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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Facebook to lift Australia news ban + Myanmar generals face renewed pressure + Mass demos in Georgia after opposition arrest + Malta journalist murder suspect pleads guilty + From Apu to Aladdin: why white voices will no longer do Australia-media-IT-Facebook-Google,WRAP SYDNEY Facebook says it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news and pay local media companies for content, after a last-gasp deal on pending landmark legislation. 700 words moved by Andrew Beatty Also moved: Australia-US-internet-media-Facebook-Google,Q&A Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's military leaders come under renewed pressure as the world's wealthiest nations condemn the junta for responding to anti-coup demonstrators "with violence", a rebuke coming on the heels of tightened sanctions from Washington and Brussels. 700 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Georgia-politics-opposition-arrest,WRAP TBILISI Thousands of anti-government protesters rally in Georgia after the arrest of an opposition leader, deepening a political crisis that erupted after disputed elections last year. 650 words moved by Irakli Metreveli. Picture. Video Malta-crime-politics-media,WRAP VALLETTA One of three men accused of carrying out the 2017 assassination of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia pleads guilty, in a major development in the case that rocked the tiny republic. 550 words 1500 GMT by Albert Galea Entertainment-US-film-racism,FACTS PARIS White actor Harry Shearer is stepping back from voicing the black Dr. Hibbert on "The Simpsons" after more than 30 years. While some fans are mourning his departure -- the latest white actor to think better of playing non-white parts -- others are shocked and surprised that Springfield's favourite medical professional was as white as his lab coat. 550 words moved by Natalie Handel. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- India-animal-conservation-health-lions,FEATURE GIR NATIONAL PARK, India Three years after a deadly virus struck India's endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free. 650 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video -- CLIMATE -- UN-climate-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Veteran British naturalist David Attenborough and Prime Minister Boris Johnson make direct pleas to the UN Security Council to take "urgent action" on climate change or face worsening global instability. 550 words 1500 GMT by Issam Ahmed -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Ukraine-vaccines,lead KIEV After several delays, Ukraine finally receives its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines and says it will start inoculations "as soon as possible". 400 words moved by Olga Shylenko. Picture Health-virus-Tunisia-funerals,VIDEO ESSAY TUNIS Lotfi Jlassi faces Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of Covid-19, and says a prayer -- one of the few rites still allowed in Tunisia's pared back funerals. 550 words moved by Aymen Jamli. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-unrest,WRAP WASHINGTON Law enforcement officials blamed for mishandling the January 6 attack on the US Capitol testify in the Senate amid ongoing questions over what happened that day. 500 words 1600 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture US-Canada-diplomacy-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet virtually to smooth over the troubled waters of the Donald Trump era, though the US scrapping of a huge oil pipeline project will rankle. 500 words 1600 GMT by Sebastian Smith and Michael Mathes. File picture US-politics-extremism-rights-internet,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Gab instead of Twitter, MeWe over Facebook, Telegram for messaging and Discord for insiders -- banned from mainstream platforms, US conspiracy and supremacist movements, many of which support Donald Trump, have shifted to networks that are more confidential, and harder to regulate. 800 words moved by Julie Jammot Health-virus-CentrAm-hunger-climate GENEVA The United Nations warns that hunger levels are soaring across much of Central America as countries battle economic crises sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic and extreme climate events. 500 words moved by Nina Larson -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-politics-IAEA,WRAP TEHRAN Iran starts to restrict some site inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog in response to the US failure so far to lift sanctions imposed by former president Donald Trump. 600 words 1600 GMT. Picture. Video Israel-Bedouin-anthropology-education,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's Negev desert. 700 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest-Italy,WRAP KINSHASA Grim details emerge about the killing of Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo while on a field trip in the country's dangerous east, as a Rwandan Hutu rebel group denies accusations that it was behind the attack. 700 words moved by Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya. Pictures. Graphic. Video Ethiopia-unrest-Sudan-refugees-UN GENEVA Around 7,000 people have fled rapidly-escalating communal violence in western Ethiopia, seeking safety in neighbouring Sudan, the United Nations says. 350 words moved -- ASIA -- Malaysia-Myanmar-politics-migration,WRAP LUMUT, Malaysia Malaysia deports more than 1,000 Myanmar detainees back to their strife-torn homeland just weeks after a coup, despite a court order halting the repatriation and a storm of criticism. 600 words moved by M. Jegathesan. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-lawyer,INTERVIEW BANGKOK Staying in different lodgings each night to evade arrest, the lawyer representing Aung San Suu Kyi says her trial will help determine whether Myanmar's people again become "slaves" of the military. 600 words moved by Dene-Hern Chen. File picture HongKong-China-politics HONG KONG Hong Kong announces plans to ramp up the ideological vetting of politicians and officials, with anyone seen to be disloyal to China or a national security threat barred from office. 500 words moved -- EUROPE -- Spain-politics-history-coup,WRAP MADRID Spain marks 40 years since a failed military coup, but without the presence of former king Juan Carlos whose intervention helped stop the crisis, steering the nation toward democracy. 600 words moved by Hazel Ward. Picture. Video -- CENTRAL ASIA -- Turkmenistan-politics-family,FOCUS ALMATY Authoritarian Turkmenistan, where state media fawn over the president jamming with his grandson while his favourite animals are honoured with gold statues, may be edging towards family rule. 750 words 1530 GMT by Christopher Rickleton. File picture -- ECONOMY -- US-economy-bank-rate-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell opens two days of testimony before Congress where he is expected to again downplay the risks of inflation and promise to keep interest rates low for an extended period. 600 words 1800 GMT by Heather Scott Employment-labour-internet-UN-health-virus GENEVA The Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the rise of digital labour platforms, making internationally-agreed regulations imperative to ensure their workers get properly paid, says the United Nations. 600 words 1530 GMT by Agnes Pedrero -- SPACE -- US-space-Spacex,INTERVIEW NEW YORK By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux won't just be among the first "space tourists" to enter orbit without a professional astronaut. The 29-year-old will also be the youngest American and first childhood cancer survivor in space. 600 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Murphy,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Thirty years before "Black Panther," Eddie Murphy's 1980s comedy classic "Coming to America" disproved the stubborn Hollywood myth that films with Black casts flop overseas; Now Murphy has decided it's time for a sequel: "Coming 2 America." 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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