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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Myanmar police fire rubber bullets at protesters + Trump's second impeachment trial starts + WHO team in Wuhan to speak to press + Hacker tries to dump chemical into Florida water + Spy gadgets up for auction in US Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Security forces fire rubber bullets and tear gas at anti-coup protesters in Myanmar as demonstrators around the country defy a military ban on rallies. 700 words 1000 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-impeachment-trial,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate gavels in on Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial, with his defense team decrying it as a "brazen political act" of retribution and Democratic prosecutors arguing that the ex-president wilfully incited a violent insurrection. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Graphic. Picture. Video Also moved: US-politics-vote-timeline,CHRONO US-politics-impeachment-trial-figures,POINTS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,FOCUS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,INTERVIEW Health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China Investigators from the World Health Organization who have been at the pandemic's ground zero are ready to meet the press and give an insight into what they have found about the origins of the coronavirus. 750 words 1000 GMT by Laurie Chen with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-hacking-water-chemicals WASHINGTON An unknown hacker breaks into a Florida city's water supply and briefly pushes levels of a potentially dangerous additive up 100-fold. 350 words moved. File picture US-Russia-auction-spy,FOCUS BEVERLY HILLS Cyanide-filled fake teeth and cigarette packs concealing cameras are among the Soviet spy gadgets going under the hammer at a Beverly Hills auction this week. 450 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Kuwait-women-abuse,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY Women in Kuwait are defying conservative norms and a culture of "shame" to speak out against harassment for the first time, in a social media campaign sparked by a popular fashion blogger. 700 words moved by Salima Lebel with Dana Moukhallati in Dubai Lifestyle-Jordan-art-make-up,FOCUS AMMAN A young Jordanian make-up artist has beaten the pandemic lockdown blues and shot to online fame with videos of herself imitating famous figures from across the Arab world and beyond. 550 words moved by Kamal Taha. Picture. Video Britain-arts-books-gender-cartoon,INTERVIEW LONDON Not all superheroes wear capes: some prefer dresses. Cartoonist Steven Appleby drew on his own cross-dressing to create August Crimp, who transforms into "Dragman" whenever he puts on women's clothes. 650 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video Turkmenistan-rights-Ennals-media,PROFILE ALMATY Soltan Achilova, who found her calling late in life, may have fallen into one of the hardest jobs in the world: being a reporter in secretive and repressive Turkmenistan. 700 words moved by Christopher Rickleton. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-masks,POINTS WASHINGTON As new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus spread, experts say it's more important than ever to wear higher quality masks. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iran launches its Covid-19 vaccination campaign to fight the region's worst outbreak of the novel coronavirus that state authorities say has infected 1.4 million people and killed over 58,000. 500 words 1200 GMT. Picture. Video Health-virus-Mexico-economy,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Mexico's coronavirus death toll is soaring and the capital is on maximum alert, but for many workers who scrape out a living in the street, staying at home is not an option. 500 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- India-climate-glacier-flood,WRAP TAPOVAN, India Indian rescue workers battle through tonnes of rock and mud to try and rescue 35 people trapped in a tunnel after a devastating flash flood likely caused by a chunk of glacier breaking off killed at least 26 and left over 170 missing. 600 words 1000 GMT by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Also moved: India-climate-glacier-flood-survivors,SCENE Asia-India-environment-rivers,FOCUS KUALA LUMPUR A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas last weekend was a disaster waiting to happen, and one likely to be repeated in a region transformed by climate change and unchecked infrastructure development, experts warn. 700 words 1100 GMT by Sam Reeves. Picture. Video HongKong-China-politics,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong's top court orders pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stay behind bars as it sides with prosecutors in the first legal test of Beijing's sweeping new national security law. 650 words moved by Su Xinqi. Live video China-society-population-growth,lead BEIJING The number of babies born in China drops again, in the latest sign that relaxations in the country's strict family planning policy are not working. 500 words moved India-agriculture-politics-demonstration-Tikait,FOCUS NEW DELHI The Tikait family has a history of being a thorn in the side of Indian governments that take on the country's farmers, and their emotional appeal has again energised a showdown with authorities. 600 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Russia-EU-politics-opposition-sanction,WRAP MOSCOW Aides of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny say they pushed the EU to impose sanctions on prominent members of President Vladimir Putin's circle, including business tycoons, to ramp up pressure on Russia. 500 words 1030 GMT by Anna Smolchenko Belarus-politics-unrest,ADVANCER MINSK Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko is convening hundreds of loyal delegates at a people's assembly this week to unveil promised reforms, in a display the embattled opposition has dismissed as political theatre. 650 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-IT-politics-union-Amazon,WRAP WASHINGTON Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama begin voting on forming the first American union at the e-commerce giant, an effort that could pave the way for further unionization at one of the world's most powerful companies 650 words moved Colombia-Venezuela-migration,lead BOGOTA Colombia will temporarily normalize the status of almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants, President Ivan Duque says. 350 words moved. Picture -- PEOPLE/ENTERTAINMENT -- US-music-Supremes-Wilson,OBIT WASHINGTON Motown singer and the Supremes co-founder Mary Wilson has died, US media report. She was 76. 450 words 1030 GMT. File picture France-cinema-Carriere,OBIT PARIS Legendary French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who penned some of the most memorable movies of the last half century including "The Tin Drum" and "Cyrano de Bergerac", has died at the age of 89, his daughter tells AFP. 500 words moved by Claude Casteran -- SPORT -- Cricket-IND-ENG,lead CHENNAI, India Joe Root leads England to an emphatic 227-run win over India in the opening Test, upping the stakes in what both sides have vowed will be a hard-fought series. 550 words 0930 GMT -- SPACE EXPLORATION -- UAE-space-Mars,WRAP DUBAI A tense half-hour will determine the fate of the UAE's "Hope" probe to Mars as the Arab world's first space mission carries out a tricky manoeuvre to enter the Red Planet's orbit. 550 words 1100 GMT by Dana Moukhallati. Graphic Also moved: UAE-space-Mars,FACTS -- ENVIRONMENT -- Environment-climate-pollution-health-mortality PARIS Fossil fuel pollution caused more than eight million premature deaths in 2018, accounting for nearly 20 percent of adult mortality worldwide, researchers report. 600 words moved by Marlowe Hood Weather-climate-LaNina-UN GENEVA The 2020-2021 La Nina phenomenon has passed its peak, says the UN weather agency, but its impact on temperatures, rain and storm patterns is set to continue. 550 words moved by Robin Millard afp
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