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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0683 -- TOP STORIES -- + Covid wave devastates India as Europe counts 50 mn cases + Biden to push inequality fight in first Congress address + Audio leak seeks to rumble nuclear talks: Iran's Rouhani + Apollo Moon mission astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90 + US sees alarming uptick in manatee deaths Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India's coronavirus death toll soars through 200,000 as a wave of new cases swamps hospitals and sees desperate families scouring the capital for oxygen and medicine as Europe registers more than 50 million cases. 800 words 1930 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS US-politics-speech-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden will unveil a nearly $2 trillion spending plan to boost the middle class as the highlight of a sunny, yet audacious speech to Congress signaling the Democrat's desire to reshape America. 760 words 2000 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture. File picture Iran-politics-diplomacy,WRAP TEHRAN An audiotape of Iran's top diplomat bemoaning the military's influence was leaked to sow "discord" during talks on reviving an international nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani says, after the recording stirred domestic controversy. 800 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video US-space-Collins,OBIT WASHINGTON American astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to walk on the Moon, dies on after battling cancer. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Fil picture US-environment-animal-Florida-manatees,FOCUS TAMPA, Florida Baby manatee Lativa was so sick that her caregivers had to put a flotation device on her to allow her to come to the surface to breathe. Others have not been so lucky: the gentle marine mammals are dying at an unprecedented rate in Florida. 750 words 1930 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Turkey-environment-space-Mars,FOCUS LAKE SALDA, Turkey Boasting azure waters and white sands, a Turkish lake that NASA thinks hides secrets about Mars threatens to become too popular for its own good. 750 words moved by Raziye Akkoc. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Ecuador-Galapagos-science-tourism,FOCUS SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador When the coronavirus pandemic reached South America, human activity on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador ground almost to a halt, leaving giant tortoises, iguanas and other endemic species to themselves. 750 words moved by Florence Panoussian. Picture. Video. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-India,SCENE GHAZIABAD, India Himanshu Verma sighs in relief as a mask is fitted over his mother's face, allowing the Covid-19 sufferer to breathe in oxygen as she sat alongside a busy road on the outskirts of New Delhi. 500 words moved by Glenda Kwek. Picture. Video Health-virus-Canada-US-trade,FOCUS DUNDEE, Canada The Canada-US border has been closed since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago, but not for Paul-Maurice Patenaude who operates a parcel handoff service from his house, which straddles the international boundary. 700 words moved by Eric Thomas. Picture. Video Health-virus-vaccines-variants,FACTS PARIS Fast-spreading coronavirus variants have ignited global concern over whether existing vaccines will be able to protect the world from a virus that is constantly mutating. 1,100 words by Paul Ricard cricket-IND-IPL-health-virus NEW DELHI Chennai Super Kings go top of the IPL as the big-money tournament stages its first game in India's coronavirus stricken capital, with scores of police guarding the barricaded gates around the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium. 450 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-justice-politics-investigation-Giuliani,lead NEW YORK Federal investigators raid the New York apartment of president Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as part of a probe into his dealings in Ukraine, US media report. 500 words 2000 GMT by Catherine Triomphe US-politics-unrest-Capitol-court,FOCUS NEW YORK A New York jury is deciding whether Americans, at a time of extreme political tensions, can call for the killing of US lawmakers under sacrosanct freedom of expression laws following a week-long trial that relived the January attack on Congress. 650 words 1930 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. File picture US-justice-education-internet WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court hears a case touching on off-campus freedom of speech for American public school students and online harassment. 550 words 2030 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-politics-Johnson,WRAP LONDON Britain's Electoral Commission announces a formal probe into how Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid for a lavish makeover of his Downing Street flat, seriously escalating a simmering scandal. 700 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video EU-Britain-politics-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS The European Parliament overwhelmingly ratifies the EU's post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, but promises to keep a close eye on London with cross-channel bitterness still high. 600 words moved by Alex Pigman -- AFRICA -- Somalia-unrest-politics,WRAP MOGADISHU Somalia's government urges people who had fled violence in the capital to return home, as tensions eased after the president called for elections and renewed dialogue with his political rivals. 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- SKorea-taxation-telecommunication-Samsung-people,lead SEOUL The heirs to South Korea's Samsung group announce their plans to pay more than $10 billion in death duties -- one of the world's biggest-ever inheritance tax settlements -- including donating Picasso and Monet artworks. 600 words moved by Sunghee Hwang and Kang Jin-kyu. Picture Myanmar-Thailand-politics-military-unrest BANGKOK Myanmar's military launches air assaults for the second day in a row into rebel-held territory after gunfire is heard from neighbouring Thailand, a Thai official says, as fighting escalates along the border. 450 words moved. File picture -- SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT -- Environment-conservation-animal-plant-IUCN-conflict,lead GENEVA Civil unrest and military exercises pose heightened risk to more than 200 threatened species, including elephant populations and the critically-endangered Eastern gorilla, conservationists warn. 750 words moved by Nina Larson. Graphic Also moved: Climate-glaciers-melt-acceleration -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Sweden-US-Spotify-earnings,WRAP STOCKHOLM Spotify posts a rare net profit in the first quarter and a sharp increase in paid subscribers as the music streaming giant launched in dozens of new markets, but disappointing total users sent shares tumbling. 600 words moved US-economy-bank-rate WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stressed that the central bank will not be spooked by short-term price increases into pulling back on its stimulus to the US economy. 650 words 2100 GMT by Heather Scott US-economy-inflation-consumers,FOCUS WASHINGTON After a year in which the government dispatched three rounds of stimulus checks to keep them spending, Americans' wallets are set to suffer as price rises for household goods ranging from diapers to cereal. 650 words moved by Julie Chabanas, with Juliette Michel in New York US-aviation-earnings-aerospace-Boeing, WRAP NEW YORK Boeing reports its sixth consecutive quarterly loss as production issues drag down revenues, but points to signs of an uneven airline industry recovery as Covid-19 vaccines become more widespread. 670 words 2100 GMT by John Biers -- ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE -- Spain-food-gastronomy-restaurant-women,FOCUS SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain From the fourth generation of one of Spain's most celebrated culinary families, Elena Arzak has won plaudits for taking traditional Basque cuisine in a new direction. 850 words moved by Marie Giffard. Picture France-fashion-luxury-internet-China-Italy PARIS It has been a year since Saint Laurent broke away from the traditional fashion calendar, and with its latest collection again presented as an online film, many wonder if the old schedules will ever return. 650 words moved by Olga Nadbaeva and Eric Randolph Lifestyle-Israel-fashion-France-funeral HOLON, Israel Alber Elbaz, the renowned fashion designer credited with giving classic tailoring a more playful edge, is buried in Israel following his weekend death in Paris aged 59 after a battle with Covid-19. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-Eur-C1-FRA-ENG-PSG-ManCity PARIS,WRAP Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City face off in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final at the Parc des Princes as both teams continue their bid to become European champions for the first time 650 words 2130 GMT by Andy Scott. Picture. Video afp
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