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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump bans travellers from Europe over virus + Weinstein gets 23 years for rape, sexual assault + Sanders says still in fight despite Biden surge + Six-fold jump in polar ice loss since 1990s Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump bans travel from Europe for 30 days as the US scrambles to contain a burgeoning coronavirus health crisis that the World Health Organization has now labelled a pandemic. 900 words 0200 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographics US-court-entertainment-abuse-Weinstein-sentence,WRAP NEW YORK Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, capping a sensational downfall for the once-powerful producer in a landmark case for the #MeToo movement. 850 words moved by Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video. Live video US-politics-vote,WRAP BURLINGTON, Vermont Bernie Sanders shrugs off a string of primary defeats and pressure to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying he remains in the fight against centrist frontrunner Joe Biden. 750 words moved by Bastien Inzaurralde with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Climate-oceans-sealevel-Antarctica-Greenland PARIS Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, and driving a sea level rise that could see the annual flooding by 2100 of regions home to some 400 million people, scientists warn. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME Italy shuts all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in a desperate bid to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 827 in the country in just over two weeks. 600 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Health-virus-US-politics-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump makes a primetime address on the coronavirus crisis, his latest attempt to counter criticism of his response to the growing health and economic fallout from the pandemic. 650 words 0200 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video Health-virus-SKorea-religion,FOCUS DAEGU, South Korea Behind a closed metal gate and a sign barring entry to outsiders, a social housing complex in Daegu where dozens of religious sect members are quarantined symbolises the group's role in South Korea's coronavirus outbreak. 700 words 0300 GMT by Kang Jin-kyu. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-south,FOCUS NAPLES, Italy It's a race against time at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, where a new intensive care unit is being assembled as southern Italy's underfunded and overstretched healthcare system braces for the worst. 700 words 0400 GMT by Ella Ide. Picture. Video Health-virus-LatAm,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO Latin American countries step up measures to slow the advance of the coronavirus, announcing a slew of restrictions on travelers from the worst-affected countries and shutting down major sports events. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic US-health-virus-sport,WRAP LOS ANGELES Sport across the United States and Canada is gripped by coronavirus fears, with basketball, baseball, soccer and ice hockey all hit as local authorities order bans on spectators at sporting events. 750 words 0230 GMT by Rob Woollard. Picture ECB-EU-eurozone-rate,WRAP FRANKFURT The European Central Bank is under pressure to show it too has the firepower to respond to the coronavirus crisis and shore up the eurozone economy after other major central banks have already leapt into the breach. 700 words 0330 GMT by Tom Barfield Also moving: Health-virus-ECB-EU-eurozone,POINTS -- AMERICAS -- US-Iran-politics-Congress-conflict,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Congress gives its final approval to a bid to restrain President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, a sign of lawmakers' alarm after soaring tensions. 550 words moved by Shaun Tandon US-music-politics-Sanders-offbeat,FOCUS NEW YORK Today music's hottest club is a Bernie Sanders rally -- The Strokes and Public Enemy have been among the acts onstage for him -- but decades ago the presidential hopeful got behind the mic to drop some of his own bars. 700 words 0130 GMT by Maggy Donaldson, with Diane Desobeau in Burlington, Vermont. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-disco-Studio54,FOCUS NEW YORK As sanitized elbow bumps replace hugs and handshakes, the Brooklyn Museum is reminding New Yorkers of the sweaty days of 1970s disco, when everyone who was anyone got down at Studio 54. 700 words 0130 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict,FOCUS BEIRUT As it enters its 10th year, the war in Syria is anything but abating as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human suffering keeps reaching new levels. 800 words 0300 GMT by Rouba El-Husseini. File picture. Graphic Syria-conflict,SCENE DEIR HASSAN, Syria First he lost three fingers, later his hearing in one ear. Then all at once, both legs and eyes. Ibrahim al-Ali was wounded every time he tried to escape Syria's war. 700 words 0400 GMT by Ahmad al-Atrash. Picture. Video Syria-conflict-Damascus,SCENE DAMASCUS The guns may have died down around Damascus as Syria's war enters its 10th year, but florist Abdelqader Qasem says the conflict has left scars he will never forget. 700 words 0400 GMT by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video Also moving: Syria-conflict,CHRONO Syria-conflict-interventions,FACTS Syria-conflict-numbers,FACTS -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-royals-politics,FOCUS KANO, Nigeria An outspoken ruler mired in conflicts is ousted without warning from his palace and banished under armed guard into an uncertain exile beyond the borders of his realm. This is not the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy, but the real-life drama that has played out in northern Nigeria's influential Islamic emirate of Kano. 800 words 0400 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. File picture Senegal-environment-concrete DAKAR Residents of Senegal's booming capital Dakar are petitioning to transform one of the city's last blank spaces into a leafy park, hoping to beat back an ever-rising tide of concrete. 550 words 0300 GMT. Picture afp
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