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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Record US cases overshadow July 4th weekend + Trump labels race protests 'violent mayhem' + 'Total chaos' warning as English pubs reopen + Redskins to review name amid sponsor threat + Little Mermaid statue tagged 'Racist Fish' Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Another record number of coronavirus cases overshadows the start of the American Independence Day weekend, with the surge in infections prompting Britain to blacklist US travelers. 950 words moved. Graphic. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-history KEYSTONE, South Dakota President Donald Trump bemoans protests demanding racial justice as "violent mayhem" but says little about an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases as he attends a crowded, fireworks-studded Independence Day celebration beneath majestic Mount Rushmore. 750 words 0600 GMT by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-pubs LONDON Pubs in England reopen for the first time since late March, bringing cheer to drinkers and the industry but fears of public disorder and fresh coronavirus cases. 650 words moved by Phil Hazlewood. Picture. File picture. Video Amfoot-NFL-Redskins-name-race,WRAP WASHINGTON The Washington Redskins have launched a "thorough review" of the team's name, the NFL franchise says, as sponsors step up pressure to scrap the moniker long criticized as racist. 650 words moved by Gilles Clarenne. File picture. Video Denmark-crime-vandalism COPENHAGEN The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, the city's most famous monument, is daubed with the slogan "Racist Fish" but police and commentators are puzzled as to who might have done it and why. 350 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Brazil-politics,FOCUS SAO PAULO As the number of dead from coronavirus shot up in Brazil, the popularity of far right President Jair Bolosonaro has remained unchanged. 650 words moved by Florence Goisnard. File picture. Video Health-virus-US,FOCUS HOUSTON Despite its claim to host the world's largest concentration of hospitals and research labs, the city of Houston is dangerously close to being overwhelmed by the explosion of coronavirus cases sweeping across Texas. 600 words moved by Julia Benarrous. Picture. Video Dominican-vote SANTO DOMINGO Voters in the Dominican Republic are set to defy rising coronavirus infections on Sunday to choose a new president in an election that could end 16 years of unbroken rule by the center-left Dominican Liberation Party. 650 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video Also moving: Dominican-politics,FACTFILE -- EUROPE -- Italy-migration-politics,2ndlead ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee launches an alert that its rescue boat carrying 180 migrants is in crisis and needs to disembark immediately due to deteriorating conditions and violence on board. 650 words moved by Shahzad Abdul with Alexandria Sage in Rome. Picture Health-virus-Britain-economy-gyms,FOCUS LONDON It is raining hard but Bradley, a fitness instructor, and four of his gym rats are sweating profusely while alternating between squats and ab exercises in a London park. 650 words moved by Veronique Dupont. Picture. Video France-politics,WRAP PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron names a senior but low-profile bureaucrat as prime minister to replace Edouard Philippe, the first move in a widely expected cabinet reshuffle after dismal local election showings for the ruling party. 700 words moved by Joseph Schmid and Mariette Le Roux. Picture. Video. Graphic. Also moved: France-politics-Philippe,PROFILE France-politics-Castex,PROFILE France-politics-Macron,ANALYSIS -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG Hong Kongers are finding creative and subversive ways to voice dissent after Beijing blanketed the city in a new security law and police began making arrests for people displaying now forbidden political slogans. 750 words 0700 GMT by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor. Picture HongKong-China-politics,FACTS HONG KONG Beijing's new national security law for Hong Kong is the most radical shift in how the semi-autonomous city is run since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. 750 words moved China-health-organs BEIJING China is planning changes to its organ donation rules to encourage volunteers amid a dearth of donors and punish illicit harvesting years after it stopped taking them from executed prisoners five years ago. 500 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Turkey-Saudi-Khashoggi-murder-trial,WRAP ISTANBUL Twenty Saudi suspects including two former aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman go on trial in absentia in Turkey, accused of killing and dismembering journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. 700 words moved by Ezzedine Said. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO Unidentified armed men massacre 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages, then kill nine soldiers responding to the assault as violence surges in the country's conflict-wracked centre. 500 words moved by Serge Daniel and Kassim Traore. File picture afp
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