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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + China charges two Canadians with spying + Australia hit by cyberattack, China suspected + Facebook cuts Trump ads over Nazi symbols + EU seeks post-virus recovery plan + Bob Dylan brings out new album China-Canada-diplomacy-espionage,WRAP BEIJING China has formally charged two Canadians with spying, officials say, more than 18 months after they were arrested in a spat between Beijing and Ottawa. 500 words 1100 GMT. File picture. File video. Also moving: China-Canada-diplomacy,CHRONO Australia-security-politics-IT,3rdlead SYDNEY Australia's prime minister says his country is under cyberattack from a "state-based actor" targeting public services, government and businesses, with suspicions falling on China. 650 words moved by Andrew Beatty US-IT-politics-Facebook-Trump,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook removes ads by President Donald Trump's campaign containing a symbol used by Nazi Germany, the latest move in a heated battle over inflammatory political content on social media. 650 words moved by Glenn Chapman Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS Deeply divided EU leaders start negotiating a post-coronavirus economic recovery plan, as the global death toll from the pandemic soars past 450,000 and China races to prevent a second wave. 800 words 1200 GMT by Alex Pigman with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Entertainment-US-music-BobDylan NEW YORK Legendary US folk singer Bob Dylan releases his first album of original songs in eight years with the 10-track "Rough and Rowdy Ways." 500 words moved by Peter Hutchison. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-EU-economy BRUSSELS EU leaders launch fraught negotiations on a major recovery fund to revive a European economy ravaged by the coronavirus, but they remain deeply divided on the way forward. 650 words 1000 GMT by Alex Pigman. Video Health-virus-China-Europe BEIJING China has released genome data for the coronavirus found in a new outbreak in Beijing, which state experts are suggesting share similarities to European strains, as the capital confirmed another 25 infections. 450 words 1000 GMT Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME The coronavirus was already present in northern Italy in December, over two months before the first case was detected, a health institute study of waste water has found. 500 words 0930 GMT moved by Ella Ide Health-virus-economy-environment,INTERVIEW PARIS Business as usual is not an option once the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, who wants new climate-laced metrics to measure growth beyond the blunt instrument of GDP. 650 words 1000 GMT by Manon Billig Health-virus-US-Fauci,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON The United States does not need more widespread lockdowns to bring its COVID-19 outbreak under control, despite the national daily infection rate staying flat, leading government expert Anthony Fauci says. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture Health-virus-China-vaccines,FOCUS SHENYANG Inside one of the Chinese labs racing to create a coronavirus vaccine, researchers work weekends, lab monkeys are in short supply and plans are being made for human trials abroad. 600 words moved by Qian Ye and Matthew Knight. Picture. Video -- RACISM -- US-politics-racism-Juneteenth,ADVANCER WASHINGTON The United States marks the end-of-slavery commemoration Juneteenth on Friday, with the annual event taking on renewed significance as millions of Americans confront the nation's living legacy of racial injustice. 650 words moved by Michael Mathes with Laurent Banguet in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Picture Also moved: US-politics-racism-Juneteenth-social,FACTS US-racism-Confederacy-statues-protest,SCENE RICHMOND, United States Armed with a brush, Carolyn McCrea furiously scrubs the grey marble. Someone has written "WLM" -- "White Lives Matter" -- on the only statue of a black man on this avenue in Richmond, Virginia, and she intends to wash away the affront. 650 words moved by Ines Bel Aila. Picture. Video Britain-slavery-church-banking-racism LONDON Two of the UK's biggest institutions -- the Church of England and the Bank of England -- apologise for their historic links to slavery with the church calling it "a source of shame". 350 words moved -- ASIA -- India-China-conflict,lead NEW DELHI China has freed 10 Indian soldiers seized in a high-altitude border clash in the Himalayas which left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, officials say. 450 words 1000 GMT China-HongKong-politics-censorship HONG KONG Hong Kong's oldest satire show airs its final episode after a sketch that was critical of the police sparked a rebuke from regulators, as pro-Beijing figures tighten their grip on the city. 450 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-diplomacy-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump's presidency is in turmoil after top ex-aide John Bolton declares him unfit for office in a bombshell book and the Supreme Court blocks a key part of his re-election vow to deport undocumented migrants. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Also moved: US-court-politics-immigration,WRAP US-politics-diplomacy-Bolton,PROFILE US-politics-diplomacy-Bolton-Trump,POINTS -- AFRICA -- Kenya-Ethiopia-agriculture-locusts-environment,FOCUS NAIROBI East Africa is bracing for a third outbreak of desert locusts, with billions of the destructive insects about to hatch and threaten food supplies in a region already reeling from damaging rains and the coronavirus pandemic. 800 words moved by Marion Douet. File video. File picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-WTA-CHN-health-virus-Wuhan,INTERVIEW SHANGHAI Staging the Wuhan Open later this year will send a powerful message about the city's recovery from coronavirus and have an impact that stretches beyond tennis, the tournament's co-director says. 550 words moved by Peter Stebbings. File picture Israel-Arab-women-surfing,VIDEOESSAY JISR AL-ZARQA, Israel Standing barefoot on an Israeli beach, Hamama Jarban blows her whistle and watches her students race towards the water -- her surfing school brings much needed income to the only remaining Arab village on Israel's Mediterranean coast. 580 words 1000 GMT by Majeda El-Batsh. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- US-world-videogames LONDON As storylines go, the blood-soaked new video game "The Last of Us Part II" dovetails into a troubled contemporary landscape. The title is released worldwide for Sony PlayStation 4 consoles, after a protracted delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down much of the entertainment industry. 500 words moved by Jitendra Joshi afp
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