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| - Duty Editor: Alex Nicoll Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Global virus surge forces fresh lockdowns + Knife-edge presidential poll grips Poland + Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has COVID-19 + Texas man dies of virus after COVID party Health-virus,WRAP JOHANNESBURG South Africa re-imposes a nationwide curfew while Spain's Catalonia region forces hundreds of thousands of residents back into lockdown as coronavirus cases accelerate in many parts of the world. 750 words 0130 GMT by Susan Njanji, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Poland-vote,WRAP WARSAW A knife-edge presidential run-off between the nationalist incumbent and his europhile rival plunges Poland into uncertainty. 650 words 0130 GMT by Anna Maria Jakubek. Video. Picture. Graphic Health-virus-India-film-people-Rai,2ndlead MUMBAI Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai tests positive for the coronavirus, her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan says, just a day after he and his father screen legend Amitabh Bachchan are admitted to hospital with the disease. 250 words moved. File picture. File video Health-virus-US-youth NEW YORK A 30-year-old man from Texas who believed the coronavirus was a hoax died after attending a "COVID-19" party hosted by an infected person, a doctor has revealed. 250 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON The Trump administration presses for full school reopenings in the fall, even as resurgent COVID-19 infections raise mounting criticism that a premature return to classes could pose a danger of greater spread of the disease. 800 words moved by Brian Knowlton. File picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Kenya-tourism,FOCUS TALEK, Kenya In the majestic plains of the Maasai Mara, the coronavirus pandemic spells economic disaster for locals who earn a living from tourists coming to see Kenya's abundant wildlife. 700 words 0230 GMT by Francois Ausseill. Video by Celine Clery Health-virus-SAfrica,2ndlead JOHANNESBURG South African President Cyril Ramaphosa re-imposes a night curfew and suspends alcohol sales as coronavirus infections spike and the health system risk being overwhelmed. 450 words moved. File picture Mali-politics-unrest,WRAP BAMAKO A Malian protest leader calls for calm after four more people were killed during demonstrations calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation, the West African country's worst civil unrest in years. 800 words moved by Serge Daniel and Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- NMacedonia-vote-politics,ADVANCER SKOPJE North Macedonia heads to the polls to elect a government in the midst of a resurgence of coronavirus cases, which has fuelled a bitter blame-game between rival camps. 650 words 0300 GMT by Darko Duridanski. Picture. Video Also moving: NMacedonia-vote-politics,PROFILE NMacedonia-vote-politics,FACTS Azerbaijan-Armenia-conflict,lead BAKU Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan trade accusations of launching a military offensive using artillery fire along their shared border, with Baku reporting two troops killed. 500 words moved by Emil Guliyev with Mariam Harutyunyan in Yerevan Poland-puma-offbeat,lead WARSAW A former Polish soldier who fled into a forest with his pet puma to avoid handing it over to a zoo turns himself in to police after a three-day manhunt. 350 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Turkey-court-HagiaSophia-religion,FACTS NICOSIA Istanbul's Hagia Sophia is to reopen as a mosque after an almost nine-decade hiatus in the latest tussle with Christianity over religious sites. The move is the most recent of many such conversions over the centuries. 700 words moved by Haro Chakmakjian. Picture. File picture -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Eur-C1-ENG-Pr-ManCity LONDON Manchester City's Abu-Dhabi project and the future of UEFA's financial fair play (FFP) rules face a pivotal day when the Court of Arbitration for Sport delivers its verdict on City's appeal against a two-season ban from European competitions. 700 words 0230 GMT by Kieran Canning afp
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