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| - Duty Editor: Abhik Chanda Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + G7 unveils plans to counter China, fight pandemics + Algerians vote after crackdown on boycott protesters + Moscow orders 'non-working' week after virus cases surge + Djokovic stuns Nadal in epic French Open game + Lobster fisherman swallowed by whale survives G7-summit,WRAP CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom The G7 unveils US-led plans to counter China in infrastructure funding for poorer nations, and a new accord against future pandemics, as the elite group seeks to showcase Western unity at its first in-person summit since 2019. 850 words 1600 GMT by Joe Jackson and Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic Algeria-vote,WRAP ALGIERS Algerians vote in a parliamentary election overshadowed by a crackdown on a long-running protest movement that has campaigned for a mass boycott. 700 words moved by Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret in Tunis. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Algeria-vote,COUNTRYFACTFILE Algeria-vote,CHRONO Health-virus-Russia-Moscow,2ndlead MOSCOW Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin announces a "non-working" week in the Russian capital, with non-essential workers told to stay home, as Covid-19 cases hit a six-month high. 500 words moved by Anastasia Clark. File picture Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic compares defeating Rafael Nadal at the French Open to scaling Mount Everest as he hails his epic semi-final triumph over the 13-time champion as "one of my greatest victories". 700 words moved by Dave James. Picture. Graphic US-animal-offbeat NEW YORK It sounds like a real-life take on "Pinocchio" -- a US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale and yet lived to tell the story after being spit back out. 400 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture -- G7 SUMMIT -- G7-summit-US-Biden,FOCUS CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom "Everybody in the water!" President Joe Biden joked to his fellow G7 leaders at a family photo on the beach, underlining an assured transformation in tone from the antagonistic Donald Trump. 650 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video G7-summit-climate,FOCUS CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom From oceans and a "green" recovery to electric cars, Britain is using the G7 to mobilise its allies on climate and nature, with the hope of putting on a good show before the UN climate change conference COP26 later this year, under pressure from NGOs. 650 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns Europe he will suspend a deal for post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland unless a solution can be found to a row over border checks. 650 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Greece-Afghanistan-migrants-fire-trial,2ndlead CHIOS, Greece A Greek court sentences four young Afghan asylum seekers, accused of starting fires that burnt down Europe's largest migrant camp last year, to 10 years in prison each. 500 words 1500 GMT. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Canada-crime-Islam-funeral,WRAP LONDON, Ontario Four members of a Muslim family killed in a seemingly deliberate truck attack are laid to rest in their Canadian home city, following an assault that shocked the nation. 500 words 1730 GMT by Nicole Osborne. Picture. Video US-climate-environment-drought,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Lake levels at historic lows, forest fires too early in the year, water bans and a potentially record heatwave: summer has yet to begin but the American West is already reeling from the effects of a chronic drought made worse year after year by climate change. 700 words 1700 GMT by Laurent Banguet. Picture. File video -- BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY -- US-politics-IT-antitrust,lead WASHINGTON US lawmakers unveil sweeping antitrust measures aimed at tempering the dominance of Big Tech firms including Apple and Facebook, in what may be the most ambitious effort in decades to break corporate monopolies. 600 words moved by Michael Mathes -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics HONG KONG Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow is released from prison on the second anniversary of the city's huge democracy rallies, with police out in force and protests now all but banned. 600 words moved by Yan Zhao. Video. Picture. Live video Also moved: HongKong-China-politics-Chow,PROFILE Health-virus-Afghanistan,FOCUS KABUL On his emergency room bed in Afghanistan's capital, you can barely hear Said Ali Shah speak through the oxygen mask plastered to his face. He is only just able to sit up after four days in intensive care. "No, no, no," he gasped, "I don't have the coronavirus." 550 words moved by Mushtaq Mojaddidi. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS Wales and the world's top-ranked team Belgium begin their Euro 2020 campaigns after the pan-continental tournament got off to a "special start" in Rome for an impressive Italy side at the Stadio Olimpico. 750 words 1500 GMT by Andy Scott with Illtud Dafydd in Baku. Picture. Video. Graphic Tennis-FRA-Open-women PARIS Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Barbora Krejcikova, two of the most unlikely Grand Slam finalists of the modern era, meet in the French Open title match at the conclusion of a shock-heavy tournament. 600 words by Dave James 1700 GMT. Picture. Graphic Oly-2020-2021-softball-AUS-Japan-health-virus,INTERVIEW TOKYO No meeting fans, no eating out and no sightseeing -- life in the Tokyo Olympic bubble could be "challenging" for athletes, the first team to arrive in Japan has warned. 600 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. Video afp
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