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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart -- TOP STORIES -- + Russia dismisses Navalny poisoning accusations + Outcry over US police shooting of black father + Melania Trump to address Republican convention + UN health agency declares Africa free of polio + Icon Leo Messi says he wants to quit Barcelona Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny-Germany,WRAP MOSCOW Russia faces mounting international calls for a probe into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the Kremlin dismisses the findings of German doctors. 700 words moved by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Graphic US-police-shooting-racism,WRAP KENOSHA, Wisconsin Jacob Blake could be permanently paralyzed after he was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wisconsin police, his family says, as anger festers over the newest "unjustified" law enforcement shooting of an African American. 650 words 2130 GMT by Robert Chiarito. Picture. Video US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and First Lady Melania Trump address the Republican convention after a first night that featured depictions of a United States under a Joe Biden presidency that veered between the apocalyptic and the hyperbolic. 700 words 2030 GMT by Elodie Cuzin and Chris Lefkow. Photo. Video. Graphic Nigeria-vaccines-epidemic,WRAP LAGOS The World Health Organization declares that Africa free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. 800 words moved by Sophie Bouillon with Aminu Abubakar in Kano. File picture. Graphic Also moved: DRCongo-health-measles Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-ARG-Messi,WRAP MADRID Lionel Messi has informed Barcelona that he wants to "unilaterally" terminate his contract with the Spanish giants, a club source confirmed to AFP on Tuesday. 600 words 1930 GMT. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-Republicans-Trump,FACTCHECK WASHINGTON The 2020 US election race is rife with concerns about disinformation, and the first session of the Republican National Convention on Monday did nothing to dispel them. 850 words 1930 GMT by Arthur MacMillan. Picture US-vote-politics-family-Trump,FOCUS NEW YORK Donald Trump is keeping it all in the family at this week's Republican convention, giving his four children prime speaking slots alongside his wife Melania and highlighting the unprecedented role they have played in the political affairs of the United States. 700 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. File Picture US-weather-Haiti-Cuba,WRAP NEW ORLEANS Storm Laura is upgraded to a destructive hurricane and forecast to make landfall along the Texas or Louisiana coasts on Wednesday night, after earlier causing 20 deaths in Haiti. 500 words 2100 GMT by Gianrigo Marletta. Picture. Video US-execution-minorities WASHINGTON The only Native American on federal death row, a Navajo man convicted of a double murder nearly 20 years ago, is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday -- against the wishes of the Navajo Nation which calls the sentence an affront to its sovereignty. 500 words moved by Cyril Julien -- EUROPE -- Bosnia-Serbia-warcrimes-trial,WRAP THE HAGUE Lawyers for former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic urge a UN court to overturn his genocide conviction, saying the charges against him were "made out of thin air". 650 words moved by Danny Kemp with Jovan Matic in Belgrade and Rusmir Smajlhodzic in Sarajevo. Picture. Video Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusians have risen up in a "peaceful revolution", their exiled opposition leader says as a 17-day mass protest movement calling for new elections shows no sign of yielding to an equally determined government crackdown. 900 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-vote-unrest-politics-Russia,FOCUS Turkey-Greece-EU-Germany-energy,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkey says it is ready for talks with Greece without preconditions about an escalating row eastern Mediterranea over gas that saw the two uneasy NATO allies stage rival military exercises. 600 words 2000 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan with Chantal Valery. Video. File picture Also moved: Turkey-Greece-diplomacy-energy,CHRONO -- MIDEAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Sudan-US-Israel-UAE,WRAP KHARTOUM Sudan says it cannot establish diplomatic relations with Israel for now, dashing US hopes for a speedy breakthrough during a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. 750 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Also moved: Sudan-politics,FOCUS -- ASIA -- India-accident-collapse,4thlead MAHAD, India Rescuers in India pull a four-year-old boy from the rubble of a collapsed building to loud cheers, hours after the five-storey apartment block came down "like a house of cards", killing 13 and burying up to 60 others. 650 words moved by Punit Paranjpe. Live video. Video. Picture NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court CHRISTCHURCH Two impassioned survivors of the New Zealand mosque massacre abandon prepared statements to vent their anger directly at gunman Brenton Tarrant in a Christchurch court, drawing applause from fellow victims as they called him a terrorist who deserved to die. 650 words moved by Chris Foley. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Hard-hit Spain says it will call in the army to try to curb a surge in cases of the new coronavirus, even as the UN health agency's latest data suggests the pace of transmission is easing in most regions. 750 words 2000 GMT by Daniel Silva with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FOCUS GAZA Four new coronavirus cases may not sound like much, but they have sparked fear and a lockdown in Gaza, the crowded Palestinian enclave once more engaged in clashes with Israel. 550 words by Adel Zaanoun. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Christmas LONDON Santa School supremo James Lovell has already been thinking about how best to allow children to experience the magic of meeting Father Christmas, despite the coronavirus outbreak. 400 words moved by Phil Hazlewood. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-auction-music-rap-Sothebys NEW YORK Teenage Tupac's love letters and fellow rapper Biggie's iconic crown will hit the auction block next month in Sotheby's first ever sale devoted to hip hop. 550 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-Maguire-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-Greece-justice,WRAP ATHENS Manchester United captain Harry Maguire is given a suspended prison sentence of 21 months and 10 days on assault and other charges by a court in Greece. 600 words 1930 GMT. File picture Cricket-ENG-PAK,WRAP SOUTHAMPTON, England England paceman James Anderson cements his place in cricket history by taking his 600th Test wicket as the rain-marred third and final Test against Pakistan at Southampton ends in a draw. 600 words moved by Julian Guyer. Picture Also moved: Cricket-ENG-PAK-Anderson-600-list,FACTS Cricket-ENG-PAK-Anderson,PROFILE afp
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