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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + North Korea blows up liaison office with South + India says three soldiers killed in clash on Chinese border + China virus clusters growing, new cases in NZ + Trump to slash troop numbers in Germany + Europe's predators regain turf in virus lockdown NKorea-SKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korea blows up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang. 650 words 1030 GMT by Kang Jin-kyu. File picture. Graphic Also moved: NKorea-SKorea-diplomacy-office,FACTS India-China-conflict,WRAP NEW DELHI Three Indian soldiers have been killed in a "violent face-off" on the Chinese border, the Indian army says, following weeks of rising tensions and the deployment of thousands of extra troops from both sides. 600 words 0930 GMT by Bhuvan Bagga with Parvaiz Bukhari in Srinagar and Jing Xuan Teng in Beijing. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING More than two dozen new coronavirus cases in China and the first New Zealand infections in almost a month underline the immense challenges still ahead in containing the deadly pandemic. 650 words 1100 GMT by Beiyi Seow and Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Germany-NATO-military-politics-trade,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says he will halve the number of US troops in Germany because Berlin is "delinquent" in contributions to NATO and treats the United States "badly" on trade. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Health-virus-conservation-Europe-environment-wildlife,FOCUS PARIS Four wolves chase a herd of red deer through the central Italian town of Scanno, passing across front lawns and shuttered restaurant terraces. Across Europe and around the world, stay-at-home orders have allowed some animals to recolonise -- or at least revisit -- urbanised spaces, in which their kind once roamed free. 1,200 words moved by Phineas Rueckert. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-police-racism-shooting-politics,WRAP ATLANTA, Georgia The mayor of Atlanta orders immediate police reforms after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in the US city sparked further outrage over the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement. 750 words moved by Wes Bruer and Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video Also moved: US-police-racism-shooting-politics-Bottoms,PROFILE US-politics-unrest-racism-police-law,FOCUS US-politics-Trump-rally-health-virus,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Donald Trump rejects pleas from Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to risk aggravating coronavirus risks by holding a rally there, announcing he wants to triple the crowd to 60,000 people. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics-farright-homicide-trial,UPDATE FRANKFURT A German neo-Nazi goes on trial for the murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke, a killing that shocked the country and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism. 650 words 0930 GMT by Annalena Doerner. Picture Health-virus-Germany-pandemic,FOCUS COLOGNE, Germany A team of medical students pressed into service by Cologne's public health office are scrambling to cut off potential new chains of coronavirus infections by endlessly repeating the same questions. 650 words 1200 GMT by Jean-Philippe Lacour. Picture. Video Health-virus-Hungary-politics,WRAP BUDAPEST Hungary is set to revoke anti-coronavirus emergency powers that triggered international criticism amid fears of a power grab by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. 600 words 1300 GMT by Peter Murphy. Picture Health-virus-Britain-politics-fbl-ENG,lead LONDON England footballer Marcus Rashford steps up his campaign for the government to extend free meals for the poorest children, drawing widespread political support amid growing concerns about families struggling with the coronavirus lockdown. 600 words 1100 GMT by Alice Ritchie. File picture. France-Britain-politics-history-diplomacy,ADVANCER PARIS President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday marks 80 years since Charles de Gaulle's celebrated call on France not to give in to the Nazis, with a hugely symbolic trip to Britain that will be his first visit abroad since the coronavirus epidemic began in earnest. 600 words 1030 GMT by Stuart Williams. Switzerland-US-politics-racism-police-Nigeria,FOCUS GENEVA George Floyd's shocking death in police custody in the US has sparked belated soul-searching in Switzerland over the death of a Nigerian man two years ago in Lausanne in seemingly similar circumstances. 700 words moved by Agnes Pedrero. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Yemen-conflict-UN-children-rights-Saudi,lead UNITED NATIONS Campaigners react angrily to the removal of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children's rights, in a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 450 words moved by Philippe Rater Health-virus-Saudi-hajj,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia is expected to scale back or call off this year's hajj pilgrimage for the first time in its modern history, observers say, a perilous decision as coronavirus cases spike. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra with AFP bureaus. File picture. File video Libya-conflict-landmines,FOCUS TRIPOLI The smell of gunpowder still lingered in the battle-scarred south of Libya's capital when Hicham Suleiman, a teacher in his 50s, cautiously returned to his home, anxious about booby traps like the one that killed his neighbour. 800 words moved by Jihad Dorgham. Picture Health-Virus-Israel-technology,FOCUS ASHKELON, Israel An Israeli company is monitoring coronavirus traces in a coastal city's sewers, hoping to widely deploy its technology to provide early warning of new outbreaks of the respiratory disease. 750 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- India-health-virus-monsoon-disease,FOCUS MUMBAI With hospitals already severely stretched, coronavirus-hit India is now bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, with an overwhelmed army of public health workers the only defence. 700 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly. Picture. Video Virus-health-Japan-computers-lifestyle-women-geisha,FOCUS HAKONE, Japan Japanese geisha "Chacha" sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not metres but miles away, watching online. 700 words moved by Harumi Ozawa. Picture. Video Australia-indigenous-music-health-virus,FOCUS BRISBANE, Australia Aboriginal musicians used to performing for a few hundred people in Australia's remote far north have seen audiences swell by the tens-of-thousands as their online gigs go global during the pandemic. 600 words moved by Holly Robertson. Picture -- ENVIRONMENT -- Health-virus-climate-science-Lovelock,INTERVIEW PARIS James Lovelock -- founder of the Gaia theory and, arguably, the field of Earth system science -- thinks the world has lost perspective in responding to the new coronavirus, and should focus on a far more formidable foe: global warming. 750 words moved by Marlowe Hood. File picture -- SPORTS -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-health-virus,PREVIEW LONDON The Premier League returns on Wednesday after 100 days in the deep freeze, with Liverpool on the brink of winning the title in a radically changed football universe. 700 words moved by Steven Griffiths. File picture Also moved: Fbl-ENG-Pr-fixtures Health-virus-fbl-ENG-Pr-HongKong,FOCUS HONG KONG The thousands of coronavirus tests that have enabled the Premier League to return this week have an unlikely source -- a little-known start-up in Hong Kong. 450 words moved by Talek Harris. Picture. Video Fbl-Asia-CHN-Tibet SHANGHAI Tibet's first and only professional football team has become the latest in a string of Chinese clubs to fold, following a row over hosting matches in one of the highest cities in the world. 450 words moved by Peter Stebbings. File picture afp
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