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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + 'Keep fighting', rights leader tells Floyd memorial + Libya unity govt retakes key rival town + Brazil virus toll surges to world's third-highest + Lancet retracts hydroxychloroquine study + Temperatures soaring in Siberia: EU US-politics-race-unrest,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Hundreds of mourners join in an emotional memorial service for George Floyd, the African-American man killed by police last week, as civil rights leader Al Sharpton vows mass protests will continue until "we change the whole system of justice" in the United States. 850 words moved by Joy Powell with Andrew Marszal in Los Angeles. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-race-unrest-Sharpton,PROFILE Libya-conflict,WRAP TRIPOLI Forces of Libya's UN-recognised government capture strongman Khalifa Haftar's last redoubt in the west in a fresh victory a day after claiming full control over greater Tripoli. 500 words 1030 GMT by Rim Taher Health-virus,WRAP PARIS France says it has the coronavirus pandemic "under control" as Europe slowly emerges from punishing lockdowns, but the disease inflicts a grim toll in Latin America with deaths in Brazil surging to the third highest in the world. 700 words 1130 GMT by Joseph Schmid with Joshua Howat Berger in Rio de Janeiro and AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-hydroxychloroquine-retraction,WRAP WASHINGTON The Lancet retracts a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data. 750 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture Climate-warming-temperature-world PARIS Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth's permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union's climate monitoring network says. 500 words moved by Kelly Macnamara and Marlowe Hood -- US CIVIL UNREST -- US-politics-unrest-race-disinformation,FOCUS WASHINGTON George Floyd's death was staged. Authorities cut communications in the US capital. People can be paid to be a "professional anarchist." False information and conspiracy theories such as these are spreading online as the United States grapples with widespread anger over police violence against African Americans. 700 words moved by WG Dunlop US-politics-race-unrest-internet,FOCUS WASHINGTON Dinanda Pramesti, a 26-year-old communications worker, drops off bags of food and supplies for protestors at a demonstration in Washington, heeding an urgent call made through a social media group. 550 words moved by Camille Camdessus. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-racism-music-Kidjo,INTERVIEW NEW YORK Angelique Kidjo, the Beninese vocalist lauded worldwide for her activism and harmonized global sound, says that COVID-19 exposes capitalism's failings, as anti-racism protests underscore that "silence is complacency." 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Video US-politics-race-unrest-nurses,FOCUS NEW YORK New York nurses and doctors, hailed as heroes for fighting the coronavirus outbreak, are denouncing racial segregation in the public health system by joining the George Floyd protests. 500 words moved by Laura Bonilla. Picture. Video US-politics-unrest-race-military,FOCUS WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's rebuff of President Donald Trump over deploying troops to quell protests and sharp blasts from previous Pentagon leaders including Jim Mattis have left Trump's relations with the US military dangerously frayed. 750 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture US-politics-race-unrest-economy-discrimination-health-virus,FOCUS WASHINGTON Downtown Washington gleams with wealth, but as he stands in a crowd protesting at the White House, Justin Monroe, who is African American, doubts he will ever share in that prosperity. 750 words moved by Chris Stein. Picture -- EUROPE -- Sweden-China-diplomacy-trial,2ndlead STOCKHOLM Sweden's former ambassador to Beijing goes on trial in Stockholm accused of overstepping her mandate and risking national security by trying to negotiate the release of a Chinese-Swedish dissident held in China. 600 words 1030 GMT by Johannes Ledel. Picture. Video Iran-France-rights,WRAP PARIS French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah marks one year since her incarceration in Iran, in a case that has intensified tensions between Paris and Tehran and angered supporters who fear she is the victim of a political battle of wills. 650 words moved by Valerie Leroux and Stuart Williams. File picture Health-virus-France,2ndLead PARIS France's COVID-19 outbreak is "under control," the head of the government's crisis advisory panel says, as authorities hope to further ease the lockdown imposed to contain a pandemic that has killed more than 29,000 people in the country. 500 words 1100 GMT by Joseph Schmid Health-virus-Kyrgystan-cycling,FOCUS BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan's coronavirus restrictions may have been relaxed in recent weeks, but 73-year-old diabetes patient Lyudmila Kutenkova isn't yet ready to part ways with the man she calls "my guy" -- one of 20 volunteers who began delivering insulin by bicycle when authorities locked down the capital Bishkek. 600 words 1000 GMT by Tolkun Namatbayeva. Picture. Video Turkey-religion-Christianity,FOCUS GULGOZE, Turkey Inside the sixth century church in southeastern Turkey, dozens of Assyrian Christian women, men and children in their Sunday best attend a service, one of only a few held in their ancient homeland. 800 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-government-tax-rich,FOCUS LONDON In billionaire-friendly Britain, where the global coronavirus outbreak has hit hard, the idea of making the wealthiest pay more tax to help economic recovery is gaining ground. 750 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier -- AMERICAS -- US-Iran-prisoners-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump voices hope for progress with arch-rival Iran after the clerical regime releases a US Navy veteran and the United States frees two Iranians. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest-rights-UN,2ndlead GENEVA About 1,300 civilians have been killed and over half a million people forced to flee by conflict and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just a matter of months, the United Nations says. 500 words 1000 GMT by Nina Larson. Video Health-virus-CAfrica-minorities,FOCUS BAYANGA, Central African Republic Dzanga-Sangha, a wildlife sanctuary in southwest Central African Republic, is a remote place, linked to the rest of the world by a narrow trail that becomes impassable in heavy rain. But for the region's Pygmies -- outcasts in a country already ranked among the poorest in the world -- Dzanga-Sangha's isolation could be a blessing. 750 words moved by Camille Laffont. Picture Ethiopia-environment-forests-politics,FOCUS BUEE, Ethiopia Braving a heavy downpour, hundreds of farmers spent a full day planting 20,000 acacia seedlings on a barren hillside outside the town of Buee in southern Ethiopia last year. They were responding to a call last July from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who wanted his countrymen to plant 200 million trees in a single day, shattering the world record. 900 words moved by Robbie Courey-Boulet. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US-diplomacy,FOCUS OTNIEL, Palestinian Territories As the Israeli government mulls annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, some settlers fear being forgotten and more isolated than ever, engulfed by a new Palestinian state. 750 words moved by Alexandra Vardi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Lebanon-literature,INTERVIEW NICOSIA Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy says the coronavirus pandemic, like past epidemics and wars, will feed the imagination of novelists. 600 words moved by Laure Al-Khoury. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-unrest-refugee-Canada-Taiwan,FOCUS HONG KONG Hong Kong protester Crystal has yet to tell her parents she has fled overseas to seek asylum in Canada, one of a growing number of residents choosing self-imposed exile as Beijing tightens control. 850 words moved by Jerome Taylor and Yan Zhao with Sean Chang in Taipei. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Health-virus-Britain-auto-sector,SCENE CHINGFORD, United Kingdom At the Vauxhall car showroom in Chingford, just northeast of London, business is motoring ahead after Britain lifted lockdown restrictions this week on the coronavirus-ravaged sector. 650 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-volley-CHN-Zhu,FOCUS SHANGHAI Zhu Ting stands tall in China -- and not just because she is a towering 1.98 metres (6ft 6ins). The 25-year-old farmer's daughter has emerged from a poor village life to become a totem of the sporting ambitions of the world's most populous country. 700 words moved by Peter Stebbings. File picture Cricket-PAK-fixing-anniversary,FOCUS KARACHI, Pakistan When Mohammad Amir bowled a no-ball against England on the opening day of the 2010 Test at Lord's, no one could have imagined his long stride past the crease marked the first step in a historic fixing scandal. 650 words moved by Shahid Hashmi. File picture -- SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT -- Health-virus-Ecuador-Galapagos-environment,FOCUS QUITO As much of Ecuador went into lockdown against the coronavirus, scientists shipped out of the Galapagos, leaving important research activity frozen and the Pacific archipelago's tourism in deep crisis. 600 words moved by Paola Lopez. File picture. File video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Health-virus-Canada-entertainment-circus-Cirque,FOCUS MONTREAL Its shows cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an already heavily indebted Cirque du Soleil's fight for survival has invited an intense backstage battle to try to save the Canadian cultural icon. 650 words moved by Jacques Lemieux. File picture afp
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