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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump was 'inciter-in-chief' of riot, trial hears + Biden targets Myanmar generals with sanctions + Saudi frees jailed women's rights activist + WHO backs AstraZeneca Covid vaccine + China's Tianwen-1 probe enters Mars orbit US-politics-impeachment-trial,WRAP WASHINGTON Democratic impeachment prosecutors detail what they say was Donald Trump's months long campaign to overturn the US election, culminating with his incitment of an attack by an enraged mob on Congress. 700 words 2000 GMT by Michael Mathes and Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-impeachment-trial,FACTS US-politics-impeachment-conviction,POINTS Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON US President Joe Biden announces sanctions against Myanmar's military leaders and demands they relinquish power, after tens of thousands of people take to the streets of Southeast Asian nation's biggest city for a fifth consecutive day. 850 words 2000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Myanmar-politics-military Myanmar-politics-military-coup,SCENE Myanmar-coup,CHRONO Saudi-rights-women,WRAP RIYADH Saudi Arabia has released prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul after nearly three years in detention, her family says, as the kingdom faces renewed US pressure over its human rights record. 600 words 1930 GMT by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video Already moved: Saudi-rights-women,PROFILE Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The World Health Organization offers its backing to the coronavirus vaccine made by embattled drug company AstraZeneca, as one of its experts exchanges barbs with the US government over a controversial mission to probe the pandemic's origins in China. 800 words 2000 GMT by Robin Millard with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-vaccines-WHO-AstraZeneca,3rdlead China-Mars-space,WRAP BEIJING China's Tianwen-1 probe enters the orbit of the planet Mars, state media says, after it launched from southern China last July. 500 words moved. Picture. File Picture. Graphic -- TRUMP IMPEACHMENT -- US-politics-impeachment-unrest,FOCUS WASHINGTON Among the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and hardcore fans of Donald Trump, the message was out weeks ahead: Trump wants you in Washington on January 6 to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as president. 750 words moved by Paul Handley -- SPOTLIGHT -- US-Israel-Palestinian-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waiting for Joe Biden to call him but the new US president is taking his time -- a quiet signal, observers say, that the United States is no longer giving carte blanche with its ally. 650 words 2100 GMT by Shaun Tandon Djibouti-France-military,FOCUS DJIBOUTI France has long had close ties with Djibouti, where it has its biggest foreign military base -- but other major powers have also been wooing the state, eyeing its unparalleled strategic position in the Horn of Africa. 650 words moved by Daphne Benoit. Pictures. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-SAfrica-vaccines,2ndlead JOHANNESBURG South Africa says it is considering trading or swapping its doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, thought to be less effective against a local virus variant, and begin its inoculation campaign with Johnson & Johnson shots instead. 600 words moved by Sofia Christensen. File picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-defense-Pentagon-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON Joe Biden makes his first visit as president to the Pentagon as the US military battles the coronavirus and confronts far-right extremism and racism among the troops. 500 words 2100 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- France-politics-trial,WRAP PARIS French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appears in court on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she claims is a politically motivated attempt to silence her. 500 words moved by Clara Wright and Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video. Sketch France-politics-children-assault,WRAP PARIS The French government wants to introduce a minimum age of sexual consent, a move that would bring it in line with most other Western countries, following years of campaigning by abuse victims. 700 words moved by Jessica Lopez and Arnaud Bouver Poland-media-politics-tax,WRAP WRAP Poland's commercial TV and radio networks go off air and newspapers black out their front pages in protest against a proposed tax that critics say will crush independent media. 600 words moved by Dario Thuburn. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Saudi-Yemen-conflict,WRAP RIYADH A drone strike launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthis leaves a civilian plane ablaze at a Saudi airport, days after the US moved to delist the rebels as terrorists. 650 words moved by Anuj Chopra with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-Tigray-aid,WRAP ADDIS ABABA The Ethiopian Red Cross says 80 percent of the country's conflict-hit Tigray region is cut off from humanitarian assistance and tens of thousands of people could starve to death. 600 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. File pictures. Graphic Mali-unrest-UN,WRAP BAMAKO Twenty United Nations peacekeepers are wounded in the latest attack on peacekeepers in jihadist-torn Mali. 400 words moved by Serge Daniel. File picture -- ASIA -- NCaledonia-Pacific-earthquake,WRAP NOUMEA, New Caledonia A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes in the South Pacific, generating a tsunami that threatens island nations in the region. 450 words 2030 GMT. Graphic. India-glacier-climate-flood,WRAP TAPOVAN, India Dozens of angry and desperate relatives of about 30 people trapped in a tunnel since a glacier disaster in India jostle with police as hopes fade that they will be found alive. 550 words moved by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Indonesia-accident-aviation,WRAP JAKARTA Indonesian pilots had reported multiple problems with an ageing jet's throttle system before it plunged into the sea after takeoff in January, killing 62 passengers and crew, investigators say. 620 words moved. Picture. Video SriLanka-environment-religion COLOMBO Sri Lankan Buddhist monks ordain the world's only known specimen of a species of local tree, in an attempt to stop it being axed to make way for a motorway. 300 words moved. Picture. -- BUSINESS AND ECONOMY -- US-economy-bank-rate-employment,WRAP WASHINGTON The US economy is a long way from a strong jobs market and the experience of past recessions show it could take years to recover, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warns. 550 words 2100 GMT by Heather Scott US-automobile-earnings-GM,WRAP NEW YORK Strong US demand for trucks and SUVs boosts General Motors' fourth-quarter profits and the company projects higher 2021 operating earnings despite up to a $2 billion hit from the global semiconductor shortage. 600 words 2200 GMT by John Biers Oil-earnings,WRAP PARIS Already under pressure due to climate change, the world's top listed oil firms have suffered historic losses in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic sent demand and prices tumbling. 500 words moved by Julien Mivielle -- SPORT -- Britain-fbl-ENG-Pr-internet-racism-Facebook-Instagram LONDON Instagram announces new measures to tackle online abuse following a spate of "horrifying" racist attacks on Premier League footballers. 500 words moved afp
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