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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + WHO faces virus probe after Trump ultimatum + Mass evacuations as cyclone threatens South Asia + Court curbs German spies' foreign web surveillance + COVID-19 gives Trump stage for pet medical theories + Chinese family reunited 32 years after toddler kidnap Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA World Health Organization member states agree to launch an investigation into its coronavirus response, after US President Donald Trump threatened to quit the UN agency and branded it a "puppet of China". 950 words 2100 GMT by Nina Larson with Michael Mathes in Washington and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-WHO-assembly,2ndlead India-Bangladesh-weather-cyclone KHULNA, Bangladesh The Bay of Bengal's fiercest cyclone this century is bearing down on millions of people in eastern India and Bangladesh, with forecasts of a potentially devastating and deadly storm surge. 600 words 2000 GMT by Sam Jahan with Sailendra Sil in Kolkata. Graphic. Picture Also moving: India-Bangladesh-weather-cyclone,FACTS Germany-espionage-court-rights,2ndlead KARLSRUHE, Germany Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND) is not allowed to spy on internet data from foreigners abroad, the country's top court rules, siding with a complaint brought by journalists overseas. 500 words moved Health-virus-US-Trump-doctors,FOCUS WASHINGTON While US President Donald Trump admits he's not actually a doctor, he's long been convinced of his natural scientific talents -- and the coronavirus pandemic is proving a big stage for his unproven pet theories. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture China-crime-family-rights BEIJING A Chinese man kidnapped as a toddler 32 years ago has been reunited with his biological parents, after police used facial recognition technology to help track him down. 400 words moved by Poornima Weerasekara. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Canada-retail OTTAWA "I'm smiling behind the mask," says the owner of an Ottawa clothing store that has been permitted to reopen along with many shops across Canada as authorities begin easing a two-month lockdown. 550 words 2200 GMT by Michel Comte. Picture Health-virus-US-Texas-economy,FOCUS HOUSTON Restaurants in Texas have been serving diners for more than two weeks, though at just 25 percent of capacity, and bars and many other businesses will open their doors this week. But some worry the Lone Star State is playing with fire, given the steady rise in coronavirus cases. 700 words moved by Julia Benarrous. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-indigenous,VIDEOESSAY MANAUS, Brazil Far from lab coat and face mask territory, a group of indigenous healers with feather and leaf headdresses is working its way up the Amazon river, looking for medicinal plants to treat the new coronavirus. 400 words moved by Fernando Crispim Sanches, with Eugenia Logiuratto in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Russia MOSCOW Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin returns to his duties after recovering from the coronavirus, as officials say the crisis is easing despite total infections approaching 300,000. 600 words moved by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video Health-virus-EU-Germany-France-Merkel-politics,FOCUS BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel will need to spend much of the political capital she banked during the coronavirus pandemic to rally Germans behind a massive EU recovery package agreed with France that marks a sharp break with Berlin's budget orthodoxy. 750 words moved by Deborah Cole. File picture. File video France-politics-Macron-parliament PARIS Left-leaning lawmakers defect to rob President Emmanuel Macron's party of its outright majority in France's National Assembly in a symbolic but non-paralysing setback for the embattled reformist leader. 400 words moved -- AFRICA -- Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France,lead PARIS A Rwandan tycoon charged over the country's 1994 genocide and arrested in France this weekend after some 25 years will challenge a bid to extradite him to an international court, his lawyers said 450 words moved. Picture Lesotho-politics-Thabane,WRAP MASERU Lesotho's beleaguered prime minister Thomas Thabane resigns, ending a months-long political crisis that engulfed the kingdom after he was accused of playing a conspiratory role in the 2017 murder of his estranged wife. 600 words moved by Pascalinah Kabi. File picture. Video Health-virus-Africa,FOCUS LAGOS African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the outbreak worsening the impact of other killer diseases. 800 words moved by Sophie Bouillon -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-trial-Netanyahu,2ndlead JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyers ask a Jerusalem court for their client to be exempted from attending the start of his impending corruption trial. 450 words moved Libya-Syria-Russia-conflict,FOCUS BEIRUT While a ceasefire in Syria has reduced combat between rebels and government forces, mercenaries from both sides are still fighting in Libya on behalf of their Russian and Turkish backers. 600 words 1930 GMT. File picture Health-virus-Kuwait-marriage,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Abu Othman, like thousands of Kuwaiti men, struggles to split his time between two wives living in separate homes as the Gulf state imposes a total lockdown to combat the coronavirus. 700 words moved -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-Kunduz,WRAP KUNDUZ, Afghanistan Eight Afghan soldiers are killed while repelling a fierce Taliban attack on Kunduz, a strategic city in northern Afghanistan that had briefly fallen to the militants twice in the past. 700 words moved by Hakin Hasas, with Emal Haidary in Kabul. Picture. Video Australia-China-trade-tariff-barley,lead SYDNEY Australia threatens to take China to the World Trade Organisation to counter a fresh round of punitive sanctions, as the two countries clash over an investigation into the origins and spread of the coronavirus. 700 words moved by Holly Robertson. Picture. Health-virus-China-vaccines,FOCUS BEIJING A Chinese laboratory says it has developed a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt, shortening the recovery time for those infected and even offering short-term immunity. 650 words moved by Qian Ye and Matthew Knight. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-US-economy WASHINGTON The US economy risks suffering "permanent damage" the longer the lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warns lawmakers. 500 words moved by Heather Scott. Picture US-retail-earnings-Walmart NEW YORK Booming demand for groceries and essential items lifts Walmart's first-quarter profits, even as the company struggles during the coronavirus crisis to replenish key items like toilet paper and cleaning supplies. 600 words 2100 GMT by John Biers -- SPORTS -- Badminton-MAS-CHN-Lee-Lin,FOCUS KUALA LUMPUR Fifteen years ago in a packed Kuala Lumpur stadium, rising stars Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei met in a final for the first time, setting the stage for what would become badminton's greatest rivalry. 700 words moved by Sam Reeves and M. Jegathesan. File picture afp
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