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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US backs Covid vaccine patent waiver + Trump Facebook ban upheld by oversight board + Fifth time lucky: SpaceX lands Starship + Hong Kong jails Joshua Wong, again + Trans weightlifter on cusp of Olympics Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States throws its weight behind a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, as India posts record new deaths and infections from a catastrophic wave swamping the country. 600 words 0700 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON Facebook's independent oversight board upholds a ban on former US president Donald Trump while ordering further review of the case, in a decision with a potentially far-reaching impact on the regulation of online speech. 900 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture Also moved: US-IT-politics-Trump,FACTS US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump,Q&A US-space-SpaceX-Starship,2ndlead WASHINGTON SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. 500 words moved Issam Ahmed HongKong-China-politics-court,WRAP HONG KONG Jailed Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong is handed an additional 10-month sentence after pleading guilty to taking part in an "unlawful" protest last year over the Tiananmen Square crackdown. 650 words moved by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor OLY-2020-2021-weightlifting-NZL-Hubbard-gender,lead WELLINGTON New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympic Games, in a move that will reignite debate over the ethics of trans sport. 600 words by 0600 GMT by Neil Sands. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- SKorea-music-social-entertainment-Kpop,FOCUS SEOUL Thirty teenagers, thousands of hours of training, dozens of shattered dreams: it all comes to a head next week when the Blitzers will be launched into the cut-throat K-pop market, hoping to become the next BTS. 800 words 0330 GMT by Kang Jin-kyu. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-vaccine-promotions,FOCUS WASHINGTON Free beer, free doughnuts, free baseball games and savings bonds -- government officials and businesses are teaming up to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19. 600 words moved by Cyril Julien and Chris Lefkow. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS -- SPORT -- Fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-ESP-Chelsea-RealMadrid,lead LONDON Chelsea set up an all-English Champions League final against Manchester City as goals from Timo Werner and Mason Mount beat Real Madrid 2-0 in a dominant display to seal a 3-1 aggregate victory at Stamford Bridge. 650 words moved by Kieran Canning. Picture Also moving: fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-ESP-Chelsea-RealMadrid-Tuchel -- DIPLOMACY -- Ukraine-US-diplomacy-Russia-conflict,WRAP KIEV US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Ukraine's leadership in a visible show of support following a massive troop buildup by Russia even as he also pushes for action against corruption. 600 words 0600 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Pictures. Video. -- ASIA -- China-Australia-diplomacy-politics,WRAP BEIJING China suspends an economic agreement with Australia, worsening an already-troubled relationship fractured by spats over the Covid-19 pandemic and human rights abuses. 550 words 0800 GMT by Beiyi Seow -- AMERICAS -- Mexico-accident-train,WRAP MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejects any link between his austerity drive and a metro line disaster that left 25 dead, as devastated families begin to bury the victims. 700 words moved by Sofia Miselem. Picture. Video Colombia-politics-protest-rights,WRAP BOGOTA Thousands of demonstrators are pouring into Colombia's streets to protest the policies of President Ivan Duque, the eighth straight day of protests that have left at least 24 dead and hundreds wounded. 750 words moved by Lina Vanegas. Picture. Video. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Britain-vote,WRAP LONDON Britain holds its first local elections since Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic, with Scotland the main focus due to calls for a new independence referendum that could reshape the country. 750 words moved by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Graphic Romania-hunting-bears,lead BUCHAREST Romania says it is investigating the killing of a large brown bear that activists allege was illegally shot by a Liechtenstein prince during a hunt in the Carpathian Mountains. 450 words moved by Ionut Iordachescu -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is tasked to form a government, after veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu failed to cobble a coalition following a fourth inconclusive vote in under two years. 800 words moved by Ben Simon. Picture. File Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics-Lapid Jordan-drought-climate-Israel,FOCUS GHOR AL-HADITHA, Jordan Ahmad Daoud surveys his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world's most arid countries is hitting hard. 700 words moved by Kamal Taha. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICC-Uganda-warcrimes-Ongwen-LRA,WRAP THE HAGUE International Criminal Court will sentence a child soldier-turned-Lord's Resistance Army commander for a litany of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda. 500 words moved by Danny Kemp. File picture SAfrica-royals-people-Zulu,lead JOHANNESBURG Mourners in leopardskin regalia gather outside a Johannesburg morgue to accompany the body of the late Zulu regent queen, whose sudden death last week came less than two months after that of her husband. 400 words moved. Picture -- CLIMATE -- Climate-Greenland-Antarctica-glaciers-oceans-warming,lead PARIS Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could halve how much sea levels rise due to melting ice sheets this century, according to a major new study modelling how Earth's frozen spaces will respond to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. 700 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic Germany-climate-politics-environment,WRAP BERLIN The German government says it will set more ambitious targets to reduce CO2 emissions after a landmark ruling by the country's top court declared a flagship climate protection law "insufficient". 600 words moved by Kit Holden. File picture -- SCIENCE -- Science-archaeology-anthropology-burial-Africa,FOCUS PARIS A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers report. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood. Picture afp
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