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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + China allows couples to have three children + Israel moves closer to govt without Netanyahu + UN climate talks resume as pressure mounts + OECD sees higher GDP growth as pandemic eases + Osaka faces French Open axe over media boycott China-politics-population-census,WRAP BEIJING China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media report, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world's most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate. 650 words 0930 GMT by Laurie Chen. Photo. Video Also moving: China-politics-population-census,CHRONO Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli hard-right tech millionaire Naftali Bennett joins former TV anchor Yair Lapid in efforts to build a coalition that would oust veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 600 words 1030 GMT by Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,PROFILE Israel-politics-Lapid,PROFILE Israel-politics-Bennett,PROFILE Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-vote,CHRONO Climate-UN-negotiations-online,WRAP PARIS For the first time since 2019 and following a flurry of net-zero pledges from the world's largest emitters, UN climate negotiations resume in a virtual format just six months before the crunch COP26 summit. 600 words 1000 GMT by Patrick Galey World-economy-growth-OECD,WRAP PARIS The OECD raises its 2021 global GDP growth forecast but warns that "too many headwinds persist" as not enough Covid vaccines are reaching emerging economies, making the world vulnerable to variants. 400 words moved by Eve Szeftel Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Serena Williams will make history again when she plays in the first French Open night-session match, as the tournament reels from the threat of expulsion for Japanese star Naomi Osaka over her media boycott. 700 words 1100 GMT by Dave James. Picture. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- US-racism-massacre,FOCUS TULSA, Oklahoma Metal plaques riveted to modern buildings bear the names of Black-owned businesses that once stood there before being destroyed during one of the worst racial massacres in the United States. 800 words moved by Lea Dauple. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-refugee-AUS-Australia-Afghanistan,FOCUS SYDNEY Asif Sultani has been fighting his way to the Olympics since he was seven years old, enduring persecution in Afghanistan and a grim journey to refuge in Australia. But the karate black belt is now within punching distance of a spot at the Tokyo Games. 700 words moved by Andrew Leeson. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines,FACTS SYDNEY Even as many countries around the world struggle to secure vaccine doses, in other places, governments, companies and causes have had to entice hesitant citizens to get jabbed. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Greece-Turkey-politics,WRAP ATHENS Turkey's foreign minister holds talks with the Greek prime minister and foreign minister a day after raising tension in Athens with comments on the country's Muslim minority. 500 words 1130 GMT. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-Britain-history-politics,FOCUS BAGHDAD For someone credited with being an architect of modern Iraq, the Baghdad grave of British colonial-era archaeologist, writer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell is hard to find. 750 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Kuwait-food-culture,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Kuwaiti businessman Jassem Buabbas has spent years breeding "superworms" for animal feed and now hopes the creatures will find their way into the diets of Gulf citizens. 550 words moved by Salima Lebel. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-school,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Gunmen kidnap scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials say, in the latest mass abduction in Africa's most populous nation. 500 words 1030 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Graphic Chad-CAfrica-army-conflict, WRAP N'DJAMENA Chad's government accuses the Central African Republic of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country, branding it a "war crime" that would "not go unpunished". 600 words 1100 GMT. File picture. Graphic Mali-politics-unrest-coup,WRAP ACCRA West African leaders suspend Mali from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at an extraordinary summit, but stopped short of reimposing sanctions, after a second military coup in nine months. 600 words moved by Kent Mensah. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-voting AUSTIN, Texas Democrats in the Texas legislature use a dramatic walk-out to torpedo Republican plans for a restrictive voting bill that President Joe Biden had decried as voter suppression and an "assault on democracy." 550 words moved Colombia-politics-protest,WRAP CALI Colombia's government resumes negotiations with demonstrators to end more than a month of protests Sunday, as the UN calls for an independent investigation after at least 13 people died in clashes in the city of Cali. 750 words moved by Andres Carmona and Luis Robayo. Picture -- ASIA -- SriLanka-Singapore-pollution-transport-fire LEGOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's criminal investigators begin questioning the crew of a burning cargo ship, as the Singapore-registered carrier smoulders for a 12th straight day in one of the island's worst-ever marine ecological disasters. 350 words moved. Picture. File Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ESP-Liga-Zidane-RealMadrid,2ndlead MADRID Zinedine Zidane says in an open letter that he resigned as Real Madrid manager because he felt the Spanish club no longer had any confidence in him. 575 words moved by Gabriel Rubio. File picture afp
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