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| - Duty Editor: Simon Morgan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe remains 'in the eye' of coronavirus storm + Apple launches budget entry-level iPhone + Virus to have 'profound' mental health fallout + S. Korea ruling party wins landslide vote + WWII veteran raises $15m for health workers Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Parts of Europe move cautiously to reopen their streets and economies, as the World Health Organization warns that the continent remains "in the eye" of the coronavirus storm. 900 words 1030 GMT Picture. Video. Graphic US-IT-lifestyle-Apple,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Apple unveils a new entry-level iPhone, aiming to appeal to consumers facing a suddenly bleak economic backdrop. 600 words moved by Glenn Chapman Health-virus-mental-illness PARIS The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have a "profound and pervasive impact" on global mental health as billions struggle to cope with isolated living and anxiety spikes, experts warn. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey. File picture SKorea-politics-vote,WRAP SEOUL South Korea's left-leaning ruling party wins a landslide victory in the country's general election, partial results show, after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in President Moon Jae-in's favour. 600 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Britain-charity-war,2ndlead LONDON A 99-year-old World War II veteran completes 100 laps of his garden in a sponsorship challenge that has captured the imagination of Britain, raising an extraordinary £12 million ($15 million, 13.8 million euros) for healthcare staff. 450 words 1030 GMT by James Pheby. File picture. -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Britain,lead LONDON The British government is set to extend a nationwide lockdown for another three weeks, amid signs the coronavirus outbreak is peaking but warnings of more deaths to come. 550 words 1230 GMT by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video. Health-virus-Britain-minorities,FOCUS LONDON When Amer Awan's father died of coronavirus, visitors flooded the house with little thought of the infection risk. But cultural practices alone do not explain why Britain's black and minority ethnic communities appear to be hardest hit by the outbreak. 650 words 1100 GMT by Charlotte Durand. Video. Health-virus-Italy ROME The head of Milan's economically vital Lombardy region starts waging a lonely campaign to get Italy to reopen for business despite the mounting toll of the coronavirus. 450 words 1030 GMT by Dmitry Zaks Health-virus-Balkans-minorities-economy,FOCUS TIRANA For hundreds of thousands of Roma living in slums across the Western Balkans, the first symptom of the coronavirus pandemic has been hunger. 900 words by Briseida Mama with Olivera Nikolic in Podgorica. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- SKorea-politics-vote-NKorea SEOUL A former senior North Korean diplomat wins a parliamentary seat in Seoul, becoming the first defector ever to be directly elected by South Korean voters. 400 words moved. Video. Picture Health-virus-Indonesia JAKARTA Reduced to sharing goggles and cheap raincoats, Indonesia's under-equipped doctors are battling a tide of coronavirus infections that is overwhelming its creaky health-care system -- and killing their colleagues. 500 words moved. Picture. Video Bangladesh-Myanmar-Malaysia-refugee-unrest TEKNAF, Bangladesh Thirty-two Rohingya died in a boat crammed with hundreds of "starving" men, women and children after 58 days in the Bay of Bengal after being denied entry by Malaysia and Thailand, officials say. 450 words 1000 GMT Health-virus-China,SCENE WUHAN At a large food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, signs forbid workers from selling wild animals and live fowl, while announcements calling for "victory" over COVID-19 play on a loop from speakers. 750 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video India-health-virus-religion-Buddhism,FOCUS NEW DELHI At her remote hillside retreat in northern India, Buddhist teacher Tenzin Drolma is used to holding intimate classes for small groups -- but since going online, interest has soared as people around the world seek inner peace under lockdown. 500 words 0930 GMT by Glenda Kewk. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics-Trump-Congress,2ndlead WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump threatens to take the unprecedented step of adjourning Congress to allow him to appoint top officials whose nominations he claims are being blocked by Democrats in the Senate. 650 words moved by Chris Lefkow. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-US-China-Trump-diplomacy,FOCUS Health-virus-US-testing,POINTS Health-virus-ventilators,FOCUS Health-virus-US-Frieden,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON The US may be hitting its peak of coronavirus cases, but it will take an unprecedented public health effort for Americans to return safely to their former lives, according to the ex-head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 800 words moved by Issam Ahmed. File picture Health-virus-internet-shaming-neighbours,FOCUS WASHINGTON Some complain about joggers panting on passers-by. Others wonder what to do when they overhear drunken partygoers ignoring quarantine measures. Still more question whether people they see in the street are really on "essential" business. 750 words moved by Sarah Titterton. File Picture Health-virus-US-NewYork-cemetery,INTERVIEW NEW YORK Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery has seen cremations more than double and five times more burials than usual, as the coronavirus claims New Yorkers' lives by the thousands. 550 words moved by Thomas Urbain. File Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's parliament is tasked with forming a government after speaker Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu miss a deadline to seal an alliance, but both sides pledge to continue seeking a unity deal. 600 words 1000 GMT by Ben Simon. File Picture Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-politics-government,CHRONO Health-virus-Syria-conflict-Idlib-displaced,FOCUS ARIHA, Syria His home in volatile northwest Syria may have been destroyed, but Hassan Khraiby decided returning was better than risking his 10 children catch the coronavirus in a packed displacement camp. 600 words moved by Aaref Watad. Picture. Video Health-virus-Yemen-conflict,Q&A DUBAI Yemen's war shows no signs of abating, one week after the Saudi-led military coalition declared a unilateral truce due to the coronavirus threat looming over the impoverished nation. 700 words 0930 GMT by Dana Moukhallati Health-virus-Qatar-aviation,FOCUS DOHA Qatar Airways' crews have been applauded by passengers and won praise from governments for repatriating thousands of travellers stranded by the coronavirus aviation shutdown. 800 words moved by Gregory Walton. File picture. File Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Markets-World,WRAP LONDON Europe's stock markets advance, despite losses in Asia and overnight on Wall Street, as investors focus on plans to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions in several nations including Germany. 700 words 1100 GMT by Roland Jackson Britain-climate-oil-energy-environment-Shell,lead LONDON Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell pledges to become carbon neutral by 2050, matching a commitment by rival BP as climate change looms large over the energy sector. 450 words moved Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-politics,FOCUS WASHINGTON After losing his job last month, Nashawn Cooper waited more than four weeks as the bills piled up and his bank account dwindled to four dollars before the US state of Georgia approved his claim for unemployment benefits. 700 words moved by Chris Stein. File Picture Also moved: Health-virus-G20-economy,WRAP Health-virus-US-IT-robots,FOCUS Health-virus-US-livestock-meat,FOCUS -- SPORT -- Health-virtus-auto-prix,FOCUS PARIS Formula One's 70th anniversary season, halted by the coronavirus pandemic, could turn out to be less of a disaster than a turning point towards financial reorganisation. 600 words 0930 GMT by Raphaelle Peltier. File picture Fbl-Asia-CHN-ENG-Fan,INTERVIEW SHANGHAI Fan Zhiyi says he has no regrets about a career where he achieved cult-hero status at Crystal Palace, despite revealing he turned down offers from Liverpool and Newcastle United, while a trial at Tottenham Hotspur was torpedoed by injury. 700 words moved by Peter Stebbings. Picture afp
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