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| - Duty Editor: James Edgar Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Harry's 'great sadness' after losing royal titles + SARS-like virus spreads in China + World leaders commit to Libya conflict plan + Venezuela's Guaido in Colombia to meet Pompeo + Row over white models in cornrow wigs Britain-royals-Harry-Meghan,WRAP LONDON Britain's Prince Harry expresses "great sadness" at the stunning way he and his wife Meghan were stripped of their royal titles as part of a historic separation settlement with the Queen. 750 words 0200 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video China-health-virus,WRAP BEIJING China reports a mysterious SARS-like virus has spread across the country -- including to Beijing -- fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions travelling for the Lunar New Year in humanity's biggest annual migration. 550 words 0130 GMT by Laurent Thomet. Graphic. File video. Libya-conflict-summit-Germany,WRAP BERLIN World leaders commit to ending all foreign meddling in Libya's war and to uphold a weapons embargo at a Berlin summit, as part of a broader plan to end the spiralling conflict. 800 words moved by Imed Lamloum. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: Libya-conflict-summit-Germany-communique,POINTS Venezuela-US-diplomacy,WRAP CARACAS Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido surfaces in Colombia to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro enters a challenging new phase. 550 words moved by Alexander Martinez Lifestyle-France-fashion-race PARIS Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garcons is at the centre of a cultural appropriation row after it sent out white models in what appeared to be cornrow wigs at its Paris men's fashion week show. 300 words moved. Picture Also moved: Lifestyle-France-Britain-fashion-men Lifestyle-Africa-Cameroon-France-fashion-Ayissi,INTERVIEW -- AMERICAS -- US-impeachment-trial-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump's defenders and supporters skirmish over the airwaves a day after the US president's legal team dismissed his impeachment trial as unconstitutional and dangerous. 650 words moved by Brian Knowlton. Picture US-space-NASA-SpaceX,WRAP WASHINGTON SpaceX successfully tests its emergency abort system on an unmanned spacecraft moments after launch, the last major test before it plans to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. 500 words moved. Picture, Live video Paraguay-Brazil-prison,lead ASUNCION Nearly 80 prisoners, many of them members of a big Brazilian drug and arms-trafficking gang and described as "highly dangerous," escape from a Paraguayan prison near the border with Brazil, police say. 400 words 0230 GMT. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Spain-politics-Catalonia-trial-police,WRAP BARCELONA The former police chief of Catalonia goes on trial over his role in the region's failed 2017 independence bid in a move that risks fanning tensions with Catalan separatists. 600 words 0230 GMT. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- History-Holocaust-Nazis-Jews-Israel-Palestinians,ADVANCER JERUSALEM World leaders are to travel to Israel this week to mark 75 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed over a million Jews. 700 words 0230 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Yemen-conflict-politics,WRAP DUBAI More than 100 people are killed and dozens wounded in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, officials say. 750 words moved. Video. Graphic Cyprus-Turkey-energy-diplomacy,ANALYSIS NICOSIA Striving to extend its influence in the eastern Mediterranean where tensions revolve around energy resources, Turkey sees Cyprus as the weakest link in a regional alliance buffering Ankara's ambitions, analysts say. 750 words 0300 GMT by Charlie Charalambous. Picture Morocco-culture-Judaism-Islam,FOCUS ESSAOUIRA, Morocco In the old Jewish quarter of Morocco's coastal city of Essaouira, a newly-opened "House of Memory" has been dedicated to the historic coexistence of its Jewish and Muslim communities. 600 words 0300 GMT by Hamza Mekouar. Picture. Video. Lebanon-politics-protest,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanese anti-riot police disperse stone-throwing protesters with tear gas in Lebanon's capital, as heavy rain caps a weekend of rare violence that wounded hundreds. 700 words moved by Rouba El-Husseini and Tony Gamal-Gabriel. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-unrest-lifestyle,FOCUS HONG KONG Intricately detailed Hong Kong protester figurines have become the latest must-have collectables as toy stores recreate the pro-democracy movement's street battles with police in their shop displays. 700 words 0400 GMT by Yan Zhao. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- ECB-EU-eurozone-banking-inflation-rate,ADVANCER FRANKFURT European Central Bank watchers will eye the institution closely Thursday for hints about its first "strategic review" in two decades, with no change expected in its ultra-loose monetary policy settings. 650 words 0230 GMT by Tom Barfield -- SPORT -- fbl-ENG-Pr-Liverpool-ManUtd,lead LIVERPOOL, England Liverpool fans should be dreaming of a first Premier League title for 30 years, admits Jurgen Klopp even if the German is taking nothing for granted after opening up a 16-point lead at the top of the table. 600 words moved Kieran Canning. Picture Also moving: fbl-ENG-Pr-Liverpool-ManUtd,FOCUS
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