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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden accuses 'toxic' Trump of fanning US unrest + Europe schools return as HK launches mass testing + Facebook threatens news sharing ban in Australia + Spectator-free US Open tennis kicks off + BTS becomes first S.Korean band to top US charts US-politics-vote,WRAP PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania Joe Biden accuses President Donald Trump of stoking violence after a week of deadly unrest catapulted law and order to the top of the political agenda barely two months before the US election. 850 words moved by Saul Loeb with Michael Mathes in Washington Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Millions of mask-clad children head back to European schools after summer holidays despite rising virus infections, as Hong Kong rolls out a mass testing scheme. 650 words 1100 GMT by Eleonore Hughes with Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao in Hong Kong and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-media-internet,2ndlead SYDNEY Facebook threatens to block users and media organisations in Australia from sharing news stories in an escalating challenge to government plans to force digital giants to pay for content. 650 words moved Tennis-Open-USA,WRAP NEW YORK Top seeds including Novak Djokovic overcome eerily quiet stands as a "weird," spectator-free US Open started with heightened safety protocols for some players following a positive Covid-19 test. 750 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video. Graphic Entertainment-US-SKorea-music-BTS NEW YORK K-pop sensation BTS becomes the first all-South Korean act to rule the top US singles chart, industry tracker Billboard announces, with their English-language "Dynamite" hitting number one. 400 words moved. Picture. -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France-Europe PARIS Millions of students in France and Belgium return to class as schools cautiously reopen across Europe, with masks mandatory for many as officials warn that coronavirus infection rates are rising again in several countries. 600 words 1000 GMT by Eleonore Hughes. Picture. Video Health-virus-HongKong-China-politics HONG KONG Hong Kong launches a mass coronavirus testing scheme, but calls for millions to take up the offer have been undermined by deep distrust of the government following China's crushing of the city's democracy movement. 650 words moved by Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao. Picture. Video. Live Video Also moved: Health-virus-China-Wuhan-school -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-blast-politics,WRAP BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron presses a "risky" drive for political change in crisis-hit Lebanon as the former French mandate marks its centenary while teetering on the brink of the abyss. 750 words 1100 GMT by Jerome Rivet. Picture. Graphic. Video. Live video Also moved: Lebanon-blast-politics,CHRONO Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas say they have reached a Qatari-mediated deal with Israel to end more than three weeks of cross-border attacks. 550 words moved by Adel Zaanoun with Guillaume Lavallee in Jerusalem Iran-nuclear-politics-UN-EU,WRAP VIENNA The signatories to the faltering Iran nuclear deal meet in Vienna, facing a US bid to restore international sanctions on the Islamic republic and extend an arms embargo 500 words 1100 GMT by Julia Zappei Iran-internet-women,FOCUS TEHRAN Three years after the #MeToo movement spread globally, Iranian women have broken their silence on sexual violence, raising awareness about a subject that is taboo in the Islamic republic. 600 words moved by Ahmad Parhizi. Video -- ASIA -- Japan-politics-election-Abe-LDP,WRAP TOKYO Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga cements his status as the clear frontrunner in the race to become the country's next prime minister, ahead of a vote expected on September 14. 600 words moved by Natsuko Fukue and Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Graphic SKorea-Samsung-telecommunication-corruption-business,lead SEOUL South Korean prosecutors indict the heir to the Samsung empire over a controversial merger of two business units seen as a key step towards his succession, in the latest legal blow to the sprawling conglomerate. 650 words moved by Kang Jin-kyu. Picture China-education-politics-minorities BEIJING Tens of thousands of people in an ethnic Mongolian region of northern China have joined rare protests and school boycotts against a new curriculum they fear will wipe out their minority culture, residents say. 500 words moved. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-unrest,FOCUS WASHINGTON After vigilante shootings at protests against police brutality left three people dead in the United States, fears are rising as the deeply divided country -- awash with guns -- heads into a key election in the midst of the biggest economic collapse since 1929, the deadliest pandemic since 1918 and the worst social upheaval since the 1960s. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plaintive. Pictures US-politics-vote WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump prepares to take his law-and-order re-election mantra to flashpoint Kenosha, scene of America's latest police shooting of a black man, brushing off warnings that he is not welcome there. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-film-politics-Trump LOS ANGELES As battle lines are drawn ahead of Donald Trump's bid for re-election, a new documentary based on the testimony of mental health professionals labels the US president a "malignant narcissist." 500 words moved. Video -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-icesheets-oceans-sealevel-modelling PARIS The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers say, highlighting flaws in current climate change models. 750 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- HEALTH -- Health-food-obesity-ageing PARIS People who eat a lot of industrially processed junk food are more likely to exhibit a change in their chromosomes linked to ageing, according to research presented at an online medical conference. 550 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Health-virus-Nigeria-Entertainment-film KANO, Nigeria At a time when the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on businesses around the world, the film industry in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north is going from strength to strength. 600 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Video afp
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