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| - Duty Editor: Gina Doggett Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump media blitz over Woodward bombshell + Mass death warning as fires sweep US West + Thousands homeless after Lesbos camp fire + UK in crisis talks with EU over Brexit + Belgium to return Congo hero's tooth US-politics-vote-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump floods the Fox News airwaves and launches a bizarre stream of tweets in an attempt to ride the fallout from interviews he gave to journalist Bob Woodward for the bombshell new book "Rage." 600 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-fires,WRAP CLOVIS, California Wildfires rage up and down the US West Coast, whipping through towns in three states and prompting widespread evacuations as officials warn the death toll could shoot up in the coming days. 650 words 1500 GMT by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video. Graphic Greece-EU-immigration-fire,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND, Greece Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos languish on roadsides, homeless and hungry after the country's largest camp burns down, with local officials stonewalling government efforts to create new temporary shelters. 750 words 1530 GMT by Marina Rafenberg with John Hadoulis in Athens. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain holds emergency talks with the European Union, facing warnings of legal action over a new Brexit bill and a threatening reminder of its obligations to Northern Ireland from leading US Democrat Nancy Pelosi. 650 words 1600 GMT by Jitendra Joshi, Dave Clark and Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Graphic We have moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade-law,Q&A Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-text,POINTS Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,CHRONO Britain-NIreland-conflict-peace,FACTS Belgium-DRCongo-politics-history,WRAP BRUSSELS A tooth taken from the remains of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, assassinated in 1961, should be returned to his family, a Belgian judge agrees. 600 words moved by Matthieu Demeestere. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-WHO-UN-act GENEVA The United Nations calls for an immediate "quantum leap" in funding for globally-shared programmes to combat the coronavirus pandemic and get the planet back to prosperity. 450 words moved Health-virus-brain WASHINGTON Headaches, confusion and delirium experienced by some Covid-19 patients could be the result of the coronavirus directly invading the brain, according to a new study. 500 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-Argentina-education-doctors,FOCUS EZEIZA, Argentina The doctor brings his smartphone closer to the coronavirus patient lying on the hospital bed. On the other end of the video call, medical students pose their questions and make their prognoses from afar -- it's as close as they can come during Argentina's lengthy confinement. 550 words moved by Ariel Timy Torres and Sonia Avalos. Picture Health-virus-Netherlands-education,FOCUS MIDDELBURG, Netherlands A Dutch university is holding open-air classes in parks, public squares and parking lots to limit the number of lectures taking place online because of the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words moved by Charlotte van Ouwerkerk. Picture. Video US-health-virus-9/11,FOCUS NEW YORK With crime on the rise, shops and apartments increasingly vacant and homeless people on the sidewalks, New York on Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and a bitter fight with the White House. 700 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. Video. File picture -- EUROPE -- Greece-Turkey-Mediterranean-EU-France-diplomacy,LEAD PORTICCIO, France French President Emmanuel Macron urges a united European front against "unacceptable" conduct by Turkey as he hosts a summit of Mediterranean states aiming to coordinate a tougher strategy towards Ankara that could include sanctions. 650 words 1800 GMT by Jerome Rivet. Europe-migrants-Greece-fire-Germany,FOCUS BERLIN Five years after the arrival of more than a million asylum seekers that bitterly divided Germany, cities and regions in Europe's biggest economy are pushing the government to take in refugees left homeless by the fire that ravaged the biggest camp in Greece. 600 words moved by Yannick Pasquet Russia-vote-regions-opposition,FACTS NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia Russians are to vote in local elections following the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the ruling party is losing favour and some regional cities have seen major protests. 600 words 1530 GMT -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-fire,WRAP BEIRUT A huge fire rages in Beirut port, sending a column of black smoke billowing into the sky and sparking alarm among Lebanese still reeling from the devastating dockside blast last month. 600 words 1500 GMT by Tony Gamal-Gabriel and Anwar Amro. Picture. Video. Live Video Kuwait-economy-migration,FOCUS KUWAIT CITY After more than 45 years washing cars in Kuwait to make ends meet, Egyptian Marzouq Mohammed will soon be kicked out of the Gulf country as economic woes and coronavirus stoke anti-foreigner sentiment. 780 words moved. Video Syria-conflict-crafts,VIDEO ESSAY DAMASCUS In Syria's capital, Mohammed Hallak blows through a long metal tube into billowing red-hot glass, trying to keep his waning craft alive despite a war that keeps clients away. 450 words moved by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-coup,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's ruling junta launches a three-day consultation gathering political and civil-society leaders to outline plans to return the country to civilian rule. The move comes amid international pressure for the military to hand over power within a year. 600 words moved by Serge Daniel. File Picture. Graphic Sudan-health-mycetoma,FOCUS KHARTOUM It seemed little to worry about: Sudanese farmer Khadija Ahmad was planting onions when she stepped on a thorn that pierced her sandal and cut her foot. But the wound brought with it a flesh-eating infection that can cause severe deformities. 690 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video Ethiopia-vote-politics MEKELE, Ethiopia Opposition leaders in Ethiopia's Tigray region concede they are unlikely to make significant inroads as officials tallied results from regional elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has deemed illegal. 400 words moved -- AMERICAS -- US-media-politics-Woodward,PROFILE WASHINGTON Nearly 50 years after Watergate, Bob Woodward is still breaking front page news and rattling US presidents. 600 words 1630 GMT by Chris Lefkow. File picture US-science-biology-award-France,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON Harvard neurobiologist Catherine Dulac receives the $3 million Breakthrough Prize for uncovering which part of the mouse brain is responsible for parental instinct, laying the foundation for further investigation into other animals like humans. 650 words 1430 GMT by Ivan Couronne. Picture US-politics-vote-campaigns,FOCUS WASHINGTON The cat-and-mouse campaigning by Donald Trump and Joe Biden has led the president and his Democratic challenger to the same locations, sometimes on the same day, while displaying radically different styles as they court American voters. 800 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture Colombia-unrest-police,WRAP BOGOTA Seven people are killed as rioting breaks out in the Colombian capital Bogota following the death of a man who was repeatedly tasered by police, authorities say. 500 words 1500 GMT by Hector Velasco. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-Rohingya-justice-rights YANGON Myanmar's military has sought to undermine the confessions of two soldiers who said they were ordered to "exterminate" Rohingya Muslims before taking part in the massacre of scores of men, women and children. 650 words moved File picture China-UK-diplomacy-Twitter-media BEIJING China's embassy in London has angrily demanded that Twitter investigate what it says was a hack on its ambassador's official account, which "liked" a pornographic video. 200 words moved Japan-toilet-technology-offbeat TOKYO Spacious, clean, and almost completely see-through, an unusual new public toilet block has been built in a Tokyo park -- but thankfully, the walls turn opaque when you lock the door. 300 words moved. Video. File Picture HongKong-China-politics-Wong,INTERVIEW HONG KONG Not a day goes by without Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong wondering how long it will be before the police's new national security unit comes for him. 700 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-ECB-banking-eurozone,WRAP FRANKFURT The European Central Bank is carefully monitoring the euro's recent rise, president Christine Lagarde says, as she warns that the eurozone's recovery remained mired in uncertainty over the pandemic fallout. 650 words 1500 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick US-banking-executive-Citigroup,WRAP NEW YORK Citigroup names Jane Fraser as its next chief executive, tapping a woman to lead a giant Wall Street bank for the first time. 500 words 1530 GMT by John Biers -- SPORTS -- Cycling-FRA-Tour,WRAP SARRAN CORREZE, France Primoz Roglic will fight to keep the Tour de France leader's yellow jersey on stage 12, the longest stage of the race at 218 kilometres between Chauvigny and Sarran Correze. 500 words 1630 GMT by Damian McCall. Picture. Video. Graphic Auto-prix-GER-Vettel-RacingPoint,WRAP MUGELLO, Italy Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel signs for the renamed Aston Martin team for the 2021 season "and beyond" after a difficult spell at a slowing Ferrari. 600 words moved. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-film-Venice-Mexico VENICE, Italy A rich family's wedding erupts into violence in Michel Franco's new film at Venice, "Nuevo Orden," a searing indictment of the gap between rich and poor and a wake-up call to the threat of authoritarianism. 500 words 1530 GMT by Alexandria Sage. Picture. Video Entertainment-Britain-television-theatre-film,WRAP LONDON Stars of stage and screen pay tribute to award-winning actress Diana Rigg, icon of the original "The Avengers and "Games of Thrones", after her death aged 82. 500 words 1500 GMT by Joe Jackson. File picture Entertainment-Britain-television-theatre-film-Rigg,OBIT Whether as the leather catsuited spy in the 1960s' "The Avengers" or the headscarved Lady Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones" decades later, British actress Diana Rigg thrilled generations of television viewers. 600 words moved by Raphaelle Picard. File picture Entertainment-Israel-jazz,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM Israeli jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen has played in New York and lived in India to practice yoga and meditation. Now the master of improvisation has pulled off another surprise: staging a jazz festival despite the pandemic. 600 words moved by Alexandra Vardi. Picture. Video afp
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