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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + US announces probe into Minneapolis police + Biden to rally the world on climate crisis + Indonesian warships hunt for lost submarine + India posts global record for Covid cases + Tamed Super League rebels await punishment US-racism-trial-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS The US Justice Department announces an investigation into the Minneapolis police, a day after a white former officer was convicted of murdering George Floyd, signalling the Biden administration's intention to use federal powers to clean up systemic police abuse. 800 words moved by Robin Legrand, with Michael Mathes in Washington. Graphic, Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-rights-race,POINTS US-racism-trial-police-Floyd,POINTS US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,PROFILE US-racism-police-trial-Chauvin,PROFILE US-politics-crime-justice-Floyd,REAX US-climate-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden hopes to rally the world on climate as he unveils more ambitious US commitments at a summit that will bring on board adversaries China and Russia and follows firmer commitments by the European Union and Britain. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon Indonesia-military-submarine,WRAP JAKARTA Indonesian warships lead the hunt for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard and only enough oxygen for a few days. 750 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Indonesia-military-submarine-Type209,FACTS Indonesia-military-submarine,FACTS Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India posts a global record for the number of coronavirus cases in a day, as US President Joe Biden hails his government's "stunning" vaccination drive. 700 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1,WRAP PARIS Football's most powerful clubs face mounting calls for punishment over the European Super League, as the doomed competition's boss insists it's merely "on standby" despite most teams pulling out. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Kenya-tourism-economy-transport,FOCUS LAMU, Kenya A decade ago, there were only two vehicles on the sleepy Kenyan island of Lamu: a motorcycle for the electricity company, and the district commissioner's 4x4. However in the past two years there has been an explosion in the number of noisy motorbike taxis known as "boda bodas", with the two-wheelers clogging ancient narrow lanes and threatening Lamu's coveted World Heritage status. 750 words moved by Simon Valmary. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG Both veteran Marxists who have spent decades campaigning for Hong Kong democracy, Chan Po-ying and Leung Kwok-hung viewed marriage as something of a patriarchal and unnecessary institution -- but when China's crackdown on Hong Kong dissidents came for Leung, 63, they finally tied the knot. 750 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture Turkey-drought-water,FOCUS KARAPINAR, Turkey Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. 750 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video Nigeria-unrest-women-aid,PROFILE MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Mariam Oyiza wants to shake things up in the mainly Muslim and conservative northeast of Nigeria. Faced with online threats and ageism, the 26-year-old runs a small but busy charity helping women and children in a region where a decade-long bloody jihadist insurgency shows no sign of ending. 700 words moved by Louise Dewast -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India,3rdlead NEW DELHI India posts a global daily record of almost 315,000 new Covid infections as hospitals in New Delhi send out desperate warnings about a lack of fresh oxygen supplies. 750 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-India-drugs-crime,FOCUS MUMBAI As Poonam Sinha fought for her life, her distraught son found himself fending off black marketeers for coronavirus drugs after the Indian hospital treating her ran out of supplies. 750 words moved by Ammu Kannampilly, with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and Uzair Rizvi in Lucknow. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Syria-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM A Syrian officer is killed as Israel strikes multiple launch batteries after a missile is fired towards a secretive nuclear site in southern Israel. 500 words 1030 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee and Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Video Palestinians-vote-Hamas,INTERVIEW GAZA CITY Any change to the timetable for long-delayed Palestinian elections would further deepen the rift between Gaza and the West Bank triggered by the last vote in 2006, a top Hamas official warns. 650 words 1200 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics-vote,FOCUS BERLIN A sea change in Germany began this week with two leading parties announcing their candidates to succeed Angela Merkel at September's elections, heralding a shift from steady-as-she goes politics to a more unpredictable era. 700 words moved by Kit Holden. File picture Hungary-rights-politics-fbl,FOCUS BUDAPEST While Budapest has rushed to defend a Hungarian coach's right to free speech after a German football club sacked him over his anti-immigration comments, Viktor Orban's right-wing government itself often stands accused of silencing criticism at home. 800 words 1100 GMT by Peter Murphy. File picture -- AFRICA -- Chad-politics-Nigeria-conflict,FOCUS KANO, Nigeria Nigeria's army is on high alert warily watching developments over its border in Chad after the death of President Idriss Deby, who played a key role in Nigeria's own battle against Islamist militants. 800 words 1130 GMT by Aminu Abubakar with Patrick Markey in Paris -- ASIA -- Australia-China-diplomacy,WRAP BEIJING China says Australia's sudden scrapping of a Belt and Road Initiative deal risks "serious harm" to relations and warns of retaliatory actions against a country that insisted it would not be bullied. 600 words moved. File picture. Video Also moved: China-Australia-espionage-virus,FACTS HongKong-China-politics-media-court HONG KONG An award-winning Hong Kong journalist is found guilty of improperly searching a public vehicle licence database to help track down the perpetrators of an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists. 400 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Pakistan-China-unrest-blast QUETTA, Pakistan The Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for a deadly bomb blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the country as officials raise the death toll to five. 650 words 1200 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. SKorea-Belgium-diplomacy-crime SEOUL Belgium's ambassador to South Korea apologises after footage showed his wife apparently slapping two shop staff in the head in a row over shoplifting. 250 words moved SKorea-court-enterprises-Samsung,lead SEOUL The jailed de facto leader of the giant Samsung group goes on trial over an allegedly manipulated takeover in proceedings that effectively put South Korea's conglomerate control system in the dock. 650 words moved by Claire Lee. File picture -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Germany-politics-banking-fraud-Wirecard,wrap BERLIN German lawmakers probing the collapse of payments firm Wirecard are this week grilling top ministers and even Chancellor Angela Merkel as a parliamentary inquiry into the massive fraud reaches a dramatic climax. 550 words 1000 GMT by Kit Holden ECB-EU-eurozone-rates-inflation,WRAP FRANKFURT Christine Lagarde is expected to stress the European Central Bank's commitment to cheap money as Europe's biggest economies battle a surge in coronavirus infections that could slow the eurozone recovery. 600 words 1230 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick. File picture -- CLIMATE -- Climate-science-forests-oceans-tipping PARIS Global warming thresholds in Earth's climate system that could see the Amazon rainforest become savannah or tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting have "grace periods", giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers say. 650 words 1200 GMT by Marlowe Hood Climate-energy-flood-Europe PARIS Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reports. 600 words moved by Marlowe Hood Also moved: Climate-weather-science-Europe-Arctic,Q&A -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-diversity,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Actors of color are favorites in each category, and two female directors are nominated for the first time -- this year's Oscars could set new benchmarks for diversity, thanks to long-brewing industry changes as well as Covid-19's transformation of Hollywood, experts say. 850 words moved by Laurent Banguet. 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