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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + 99 unaccounted for in Florida condo block collapse + 750 unmarked graves discovered at Canada school + Air strike on war-torn northern Ethiopia kills 64 + EU leaders blast Hungary over controversial LGBT law + Snow place like home: how dinosaurs thrived in Arctic US-accident-construction,WRAP SURFSIDE, Florida An oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach partially collapses, killing at least one person with rescuers fearing a much heavier toll as they comb the rubble for victims among 99 people unaccounted for. 600 words 1930 GMT by Gianrigo Marletta. Picture. Video Canada-indigenous-school-graves,WRAP MONTREAL More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader says -- the second such shock discovery in less than a month. 500 words 1930 GMT by Eric Thomas. File picture Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict-unrest,WRAP MEKELE At least 64 people were killed and 180 were injured in an air strike on a market in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region, a local health officer says Thursday, as the army denied targeting civilians. 650 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic EU-summit-Hungary-Russia,WRAP BRUSSELS EU leaders holding a summit gang up on Hungary's prime minister over a controversial new law in his country banning LGBT content in schools seen as homophobic and contrary to EU values. 650 words 1930 GMT by Marc Burleigh and Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Also moved: Hungary-politics-LGBT-rights,FACTS EU-Germany-diplomacy-summit,FOCUS Science-dinosaurs-Arctic,lead WASHINGTON Dinosaur species large and small made the Arctic their year-round home and probably developed wintering strategies like hibernation or growing insulating feathers, according to a new study. 600 words 1930 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-virus-Russia-vaccines,FOCUS MOSCOW Like many in Russia, Sergei is deeply wary of the homegrown Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. So as the government moves to make vaccinations mandatory, Sergei and his fellow sceptics are finding ways -- from black market certificates to falsified medical registrations -- to fake their way out of getting jabbed. 790 words moved by Evan Gershkovich. File picture Brazil-poverty-health-virus,FOCUS SANTOS, Brazil It's best to watch your step in Dique da Vila Gilda, a slum on stilts where the rickety walkways across the fetid water below the tin-roof shacks sometimes break beneath people's feet. Here, the coronavirus pandemic has only deepened already stark inequalities. 700 words moved by Paula Ramon. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-racism-police-trial-Chauvin,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Former policeman Derek Chauvin faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd, a killing that sparked America's biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades. 550 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. File picture. File video Also moved: US-racism-police-trial-Chauvin,PROFILE US-politics-infrastructure,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden announces a deal reached with a bipartisan group of senators to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, likely unlocking the most funding for roads, bridges, ports and broadband in decades. 650 words 1930 GMT by Jerome Cartillier and Michael Mathes. Picture -- EUROPE -- Spain-US-court-prison-McAfee,WRAP MADRID Spanish investigators probe the death of John McAfee who was found in his prison cell after an apparent suicide following a court decision approving his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges. 700 words moved. File picture. Video Britain-Ireland-NIreland-EU-Brexit-politics-trade DUBLIN The Irish government signals a truce is in the works between the European Union and Britain over a post-Brexit "sausage war" heading into a tense period for Northern Ireland. 550 words moved by Joe Stenson and Jitendra Joshi in London. Video -- MIDEAST -- Palestinians-police-rights,WRAP RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories A human rights activist and staunch critic of the Palestinian Authority dies shortly after security forces storm his house and violently arrest him, his family says, sparking angry protests in the occupied West Bank. 700 words moved GMT by Hossam Ezzedine. Picture. Video Iran-vote-diplomacy-US-EU,FOCUS PARIS The election of a loyal acolyte of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iranian president could ease the West's dealings with the Islamic Republic due to a streamlined power structure in Tehran but Ebrahim Raisi's hardline stance could also spell trouble, analysts say. 800 words moved by Stuart Williams -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-conflict-UN-report-deaths LAGOS A 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused the deaths of some 324,000 children under five, mostly from disease and hunger, the UN warns. 400 words moved. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-media,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid says it is a "victim of tyranny" in a defiant final edition after it was forced to close under a new national security law, ending a 26-year run of taking on China's authoritarian leaders. 800 words moved by Yan Zhao and Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Also moved: HongKong-China-politics-media,SCENE HongKong-China-politics-media,PROFILE US-Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban,FOCUS WASHINGTON Kabul could be captured by the Taliban within a year as US forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but its fall is not inevitable and will depend on a much better-run Afghan defense force, US experts say. 750 words moved by Paul Handley and Sylvie Lanteaume. File picture Also moved: US-Afghanistan-conflict-military-withdraw,FACTS Afghanistan-US-conflict,Q&A Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-Kunduz,SCENE -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TECH -- US-IT-politics-antitrust-internet,WRAP WASHINGTON US lawmakers advance legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech firms with a sweeping reform of antitrust laws, setting the stage for a tough floor fight in Congress. 700 words 2200 GMT by Rob Lever with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco China-Australia-commerce-WTO-tariffs,WRAP BEIJING China says it has filed a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization challenging Australia's anti-dumping measures on a range of goods, marking further escalation in tensions between the two countries. 500 words moved by Poornima Weerasekara and Beiyi Seow -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS A showdown between old rivals England and Germany at Wembley is the standout tie going into the last 16 of Euro 2020 after Joachim Loew's side scraped through on a dramatic final night of group-stage action. 650 words moved by Andy Scott and Ryland James in Berlin Auto-Prix-GBR-crowds-health-virus LONDON World champion Lewis Hamilton fears it is "premature" to allow a capacity 140,000 crowd to attend the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. 500 words moved afp
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