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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump resurfaces after election loss + UN says possible war crimes in Ethiopia conflict + India-Pakistan in deadly Kashmir clash + Five years on, Paris attacks remembered + Scots party after earning Euro 2020 spot US-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump, who has almost vanished from public view since his reelection loss, emerges for a White House meeting on the race for a Covid-19 vaccine. 600 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA The United Nations warns of possible war crimes in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray, after 10 days of fighting that the country's prime minister claims has his enemy "in the final throes of death". 800 words 1530 GMT Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Ethiopia-unrest-politics-Abiy,PROFILE India-Pakistan-conflict-Kashmir SRINAGAR Indian and Pakistani forces wage their biggest artillery battle in several months on their disputed Kashmir frontier, leaving more than 10 dead and dozens injured. 400 words 1530 GMT. File Picture France-attacks,WRAP PARIS France marks five years since the jihadist attacks that caused carnage in central Paris, with the psychological wounds still raw and the country on edge due to the ongoing security threat. 600 words 1530 GMT by Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Fbl-Euro-2020-SCO-Scotland-health-virus,REAX GLASGOW Scotland fans sang on the streets, played bagpipes and flouted strict Covid-19 pandemic restrictions by gathering to climb a statue in Glasgow after the national football team qualified for a first major tournament since 1998. 550 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture Also moved: Fbl-Euro-2020-NMacedonia-MKD-politics -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW YORK Bars and restaurants in New York shut early as part of fresh measures designed to slow surging coronavirus infections as the number of daily global virus deaths surpasses 10,000 for the first time. 650 words 1600 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccine-developing-nations,FOCUS PARIS Hailed as a pandemic game-changer for rich countries who pre-ordered, experts warn that hurdles remain for developing nations to access the new Covid-19 vaccine, ranging from cost to storage. 1,000 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-Germany-schools-ventilation,FOCUS MAINZ-BRETZENHEIM, Germany Keeping the windows open to combat Covid-19 is easier said than done as winter approaches. One German school believes it has found a cheap and simple solution with a DIY ventilation system designed by a teacher's scientist husband. 650 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy,FOCUS NAPLES The southern Italian city of Naples braces for further coronavirus restrictions as hospitals risk becoming overwhelmed by new cases, with medics forced to treat patients in their cars. 600 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Palestinians-restaurant,FOCUS BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories When the coronavirus pandemic left Bethlehem without its hordes of visitors, tour guide Raed Bannura found a new source of income -- a restaurant called "Corona Sandwich." 500 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video -- US VOTE -- US-vote-law-ethics,FOCUS WASHINGTON Written in giant capital letters, it's nearly impossible to miss the message emblazoned along a San Francisco street targeting a US law firm: "Jones Day: Hands off our ballots." 750 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture China-US-politics,WRAP BEIJING China congratulates US President-elect Joe Biden nearly a week after he was declared winner of the American election, saying it respects "the choice of the American people". 450 words moved. Video -- EUROPE -- Belarus-opposition-politics-demonstration,WRAP MOSCOW Thousands of demonstrators turn out in the Belarusian capital Minsk to protest at the death of an artist after police arrested him earlier this week. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Britain-politics,WRAP LONDON Dominic Cummings, the controversial mastermind of the 2016 campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, will quit as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top aide once Brexit is completed later this year, according to reports. 650 words moved by Joe Jackson. Picture. File video Also moved: Britain-politics-Cummings,PROFILE Britain-crime-murder-Ripper,WRAP LONDON "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women in a reign of terror in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s, dies behind bars aged 74. 650 words moved by Callum Paton Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabak,WRAP KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan Villagers in the mountainous hamlet of Nor Getachen in disputed territory in Azerbaijan pile sofas, washing machines and suitcases outside their homes as they prepare to flee. 450 words 1430 GMT by Herve Bar. Picture. Video Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,SCENE Cyprus-Turkey-diplomacy,FOCUS VAROSHA, Cyprus Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning a controversial "picnic" Sunday in a once-famed Cyprus resort that has been left to rot since its Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled advancing Turkish troops in 1974. 750 words moved by Odul Asik Ulker with Burcin Gercek in Ankara. Picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-France-jihadist,WRAP PARIS Troops with France's anti-jihadist force in Mali kill the military commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned group linked to attacks in the region, the defence minister announces. 600 words 1530 GMT by Didier Lauras with Amaury Hauchard in Ouagadougou Nigeria-art-culture-history ABUJA Nigeria intends to build a new museum over the next four years that could exhibit looted Benin bronzes currently displayed in European and American museums, officials say. 400 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- WSahara-conflict-Morocco-Mauritania,WRAP RABAT The pro-independence Polisario Front declares the end of a three-decade-old ceasefire in the disputed Western Sahara after Morocco launched an operation to reopen a road to neighbouring Mauritania. 700 words 1600 GMT by Sophie Pons. File Picture EU-migrants-Libya,WRAP TRIPOLI Twenty migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, Doctors Without Borders says, raising to almost 100 the death toll from two such Mediterranean tragedies the same day. 450 words moved. Picture. Video Iraq-conflict-displaced,FOCUS HABBANIYAH TOURIST CAMP, Iraq Shredded tarp flutters from what were once thousands of tent homes; after years hosting displaced Iraqis, the vast camp was emptied as part of a sudden government push. 800 words moved by Maya Gebeily. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-disability,FOCUS DAMASCUS One is deaf and mute, the other is paralysed from the waist down; but best friends Ahmad and Bader have form a duo helping each other to survive in war-torn Syria. 650 words moved by Maher Al-Mounes. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-vote,WRAP YANGON Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party secures an absolute majority in Myanmar's election, official results show, in a poll disputed by the military-aligned opposition and criticised by rights groups. 550 words moved by Su Myat Mon and Richard Sargent. Picture. File video Pakistan-India-heritage-entertainment-film-Bollywood,FOCUS PESHAWAR, Pakistan Tucked away near the centuries-old Storytellers' Bazaar, the decaying Pakistani mansions once home to Bollywood superstars are being brought back to life as Peshawar emerges from years of Islamist militancy. 800 words moved by Sajjad Tarakzai. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Golf-Masters,WRAP AUGUSTA, Georgia Third-ranked Justin Thomas is set to challenge Amen Corner while top-ranked Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy seek a spark as the opening round of the 84th Masters resumes. 600 words 1530 GMT by Jim Slater. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-Britain-royals-television-drama,FOCUS LONDON More than two decades after her death, princess Diana's ill-fated entry into the British royal family is the main storyline in the long-awaited fourth season of the hit Netflix drama "The Crown". 700 words moved by Pauline Froissart. File picture afp
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