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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden clocks up big wins on Super Tuesday + Trump, Taliban political chief hold talks + Fed cuts rates to counter coronavirus hit + Female duo awarded top architecture prize US-politics-vote,WRAP BURLINGTON, Vermont Former vice president Joe Biden is projected to win the key Virginia and North Carolina primaries, gaining an early lead over his leftist rival Bernie Sanders in the Super Tuesday contests for the Democratic nomination to challenge President Donald Trump. 750 words 0130 GMT by Catherine Triomphe with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-US-Taliban,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump says he had a "very good" talk with the Taliban political chief on the Afghan peace process, despite an eruption of violence marring a brief calm in the country. 750 words moved Sebastian Smith, with Usman Sharifi and Emal Haidary in Kabul. Picture Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve announces an emergency interest rate cut in a global effort to prevent the deadly coronavirus from wrecking the world economy, as the UN health agency warns that supplies of protective gear to fight the disease are "rapidly depleting". 700 words 0230 GMT by Heather Scott. Picture. Video. Graphic. Ireland-architecture-award-US-Pritzker,WRAP NEW YORK Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are awarded the Pritzker prize -- the first time a female duo has scooped architecture's most prestigious award. 650 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-measures,SCENE WENZHOU, China Constant temperature checks, a "no mask, no service" ethos, and high-tech people-tracking: welcome to the new normal in China, where reminders of the country's national mobilisation against the coronavirus lurk around every corner. 750 words 0300 GMT by Dan Martin. Picture. Video. Graphic. Health-virus-China-economy-employment,FOCUS BEIJING China's coronavirus epidemic turned a Lunar New Year family reunion into an enforced quarantine for factory worker Hu Aihua, trapping him at home and preventing him from returning to his job. 800 words 0300 GMT by Beiyi Seow. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote,SCENE WASHINGTON Eyes glued to cable news screens, the congressional staffers, strategists and lobbyists setting up camp at a bar near Washington's imposing Capitol ensure that "Super Tuesday" is a bacchanalia of cocktails, fried snacks and complex election mathematics. 500 words 0230 GMT by Sebastien Duval. Picture Also moving: US-politics-vote-Sanders,SCENE Also moved: US-politics-vote-California-Warren,SCENE US-politics-vote-SuperTuesday,POINTS US-weather-Tennessee-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON Tornadoes rip through Tennessee, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying buildings and toppling power lines hours before the southern US state voted in Super Tuesday primaries. 650 words moved by Becca Milfeld. Picture. Video. Graphic. Argentina-politics-abortion,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will fulfill an election pledge next week when he brings a bill before Congress aiming to legalize abortion, setting off the latest salvos in a debate that has bitterly divided the traditionally Catholic South American nation. 750 words 0130 GMT by Carlos Reyes and Nina Negron. Video. File Picture -- ASIA -- Pakistan-agriculture-climate-weather-locusts,FOCUS PIPLI PAHAR, Pakistan Pakistan's farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms devastate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring. 650 words 0330 GMT by Kaneez Fatima. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-unrest-rights-children PARIS Human rights group Amnesty International accuses the Iranian security forces of killing 23 children, mostly with live ammunition, during a November crackdown on anti-government protests. 400 words moved Israel-vote-Netanyahu,POINTS JERUSALEM Two weeks before he stands trial on corruption charges, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pulled off his best-ever electoral performance. Here are five reasons why. 600 words moved by Joe Dyke -- EUROPE -- Greece-Turkey-EU-immigration-diplomacy,WRAP KASTANIES, Greece EU chiefs pledge millions of euros of financial assistance to Greece to help tackle the migration surge from neighbouring Turkey, warning against those wishing to "test Europe's unity". 750 words moved by Yannick Pasquet and Vassilis Kyriakoulis. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Syria-conflict-Turkey-Greece-EU-migrants-rights Germany-politics,WRAP BERLIN Lawmakers in eastern Germany's Thuringia try again to elect a new state premier, re-running a vote that sank Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party into what has been described as the biggest crisis in its history. 650 words 0300 GMT by Kit Holden Iran-politics-nuclear-IAEA,WRAP VIENNA The head of the UN's atomic watchdog sounds the alarm at Iran's cooperation with the agency and demands "clarifications" over an undeclared site in Tehran where uranium particles were found late last year. 700 words moved by Didier Lauras and Jastinder Khera -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-village,INVESTIGATION MOPTI, Mali Eight witnesses speak to AFP about the latest deadly carnage in Mali's Ogossagou, which is now off limits for foreign journalists if they are not accompanied by a military escort. 1,000 words 0300 GMT by Amaury Hauchard. File picture afp
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