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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Israel-Palestinian conflict escalates + Two foreign climbers die on Everest + Panic buying shuts down US gas stations + Muslims mark Eid under shadow of virus + Ellen calls it a wrap on talk show Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel faces an escalating conflict on two fronts, scrambling to quell riots between Arabs and Jews on its own streets after days of exchanging deadly fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza. 850 words 1000 GMT by Ben Simon with Adel Zaanoun in Gaza City. Picture. Graphic. Video. Live video Nepal-Everest-mountaineering-accident,WRAP KATHMANDU Two climbers from the United States and Switzerland have died on Mount Everest, the first fatalities of this year's season, expedition organisers in Nepal say. 650 words moved by Paavan Mathema. File picture. Graphic US-oil-hacking-pipeline,WRAP WASHINGTON The major US pipeline network forced offline by a cyber attack begins to reopen, its operator said, after a five-day shutdown prompted motorists to frantically stock up on gasoline and some gas stations on the US east coast to close. 750 words moved by Heather Scott and Virginie Montet. Picture. Video Moved: US-oil-hacking-pipeline-ransomware,FOCUS Health-virus-Islam-Eid-Israel-Palestinians,WRAP RIYADH Muslims around the world begin marking a sombre Eid al-Fitr amid rising hostilities between Israel and Palestinians, in the second celebration under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words 1030 GMT. Picture. Video US-DeGeneres-television,WRAP NEW YORK Ellen DeGeneres, a star of daytime American talk show culture, says she is calling it quits after 19 seasons anchoring a TV staple that had become tainted by toxic workplace allegations. 500 words moved. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- DRCongo-violence-rape,FOCUS KANANGA Single or married, sometimes pregnant, and among them even men: hundreds of people are coming forward as victims of sexual assault and rape in Kasai, the poor, troubled heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 700 words moved by Marthe Bosuandole. Picture. Video Taiwan-Indonesia-Philippines-fishing-rights-labour,FOCUS TAIPEI Taiwan's lucrative fishing industry has come under fire for subjecting its migrant workforce to forced labour and other abuses, contrasting with the government's promotion of the democratic island as a regional human rights beacon. 1,000 words moved by Amber Wang with Ron Lopez in Manila. Picture. Video. Graphic Colombia-environment-animal-agriculture,FOCUS HATO COROZAL, Colombia On the plains of eastern Colombia, an age-old conflict between man and beast plays out near-daily. Jaguars attack cattle. Farmers retaliate with shotguns. But rancher Jorge Barragan has declared a unilateral truce with the carnivorous cats. 700 words moved by Juan Sebastian Serrano. Picture. Video. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA An expert panel blames bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle Covid-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India's death toll topped 250,000. 900 words moved by Nina Larson, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-masks,FOCUS WASHINGTON Covid cases are declining quickly while vaccinations continue to rise slowly but surely in the United States, and many experts believe the time will soon be right for the federal government to ease its recommendations on indoor masking, and say doing so could help encourage more vaccine holdouts about the clear benefits of getting their shots. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture Health-virus-India-vaccines,FOCUS NEW DELHI It's 2am and Ananya Maskara's face is lit up by her smartphone as she nervously scrolls through a list -- looking for a green or yellow tab indicating that a Covid-19 vaccination slot is available in India's capital New Delhi. 700 words moved by Glenda Kwek with Nishant Saxena in Lucknow. Picture. Video Virus-health-Nepal,FOCUS KATHMANDU Five people suffocated in a Nepal hospital after oxygen ran out this week, as the impoverished country with an even shakier health care system than India's reels from a vicious Covid surge. 600 words 1000 GMT by Paavan Mathema. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-carnival,PROFILE RIO DE JANEIRO Raquel Poti barely stands five feet tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro's carnival -- whose cancelation due to Covid-19 has made her reinvent her art form to keep it alive. 650 words moved by Vitoria Velez. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-Europe-US-social-parties,ANALYSIS LONDON Britain's Labour party is licking its wounds after another electoral drubbing, and can look to the decaying remains of once-great movements in Europe for a sign of potential worse to come. 750 words 1000 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. File picture France-Britain-crime,FOCUS PARIS For years, they were a deeply disturbing double act, roaming eastern France in search of virgins to rape and kill. But with the death of her ex-husband Michel Fourniret aged 79, Monique Olivier, 72, now faces investigators alone. 600 words 1100 GMT by Eleonore Dermy. File picture Germany-court-conflict-law-rights,FOCUS BERLIN From accusations of torture in Belarus and Syria to alleged genocide in Iraq, claimants in some of the world's most serious legal cases are increasingly turning to courts in Germany in their quest for justice. 700 words moved by Yannick Pasquet Spain-politics-protest-anniversary,FOCUS MADRID It has been 10 years since a group of Spaniards angered by the economic crisis took their fury onto the streets, occupying public squares in a new form of protest that caught on worldwide. 750 words moved by Marie Giffard. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lod,SCENE LOD,Israel For years, Jews and Arabs lived together in the central Israeli city of Lod. This week everything fell apart, leaving a man dead, a synagogue torched and neighbours facing off in hatred. 650 words moved by Majeda El-Batsh and Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Sudan-politics-economy-Hamdok,INTERVIEW-EXCLUSIVE KHARTOUM Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok hopes Sudan can wipe out its staggering $60 billion foreign debt bill by securing relief and deals at an upcoming Paris conference that could bring much-needed investment. 800 words 0930 GMT Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video Saudi-BinLaden-politics-economy,WRAP-EXCLUSIVE RIYADH Saudi Arabia releases construction magnate Bakr bin Laden, more than three years after his detention in a purge of the kingdom's elite that upended his vast business empire, sources close to his family tell AFP. 650 words moved by Anuj Chopra -- AFRICA -- Kenya-health-virus-hospitals,FOCUS NAIROBI After its oxygen reserves fizzled out at the peak of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Kenya has been scrambling to boost capacity of the lifesaving gas, casting a worried eye on the nightmare unfolding in India. 800 words moved by Marion Douet and Hillary Orinde. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Republicans,WRAP WASHINGTON US House Republicans oust conservative Liz Cheney, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, from her powerful leadership role in a move that tightens the former president's grip on the party. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video Chile-vote-constitution,ADVANCER SANTIAGO Nineteen months after Chileans took to the streets to demand fundamental change in weeks-long protests that claimed dozens of lives, the fight to replace the country's dictatorship-era constitution continues at the ballot box this weekend. 650 words by Paula Abramovich. Picture Also moving: Chile-vote,FACTS Colombia-politics-unrest,FOCUS CALI, Colombia Poverty, long-simmering racial tension, drug trafficking and a recent outbreak of violent anti-government protest: the Colombian city of Cali has come to encapsulate all the ills of a country recently emerged from half a century of conflict but tumbling back into crisis. 850 words moved by Lina Vanegas in Bogota and Luis Robayo in Cali. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict,WRAP KABUL A three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring Taliban and Afghan forces comes into force after weeks of intense clashes throughout the country. 500 words 0930 GMT by Jay Deshmukh. Video Myanmar-politics-military-Buddhism-monks,FOCUS YANGON Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but are split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, with some prominent religious leaders defending the new junta. 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Britain-politics-lobbying-Greensill-Cameron LONDON British lawmakers get their first chance to quiz former prime minister David Cameron about his controversial lobbying for collapsed finance group Greensill Capital, following months of scandal and revelation. 560 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier. File picture afp
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