tour to bolster an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, calling for regional cooperation to avoid more 'harrowing violence'. 800 words moved by Kamal Taha with Emmanuel Parisse in Cairo. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-vote,WRAP DAMASCUS President Bashar al-Assad dismisses criticism of Syria's presidential election as voters cast ballots in government-held areas despite Western accusations it is neither 'free nor fair'. 750 words 2130 GMT by Maher Al-Mounes and Rouba El-Husseini in Beirut. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO The UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting over the turmoil in Mali, whose interim president and prime minister resigned two days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to amount to the country's second coup in nine months. 650 words 2000 GMT by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate. File picture. Video. Graphic -- ASIA -- Science-astronomy-moon-eclipse-Australia,lead SYDNEY Stargazers across the Pacific cast their eyes skyward to witness a rare "Super Blood Moon", as the heavens align to bring a spectacular lunar eclipse. 500 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Macau-China-HongKong-politics HONG KONG Macau has banned a vigil marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown for the second year in a row, with authorities this time saying the event would "incite subversion", in the latest sign of withering political freedoms there. 450 words moved -- ENVIRONMENT -- DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo Aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern DR Congo shake the city of Goma four days after its eruption, badly damaging low-rise residential buildings as fearful people sleep outdoors and hundreds continue to flee. 600 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video India-weather-cyclone,WRAP DIGHA, India At least five people die as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses belt eastern India in the Covid-stricken country's second cyclone in as many weeks. 600 words moved by Dibyangshu Sarkar. Picture. Video. Graphic US-climate-corporate-meeting-ExxonMobil,WRAP NEW YORK Shareholders direct ExxonMobil and Chevron to take more forceful action to address climate change in a clear sign of how cutting emission has moved from the environmental world into the investor mainstream. 650 words 2100 GMT by John Biers -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-IT-lifestyle-cinema-Amazon-MGM,FOCUS LOS ANGELES From "Ben Hur" to "Gone with the Wind" to "James Bond," the nearly century-old MGM movie studio, symbolized by its iconic roaring lion, has a storied history worthy of a Hollywood epic. 500 words 1930 GMT. File picture Entertainment-US-television-Friends,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The stars of "Friends" never really left us -- they were simply on a break. The cast of the beloved 1990s sitcom about six attractive, straight, white New Yorkers with ludicrously giant Manhattan apartments are set to finally reunite for a much-hyped and long-delayed special. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal and Thomas Urbain Entertainment-film-US-Britain-Cruella,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Pitting one of its most memorable villains against a fearsome new foe, Disney's devilishly fashionable "Cruella" is one of the studio's darkest movies yet, according to star Emma Stone. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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