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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hong Kong enforces ban on Tiananmen commemorations + US to give 80 mn vaccine doses to priority nations + Biden expands blacklist of Chinese firms + France halts military operations with Mali over coup + No evidence of alien spaceships, US report says HongKong-China-politics-Tiananmen,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong police detained one of the organisers of the annual vigil commemorating Beijing's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown, as authorities sought to prevent any show of pro-democracy people power on Friday's sensitive anniversary. 750 words 0830 GMT by Su Xinqi, Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video. Graphic We will also move: HongKong-China-politics,CHRONO Health-virus-US-vaccines-Covax,3rdlead WASHINGTON President Joe Biden outlines his plan for the first of 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses that the US will distribute globally, with 75 percent of shots disbursed via the Covax program. 650 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture US-China-economy-politics-sanctions,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden expands a blacklist of Chinese firms that are off-limits to American investors over their links to Beijing's "military-industrial complex," in a sign of Washington's continued pressure campaign against the Asian power. 500 words 0830 GMT Mali-politics-coup-France-army,WRAP PARIS France says it will suspend joint military operations with Malian forces after the West African country's second coup in nine months, adding to international pressure for the military junta to return civilians to positions of power. 650 words moved by Daphne Benoit. File picture. Video US-military-space WASHINGTON There is no evidence that unexplained aerial phenomena spotted in recent years by US military personnel are aliens, an upcoming government report quoted by The New York Times says, but intelligence officials still can't explain the mysterious aircraft. 300 words 0530 GMT -- SPOTLIGHT -- Myanmar-politics-military-guerrilla,FOCUS BANGKOK Nervous laughter breaks out in Myanmar's eastern jungle as a young man training to overthrow the junta is knocked backwards by the kick of a rifle he has just fired at a target painted on a tree. 750 words moved. File picture. Video -- ASIA -- Britain-China-rights-Uyghurs,FOCUS LONDON A panel of UK-based lawyers and rights experts investigating the plight of Uyghurs in China will begin hearing evidence from witnesses, as Beijing brands it a "machine producing lies". 550 words moved by Callum Paton and Jitendra Joshi Mongolia-social-employment-family-gender,FOCUS ULAANBAATAR Mongolia once guaranteed free childcare for working mothers but decades after the landlocked country abandoned communist rule, some have been forced to choose between bribing nurseries or leaving their jobs to look after their young ones. 650 words moved by Khaliun Bayartsogt. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India-crime,FOCUS NEW DELHI From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders to recycled PPE, India's coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences. 550 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga Health-virus-Nepal-mountaineering-Everest KATHMANDU Expedition organiser Dawa Steven Sherpa has been running teams on Everest for over a decade, but this year has been the most challenging yet, in a season that grappled with a storm of coronavirus, cyclones and misinformation. 500 words 0800 GMT by Paavan Mathema. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Denmark-migration-politics,WRAP COPENHAGEN Denmark ratchets up its tough anti-immigration laws by adopting new legislation enabling it to open asylum centres outside Europe where applicants would be sent to live. 750 words moved by Camille Bas-Wohlert Russia-politics-opposition,2ndlead MOSCOW Prominent Kremlin critic and former opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov, who had faced possible jail time, is released without being charged in a rare about-face ahead of Russian parliamentary elections. 500 words moved by Anna Smolchenko. Picture -- MIDEAST -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israelis eye the end of an era after a motley alliance of parties from across the political spectrum agree to form a government to unseat veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 750 words moved by Daniella Cheslow. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-politics,FACTS Israel-politics-court-Netanyahu,FACTS Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-politics-Palestinians,FOCUS -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-crime-kidnapping-children,WRAP ABUJA A Nigerian state government says it is negotiating with gunmen who seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at the weekend, the latest in a string of mass kidnappings in the country. 450 words moved. File picture. Graphic DRCongo-unrest,2ndlead BUNIA, DR Congo At least 11 people have been killed by an armed group in eastern DR Congo, sources say, bringing the troubled region's death toll to at least 70 since the start of the week. 500 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Canada-indigenous-school,FOCUS KAMLOOPS, Canada "They were forced to cut ties with their families," the student says, as he records an "audio postcard" with classmates on the tragic history of boarding schools set up more than a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada's indigenous peoples. 550 words moved by Julien Besset. Picture. Video Peru-vote,ADVANCER LIMA Peruvians will be faced with choosing the "lesser evil" between rightwing populist Keiko Fujimori and radical leftwing unionist Pedro Castillo when voting for their new president on Sunday. 800 words moved by Francisco Jara. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Peru-vote-Fujimori,PROFILE Peru-vote-Castillo,PROFILE Nicaragua-politics-opposition-arrest,PROFILE MANAGUA Like her mother before her, Nicaraguan opposition figure Cristiana Chamorro -- placed under house arrest Wednesday on government claims of money-laundering -- has proved to be a thorn in the side of President Daniel Ortega. 600 words moved. File picture -- BUSINESS & FINANCE -- US-economy-employment WASHINGTON A key US government jobs report is expected to show American businesses added hundreds of thousands of jobs last month as vaccines helped the economy return to normal -- but with Covid-19 still keeping some people away from the workplace, strong rehiring is no sure thing. 550 words moved by Chris Stein US-aviation-technology-UnitedAirlines,WRAP NEW YORK United Airlines announces plans to buy 15 planes from startup Boom Supersonic in a move that could revive the high-speed form of air travel after the Concorde was wound down in 2003. 800 words moved by John Biers G7-Britain-economy-politics LONDON Group of Seven finance ministers are set to kick off talks with the spotlight on ambitious plans for a minimum global level of corporate tax. 550 words moved by Roland Jackson -- SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT -- Environment-Lebanon-forests-climate,FOCUS QSAYBEH, Lebanon The scenic region of Mount Lebanon has long produced pine seed, a regional delicacy, but harvests have collapsed amid an exotic insect infestation experts say is accelerated by climate change. 750 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic, birthday boy Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer all reach the French Open third round as the race for the women's title is thrown wide open after world number one Ashleigh Barty limps out. 700 words moved by Dave James. Picture. Graphic Tennis-CHN-Li-FRA-Open,FOCUS SHANGHAI A decade ago, more than 110 million people tuned in from China to watch Li Na become the first Asian-born player to win a Grand Slam singles title, but now she is rarely seen on TV or in the country's media. 650 words 0200 GMT by Peter Stebbings. File picture afp
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