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| - Duty Editor: Anita Chang Beattie Contact: anita.beattie@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Minnesota calls up more troops as rioting spreads in US + SpaceX poised for ground-breaking crewed rocket launch + Trump criticized for cutting ties with WHO amid pandemic + Gibraltar moves to protect its monkeys against virus US-politics-race-unrest,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota's governor calls up more national guard troops and warns they will "decimate" rioters after a fresh night of violence in Minneapolis overwhelmed law enforcement and protests against police brutality spread across America. 700 words 2100 GMT by Gilles Clarenne and Joy Powell. Picture. Video US-space-SpaceX-NASA,WRAP KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida SpaceX is poised to send two veteran NASA astronauts to the International Space Station although uncertain weather conditions threaten a second postponement of the historic first crewed mission by a commercial rocket. 700 words 2030 GMT by Jerome Cartillier and Chris Lefkow. Photo. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS US President Donald Trump faces a broad backlash over severing ties with the UN's health agency during a pandemic, as the coronavirus surges in Latin America while Europe further reopened from lockdown. 800 words 2130 GMT by Celine Le Prioux with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Gibraltar-animals MADRID Authorities in Britain's tiny enclave of Gibraltar, fearful of a coronavirus epidemic among its famous Barbary monkeys, have banned tourists from touching the animals. 250 words moved. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain,lead LONDON Several senior advisors to Boris Johnson's government warn it is too early to lift the lockdown just two days before the UK goes ahead with relaxing coronavirus social-distancing rules. 500 words 1930 GMT. File picture Health-virus-France-tourism-leisure,lead CHENONCEAUX, France Staff far outnumber visitors to the elegant Chenonceau castle in France's Loire Valley as it reopens with meticulously prepared safeguards against the coronavirus. 600 words by Gina Doggett. File picture -- AFRICA -- Libya-conflict-Malta-US-Russia,lead VALLETTA Russia denies US reports that $1.1 billion in Libyan money seized by the Maltese authorities is counterfeit. 450 words 1930 GMT -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Jerusalem,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem shoot dead a disabled Palestinian they mistakenly thought was armed with a pistol, prompting furious condemnation from the Palestinians. 450 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict-attack,WRAP KABUL A roadside bomb kills a television journalist in Kabul, soon after a top Afghan official appointed to lead peace talks with the Taliban said his team was ready for the long-delayed dialogue. 600 words moved by Emal Haidary. Picture. Video Health-virus-Japan-lifestyle-bath,FOCUS YOKOHAMA, Japan Masazumi Kato sighs deeply as he lowers himself into a tub at a public bathhouse in a Tokyo suburb, enjoying a return to a Japanese tradition largely off-limits during the coronavirus lockdown, and he has few qualms about returning. 650 words moved by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video Health-virus-China-Germany-economy BEIJING A Lufthansa plane carrying around 200 mainly German workers lands in China, marking the first return of Europeans since the country suspended visas over the coronavirus. 300 words moved. Picture -- BUSINESS -- France-automobile-Renault-health-virus Maubeuge,FRANCE Thousands of workers rally outside the Renault factory in northern France to protest the automaker's decision to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide, including 4,600 in France. 400 words moved. Picture -- SPORTS -- Auto-Prix-AUT-health-virus,WRAP VIENNA Formula One's truncated coronavirus-hit season will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 5, the Austrian government announces. 650 words. Picture Health-virus-Britain-politics-GBR-Britain-sport LONDON The British government approves the return of domestic competitive sport behind closed doors from June 1. 700 words 2000 GMT by Julian Guyer moved. File picture afp
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