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| - Duty Editor: James Legge Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Anti-coup protesters prepare to pour back onto Myanmar streets + Biden boosts support for LGBTIQ people abroad + London's 'thinnest house' on sale for $1.3 million + Legal wrangle over Britney Spears' life and earnings Myanmar-politics-military YANGON Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar prepare to pour back onto the streets, as an internet blackout fails to stifle popular outrage at the military's ouster of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi 650 words 0430 GMT. Picture. Graphic. US-diplomacy-gay,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Joe Biden has quickly launched a campaign to support LGBTIQ people abroad, putting their rights higher on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before. 850 words 0130 GMT by Shaun Tandon Lifestyle-Britain-property-offbeat LONDON London's thinnest house -- five floors high but only 5ft 6ins (1.6 metres) at its narrowest point -- has gone on sale for £950,000 ($1.3 million). 650 words 0230 GMT by Callum Paton. Picture. Video US-Entertainment-court-celebrity-BritneySpears,FOCUS NEW YORK The legal agreement barring Britney Spears from managing her own life and finances is now older than the pop star was when the public met her as an effervescent 12-year-old on the Disney Channel -- and controversy over who steers her life is starting to boil. 900 words 0130 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment-trial,ADVANCER WASHINGTON One year after his first impeachment, former president Donald Trump finds himself the subject of an unprecedented second trial beginning Tuesday in the Senate, whose members must determine whether he incited a deadly assault on the US Capitol. 800 words 0130 GMT by Michael Mathes. File picture Also moving: US-politics-vote-timeline,CHRONO US-politics-impeachment-trial-figures,POINTS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,FOCUS US-politics-justice-impeachment-Trump,INTERVIEW Ecuador-politics-vote,ADVANCER QUITO Some 13 million Ecuadorians are eligible to vote in presidential elections Sunday in which a socialist and a former banker are vying for leadership of a country besieged by deep economic problems. 500 words 0130 GMT by Santiago Piedra Silva with Florence Panoussian in Latacunga. Picture Health-virus-US-environment-transport,FOCUS WASHINGTON It's rush hour Tuesday morning on the Washington Metro. A rail car, which a year ago would have been packed with seated and standing commuters, has just four passengers. 625 words 0130 GMT by Julie Chabanas. File picture. Graphic Health-virus-US-Texas,FOCUS HOUSTON Mary Donegam is almost 90 and says with a chuckle that she does not want to die young, as she gets vaccinated against the coronavirus at a five-lane, drive-through inoculation center which is proving a hit with seniors. 600 words moved by Francois Picard. Picture US-IT-advertising-privacy-Google,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO Google is weaning itself off user-tracking "cookies" which allow the web giant to deliver personalized ads but which have also raised the hackles of privacy defenders. 650 words 0330 GMT by Glenn Chapman -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Yemen-conflict-children-health SANAA Conjoined baby twins born in war-ravaged Yemen are taken to Jordan for separation surgery, the UN children's agency says, almost two months after a hospital warned they were in critical condition. 350 words moved Libya-conflict-politics,WRAP TRIPOLI Libya embarks on a new phase of its post-Kadhafi transition after an interim executive was selected to lead the country until December elections following a decade of chaos. 750 words moved by Rim Taher in Tripoli and Hamza Mekouar in Rabat. File picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Vatican-synod-France-woman,LEAD VATICAN CITY Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis appoints a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first female to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine. 400 words 0200 GMT Britain-NKorea-politics,INTERVIEW LONDON Jihyun Park shares the civic concerns of any other would-be town councillor in Britain, from local education to potholes in the roads. But she is unique in one regard: no other candidate has fled North Korea. 800 words 0230 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture Poland-history-Jews-WWII-trial,FOCUS WARSAW Two respected Polish historians of the Holocaust face a court verdict on Tuesday in a controversial defamation trial that has raised pointed questions about the freedom to research Poland's troubled past. 650 words 0300 GMT by Stanislaw Waszak -- ASIA -- Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-energy-trade ASHGABAT Turkmenistan hosts Afghanistan's Taliban for talks, the Turkmen foreign ministry says, with the gas-rich state seeking security guarantees for major projects linking the two countries and the wider region. 350 words moved Pacific-Marshalls-diplomacy MAJURO, Marshall Islands The Pacific Islands Forum leadership rift widens as the Marshall Islands voices its disapproval with the central political body in a region where the United States and China are competing for influence. 400 words moved India-demonstration-politics-parliament-agriculture, lead NEW DELHI Tens of thousands of police are deployed across India in a bid to smother new protests by farmers fighting government agriculture reforms. 300 words moved -- SPORTS -- Tennis-AUS-Open,PREVIEW MELBOURNE, Australia The Australian Open is known as the "Happy Slam" for its convivial atmosphere but the coronavirus has cast dark clouds over this year's build-up and could cause more chaos during the next fortnight. 650 words 0300 GMT. Picture Amfoot-NFL-SuperBowl TAMPA, Florida Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes go head-to-head on Sunday in a potential Super Bowl classic that pits the greatest quarterback in NFL history against the pretender to his throne. 750 words 0130 GMT RugbyU-6Nations-ENG-SCO,2ndlead LONDON Scotland throw the Six Nations wide open from the start as they end their 38-year wait for a win at Twickenham with an impressive 11-6 success over reigning champions England. 650 words moved by Julian Guyer. Picture. Video Also moved: RugbyU-6Nations-ENG-SCO-Townsend,REAX fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Manchester United miss out on a share of top spot in the Premier League after twice throwing away leads in a 3-3 draw with Everton, while Arsenal's top-four chances are fading fast following a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa. 700 words moved by Kieran Canning. Picture. Video afp
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