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| - Duty Editor: Ross Adkin Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Covid jabs given worldwide surpass 1 billion + 1915 Armenian massacres were genocide: Biden + Hollywood A-listers set to reunite at Oscars + Low battery: Formula E Grand Prix hits skids Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The number of Covid-19 jabs administered globally surpasses the one billion mark, offering hope after months of pandemic misery, even as the world hits a new daily record of coronavirus cases due mainly to an explosion of the virus in India. 800 words 0230 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Health-virus-vaccines-remote,VIDEOESSAY Health-virus-vaccines,BACKGROUND US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden recognizes the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey. 850 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Maryam Harutyunyan in Yerevan. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,SCENE Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP HOLLYWOOD It is guaranteed to be an Oscars like no other: broadcast live from a train station, honoring films few saw in movie theaters, and reuniting Hollywood's A-listers for the first time in more than a year due to Covid-19. 800 words 0130 GMT by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic Also moving: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS Auto-Prix-FormulaE,lead PARIS Electrically-powered Formula E racing falls flat when 12 of 24 cars taking part in the Valencia Grand Prix run out of energy and fail to finish. 400 words moved -- SPOTLIGHT -- Iraq-literature-Kurdistan,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Huda Kathem waits anxiously for feedback on her first novel, scrutinised by a book club in Iraqi Kurdistan's Arbil, where young authors are breathing new life into a centuries-old oral culture. 600 words 0200 GMT by Qassim Khidhir. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-misinformation,FOCUS PARIS Anti-vaccine campaigners once confined to relatively obscure groups have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to reach a wider audience online, feeding on public fears to sow doubt about the drugs now available. 1000 words by Marine Laouchez -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Biden-100,FOCUS WASHINGTON The daily (hourly) White House melodrama of the Trump era is history, but there has been nothing quiet about Joe Biden's 100 days rush to transform the country he inherited. 900 words 0130 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture Also moving: US-politics-Biden-100,FACTS US-politics-immigration-Bush,FOCUS WASHINGTON Out of office for a dozen years and still castigated for his "war on terror," former US president George W Bush has resurfaced as a passionate immigration advocate just as his Republican Party careens in the opposite direction. 750 words 0130 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture China-rights-Uyghurs-Canada,INTERVIEW OTTAWA During the decade they lived in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, Canadians Gary and Andrea Dyck had a front-row seat to Beijing's "very methodical" repression of the Uyghur people, which Canada's parliament and others have declared to be genocide. 650 words 0230 GMT by Michel Comte. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-unrest,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's shadow government of ousted lawmakers welcomes a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after their crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Ming Aung Hlaing. 550 words by 0200 GMT. File Picture. File Video. China-clothing-lingerie,FOCUS GUANYUN, China Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up -- so goes the street-corner discussion in Guanyun, a sleepy coastal county that for generations followed the rhythms of wheat and rice cultivation, but today concerns itself with global preferences on sensual wear. 750 words 0300 GMT by Dan Martin. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Albania-vote,WRAP TIRANA Albanians go to the polls after a bitter campaign marked by fiery rhetoric and a gunfight between rival supporters, which drew calls for calm from the US and EU. 600 words 0200 GMT by Briseida Mema and Joseph Boyle. Picture. Video Also moving: Albania-vote,PROFILE Albania-vote,FACTS France-police-attack,WRAP RAMBOUILLET The French government holds an emergency meeting after a Tunisian man stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack as investigators question three people linked to the assailant. 900 words moved by Alice Lefebvre and Tiphaine Liboux. Picture. Video. Graphic Cyprus-UN-diplomacy,ADVANCER NICOSIA Four years after their last peace talks failed, rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet in Geneva next week to explore elusive "common ground" on the divided Mediterranean island. 800 words 0200 GMT by Mathilde Dumazet. Picture. File video Turkey-crypto-fraud,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkey detains the chief of one of the country's biggest cryptocurrency firms after launching a manhunt for the founder of another exchange who fled to Albania. 600 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM Fresh clashes break out between Palestinians and police after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for "calm on all sides" after several nights of unrest in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. 900 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Iraq-fire,WRAP BAGHDAD At least 23 people die when a fire breaks out in a coronavirus intensive care unit in the capital of Iraq, a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure now facing mounting Covid-19 cases. 600 words 0300 GMT Syria-conflict-Iran-attack,WRAP BEIRUT At least three people die when an Iranian tanker is attacked off Syria's coast, in the first assault of its kind since the war started a decade ago, a war monitor says. 550 words moved by Bachir El Khoury. Picture. Video -- SCIENCE -- US-Europe-space-SpaceX,WRAP WASHINGTON A recycled SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts docks with the International Space Station, the third time Elon Musk's company has safely delivered humans to the orbital outpost. 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Chelsea take control of the battle to secure Champions League football next season as Timo Werner's goal earn a 1-0 win over West Ham, while Liverpool concede a stoppage-time equaliser to draw 1-1 with Newcastle. 700 words moved by Kieran Canning. Picture afp
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