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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Brazil virus toll soars, France parties in midsummer festival + US, Russia start nuclear weapons talks + Trump campaign seeks to reset after flubbed rally + Missing billions plunge Wirecard into Enron-style scandal + Second top tennis player tests positive at tournament Health-virus,WRAP RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil registers 50,000 deaths from coronavirus underlining Latin America's desperate struggle to contain the outbreak, while Europe eases its lockdowns with France staging an annual midsummer music festival and millions of children returning to school. 800 words 1200 GMT by Eugenia Logiuratto with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Russia-China-diplomacy-politics-disarmament,WRAP VIENNA The United States and Russia meet for talks on their last major nuclear weapons agreement against a backdrop of growing tensions and differences over whether they see any value in arms control at all. 600 words 1300 GMT by Joe Klamar with Maria Panina in Moscow and Ludovic Ehret in Beijing. Video. Picture. File Picture US-politics-vote-rally-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump's reelection campaign hits out at protesters and the media in a scramble to reset after a disappointing relaunch at a rally beset by missteps. 800 words moved by Frankie Taggart. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-Barr,lead Germany-finance-probe-Wirecard,WRAP FRANKFURT In what could be one of the biggest financial frauds of recent years, shooting-star German payments provider Wirecard admits 1.9 billion euros that auditors say are missing from its accounts likely "do not exist". 700 words 1100 GMT by Tom Barfield. File picture Tennis-health-virus-Coric-Djokovic,2ndlead PARIS Croatia's Borna Coric announces he has become the second top tennis player to test positive for coronavirus after taking part in an exhibition tournament in Croatia featuring world number one Novak Djokovic. 400 words 0930 GMT. Picture -- EUROPE -- Syria-conflict-Germany-warcrime,WRAP BERLIN A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity at a military hospital in his war-torn country of origin, prosecutors say. 500 words 1000 GMT by Femke Colborne EU-China-diplomacy-trade BRUSSELS Chinese leaders and senior EU officials hold a video summit with tensions rising over new tariffs targeting China's exporters and European disquiet at Beijing's assertiveness on the world stage. 650 words 1000 GMT by Damon Wake. Video Britain-politics-police-stabbings READING, United Kingdom A man held on suspicion of stabbing three people to death in a British park at the weekend was known to the security services, according to media reports. 450 words moved by Ben Stansall. Picture Health-virus-France-music-cinema-festival PARIS Social distancing and face masks went out the window as French people danced and partied in the streets in the first big blow out since the coronavirus lockdown. 500 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture Germany-history-politics,FACTS BERLIN Germany marks the 30th anniversary of the removal of the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing between the communist East and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War. Here are five things to know about the iconic checkpoint that James Bond, played by Roger Moore, passed through in the 1983 film "Octopussy". 500 words moved by Femke Colborne. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-environment-water-hyacinth,FOCUS AL-BADAA, Iraq The broad leaves and delicate purple flowers floating on the Euphrates look breathtaking - but they are suffocating the waterways of Iraq, celebrated as the "land of the two rivers". 750 words by Asaa Niyazi with Ali Allaq in Kut. Picture. Video Yemen-conflict-Saudi-economy,FOCUS RIYADH On top of war and the pandemic, Yemen faces looming economic disaster as a crisis gripping its main benefactor Saudi Arabia dents remittances and leaves state coffers running dry. 800 words by Anuj Chopra. Picture -- AFRICA -- ICC-ICoast-unrest-Gbagbo,lead THE HAGUE The International Criminal Court's prosecutor bids to overturn last year's shock acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity. 500 words 1200 GMT by Jan Hennop. Video. Health-virus-Africa-university, FOCUS JOHANNESBURG With university campuses shuttered due to the coronavirus, students in sub-Saharan Africa are finding online learning strenuous as internet is not easily accessible and data unaffordable for many. 700 words 1000 GMT by Sofia Christensen and African bureaus. -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-book-Bolton-Trump,lead WASHINGTON Former US national security advisor John Bolton says he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "gets a huge laugh" over US counterpart Donald Trump's perception of their relationship. 550 words moved Auto-USA-NASCAR,2ndlead WASHINGTON NASCAR says a noose was found in the garage stall of black driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, and they have launched a probe of the "heinous" act. 500 words moved Health-virus-Argentina-Portugal-travel,VIDEO ESSAY MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina "Mission accomplished!" -- That joyful declaration came from Juan Manuel Ballestero, an Argentine sailor who, unable to fly home from Portugal due to the pandemic, crossed the ocean alone in his modest sailboat to see his aging parents. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- NKorea-SKorea-politics-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korea readies millions of propaganda leaflets to send to the South by an aerial armada of balloons, as it heightens the rhetoric against Seoul after blowing up a liaison office. 650 words moved by Sunghee Hwang. File picture Mongolia-vote,ADVANCER ULAANBAATAR Mongolians will elect a new parliament Wednesday under the cloud of the coronavirus, with controversy over candidates flouting lockdown rules and thousands of people who are stranded overseas unable to vote. 550 words moved by Khaliun Bayartsogt. Picture India-health-virus-homosexuality-gender,FOCUS MUMBAI In conservative India, many in the LGBTQ community hide their real selves. But being stuck inside with their families for months in the coronavirus lockdown has made this hard to keep up -- with sometimes dire consequences. 750 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly. Video. Picture -- SPORTS -- RugbyU-AUS-Rennie SYDNEY Newly appointed Wallabies coach Dave Rennie said Monday that Australia's players need to be fitter and quicker to challenge top teams, and the New Zealander wants to see results quickly. 550 words moved by Martin Parry afp
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