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| - Duty Editor: Kelly Macnamara Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Deadliest day for China in virus fight + Last ditch Democrat push in Trump impeachment trial + US hails Brexit 'benefits' on eve of Britain's EU departure + Questions over Israel's West Bank annexation plans + Beethoven could top UK pop charts in final Brexit clash China-health-virus,WRAP WUHAN China reports its biggest single-day jump in novel coronavirus deaths, as global fears deepened with more infections confirmed overseas including three Japanese evacuated from the outbreak's epicentre. 850 words 1530 GMT by Sebastien Ricci. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: China-health-virus-countries,FACTS China-health-virus,CHRONO US-politics-impeachment,WRAP WASHINGTON Democratic prosecutors have one last day to make the case against President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, hoping to convince Republicans to call witnesses and delay a vote of acquittal. 650 words 1530 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-impeachment-Trump,FACTS Britain-EU-Brexit-US-diplomacy,WRAP LONDON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo predicts that Brexit would bring "enormous benefits" to the United States and the UK, during a visit to Britain on the eve of its historic departure from the European Union. 650 words 1600 GMT by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US,WRAP JERUSALEM Questions emerge over whether Israel will immediately seek to annex parts of the West Bank, after US President Donald Trump's controversial peace plan called for extending Israeli sovereignty to the area. 600 words 1600 GMT by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-music LONDON Having fought a titanic political contest for three years over Brexit, Britain's "leavers" and "remainers" are now doing battle in the pop charts on the eve of the country's departure from the European Union. 200 words moved -- CHINA VIRUS -- China-health-virus-barricades,SCENE BEIJING Villages and apartment complexes across China are taking the fight against a deadly viral epidemic into their own hands with improvised barricades and the online shaming of potentially-infected strangers. 650 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture Also moved: China-health-virus-HongKong,SCENE China-health-virus-Italy,WRAP CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy More than 6,000 tourists are under lockdown aboard a cruise ship at an Italian port after two Chinese passengers are isolated over fears they could be carrying the coronavirus. 500 words 1430 GMT. Picture. Video China-virus-health-internet-factcheck,FOCUS HONG KONG Misleading bat soup videos, vastly inflated death tolls, quack remedies and vaccine conspiracies -- a global deluge of misinformation is compounding public fears about China's new coronavirus and stoking racial stereotypes. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor and Esther Chan Also moved: China-health-virus-Thailand-internet China-health-virus-Thailand-Pakistan-Myanmar-Indonesia,FOCUS WUHAN, China Pregnant, newly wed and now trapped at the Chinese epicentre of a global health crisis, Thai national Aphinya is among thousands of foreigners desperate to escape -- and watching helplessly as the US and Japan fly their citizens home. 600 words moved by Hector Retamal. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- US-economy-growth-indicator-GDP,WRAP WASHINGTON The US economy expanded by a solid 2.3 percent in 2019, but was held back by President Donald Trump's trade confrontation with China and others, which made businesses hold off on investments and reduced exports. 500 words by 1430 GMT by Delphine Touitou US-IT-lifestyle-earnings-Facebook,FOCUS WASHINGTON Facebook shares come under heavy selling pressure as the latest earnings report highlight growing costs for the social network in dealing with privacy, abuse and misinformation. 600 words 1500 GMT by Rob Lever with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-economy,FOCUS Britain's economy, lifted by the country's post-election political stability, risks fresh turbulence as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks tricky Brexit trade deals amid global threats that include the coronavirus. 595 words moved by Roland Jackson. File picture Britain-economy-rate-BoE,WRAP LONDON The Bank of England slashes its estimates for UK economic growth this year and next, one day before the country exits the European Union. 480 words moved We have also moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-music Germany-banking-earnings-DeutscheBank,WRAP FRANKFURT Germany's biggest lender Deutsche Bank lost 5.7 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in 2019, in large part due to thousands of job cuts under a massive restructuring, but chief executive Christian Sewing declares himself "positive". 650 words moved by Tom Barfield. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Iowa-politics,WRAP DES MOINES, Iowa Donald Trump takes his re-election campaign roadshow to Iowa, aiming to steal the limelight from Democrats whose race to challenge the US president in November's election remains a dead heat days before the first nomination vote. 750 words 1700 GMT by Elodie Cuzin. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote,FACTS US-vote-Iowa-volunteers,FOCUS DES MOINES, Iowa Whether braving arctic conditions to knock on doors of far-flung farmhouses or politely interrupting downtown diners, thousands of volunteers have descended on Iowa to drum up support for the candidates they hope can end Donald Trump's White House tenure. 650 words 1600 GMT by Elodie Cuzin. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-health-insurance-Canada,FOCUS Basket-NBA-Bryant-death-Vanessa,2ndlead LOS ANGELES Vanessa Bryant speaks out for the first time since her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna were killed in a horrific helicopter crash, saying the family is "completely devastated" by the tragedy. 550 words moved by Greg Heakes -- EUROPE -- Germany-health-children-hospital-crime,WRAP FRANKFURT A nurse in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning five premature babies with morphine, officials say, adding that the infants survived. 500 words 1430 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-budget,FOCUS BRUSSELS When Britain leaves the European Union at midnight on Friday the bloc loses the second-biggest net contributor to its budget, leaving a 12-billion-euro ($13-billion) hole in its finances. 630 words moved by Marine Laouchez. Graphic France-Vatican-religion-children-abuse,WRAP LYON Appeals judges overturn a French cardinal's conviction for failing to report alleged sex abuse by a priest, in a case that rocked the French Catholic Church. 500 words 1430 GMT France-sex-lifestyle-fashion,PHOTOESSAY PARIS There are those who claim that Paris has lost its edge; the taste for boundary-breaking excess that inspired bohemians and intellectuals in the 1960s and beyond. But the French capital is in fact in constant flux, adapting to the desires of visitors and locals seeking something more titillating than the traditional bar-and-nightclub fare. 650 words moved by Gersende Rambourg and Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt. Picture Russia-Israel-diplomacy-crime-pardon,WRAP MOSCOW A US-Israeli woman jailed for drug trafficking in Russia is freed from jail and flies out with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after she was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin. 650 words 1430 GMT by Olga Rotenberg. Picture. File picture. File video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict,WRAP BEIRUT Air strikes kill 10 civilians near a bakery and a medical clinic in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region as government forces keep up a ground offensive. 700 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open,WRAP MELBOURNE Novak Djokovic beats an injured Roger Federer in straight sets to reach his eighth Australian Open final as unheralded American Sofia Kenin stuns top seed Ashleigh Barty to end home hopes. 500 words moved by Talek Harris. Picture afp
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