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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Tel: +33 783578721 -- TOP STORIES -- + Protests as Myanmar military widens coup dragnet + QAnon congresswoman stripped of posts + EU-Russia ties at 'low point' over Navalny + Yemen warring factions welcome Biden peace push + US trade gap soared despite 'America First' Trump Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Several hundred teachers and students protest at a Myanmar university as the military widens a dragnet against officials ousted in a coup that has drawn global condemnation and the threat of new sanctions. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-Congress-Republicans,WRAP WASHINGTON The Democratic-led US House votes to discipline a congresswoman who embraced QAnon conspiracy theories and endorsed violence, capping weeks of mounting turmoil over holding to account a lawmaker whose extremist rhetoric caused a rupture in Republican ranks. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video Russia-politics-EU-diplomacy-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW The European Union's top diplomat says the bloc's ties with Russia had reached a new low following the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, but still raised hopes for cooperation. 700 words 1600 GMT by Thibaut Marchand and Jonathan Brown. Picture. video Also moved: Russia-politics-Navalny,CHRONO Yemen-conflict,WRAP DUBAI Yemen's warring factions declare their readiness to act after US President Joe Biden called for renewed efforts to end their conflict, but experts say a real solution appears out of reach. 650 words moved by Shatha Yaish. File picture. Video. File video US-China-economy-trade,WRAP WASHINGTON The US trade deficit surged in 2020, undercutting the prime "America First" focus of former president Donald Trump, although the gap with his nemesis China narrowed slightly. 550 words 1600 GMT by Heather Scott -- SPOTLIGHT -- Afghanistan-conflict-killings,FOCUS KABUL Days before he was gunned down on a Kabul street, democracy activist Mohammad Yousuf Rasheed had made up his mind to move his family to Turkey, joining scores of other high-profile Afghans fleeing the country. 800 words moved by Jay Deshmukh and Usman Sharifi. Video. Picture Sudan-Darfur-unrest,FOCUS AL-TWAIL SAADOUN, Sudan A pall of gloom hangs over the house of tribal elder Adam Omar after the loss of seven family members in Sudan's Darfur, where ethnic African minorities have suffered the brunt of a devastating civil war. 800 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video France-Germany-mining-waste-environment,FOCUS WITTELSHEIM, France Jean-Pierre Hecht, a miner in eastern France, remembers how attractive the idea sounded when he first heard about it: a dying pit could be turned into something useful and environmentally friendly. 950 words moved by Adam Plowright. File Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP COPENHAGEN European nations need to team up with drug firms to increase the pace of coronavirus inoculations, the WHO tells AFP, as Johnson & Johnson pushes for its jab to become the third approved for use in the United States. 700 words 1500 GMT by Camille Bas-Wohlert with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccines,Q&A PARIS As several vaccines are rolled out across the world, questions resolved in the lab are once again being asked as governments seek to manage the tricky logistics of deployment. 600 words 1600 GMT by Paul Ricard Climate-health-virus-bats PARIS Climate change may have played a "key role" in the transmission of the novel coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, new research shows. 400 words moved by Patrick Galey Health-virus-LatAm-oxygen,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO As a second, deadly wave of Covid-19 has battered Latin America, images have emerged from country after country of desperate people queueing for days on end to buy oxygen, sometimes at exhorbitant prices, to ease the suffering of infected loved ones fighting for breath at home. 750 words 1600 GMT by Yemeli Ortega with AFP bureaus. Picture. File picture. File video Also moved: Health-virus-SAfrica-vaccines,FOCUS Health-virus-India,Q&A Health-virus-Saudi-India,FOCUS -- EUROPE -- Germany-crime-WWII-history-Nazi,WRAP BERLIN German prosecutors say they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a woman. 550 words moved by Hui Min Neo. File picture Russia-Belarus-politics-opposition,FOCUS MOSCOW For many in Russia, tactics used by demontrators and police at recent protests in support of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, have brought to mind Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko has kept his grip on power despite tens of thousands taking to the streets. 750 words 1500 GMT by Thibaut Marchand. Picture. Video France-Germany-defence-diplomacy-Merkel-Macron-US,lead PARIS French leader Emmanuel Macron and his German counterpart Angela Merkel hold talks on European defence and the early moves by US President Joe Biden to rekindle close transatlantic ties. 600 words 1700 GMT EU-US-defence-security-terrorism-internet,FOCUS PARIS Despite their opposing ideologies and goals, far-right supremacists and jihadists are borrowing from a common toolkit of communication strategies to recruit and radicalise members across the world. 700 words 1500 GMT by Didier Lauras Britain-environment-climate-transport,FOCUS LONDON Underground in a tunnel dug near one of central London's busiest roads, Blue Sandford says she is ready for anything, as bailiffs try to evict environmental campaigners protesting against the construction of a new high-speed rail link. 600 words 1500 GMT by Anna Malpas and Joe Jackson. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Libya-conflict-politics-UN,WRAP GENEVA Libyan delegates at UN-backed talks vote for a transitional prime minister and three-member presidency council to govern the war-ravaged North African country until December elections. 550 words 1530 GMT by Robin Millard. Live video Egypt-media-rights,WRAP CAIRO Egypt frees Mahmoud Hussein, a journalist working for Qatar's Al Jazeera television, after four years in jail without trial following the end last month of a rift between the two Arab states. 700 words moved by Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha. File picture. File video Iran-nuclear-politics-EU-France-US,FOCUS PARIS Joe Biden's arrival as US president has raised hopes in Europe that the Iran nuclear deal can be rescued, but all the protagonists are racing against the clock to use a narrow window of opportunity that may soon snap shut. 700 words 1500 GMT by Valerie Leroux -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-economy-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden accelerates his push to win Congressional approval for a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package as the US registers a slight fall in unemployment in the latest job figures. 600 words 1530 GMT by Chris Stein. Picture Ecuador-politics-vote,PROFILE QUITO On the left: a young economist versus a feisty campaigner for indigenous rights. On the right, a sexagenarian former banker. These are the main contenders for Ecuador's presidency in elections Sunday. 500 words 1400 GMT. File picture Also moving: Ecuador-politics-vote,COUNTRY FACTFILE -- ASIA-PACIFIC -- Pacific-Palau-diplomacy KOROR Palau announces it is quitting the Pacific Islands Forum over a leadership row, threatening the future of a key grouping in a region where China and the United States are vying for influence. 500 words moved by Bernadette Carreon China-celebrity-entertainment-health BEIJING A Chinese actress goes viral on social media after posting a candid photos of her "nightmare" botched cosmetic surgery, which left part of her nose blackened with dead flesh. 400 words moved -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- SKorea-diplomacy-trade-WTO,WRAP GENEVA South Korea's trade minister abandons her bid to head the World Trade Organization, clearing a likely path for Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the body's first female and first African director-general. 650 words 1430 GMT by Nina Larson Also moved: WTO-trade-diplomacy-Nigeria-politics,PROFILE HongKong-China-technology-Kuaishou-shares,WRAP HONG KONG Shares in Chinese video app company Kuaishou almost triple on their Hong Kong debut, following a $5.4 billion initial public offering for the TikTok rival that was the biggest for an internet firm in nearly two years. 550 words moved. Picture -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-sexism-Mori,REAX TOKYO Criticism mounts over sexist remarks made by Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori, who has refused to step down and justified his comments by explaining he doesn't 'speak to women much.' 650 words by Kyoko Hasegawa and Andrew McKirdy moved. File picture Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The greatest quarterback in NFL history faces off with the pretender to his throne on Sunday when Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head-to-head in a Super Bowl clash of generations. 800 words moved by Rob Woollard. Picture Also moved: Amfoot-SuperBowl-NFL-women-Thomas Fbl-media-television-Spain-China-Liga-FRA-Ligue1-ESP-FRA,FOCUS MADRID A pariah in France after its dramatic split from France's Ligue 1, troubled Chinese-Spanish broadcaster Mediapro has managed to salvage ties with Spain's football league despite its battered reputation. 500 words 1500 GMT RugbyU-6Nations-WAL-Popham-health-injury-concussion,INTERVIEW LONDON Former Wales flanker Alix Popham was known for his fearless tackling but a decade after hanging up his boots the former rugby player is coming to terms with the damage caused by years of blows to the head. 700 words moved by Pirate Irwin. Picture -- OFFBEAT -- Britain-politics-council-Zoom LONDON They are the genteel backbone of local democracy but parish councillors in northwest England have been accused of holding "Britain's worst Zoom meeting", after footage of a chaotic and frequently aggressive session when viral on social media. 400 words 1500 GMT afp
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