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| - Duty Editor: Adam Plowright Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Top politicians charged over Lebanon port blast + US regulators discuss Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine + Nobel Peace Prize winners warn about hunger + Afghan TV anchor gunned down + Delayed Cyberpunk 2077 game launches with glitches Lebanon-blast-politics-justice,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanon's lead investigator into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion has charged outgoing premier Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with negligence, a judicial source says. 700 words 1430 GMT by Rouba El Husseini and Hashem Osseiran. File picture Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON American regulators are due to meet to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logs its worst-ever daily Covid-19 death rate with more than 3,000 fatalities. 650 words 1530 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographics Nobel-peace-WFP-ceremony,WRAP OSLO Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus, the World Food Programme warns of a "hunger pandemic" it said could be worse than Covid-19. 700 words 1630 GMT by Pierre-Henry Deshayes. Picture. Video. Afghanistan-conflict-media JALALABAD, Afghanistan A female Afghan news anchor and activist is shot dead by assailants her employer says, the second journalist killed in a month in Afghanistan. 450 words moved by Noorullah Shirzada Lifestyle-Poland-games-Cyberpunk2077,WRAP WARSAW Cyberpunk 2077, a video game reported to be one of the most expensive ever made, has launched worldwide after its makers vowed to fix graphics that risk triggering epileptic seizures. 600 words 1400 GMT by Bernard Osser. File picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-vaccine-Pfizer-BioNTech WASHINGTON An independent committee of experts convened by the US Food and Drug Administration meets to discuss approving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine as the medicine's full results appear in a peer-reviewed journal. 700 words 1500 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture Health-virus-WTO-trade-pharmaceutical-patent,FOCUS GENEVA The World Trade Organization debates a proposal to exempt Covid-19 vaccines from intellectual property rights -- an idea fiercely opposed by pharmaceutical giants. 600 words 1430 GMT by Agnes Pedrero. Chess-IND-Anand-health-virus,INTERVIEW NEW DELHI Mass coronavirus lockdowns and "The Queen's Gambit" have sparked a surprise boom in chess, Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand tells AFP, praising the hit TV show's "accurate portrayal" of the game. 700 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain calls on the EU to make significant changes to secure a breakthrough in Brexit trade talks, as Brussels outlines a contingency plan if negotiations break down. 650 words 1500 GMT by Phil Hazlewood and Dave Clark. Picture. Video We have also moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-Johnson,FOCUS Singapore-Britain-trade-EU-Brexit,3rdlead Azerbaijan-Armenia-Karabakh-conflict-Turkey-diplomacy,WRAP BAKU Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says on a visit to Azerbaijan that Baku's struggle with Armenia is not over as he hails his close ally's "glorious victory" in a bloody conflict with Yerevan. 700 words 1430 GMT by Emil Guliyev. Picture. Video. Live video Spain-fire-Europe-migrants,WRAP BADALONA, Spain Three migrants are killed when a fire rips through a warehouse near Barcelona, injuring another 19 including several who jumped from the building to flee the flames, officials say. 450 words 1500 GMT by Daniel Bosque. Picture. Video Hungary-Poland-EU-budget-diplomacy,FOCUS BUDAPEST Compromise looks likely over an EU budget row, but Hungary and Poland's threat of a veto may yet have domestic repercussions for Budapest and Warsaw. 750 words moved by Geza Molnar with Stanislaw Waszak in Warsaw -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Biden-Hunter-taxes-investigation,WRAP WILMINGTON, Delaware Hunter Biden, the son of US President-elect Joe Biden and a frequent target of Republican attacks, says he is under federal investigation about his taxes. 650 words moved. File picture US-economy-unemployment-stimulus,WRAP WASHINGTON A massive increase in the number of workers filing for unemployment benefits ramps up the pressure on US lawmakers to break the impasse on a new federal relief package to help the ailing economy. 550 words 1530 GMT by Heather Scott -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-WestBank-archaeology-tourism-history,FOCUS HERODIUM, Palestinian Territories Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod's palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot. 500 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video Saudi-Qatar-diplomacy-Gulf,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia is pushing for a compromise to end a damaging three-year Gulf dispute, but a full resolution remains out of reach despite its offer of concessions, sources close to the negotiations say. 850 words moved by Anuj Chopra with Sarah Stewart in Manama and Gregory Walton in Doha. File picture. File video -- AFRICA -- Ghana-vote ACCRA A respected group of Ghanaian election observers urges the public to trust the results of a presidential ballot, despite the opposition's angry rejection of the outcome. 500 words moved by Kent Mensah and Louise Dewast. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Ghana-vote-politics-AkufoAddo,PROFILE Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-tailor,FOCUS UM RAQUBA, Sudan Thousands of people fled war in Ethiopia for Sudan with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Now in Um Raquba camp in eastern Sudan, dozens of destitute survivors of the fighting in the Tigray region flock each day to the tailor Omar Ibrahim's makeshift shop. 700 words moved by Serene Assir. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-diplomacy-Disney-LionKing BEIJING The "wolf warrior" label applied to Chinese diplomats using aggressive language on social media is unfair, one of their colleagues says, suggesting the communist country's envoys have more in common with Simba from Disney's "The Lion King". 350 words moved Thailand-demonstration-politics-rights-royals BANGKOK Thai democracy activists rally at the UN's Bangkok office and ask the body to pressure the kingdom into repealing royal defamation laws they say are being used to suppress their movement. 400 words moved. Picture Video -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- Health-virus-ECB-eurozone-inflation,WRAP FRANKFURT The European Central Bank injects more stimulus to help the eurozone weather a second wave of the coronavirus, as it warns of an outlook fraught with uncertainty over the pandemic's evolution and the rollout of vaccines. 700 words 1500 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick. File picture US-IT-lifestyle-travel-IPO-Airbnb,WRAP NEW YORK Airbnb makes its Wall Street debut with a whopping $47 billion valuation amid a feverish rush for emerging companies adapting to lifestyle changes stemming from the pandemic. 500 words 1500 GMT by Juliette Michel -- ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & SCIENCE -- China-BRI-coal-energy-pollution-investments,FOCUS BEIJING China's plan to fund dozens of foreign coal plants from Zimbabwe to Indonesia is set to produce more emissions than those of major developed nations, threatening global efforts to fight climate change, environmentalists have warned. 700 words moved by Helen Roxburgh, with Poornima Weerasekara in Colombo. Picture. File Picture Climate-environment-UN-emissions,WRAP PARIS Earth remains on course to warm more than 3 degrees Celsius by the century's end despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions due to the pandemic and pledges to curb pollution, the UN says. 650 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic Also moved: Climate-UN-summit-netzero,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-hydrogen,FACTS Climate-UN-summit-carbon,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-fuel,FACTS -- SPORT -- Fbl-ITA-Rossi,WRAP MILAN Paolo Rossi, who fired Italy to victory in the 1982 World Cup after almost missing the tournament through a match-fixing scandal, dies at the age of 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes. 750 words 1500 GMT by Emmeline Moore. File picture RugbyU-health-ENG-WAL-injuries, LONDON Rugby Players' Association chief Damian Hopley says training methods need to be addressed "very quickly" after a group of ex-professionals said the sport had left them with brain damage. 550 words moved. File picture MMA-THA-gym,FOCUS HONG KONG Lightweight contender Rafael Fiziev steps into the cage in Las Vegas this weekend hoping to be the latest fighter to begin a journey to UFC glory from a production line of MMA champions on an island in Thailand. Tiger Muay Thai gym in southern Phuket attracts fighters from all over the globe lured by world-class training, a tropical lifestyle and a growing reputation. 750 words moved by Mathew Scott. Picture afp
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