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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden presses Israel for 'significant de-escalation' + Trump may face criminal charges in New York + Covid-19: Europe begins return to normal life + Bitcoin plunges after China signals crackdown + Survivors of 1921 US race massacre demand justice Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories President Joe Biden tells Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he expects 'significant de-escalation' in the military confrontation with the Palestinians, amid intense efforts to reach a ceasefire. 950 words 2030 GMT by Sakher Abou El Oun with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,CHRONO US-politics-justice-Trump,WRAP NEW YORK Donald Trump and his family face the increasing likelihood of criminal charges after New York state's prosecutor says it is working with Manhattan investigators in its fraud probe into the former president's business dealings. 650 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The French return to their beloved cafe terraces, while the EU says it will open its borders to vaccinated travellers as life creeps back to normal in Europe after months of punishing restrictions. 750 words 2000 GMT by Clare Byrne with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Europe-US-Australia-auto-travel,FOCUS China-finance-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin,WRAP BEIJING Bitcoin plunges by 30 percent after China signals a new crackdown on the cryptocurrency and Tesla head Elon Musk sends mixed signals about his car company's use of the unit. 700 words moved by Sebastien Ricci with Joseph Sotinel in London US-racism-politics-massacre-Tulsa,lead WASHINGTON Three Black centenarians who survived one of the deadliest US race massacres appeal to Congress for justice after a lifetime of pain triggered by a 100-year-old tragedy only now coming to light for many Americans. 650 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-Netherlands-prostitution AMSTERDAM Dutch sex workers return to Amsterdam's red light district after six "boring" months off, as the government begins to ease coronavirus restrictions. 500 words moved by Julie Capelle. Video China-Xinjiang-politics-rights,FOCUS BEIJING She was already beyond child-bearing age but Qelbinur Sedik says Chinese authorities still forcibly sterilised her, part of what she describes as a systematic campaign to suppress births of Uyghurs and other minorities in the tense Xinjiang region. 950 words moved by Laurie Chen. Video. Picture -- ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories President Joe Biden told Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects 'significant de-escalation' in the military confrontation with the Palestinians, amid intense efforts to reach a ceasefire. 950 words 2030 GMT by Sakher Abou El Oun with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,CHRONO Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza-Al-Rimal,SCENE GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Gaza City's Rimal district was long a place of relative calm and prosperity in the crowded enclave -- until Israeli bombing pounded much of it to rubble. 600 words moved by Sakher Abou El Oun. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-health-virus,FOCUS Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lebanon-Hezbollah,FOCUS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-EU-travel,3rdlead BRUSSELS EU member states agree to reopen the bloc's borders to travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, European sources say. 450 words moved Health-virus-Britain-travel-India,2ndlead LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Covid-19 vaccines are proving effective against a variant that has spread like wildfire in India and denies that his government is being lax on travel from hotspots. 500 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-France-culture-restaurants,4thlead Oly-2020-Japan-health-virus-cancel-finance,Q&A Health-virus-environment-Europe-US-Australia,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-justice-Trump-penpix NEW YORK A Democratic prosecutor nearing the end of his term, a loyal lieutenant of the Trump family and a lawyer determined to sink his former boss: AFP details some of the players in New York's criminal probe into Donald Trump. 500 words moved. File picture US-politics-Republicans,FOCUS WASHINGTON With Republican fidelity to former president Donald Trump all but complete, one of America's main political parties is tilting towards an outright embrace of an unsettling falsehood: that Democrats stole the 2020 election. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture Brazil-environment-crime-politics,WRAP BRASILIA Brazil's Supreme Court orders an investigation of Environment Minister Ricardo Salles as police raid ministry offices, targeting a timber trafficking ring allegedly involving him and other top officials in far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government. 650 words 2000 GMT by Jordi Miro. File picture. Video -- EUROPE -- US-Russia-Iceland-meeting,WRAP REYKJAVIK The US and Russian foreign ministers meet in Iceland to gauge the enormous gulf between the rival powers and confirm a potential summit between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. 700 words 2200 GMT by Francesco Fontemaggi. Picture. Video. Already moved: Russia-Arctic-base-Nato,SCENE Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco,WRAP CEUTA, Spain Migrants try to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after a record 8,000 people poured over the border this week, escalating tensions between Rabat and Madrid. 750 words moved by Hazel Ward, with Daniel Silva in Madrid. Photo. Video. Graphic Also moved: Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-Ceuta,SCENE France-police-protest,WRAP PARIS Thousands of French police officers rally in Paris demanding better protection and harsher punishment for attacks against them, two weeks after the killing of an officer sent shockwaves through the force. 600 words moved by Tiphanie Liboux and Jurgen Hecker. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- India-weather-cylone-health-virus,WRAP MAHUVA, India The number killed in a major cyclone jumps to at least 91 as the Indian navy searches for 65 missing people, adding to the nation's woes as it suffers another record number of Covid deaths. 700 words moved by Sam Panthaky. Picture. Video. Graphic China-US-Congress-Uyghurs-Oly-2022,WRAP BEIJING China brands US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "full of lies" after she called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds. 450 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng and Laurie Chen Afghanistan-conflict-US,INTERVIEW KABUL The Islamic State group remains a "potent" force in Afghanistan and was responsible for a recent attack that killed dozens of schoolgirls, Washington's top envoy to Kabul tells AFP, but ambassador Ross Wilson chiefly blames the Taliban for rising violence across the war-torn country. 650 words moved by Jay Deshmukh. Picture. Video Also moved: Afganistan-conflict-US-immigration,lead -- CLIMATE -- Poland-energy-solar-coal-science,FOCUS KRAKOW, Poland An unprecedented solar boom is helping Poland take a big step towards weaning itself off coal as a new homegrown photovoltaic technology is poised to be a game-changer in harnessing the power of the sun. 650 words moved by Stanislaw Waszak. Picture. Video -- ECONOMY -- US-economy-bank-rate,WRAP WASHINGTON Some Federal Reserve officials see the US economy as almost healthy enough to curb asset purchases meant to help it rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the first signs of a shift in the central bank's easy money policies. 500 words 2000 GMT by Chris Stein afp
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