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| - Duty Editor: Qasim Nauman Tel: +852 2829 6219 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump sparks angry backlash with visit to fans + Cities under fire in intense Karabakh fighting + 2020 Nobel Prizes kick off with medicine award + Villa shock Liverpool, Spurs humiliate Man Utd Health-virus-US-vote-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump sparks a furious backlash from the medical community with a protocol-breaking visit to his supporters outside the hospital where he is being treated for the highly infectious, potentially deadly coronavirus. 850 words 0200 GMT by Brian Knowlton and Joshua Melvin. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Health-virus-world-celebrities,FACTS Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP STEPANAKERT Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchange rocket fire as fighting intensifies over Nagorno-Karabakh, with the breakaway region's capital and Azerbaijan's second-largest city hit. 800 words moved by Herve Bar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-church,SCENE Nobel-medicine-health-pandemic,WRAP STOCKHOLM Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century. 750 words 0230 GMT by Marc Preel. File Picture. Video Also moving: Nobel-science-discovery,FOCUS Nobel-prize,FACTS Nobel-prize-history,FACTS Nobel-prize-history-scandals,FACTS Fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Champions Liverpool suffer a humiliating 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa and Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho savours a 6-1 win over his former club Manchester United in one of the most astonishing days in Premier League history. 700 words moved by Steven Griffiths. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France PARIS Paris restaurants will be allowed to stay open -- but under tightened restrictions -- when the city is placed on maximum coronavirus alert in the face of alarming Covid-19 infection numbers, the prime minister's office announces. 550 words moved by Jacques Klopp. Picture Health-virus-US-NewYork,2ndlead NEW YORK New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to reimpose restrictions on nine neighborhoods as Covid-19 cases rise in parts of the city, which had largely controlled the virus after a catastrophic outbreak. 450 words moved France-Japan-fashion-virus,WRAP PARIS Japan's most famous fashion designer Kenzo Takada, founder of the global Kenzo brand, dies in the French capital aged 81 after contracting the coronavirus. 650 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-vote-justice,FOCUS WASHINGTON While Donald Trump is intent on getting his recent Supreme Court nominee confirmed before the presidential election on November 3, the eruption of Covid-19 in the innermost circles of the White House and Senate has complicated that expedited calendar. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture -- ASIA-PACIFIC -- Thailand-politics-history-unrest,FOCUS BANGKOK Relentless gunfire, lynched bodies, frenzied mobs -- the horrific violence Krisadang Nutcharut witnessed at Thammasat University more than 40 years ago propelled him into a legal career now spent defending Thailand's young pro-democracy activists. 750 words 0400 GMT by Dene-Hern Chen. Picture. File Picture. Video Myanmar-vote-LGBT+-rights,FOCUS YANGON Outraged over ongoing discrimination in Myanmar, Myo Min Tun has decided to stand as the first openly gay election candidate in a country where same-sex relations are illegal. 550 words 0400 GMT by Su Myat Mon. Picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-Vietnam-court-migrants LONDON Four men go on trial in Britain in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a lorry in southeast England. 500 words 0400 GMT Europe-weather-France-Italy,WRAP SAINT-MARTIN-VESUBIE, France French and Italian rescuers step up search efforts after floods cut off several villages in mountainous border regions, causing widespread damage and killing at least four people. 650 words moved by Chloe Fabre, with Vincenzo Pinto in Garessio, Italy. Picture. Video Kyrgyzstan-vote,WRAP BISHKEK Parties close to Kyrgyzstan's pro-Russian President Sooronbai Jeenbekov dominate a parliamentary election, though the results were disputed by several opposition parties after widespread claims of vote-buying in the former Soviet republic. 700 words moved by Tolkun Namatbayeva. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Egypt-migrants-Libya-Europe,FOCUS DAHMASHA, Egypt Thousands of desperate migrants bound for Europe have perished in the Mediterranean Sea. In one impoverished Egyptian town, families fear that 15 of their sons are among the dead. 750 words 0300 GMT by Farid Farid. Picture. Video Lebanon-blast-firefighters,FOCUS BEIRUT Fierce forest fires, a monster explosion that killed friends, then more Beirut blazes: Lebanon's emergency services are reeling from a devastating year but are determined to press on. 650 words 0300 GMT by Bachir El Khoury. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open PARIS Novak Djokovic continues his quest to become the first man in half a century to win all four Grand Slam titles twice at the French Open while Sofia Kenin and Petra Kvitova are the top seeds on court in a wide-open women's draw. 500 words 0130 GMT by Martyn Wood Already moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-Sinner-Zverev,2ndlead afp
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