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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Israel faces conflict on two fronts + Hacked US pipelines start to reopen + Two foreign climbers die on Everest + India's vaccination drive exposes digital divide + Ellen DeGeneres to end long-running talk show Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel faces an escalating conflict on two fronts, scrambling to quell riots between Arabs and Jews on its own streets as deadly exchanges of fire with Palestinian militants in Gaza show no signs of easing. 750 words 0600 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee with Adel Zaanoun in Gaza City. Also moving: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lod,SCENE Already moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FACTS Israel-Palestinians-conflict,CHRONO Israel-Palestinians-conflict-flare-ups,CHRONO US-oil-hacking-pipeline,WRAP WASHINGTON The major US pipeline network forced offline by a cyber attack begins to reopen, its operator said, after a five-day shutdown prompted motorists to frantically stock up on gasoline and some gas stations on the US east coast to close. 750 words 0600 GMT by Heather Scott and Virginie Montet. Picture. Video Moved: US-oil-hacking-pipeline-ransomware,FOCUS Nepal-Everest-mountaineering-accident,WRAP KATHMANDU Two climbers from the United States and Switzerland have died on Mount Everest, the first fatalities of this year's season, expedition organisers in Nepal say. 650 words 0700 GMT by Paavan Mathema. File picture. Graphic Health-virus-India-vaccines,FOCUS NEW DELHI It's 2am and Ananya Maskara's face is lit up by her smartphone as she nervously scrolls through a list -- looking for a green or yellow tab indicating that a Covid-19 vaccination slot is available in India's capital New Delhi. 700 words moved by Glenda Kwek with Nishant Saxena in Lucknow. Picture. Video US-DeGeneres-television,WRAP NEW YORK Ellen DeGeneres, a star of daytime American talk show culture, says she is calling it quits after 19 seasons anchoring a TV staple that had become tainted by toxic workplace allegations. 500 words 0600 GMT. File picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- Taiwan-Indonesia-Philippines-fishing-rights-labour,FOCUS TAIPEI Taiwan's lucrative fishing industry has come under fire for subjecting its migrant workforce to forced labour and other abuses, contrasting with the government's promotion of the democratic island as a regional human rights beacon. 1,000 words moved by Amber Wang with Ron Lopez in Manila. Picture. Video. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA An expert panel blames bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle Covid-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India's death toll tops 250,000. 900 words moved by Nina Larson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-pandemic-panel,3rdlead Health-virus-pandemic-panel,POINTS Health-virus-pandemic-panel-diplomacy,Q&A Health-virus-India-toll,2ndlead Virus-health-Nepal,FOCUS KATHMANDU Five people suffocated in a Nepal hospital after oxygen ran out this week, victims of a just the latest victims as the impoverished country with an even shakier health care system than India's reels from a vicious Covid surge. 600 words 0800 GMT by Paavan Mathema. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-carnival,PROFILE RIO DE JANEIRO Raquel Poti barely stands five feet tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro's carnival -- whose cancelation due to Covid-19 has made her reinvent her art form to keep it alive. 650 words moved by Vitoria Velez. Picture. Video Health-virus-masks,FOCUS WASHINGTON Covid cases are declining quickly while vaccinations continue to rise slowly but surely in the United States, and many experts believe the time will soon be right for the federal government to ease its recommendations on indoor masking, and say doing so could help encourage more vaccine holdouts about the clear benefits of getting their shots. 700 words 0530 GMT by Issam Ahmed. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-media,FOCUS DUBAI With Twitter accounts deleted and content blocked on Instagram, Palestinian social media users say they have been censored from showing the reality of the unrest in Jerusalem. 750 words moved by Aziz El Massassi and Shatha Yaish Iran-politics,WRAP TEHRAN Iranian ultra-conservative ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad puts his name forward as a candidate to succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani in elections next month. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-conflict,WRAP KABUL A three-day ceasefire agreed by the warring Taliban and Afghan forces comes into force after weeks of intense clashes throughout the country. 500 words 0630 GMT by Jay Deshmukh. Video Myanmar-politics-military-Buddhism-monks,FOCUS YANGON Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but are split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, with some prominent religious leaders defending the new junta. 750 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Republicans,WRAP WASHINGTON US House Republicans oust conservative Liz Cheney, a fierce critic of Donald Trump, from her powerful leadership role in a move that tightens the former president's grip on the party. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video Chile-vote-constitution,ADVANCER SANTIAGO Nineteen months after Chileans took to the streets to demand fundamental change in weeks-long protests that claimed dozens of lives, the fight to replace the country's dictatorship-era constitution continues at the ballot box this weekend. 650 words by Paula Abramovich. Picture Also moving: Chile-vote,FACTS Colombia-environment-animal-agriculture,FOCUS HATO COROZAL, Colombia On the plains of eastern Colombia, an age-old conflict between man and beast plays out near-daily. Jaguars attack cattle. Farmers retaliate with shotguns. But rancher Jorge Barragan has declared a unilateral truce with the carnivorous cats. 700 words 0600 GMT by Juan Sebastian Serrano. Picture. Video. Graphic Colombia-politics-unrest,FOCUS CALI, Colombia Poverty, long-simmering racial tension, drug trafficking and a recent outbreak of violent anti-government protest: the Colombian city of Cali has come to encapsulate all the ills of a country recently emerged from half a century of conflict but tumbling back into crisis. 850 words moved by Lina Vanegas in Bogota and Luis Robayo in Cali. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-NIreland-unrest,WRAP LONDON British former prime minister Tony Blair calls for a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission for Northern Ireland to address historical crimes on both sides of "The Troubles". 700 words moved by Jitendra Joshi Britain-politics-lobbying-Greensill-Cameron LONDON British lawmakers get their first chance to quiz former prime minister David Cameron about his controversial lobbying for collapsed finance group Greensill Capital, following months of scandal and revelation. 560 words moved by Jean-Baptiste Oubrier. File picture Russia-shooting-school,WRAP KAZAN, Russia A Russian court orders that a teenager accused of killing nine pupils and staff in a school shooting spree be held in pre-trial detention, as his victims are laid to rest. 800 words moved by Andrey Borodulin. Picture. Video. Graphic -- AFRICA -- Uganda-politics KAMPALA Uganda's Yoweri Museveni is sworn in for his sixth term as president, as police surround the home of his main opposition rival who decried the inauguration as a "sham". 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- EU-court-Engie-tax-Amazon-US,WRAP LUXEMBOURG Amazon scores a major legal victory as an EU court annuls an order from the bloc's powerful antitrust authority that Luxembourg recoup 250 million euros in back taxes. 650 words moved by Alex Pigman -- SPORT -- Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-Barcelona-RealMadrid-Juventus,WRAP LAUSANNE UEFA initiates disciplinary proceedings against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, the three clubs yet to renounce the aborted European Super League project. 450 words moved Tennis-WTA-ITA-ATP-Williams,WRAP ROME Serena Williams, playing the 1,000th WTA match of her career, crashes out of the Italian Open in the second round, weeks before her bid to make history at Roland Garros. 650 words moved. Picture afp
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