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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + World leaders hold online virus crisis summit + US Senate passses $2 trillion rescue package + NZ mosque shooter changes plea to guilty + Missing ex-FBI agent died in Iran custody + Fake cures, risky rumours: virus misinformation hits home Health-virus,WRAP MADRID World leaders are to hold online crisis talks on the coronavirus pandemic that has forced three billion people into lockdown and claimed more than 21,000 lives. 850 words 1000 GMT by Hazel Ward with Philippe Rater at the United Nations. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-US-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate unanimously passes the nation's largest-ever rescue package, a $2 trillion lifeline to suffering Americans, critically depleted hospitals and an economy ravaged by a rapidly spreading coronavirus crisis. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-indicator NZealand-mosques-attack-court-plea,WRAP WELLINGTON An Australian far-right extremist charged with murdering 51 Muslim worshippers in last year's mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques unexpectedly flips his plea to guilty. 600 words moved. File Picture. Video US-Iran-diplomacy-prisoners,WRAP WASHINGTON A former FBI agent who mysteriously vanished in 2007 died in Iranian custody, his family concludes, saying US intelligence had made them give up 13 years of hope. 700 words moved by Shaun Tandon Health-virus-internet-misinformation,FOCUS HONG KONG From being duped into taking poisonous "cures", to watching businesses crumble and avoiding life-saving medication, people are suffering devastating real-world impacts of a deluge of online virus misinformation. 800 words moved by Katie Forster with Uzair Rizvi in New Delhi -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-G20 RIYADH Leaders of the G20 major economies prepare to hold an online summit in a bid to fend off a coronavirus-triggered recession, after criticism the group has been slow to address the crisis. 650 words 1000 GMT by Anuj Chopra Health-virus-distancing-study PARIS The lockdown in the Chinese outbreak city of Wuhan brought the COVID-19 epidemic crashing to a halt, easing strain on health services and making the killer disease less likely to rebound in future, new research shows. 500 words 1130 GMT by Patrick Galey Health-virus-US-AI,FOCUS WASHINGTON Could artificial intelligence systems have limited or even arrested the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic? 800 words moved by Rob Lever with Julie Jammot in San Francisco -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-unrest-US-rockets,WRAP BAGHDAD Two rockets slam into the Iraqi capital's high-security Green Zone, hours before US-led forces are set to pull out of a second base in the country. 650 words 1000 GMT Yemen-conflict,Q&A DUBAI Five years after Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen's civil war, leading a military coalition to prop up the government which had been driven out of its capital, the Huthi rebels are only stronger, more resilient and gaining ground. 800 words moved. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Russia-diplomacy,FOCUS MOSCOW Since the coronavirus took hold in Europe, Moscow has been sending planes of virus experts and aid to Italy and faced accusations of spreading disinformation, flexing its "soft power" in various ways during the pandemic. 600 words 1000 GMT by Olga Rotenberg and Maxime Popov. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China,SCENE HUANGGANG, Hubei Banners hang over streets warning that playing cards together is suicide and guards yell at crowds to separate: a Chinese city near the coronavirus ground zero remains far from normal even after emerging from a two-month quarantine lockdown. 600 words 0930 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng. Photo. Video Health-virus-Bangladesh-Myanmar-Rohingya-camps KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh The sewage-soaked alleys and cramped canvas and bamboo shacks that house one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are a horrifying scene for experts watching the coronavirus pandemic creep closer. 650 words moved by Suzauddin Rubel with Sam Jahan in Dhaka. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-US-virus-comedy,FOCUS LOS ANGELES From quarreling couples to toilet paper hoarding, life under coronavirus lockdown across much of the United States has provided comedy material for those seeking light-hearted relief in these difficult times. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal Health-virus-US-China-G7-diplomacy,3rdlead WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the Group of Seven powers are united in opposing China's coronavirus "disinformation," but European allies emphasise cooperation to fight the global pandemic. 600 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Picture -- BUSINESS AND ECONOMY -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON European and leading Asian stock markets retreat once more as attention switches to early signs of devastating economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words 1130 GMT Singapore-economy-growth-health-virus,2ndlead SINGAPORE Singapore's economy suffered its biggest contraction since the financial crisis during the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic escalated, data shows, an ominous sign of the devastation being inflicted on the global economy. 600 words moved by Martin Abbugao Health-virus-economy-gold LONDON Gold, prized by investors in times of crisis as a safe haven, is experiencing surging demand in the face of the coronavirus outbreak -- from both commodity traders and retail buyers. 600 words moved by Kevin Trublet. File picture -- OLYMPICS -- Oly-2020-Tokyo-politics-virus-health-Abe,FOCUS TOKYO In 2016, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke with his staid public image to pop up in Rio dressed as Super Mario for the official handover of the Olympic Games to Tokyo. 750 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama Oly-2020-Japan-culture-manga-cartoon,FOCUS TOKYO Next to a countdown showing the number of days to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is scrawled "just cancel it". Not a scene from real life but from "Akira", a remarkably prescient cult Japanese manga series. 600 words 1000 GMT by Etienne Balmer. Picture Health-virus-Oly-2020-rowing-GBR,FOCUS LONDON British Olympic rower Polly Swann was counting down to Tokyo 2020 just days ago. Now she is considering starting her medical career early to help in the battle against the coronavirus 650 words moved by John Weaver. Picture afp
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