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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Spain virus cases spike as world bolsters defences + Tourists trapped in Morocco after borders closed + Couple abducted in 2018 found alive in Mali + Japan says Olympics to go ahead despite virus Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Spain emerges as a global hotspot for the coronavirus after registering more than 1,500 new infections in 24 hours, as governments from the United States to Russia stiffen measures to combat the spread. 750 words 1500 GMT by Joseph Boyle with AFP bureaux. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-Europe-measures,FACTS Health-virus-Morocco-tourism,FOCUS FNIDEQ, Morocco Tourists are trapped in Morocco after the kingdom announces strict border controls in response to the coronavirus, leaving travellers stuck at borders, ports and airports. 550 words 1500 GMT by Hamza Mekouar. Picture. Video Mali-Burkina-Italy-Canada-UN-kidnapping,WRAP BAMAKO A Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 have been found in good health in the northwest of Mali after fleeing their captors and are due to be repatriated, diplomatic and UN sources say. 600 words 1400 GMT by Serge Daniel. Picture. Video Health-virus-Japan-Abe TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resists pressure for changes to the Tokyo Olympics schedule even as sporting events worldwide fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Spain,SCENE MADRID Madrid becomes a ghost town with shops closed and streets and squares deserted as officials try to put the brakes on the rapid spread of the deadly coronavius in the Spanish capital. 600 words 1600 GMT by Alvaro Villalobos. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy,lead ROME Views of empty streets, shuttered shops and a heavy silence greet Italians from their windows as the country spends its first weekend under lockdown in a bid to contain its coronavirus outbreak. 600 words 1700 GMT by Jastinder Khera. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-care,FOCUS ROME A widely-shared image of a worn-out nurse slumped over her keyboard has become emblematic of the extreme fatigue that Italian healthcare workers are facing as they battle Europe's worse outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic. 700 words 1700 GMT by Franck Iovene. Picture. Video Health-virus-government-Canada-family,FOCUS OTTAWA His children play with Lego in their rooms, his wife spends a lot of time on the phone: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offers a glimpse into the Canadian first family's COVID-19 quarantine while reassuring an anxious nation that he continues to govern. 500 words moved by Eric Thomas and Michel Comte. Picture. Video Health-virus-China-Italy,FOCUS BEIJING Sara Platto's mother in Italy called her "crazy" for staying in Wuhan even as the virus-hit city was quarantined in January. Now she's offering advice to people back home on how to cope. 650 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng and Leo Ramirez. Picture. Video Health-virus-India,FOCUS NEW DELHI Despite being poorer and more densely populated than China and having a shakier healthcare system, India has officially recorded only 81 cases of the coronavirus and just one death. 750 words moved by Simon Sturdee. Video. Picture Health-virus-transmission,FOCUS PARIS Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many. 600 words moved by Julie Charpentrat -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-police,lead MOSCOW Moscow police detain dozens of people at a protest against "political repressions" near the headquarters of the Russian security service, including a well-known human rights activist. 400 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-Europe-airport-ban,SCENE LOS ANGELES The final planeloads of European passengers flies into an eerily quiet Los Angeles airport, wheeling their luggage past hand sanitizer stations as the hours ticked down to a 30-day travel ban. 400 words moved by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-unrest-US-rockets,3rdlead BAGHDAD A fresh spate of rockets targets an Iraqi base north of Baghdad where foreign troops are deployed, Iraqi and US security sources tell AFP, in a rare daytime attack. 500 words moved. -- ASIA -- NZealand-attacks-religion-Islam,FOCUS CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand One year after the Christchurch mosque attacks, Aliya Danzeisen says she still needs to rise before dawn to read the news so she can prepare her daughters for the harassment they can expect for being Muslim. 650 words moved by Chris Foley -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-unrest,FOCUS MOPTI, Mali After years of ethnic massacres and unrelenting jihadist attacks, central Mali has been left a harrowed area of deserted villages and displaced people. 600 words moved by Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS & TECH -- US-internet-company-Microsoft-people-Gates,lead SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft announces that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy. 500 words moved -- LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT -- France-culture-dance-entertainment,FOCUS PARIS The dancers gyrate and contort their bodies into sculptures made by the human body but which look distinctly other-worldly. A choreographer favoured by superstars like Madonna, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Damien Jalet is on a mission to reinvent perceptions of the body. 650 words moved by Rana Moussaoui. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Health-virus-fbl-ENG-Pr-Britain LONDON Football Association chairman Greg Clarke reportedly tells the Premier League he does not believe the domestic football season will be completed because of the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by John Weaver. File picture afp
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