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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + US Supreme Court upholds Obamacare + Ivory Coast ex-leader heads home after acquittal + Hong Kong police raid pro-democracy newspaper + First astronauts arrive at China's space station + Japan condom makers in a pinch over Olympics US-justice-health-Obamacare,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court throws out a bid by Republican-led states to demolish the "Obamacare" program, safeguarding the health insurance of millions with the pandemic still a threat in much of America. 500 words 1500 GMT by Chris Lefkow ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,WRAP ABIDJAN Former president Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast for the first time in nearly a decade, after he was cleared of crimes against humanity and his once-bitter rival welcomes him back in the name of reconciliation. 700 words 1430 GMT by Stephane Barbier and Christophe Koffi. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,CHRONO ICoast-politics-Gbagbo-massacre,PROFILE ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,DATES HongKong-China-politics-media,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong national security police conduct a fresh raid on the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, arresting five executives and carting off computers in the latest blow to the outspoken tabloid. 800 words moved by Su Xinqi, Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video. Live video China-space,WRAP JIUQUAN, China The first astronauts arrive at China's new space station in the country's longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power. 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. Picture. Video. Live Video. Graphic Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus-condom,FOCUS TOKYO For Japanese condom makers, the Olympics was supposed to be a golden opportunity, with hordes of eager tourists and tens of thousands of their innovative, ultra-thin prophylactics given to athletes. 650 words moved by Harumi Ozawa. File picture. File video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Myanmar-politics-military-dissent,FOCUS BANGKOK Burner phones, safehouses, sheltering with rebels and months away from loved ones -- Myanmar anti-coup activists have been driven underground by a brutal crackdown but have no regrets about choosing life on the run. 700 words moved by Dene-Hern Chen. File Picture HongKong-China-politics-media,PROFILE HONG KONG Over the last 26 years Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper has become the city's most popular tabloid by punching up against a powerful entity that tolerates little criticism: China's communist leadership. 600 words moved by Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-society,FOCUS NEW YORK A universal greeting and a spreader of germs born in ancient times, the handshake was swiftly abandoned as Covid-19 raged across the planet. But with the pandemic receding, it is making a comeback. 800 words 1600 GMT by Thomas Urbain. File picture Health-virus-France-leisure,lead PARIS France savours a fresh sense of freedom as people are allowed to remove face masks when outside for the first time since last autumn while Disneyland Paris again welcomes visitors after an eight-month Covid hiatus. 500 words moved by Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video Health-virus-vaccines-Africa-WHO BRAZZAVILLE Coronavirus infections in Africa are surging as a third wave of the pandemic gathers pace on the continent, fuelled by the spread of more contagious variants, the World Health Organization says. 350 words moved Oly-2020-2021-Japan-virus-health,lead TOKYO Japan's government will lift Tokyo's virus emergency a month before the Olympics, but restrictions will likely limit spectators to 10,000 at Games events. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Turkey-politics-Kurds-attack,2ndlead ANKARA An assailant storms into a provincial office of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party, killing a woman and renewing alarm at the heated rhetoric accompanying government efforts to shut the party down. 500 words 1530 GMT. Video France-vote-LePen,FOCUS PARIS French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been touring the country ahead of regional elections this weekend, upbeat about her party's prospects as she tries to steer it further into the mainstream. 700 words moved by Anne Renaud and Adam Plowright Armenia-politics-vote,ADVANCER YEREVAN Armenians vote Sunday in snap parliamentary elections called by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to end a political crisis ignited by his country's humiliating military defeat to Azerbaijan last year. 650 words moved by Anna Smolchenko and Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video Also moved: Armenia-vote-Pashinyan,PROFILE Armenia-vote,FACTS Sweden-politics-government,WRAP STOCKHOLM Sweden's minority government could be toppled next week after a group of four parties in parliament announces they will back a no confidence vote, potentially triggering a snap election. 600 words 1530 GMT by Johannes Ledel. Video Italy-diplomacy-Russia-China-G7-NATO,FOCUS ROME Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi has clearly aligned his country with the EU and the Atlantic alliance, with strongly worded messages at the recent G7 and NATO summits that end his predecessors' ambiguous position towards Russia and China. 650 words moved by Ljuban Milasin. Photo. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-vote,WRAP TEHRAN On the eve of Iran's presidential election, widely expected to hand victory to ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the candidate-vetting Guardian Council insists "the political contest is serious". 600 words 1430 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Video Israel-politics-Judaism,FOCUS JERUSALEM Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties were once viewed as political kingmakers, but now they have been pushed into opposition by a "change" government they fear will put secular values before theirs. 700 words moved by Michael Blum Egypt-tourism-manufacturing,FOCUS CAIRO Pyramids, Tutankhamun masks, Nefertiti busts -- Egypt's souvenir-makers are pinning their hopes on a new lease of economic life, after tourism was battered by the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved by Emmanuel Parisse. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Guinea-health-virus-Ebola,WRAP DAKAR Guinea's government announces that it will declare the end of the country's Ebola epidemic this weekend barring the discovery of new cases. 450 words 1500 GMT by Laurent Lozano CAfrica-France-Russia-diplomacy-conflict,FOCUS LIBREVILLE The Central African Republic, a poor country long riven by strife, is at the heart of tensions between Russia and France, which has frozen budgetary aid and military cooperation after its former colony became friendly with Moscow. 700 words 1630 GMT by Adrien Marotte. Graphic. File picture -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Britain-US-trade-aerospace-tariff-EU,WRAP LONDON Britain and the US suspend retaliatory tariffs levied during a 17-year dispute over state aid for European planemaker Airbus and US rival Boeing,leaving the UK to concentrate on securing a post-Brexit free-trade deal with the world's biggest economy. 600 words moved by Ben Perry. File picture. File video -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS Denmark host the world's top-ranked side Belgium at Euro 2020 with the trauma of Christian Eriksen's collapse still raw, while the Netherlands can move into the last 16 on their return to a major tournament. 650 words 1530 GMT by Martyn Wood. Picture. Graphic. Video Oly-2020-2021-AUS-swim-Simpson ADELAIDE Pop star turned swimmer Cody Simpson misses out on making Australia's Tokyo Olympic team, but now has his sights set on Paris in 2024. 350 words moved. Picture afp
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