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| - Duty Editor: Rose Troup Buchanan Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + G7 will agree on pact to stop future pandemic + Over 30,000 children risk death in Tigray: UN + Pulitzer honours teen who filmed Floyd murder + Djokovic stuns Nadal in epic French Open game + Lobster fisherman swallowed by whale survives G7-summit,WRAP CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom G7 leaders are set to agree a joint declaration aimed at preventing another pandemic, as they resume wide-ranging talks at their first in-person summit in almost two years. 650 words moved by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video. Graphic Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict-famine-aid-UN,2ndlead GENEVA Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia's conflict-wracked Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations says. 650 words moved by Nina Larson US-media-Pulitzer,WRAP NEW YORK The Pulitzer Prize Board awards a "special citation" to the teenager whose video of the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice. 400 words moved. File picture Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic compares defeating Rafael Nadal at the French Open to scaling Mount Everest as he hails his epic semi-final triumph over the 13-time champion as "one of my greatest victories". 700 words moved by Dave James. Picture. Graphic US-animal-offbeat NEW YORK It sounds like a real-life take on "Pinocchio" -- a US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale and yet lived to tell the story after being spit back out. 400 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Europe-vaccines-EMA,INTERVIEW THE HAGUE The head of the European Medicines Agency tells AFP that all countries must have access to coronavirus vaccines, as G7 leaders looked set to pledge to donate one billion doses to poor nations. 650 words moved by Danny Kemp. Video. Picture -- G7 SUMMIT -- G7-summit-health-virus-Britain-aid-education,FOCUS CARBIS Bay, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson is championing solidarity at the G7 summit, defying criticism of cuts to UK foreign aid by sharing millions of Covid vaccines with poor countries and promoting schooling for vulnerable children. 600 words moved by Martine Pauwels. Picture. Video G7-summit-France-US-diplomacy,FOCUS CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom Emmanuel Macron's warm gestures and small talk hides the French president's frustration with Joe Biden, as his US counterpart bids to put Washington front and centre of global efforts to tackle a range of issues he has previously championed. 650 words moved by Laurence Benhamou. Picture. Video Also moved: G7-summit-demonstration-US-Biden-Britain-royals -- AMERICAS -- US-China-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States and China clash in rare talks as President Joe Biden makes his international debut at the G7 summit, with his administration pressing Beijing on Covid, Taiwan and human rights. 600 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Ludovic Ehret in Beijing US-politics-IT-antitrust,LEAD WASHINGTON US lawmakers unveil sweeping antitrust measures aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms including Apple and Facebook, in what may be the most ambitious effort in decades to break corporate monopolies. 600 words moved US-politics-election-law-discrimination,LEAD WASHINGTON The United States announces a crackdown on voting discrimination amid a Republican effort to tighten poll laws that is widely seen as aimed at Black voters. 500 words moved Peru-vote,WRAP LIMA Peru's disputed presidential vote has not shown any "serious irregularities", international election monitors say, as the country's caretaker leader urges calm after five days of rising tensions without a result from the cliffhanger poll. 700 words moved by Francisco Jara and Luis Jamie Cisneros. Picture. Video. Graphic Science-space-Japan-mice,FOCUS WASHINGTON Japanese researchers found mouse sperm exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation for nearly six years produced a large brood of healthy, unremarkable "space pups." 600 words moved by Philip Van Slooten and Lucie Auborg. Picture -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-Politics HONG KONG Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow is released from prison on the second anniversary of the city's huge democracy rallies, with police out in force and protests now all but banned. 600 words moved by Yan Zhao. Video. Picture. Live video Health-virus-Afghanistan,FOCUS KABUL On his emergency room bed in Afghanistan's capital, you can barely hear Said Ali Shah speak through the oxygen mask plastered to his face. He is only just able to sit up after four days in intensive care. "No, no, no," he gasped, "I don't have the coronavirus." 550 words moved by Mushtaq Mojaddidi. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-softball-AUS-Japan-health-virus,INTERVIEW TOKYO No meeting fans, no eating out and no sightseeing -- life in the Tokyo Olympic bubble could be "challenging" for athletes, the first team to arrive in Japan has warned. 600 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-NIreland-trade,WRAP ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom Britain hits back at French President Emmanuel Macron's uncompromising stance on Brexit, in a simmering row over new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland. 550 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Algeria-vote,WRAP ALGIERS Algerians vote in parliamentary elections as authorities seek to bolster their legitimacy and snuff out a long-running protest movement, under what activists say is a "climate of repression". 650 words 0800 GMT by Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret in Tunis. Picture. Graphic. Video Mali-France-Sahel-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO Mali announces a new government in which key roles are retained by army figures, as Bamako comes under pressure from ally France's troop drawdown in the war-torn Sahel and attacks on its 'putschist' president. 750 words moved by Amaury Hauchard with Armel Baily in Ouagadougou. Picture. Video France-Mali-military-media-conflict,WRAP PARIS French soldiers have killed a Malian jihadist suspected of being responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two French journalists in 2013, Defence Minister Florence Parly says. 600 words moved -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-ITA-TUR ROME Italy get their Euro 2020 campaign off the mark with an impressive 3-0 win over Turkey in the curtain-raiser for the postponed continental tournament in front of their home fans in Rome. 600 words moved by Emmeline Moore. Picture. Graphic afp
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