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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Saudi to hold scaled-back hajj due to virus + Trump desperate for boost after rally flop + US, Russia start nuclear weapons talks + US targets Chinese 'propaganda' outlets + Outrage at noose in black racer's garage Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,WRAP RIYADH Saudi Arabia says it will hold a scaled-down hajj, with only limited numbers of people already inside the kingdom permitted to perform the great pilgrimage, as it moves to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus. 600 words 1930 GMT by Anuj Chopra. File Picture. File Video Also moving: Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,FACTS Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,CHRONO US-politics-vote-Trump WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump is in desperate need of a political boost after a fiasco of a campaign rally in Tulsa leaves him looking like a leader detached from the multiple crises gripping the United States. 650 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. File picture. File video US-Russia-China-diplomacy-politics-disarmament-nuclear,WRAP VIENNA The United States and Russia hold talks in Vienna on their last major nuclear weapons agreement with little prospect of an imminent agreement as tensions and differences mount over whether they see any value in arms control at all. 650 words moved by Sylvie Lanteaume with Maria Panina in Moscow. Picture. Video US-China-media-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States tightens the rules on four more Chinese state media organizations, denouncing them as propaganda outlets, as it renews a battle with Beijing. 550 words 1945 GMT by Shaun Tandon Auto-USA-NASCAR-racism,lead LOS ANGELES US justice authorities say they are probing the discovery of a noose found in the garage of black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace as athletes rally in support of the trailblazing racer. 500 words 2000 GMT by Rob Woolllard. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP DUBAI Global coronavirus infections top nine million shortly after the World Health Organization warns that the pandemic is accelerating, even as France takes its biggest step yet back to normality by allowing millions of children to return to school. 750 words 2000 GMT by Mohamad Ali Harissi with Isabelle Tourne in Paris. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-WHO,2ndlead Health-virus-Italy-transport-tourism,FOCUS Health-virus-US NEW YORK New York businesses open their doors to returning waves of workers as the city that was once the epicenter of the global pandemic marked an important milestone in its return to normalcy, even as other US states are seeing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases. 700 words 2030 GMT by Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- EU-China-diplomacy-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS The EU warns China it would face "very negative consequences" if it presses ahead with a new security law for Hong Kong, stepping up pressure on Beijing over the controversial legislation. 700 words 1930 GMT by Damon Wake. Picture. Video Britain-politics-police-stabbings,WRAP READING, UK Britain's interior minister vows tougher action against extremism after three people, including a US citizen, were stabbed to death in a park, the third terror-related knife attack in a year. 650 words moved by Ben Stansall with David Harding in London. Picture. Video France-children-missing VILLE-SUR-LUMES, France French forensics experts begin a grim search for the remains of a nine-year-old girl who disappeared 17 years ago, after a serial killer recently confessed to her murder. 450 wortds moved by Dominique Charton and Eleonore Dermy Russia-court-film-politics,lead MOSCOW Russian prosecutors on call for a six-year prison sentence for acclaimed director Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of embezzling public funds in a case that has stirred criticism at home and abroad. 450 words 1930 GMT by Maxime Popov. Picture. Video. -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-economy,INTERVIEW BAGHDAD Iraq's economy could reach irreversible lows within the next year unless urgent reform measures are adopted, its finance minister warns in an exclusive interview with AFP. 700 words 1930 GMT by Maya Gebeily. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICoast-unrest,WRAP ABIDJAN Ivory Coast announces the capture of a jihadist leader who led a deadly attack on a frontier post this month, as well as the arrest of a "very large" number of his subordinates. 500 words moved by David Esnault. Graphic Tunisia-labour-protest,lead TATAOUINE, Tunisia Protesters demanding jobs and the release of an activist in Tunisia's marginalised south clash with security forces for a second straight day after weeks of tensions. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- NKorea-SKorea-politics-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korea readies millions of propaganda leaflets to send to the South by an aerial armada of balloons, as it heightens the rhetoric against Seoul after blowing up a liaison office. 650 words moved by Sunghee Hwang -- BUSINESS -- Germany-finance-Wirecard-enterprises-governance-earnings,WRAP FRANKFURT In what could be one of the biggest financial frauds of recent years, German payments provider Wirecard admits 1.9 billion euros that auditors say are missing from its accounts likely "do not exist". 750 words moved by Tom Barfield. Picture Health-virus-Germany-aviation-aid-Lufthansa,WRAP FRANKFURT The German government leaps into action to rescue a proposed nine-billion-euro ($10.1 billion) coronavirus bailout for Lufthansa that has run into resistance from a billionaire shareholder. 600 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick. Picture -- SPORTS -- Tennis-health-virus-Coric-Djokovic PARIS Borna Coric becomes the second tennis player to test positive for coronavirus in Croatia, prompting growing questions about an exhibition tournament in the Balkans featuring world number one Novak Djokovic. 700 words moved. File picture -- SCIENCE -- Science-history-Alaska-Rome-Egypt,FOCUS WASHINGTON The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE triggered a nearly two-decade power struggle that led to the rise of the Roman Empire. The period was marked with unusually cold weather and widespread famine -- and a new study suggests a volcanic eruption in Alaska may have been the cause. 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-television-virus-Globes,2ndlead LOS ANGELES Next year's Golden Globes will take place on February 28, an unusually late date for the glitzy film and television award show as Hollywood scrambles to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words 1930 GMT Health-virus-Spain-theatre-music-offbeat BARCELONA The lights dim, the curtain rises and the music begins -- all signs normal life has returned to Barcelona's Liceu opera house, were the seats not filled with some 2,300 plants. 350 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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