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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump election delay call sparks cross-party fire + Obama criticises Trump in fiercest attack to date + Hong Kong democracy camp vows to resist crackdown + Historic slumps reveal financial cost of pandemic + Players take a knee during anthem as NBA restarts US-politics-vote-Trump-delay,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump floats an unprecedented delay to the 2020 election -- which polls show him losing -- but the suggestion draws cross-party fire and has virtually no chance of being accepted. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. File picture US-politics-vote-Trump-Obama,WRAP WASHINGTON Former US leader Barack Obama launches his sharpest attack to date on President Donald Trump, condemning the use of federal agents against protesters and attempts at voter suppression. 750 words moved by Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong's democracy camp will continue to fight communist China's crackdown, activists say after a devastating month that has seen election disqualifications, arrests and activists fleeing overseas. 650 words 0800 GMT by Jerome Taylor and Yan Zhao. Picture. Video. Live video. Also moving: HongKong-China-politics,FACTS Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The scale of economic devastation from the pandemic is laid bare as Western economies record historic slumps, just as resurgent caseloads force many countries into agonising new trade-offs between health and financial stability. 850 words moved by Heather Scott with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-economy Basket-NBA-anthem-protest,WRAP ORLANDO, United States Players and coaches take a knee during the US national anthem as the NBA season restarts at Disney World in Florida, four months after the league shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Science-space-Mars-Perseverance-US,WRAP CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launches on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet -- and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. 700 words moved by Gianrigo Marletta with Issam Ahmed in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic US-justice-SupremeCourt-Ginsburg-health,FOCUS WASHINGTON Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a darling of the US left and increasingly frail octogenarian, is taking center stage ahead of this November's presidential election, with the Supreme Court's balance hanging on her seemingly faltering health. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive US-children-migration-Trump,FOCUS WASHINGTON Jorge Benitez got the precious documents he needs to live and work in the US under a program that protects migrants who, like him, arrived illegally as children -- but his brother Bayron may never get them. 650 words moved by Ariela Navarro. Picture Health-virus-Brazil-favelas,FOCUS SAO PAULO When Priscila Tomas da Silva's husband lost his job loading trucks because of coronavirus shutdown measures in Sao Paulo, they faced a stark choice: pay the rent, or feed their six children. 700 words moved by Fernando Marron with Joshua Howat Berger in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-ceasefire,WRAP KABUL The Taliban and Afghan security forces begin a three-day ceasefire -- a rare respite that many hope will lead to peace talks and an eventual end to almost two decades of grinding conflict. 400 words 0530 GMT by Mushtaq Mojaddidi. Video Health-virus-Australia,lead MELBOURNE Australian authorities eye tighter restrictions in the nation's second-biggest city as hundreds more coronavirus cases are recorded despite more than three weeks in lockdown. 600 words 0800 GMT by Tania Lee. Picture. Video Australia-media-internet-Google-Facebook,WRAP SYDNEY Australia unveils a draft law to force Google and Facebook to pay news media for their content in a "world-leading" initiative sure to prompt a confrontation with the digital giants. 600 words moved Health-virus-India-film-work-unemployment,FOCUS MUMBAI India's coronavirus lockdown made little difference to Bollywood superstars but for the industry's vast army of low-paid, unskilled workers it meant unemployment, hunger and homelessness -- with no end in sight even as filming gradually resumes. 650 words moved by Udita Jhunjhunwala and Ammu Kannampilly. Picture -- EUROPE -- Belarus-Russia-arrest-vote,WRAP MINSK Tens of thousands of supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko's top election rival rally in the Belarusian capital Minsk despite an increasing crackdown on the opposition. 750 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video Europe-migrants-Italy-trial-Salvini,WRAP ROME Italy's Senate votes in favour of stripping far-right chief Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity, paving the way for him to face trial, for a second time, over allegedly illegally detaining migrants at sea. 600 words moved by Ella Ide. Picture. Video Health-virus-Spain-traders-SMEs,FOCUS MADRID Isabel has closed her Madrid bar and sent two workers home; Miguel's shoe shop has lost older customers: In Spain, the coronavirus has pushed small businesses to the brink of collapse. 650 words moved by Emmanuelle Michel. File picture. Video Albania-ecosystem-fishing,FOCUS DIVJAKE, Albania The blue crab's colourful claws are pretty but dangerous: ripping up fishing nets and upsetting local ecosystems off Albania's coast, the invasive species is a source of daily anguish for Balkan fishermen struggling to make ends meet. 600 words moved by Briseida Mema. Picture. Video Iceland-president,PROFILE REYKJAVIK When Vigdis Finnbogadottir assumed Iceland's presidency on August 1 1980, she made history as the first elected female head of state in the world, and four decades later the 90-year-old remains a role-model to Icelanders. 550 words moved by Jeremie Richard Greece-refugee-homelessness,FOCUS ATHENS When Amir Hussein was finally allowed to leave the horrific migrant camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, it was supposed to be the end of a year-long odyssey. 650 words moved by Marina Rafenberg. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-assault-women-MeToo,WRAP CAIRO A gang rape allegation at a luxury hotel in Egypt stemming from a prominent social media account has triggered a new #MeToo wave in the deeply conservative country. 400 words moved by Farid Farid Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj,WRAP MINA, Saudi Arabia Muslim hajj pilgrims take part in the "stoning of the devil", the last major ritual of the downscaled pilgrimage, this year using sterilised pebbles provided by authorities as part of measures to ward off an outbreak of coronavirus. 600 words 0600 GMT. Picture. Video Health-virus-Saudi-religion-hajj-virtual,FOCUS KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia Faridah Bakti Yahra travelled alone to Mecca when she won the lottery of a lifetime to join this year's hajj, the smallest in living memory, but her family is relishing the experience virtually. 700 words moved by Hussein al-Hmaydan with Sarah Stewart in Dubai. Picture. Video. afp
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