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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Woolls Email: daniel.woolls@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Israel opposition leader says obstacles remain to ousting Netanyahu + As population ages, China to let couples have three kids + France opens up Covid shots to all adults + Osaka withdraws from French Open Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says many obstacles remain before a diverse coalition can unite to oust veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but voices hope it will achieve the "greater goal". 800 words moved by Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Graphic. Video. Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,PROFILE Israel-politics-Lapid,PROFILE Israel-politics-Bennett,PROFILE Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-vote,CHRONO China-politics-population-census,WRAP BEIJING China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media says, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world's most populous nation. 650 words moved by Laurie Chen. Picture. Video Also moving: China-politics-population-census,CHRONO Health-virus-France-vaccines,2ndlead PARIS France opens up Covid-19 vaccines to all adults, a week before Germany, as Europe races to avoid another wave of infections caused by new virus variants. 650 words moved by Juliette Collen. Picture. Video. Graphic Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Naomi Osaka withdraws from the French Open after she was threatened with disqualification for boycotting media duties, while on court, Roger Federer, Iga Swiatek and Daniil Medvedev all reach the second round. 700 words 2000 GMT by Jed Court. Picture. Graphic Also moving: Tennis-FRA-Open-Osaka Tennis-FRA-Open-Osaka,PROFILE Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-Osaka,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-WHO-variant-names GENEVA Covid-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization announces. 400 words moved by Robin Millard Also moved: Health-virus-WHO-diplomacy,lead -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics,Q&A JERUSALEM Israel's centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid edges closer to rallying a cross-party bloc around a common aim: to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 700 words moved by Claire Gounon Iran-justice-France-diplomacy-rights PARIS A Frenchman held for over a year in Iran is an innocent tourist caught in a trap that has nothing to do with him, his sister says after it emerged he faces trial on charges of espionage. 500 words moved by Cecile Feuillatre. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Denmark-US-Europe-espionage,WRAP PARIS France, Germany and other European countries demand answers following reports the US spied on its allies using Danish underwater cables, as questions mount over whether Denmark knew about the operation. 750 words 1930 GMT by Jerome Rivet and Camille Bas-Wohlert in Copenhagen. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Chad-CAfrica-army-conflict,WRAP N'DJAMENA Chad and the Central African Republic are at loggerheads after the Chadian government accused its southern neighbour of killing six of its soldiers at a border post, five of whom were allegedly abducted and then executed, branding it a "war crime" that would "not go unpunished". 750 words moved. File picture. Graphic Mali-politics-coup,WRAP BAMAKO Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita returns home after West African leaders condemned a second coup that cemented his grip on power, calling on him to name a new prime minister but stopping short of reimposing sanctions. 700 words moved by Amaury Hauchard and Laurent Lozano. Picture. Video Also moved: Mali-politics-conflict,CHRONO Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-school,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Gunmen kidnap scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials say, the latest mass abduction to hit Africa's most populous nation. 500 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Nigeria-unrest-kidnap,FACTS DRCongo-unrest-volcano,FOCUS GOMA, DR Congo Fears of looting are gripping the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, whose inhabitants fled last week after warnings that the dreaded Mount Nyiragongo volcano could be on the verge of a catastrophic second eruption. 650 words moved by Heritier Baraka Munyampfura. Picture -- ASIA -- Australia-China-trial-espionage SYDNEY An Australian academic on trial in China for espionage has told supporters he has been tortured in detention and still does not know which country he is accused of spying for. 500 words moved by Andrew Beatty Health-Vietnam-virus,2ndlead HANOI The international airport of Vietnam's capital suspends inbound flights from abroad beginning Tuesday as it grapples with a fresh wave of coronavirus outbreaks. 450 words. Video. File picture Health-virus-vaccines,FACTS SYDNEY Even as many countries around the world struggle to secure vaccine doses, in other places, governments, companies and causes have had to entice hesitant citizens to get jabbed. 500 words moved Myanmar-politics-military-US-journalist,lead YANGON The employers of an American journalist detained by Myanmar authorities say they have yet to receive any information on his whereabouts or wellbeing, a week after he was detained. 450 words moved SriLanka-Singapore-pollution-transport-fire,lead LEGOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's criminal investigators begin questioning the crew of a burning cargo ship, as the Singapore-registered carrier smoulders for a 12th straight day in one of the island's worst-ever marine ecological disasters. 350 words moved. Picture. File Video India-economy-health-virus,WRAP MUMBAI India's economy contracted 7.3 percent in 2020-21, official data shows, its worst recession since independence as coronavirus lockdowns put millions out of work. 700 words moved by Nivrita Ganguly. Picture. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- Canada-indigenous-school-politics,WRAP OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledges to expand excavations at old boarding schools across Canada after remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at one location. 500 words 2000 GMT. -- CLIMATE -- Climate-UN-negotiations-online,WRAP PARIS For the first time since 2019 and following a flurry of net-zero pledges from the world's largest emitters, UN climate negotiations resume in a virtual format less than six months before the crunch COP26 summit. 650 words moved by Patrick Galey Climate-health-heat-mortality PARIS More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers say, warning of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Copa-2021-health-virus-BRA-ARG-COL,3rd lead ASUNCION South America's largest football tournament, the Copa America, is moved to Brazil, bracing for a third coronavirus wave, after Argentina was stripped of hosting duties due to its own pandemic surge. 650 words 2000 GMT. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- France-film-festival,FOCUS CANNES, France The five-star palace hotels are in full swing, the sound of music drifts across the beach and after a 'horrible' year blighted by coronavirus, Cannes is buzzing as it gears up for its film festival. 750 words moved by Claudine Renaud with Francois Becker in Paris. File picture. Video afp
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