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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump moves to quell white supremacy storm + Armenia, Azerbaijan vow to keep fighting + First person cured of HIV dies of cancer + Sonic boom from fighter jet rattles Paris + Injured Serena withdraws from French Open US-vote-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Democrat Joe Biden brands election rival Donald Trump a "national embarrassment" for failing to explicitly denounce white supremacist groups -- as the president moves to quell the storm sparked by his debate stage remarks. 750 words 1930 GMT by Michael Mathes with Roberto Schmidt in Alliance, Ohio. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moving: US-vote-BeauBiden,PROFILE Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan Armenia and Azerbaijan vow to keep fighting and rejected international calls for negotiations as clashes over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region rage for a fourth day. 800 words 1930 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-HIV-Berlin-patient PARIS The first person to be cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown -- known as the "Berlin Patient" -- has died after a battle with cancer, the International Aids Society (IAS) announces. 400 words moved by Patrick Galey France-military-incident-Paris,WRAP PARIS A thunderous noise that panicked residents of Paris was caused by the sonic boom of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier, police in the French capital say. 550 words moved by Daphne Benoit and Stuart Williams Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Serena Williams suffers another blow in her bid for a 24th Grand Slam title as the American withdraws from the French Open with an Achilles injury, while 12-time champion Rafael Nadal and women's top seed Simona Halep ease into the third round. 700 words 1930 GMT by Martyn Wood. Picture Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-Serena,FOCUS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Britain-politics-parliament,lead LONDON British health experts admit that the coronavirus is out of control as case numbers and hospital admissions rise despite a slew of new restrictions on social gatherings. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,SCENE YEREVAN In front of a recruiting office in the Armenian capital, dozens of men -- some already in military fatigues, some chain-smoking -- are milling about, waiting to join a war raging in Nagorny Karabakh. 500 words moved by Maxime Popov. Picture. Video Also moving: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,FACTS Entertainment-Germany-film-festival-history BERLIN The Berlin film festival, one of Europe's top cinema showcases, releases a study showing the deep entrenchment of its founding director in the Nazi propaganda apparatus, which he actively covered up. 450 words moved by Deborah Cole Oly-2024-aviation-aerospace-Paris PARIS "Flying taxis" will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators say, in a trial ahead of a vast tourist influx for the 2024 Olympics. 500 words moved by Sonia Wolf. File picture. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Trump-extremism,FOCUS WASHINGTON With a shout-out to the Proud Boys militia, US President Donald Trump has once again shown a readiness to court right wing extremists as he battles for reelection. 700 words moved by Paul Handley Argentina-culture-media-death,lead BUENOS AIRES Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, who created the beloved comic strip Mafalda in the 1960s, under the pen-name "Quino", has died aged 88, his publisher announces. 400 words 2100 GMT by Nina Negron. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Kuwait-politics-emir,WRAP KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, an acclaimed diplomat and mediator, is laid to rest, shortly after his half-brother was sworn in as the new emir. 700 words moved by Salima Lebel. Picture. Video. Also moved: Kuwait-politics-emir-Nawaf,PROFILE Kuwait-country,FACTS Health-virus-Israel-politics,lead JERUSALEM Israel's parliament approves a law restricting demonstrations as part of a coronavirus-related state of emergency that critics say aims to silence protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 550 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture -- ASIA -- France-attack-Pakistan-religion-blasphemy,FOCUS KOTHLI QAZI, Pakistan Pakistani farmer Arshad Mehmood has been filled with pride since his son stabbed two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, in the latest attack to expose the violent consequences of blasphemy allegations. 500 words 1930 GMT by Kaneez Fatima with Joris Fioriti in Islamabad. Picture. Video. Pakistan-Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-talks,INTERVIEW ISLAMABAD The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators are nearing a compromise on a key sticking point that has stalled peace talks in Doha, a senior Afghan official says. 500 words moved by Thomas Watkins. Picture. Video India-assault-crime,WRAP BOOL GARHI, India Indian police are accused of cremating the body of a teenaged "untouchable" Dalit woman against her family's wishes after she died following an alleged gang-rape by four upper-caste men -- the latest sexual assault to shock the country. 550 words moved by Prakash Singh. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Rwanda-genocide-France-trial-UN,2ndlead PARIS France's top appeals court rules that alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga be transferred to a UN tribunal in Tanzania to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. 550 words moved by Eleonore Dermy. File picture. File video. Graphic -- BUSINESS -- Germany-automobile-court-fraud-Volkswagen-Audi,WRAP MUNICH Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler becomes the first auto boss to go on trial in Germany over the "dieselgate" emissions scandal, five years after parent company Volkswagen admitted to the scam. 700 words moved by Ralf Isermann with Michelle Fitzpatrick in Frankfurt. Picture. Video. Live video US-vote-Brazil-diplomacy-environment,2ndlead BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lashes out at Joe Biden for the US Democratic presidential candidate's "disastrous and unnecessary" comments on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in his first debate with Donald Trump. 550 words 2000 GMT by Jordi Miro. File picture. Video Brazil-unemployment-health-virus,WRAP RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's unemployment rate hit a record 13.8 percent from May to July as Latin America's biggest economy suffered the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to official figures. 450 words moved by Jorge Svartzman. File picture -- ENVIRONMENT/CONSERVATION -- Climate-oceans-sealevel-Greenland-icesheet PARIS Ice loss from Greenland's massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, even if global warming is held in check, scientists say. 600 words moved by Marlowe Hood Britain-Germany-Paraguay-environment-leather-cars,lead LONDON Some of Europe's biggest car giants including BMW and Jaguar Land Rover use leather linked to deforestation in South America, threatening the most vulnerable tribes, environmental campaigners Earthsight claim. 550 words moved by Joe Jackson afp
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