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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Coronavirus cases reach 100,000 worldwide + Princes detained in Saudi over 'coup plot' + Ronaldinho arrested in fake passports row + Oil prices collapse as growth fears mount + Woody Allen memoir scrapped over backlash Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING The number of cases from the new coronavirus tops 100,000 worldwide as official data show the impact of the outbreak on Chinese exports, after much of the country was brought to a halt. 750 words 0530 GMT by Helen Roxburgh and AFP bureaux. Picture. Video. Graphic Saudi-politics-royal-crackdown,WRAP RIYADH Saudi authorities have detained three royal family members including two senior princes, the US media report, signalling the powerful crown prince is further tightening his grip on power. 550 words moved Fbl-PAR-BRA-Brazil-Paraguay-Ronaldinho-investigation,WRAP ASUNCION Former Brazilian football star Ronaldinho and his brother were arrested in Asuncion, Paraguay's public ministry says, after entering the country on fake passports. 500 words moved. Picture OPEC-oil-energy-politics,WRAP VIENNA OPEC and its allies fail to reach a deal on oil production cut after Moscow refuses to tighten supply to counter the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, sending oil prices tumbling. 650 words moved by Benoit Pelegrin. Picture. Video US-entertainment-film-books-Allen-Hachette,WRAP NEW YORK A leading publisher scraps plans to release the autobiography of filmmaker Woody Allen, who has long been accused of molesting his daughter, following an outcry and a staff walkout. 600 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-epidemic-China-gender,FOCUS BEIJING China's fight against the coronavirus epidemic has triggered anger over the neglect of frontline female workers who have struggled to access menstrual products, battled with ill-fitting equipment and had their heads shaved. 650 words 0530 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng Health-virus-China-social,FOCUS BEIJING An elderly man in virus-hit China pops out to use a public toilet without wearing a compulsory face mask. The next thing he knows police are ordering him into a van to be taken into quarantine. 500 words moved by Ludovic Ehret Health-virus-US-retail,SCENE LOS ANGELES Sprinting shoppers, rationed mineral water and not a roll of toilet paper to be seen: panic-buying sparked by the new coronavirus soars in Los Angeles. 450 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture Health-virus-China-US-diplomacy-language,lead WASHINGTON The novel coronavirus is getting a new name from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- the "Wuhan virus" -- despite objections from China where the illness was first detected. 500 words moved by Shaun Tandon -- ASIA -- India-unrest-religion,SCENE NEW DELHI Hazra Begum has been living in fear since witnessing men chanting Hindu religious slogans hack, bludgeon and burn Muslims to death in Delhi's worst sectarian riots in decades. 650 words moved. Video. Picture Pakistan-media-women-rights,FOCUS LAHORE He calls himself "Pakistan's biggest feminist", but soap-opera writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar sparked a national row this week after he hurled abuse at a women's rights activist on live television. 650 words moved by Fatima Kaneez -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-entertainment-Clinton-Lewinsky,WRAP NEW YORK Bill Clinton says he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky to help him deal with the stress of being president as he opened up in a new documentary about the scandal that led to his impeachment. 500 words moved by Peter Hutchison. File picture US-Congress-aviation-accident-Boeing,WRAP WASHINGTON Boeing made missteps and withheld information about the 737 MAX while federal regulators failed to provide proper oversight, leading to a "fundamentally flawed" aircraft that demands tighter rules, a US congressional committee says. 600 words moved by Heather Scott US-politics-vote-gender,FOCUS WASHINGTON Elizabeth Warren's exit from the Democratic presidential race leaves America's highest glass ceiling still intact, prompting some to ask whether the country will ever be ready to put a woman in the White House. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture Haiti-government,FOCUS PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti finally has a new government, but without a parliament capable of giving it legitimacy and without electoral prospects, the country remains paralyzed by a political crisis with potentially devastating social, economic and security consequences. 600 words moved by Amelie Baron -- EUROPE -- Europe-migrants-Turkey-Greece,WRAP PAZARKULE, Turkey Greek police fire tear gas in clashes with migrants at the Turkish border, as Athens says a 2016 EU-Ankara deal limiting migration to Europe was "dead". 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-conflict,WRAP IDLIB, Syria Syria's war-ravaged northwest wakes up to relative calm, its skies free of warplanes for the first day in months, following a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal. 700 words moved by Omar Haj Kadour with Layal Abou Rahal in Beirut. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Syria-conflict-Turkey-Russia-ceasefire,FOCUS Syria-conflict-Idlib,CHRONO Syria-conflict-Idlib,SCENE Tunisia-attack,WRAP TUNIS Suicide attackers strike outside the US embassy in the Tunisian capital, killing a police officer, wounding six other people and once again shaking a city repeatedly hit by jihadist violence. 750 words moved by Kaouther Larbi. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AFRICA -- Guinea-constitution-vote,FOCUS CONAKRY In a dingy room reeking of blood and sweat hidden inside a gated compound in Guinea's capital Conakry, supporters of the West African state's beleaguered political opposition treat men and boys they say were injured during raids by security forces. 850 words moved by Emmet Livingstone. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-ManCity-Fernandes,PREVIEW LONDON Bruno Fernandes can cement his status as Manchester United's new talisman when the Portugal midfielder gets his first taste of the derby rivalry with Manchester City on Sunday. 600 words moved by Steven Griffiths afp
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