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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Typhoon lashes North and South Korea + Ship with 6,000 cows 'sinks' off Japan + Pressure on Merkel to get tough on Russia + Biden to visit Kenosha in campaign boost + Arctic fires spark record CO2 emissions SKorea-NKorea-typhoon-weather,2ndlead BUSAN, South Korea A powerful typhoon drenches both Koreas, killing at least one person in the South and inundating streets across a port in the North as it churns its way up the peninsula. 450 words moved. Picture. Video Japan-Philippines-weather-shipping-accident,lead TOKYO A cargo ship carrying 43 crew and about 6,000 cows sank at sea after transmitting a distress signal during a typhoon off Japan, according to a survivor rescued by the country's coast guard. 400 words 0930 GMT Germany-Russia-politics-diplomacy-Navalny,FOCUS BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces mounting pressure to toughen her ambivalent stance toward Russia following her announcement Berlin has "unequivocal" proof that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent. 600 words 1100 GMT by Deborah Cole. File picture US-racism-politics-Biden-Kenosha,WRAP WILMINGTON, Delaware Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, Wisconsin to help "heal" the city shaken by racially charged unrest and show presidential rival Donald Trump that he is re-entering the campaign arena after months of caution over coronavirus. 650 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-finances Climate-wildfires-Arctic-Russia,lead PARIS This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation programme says. 500 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- EUROPE -- Slovakia-politics-media-trial-crime,WRAP PEZINOK, Slovakia A court acquits a Slovak businessman of masterminding a journalist's murder in a case that shocked the nation and exposed high-level political corruption, and ultimately toppled the governing party. 500 words 1000 GMT by Laszlo Juhasz. Russia-heritage-housing,FOCUS TVER, Russia An elegant complex of red brick buildings, the "Proletarka" in the Russian city of Tver was designed as model housing for workers. But a century later, its impoverished residents are living in squalor. 700 words moved by Marina Lapenkova. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-UAE-US-diplomacy-Arab-culture,FOCUS JERUSALEM The United Arab Emirates' move to pursue normalisation with Israel has prompted a backlash from Arab artists and intellectuals, who are boycotting Emirati-backed cultural awards and events to support the Palestinian cause. 700 words moved by Hiba Aslan -- AMERICAS -- US-ICC-sanction-rights-warcrimes,WRAP WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slaps sanctions on the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court -- a move that the Hague-based tribunal called a "serious" attack against the rule of law. 550 words moved by Paul Handley. File picture US-police-investigation NEW YORK New York state's attorney general investigates the March death of a black man after video footage emerged this week of him being hooded by police and forced face down in a road. 450 words 0930 GMT Health-virus-Canada-sex OTTAWA Canada's chief public health officer has urged couples to wear masks during sex to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. 200 words moved US-politics-vote-Trump-conspiracies,FOCUS WASHINGTON Eight weeks ahead of the US election, President Donald Trump is hurtling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, filled with black-clad saboteurs, "dark shadows," the deep state, QAnon, and lurid claims he is victim of a coup and/or plans to rig the polls. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Jamaica-politics-vote,WRAP KINGSTON Jamaicans head to the polls for general elections amid soaring coronavirus infections and rising criticisms about the government's handling of the pandemic. 650 words moved by Andre Rich US-health-virus-Florida-Hemingway,FOCUS KEY WEST, Florida Starved of international visitors, the house once inhabited by writer Ernest Hemingway in the Florida Keys has struggled to stay open. Almost all of its staff have been laid off during the coronavirus pandemic, yet the six-toed cats who live there still attract locals to the site. 600 words moved by Leila Macor. Picture Brazil-environment-transport,FOCUS NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil With his feather headdress and body paint, chief Beppronti Mekragnotire doesn't seem to have much in common with trucker Sergio Sorresino, but they share a cause: neither wants a railroad built across the Amazon rainforest. 650 words moved by Jordi Miro. File picture US-health-virus-education,FOCUS NEW YORK As the first day of school approaches, New York's poorest, often uninsured families face a risky choice: send kids to school where they could contract coronavirus, or keep them home for online classes, potentially compromising their academic progress and preventing parents from working. 700 words moved by Laura Bonilla. Picture. Video Belize-hurricane-weather GUATEMALA CITY Central American countries prepare for the onslaught of Hurricane Nana, which hit the coast of Belize during Thursday's early hours. 300 words moved. Graphic -- ASIA -- China-homosexuality-law BEIJING A Chinese LGBT activist has lost her legal bid to get a university textbook corrected for describing gay people as suffering from a "common psychosexual disorder". 400 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-India-education-children SOLAPUR, India Out on a street in an Indian village, half a dozen children gather around their teacher who points a stick at the diagrams on a wall, one of many murals in the neighbourhood being used to help poor students keep up with their education during the coronavirus pandemic. 450 words moved. Picture -- ECONOMY -- Health-virus-France-economy-budget,WRAP PARIS The French government says jobs are the number one priority as it prepares to unleash a mammoth spending plan for the coronavirus-hit economy. 650 words 1100 GMT by Marie Heuclin -- SPORTS -- Tennis-Open-USA,WRAP NEW YORK Novak Djokovic overcomes an early scare to move into the third round of the US Open but top women's seed Karolina Pliskova crashes out in the tournament's first shock. 600 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Graphic Golf-Asia-health-virus,FOCUS HONG KONG While the world's top golfers play for an almost obscene $45 million prize fund at the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta on Friday, many of their fellow pros in Asia will not have swung a club, or earned a cent, for six months. 750 words moved by Daniel Hicks. File Picture afp
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