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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + EU, US to extend Airbus-Boeing tariff truce + Israel govt in early test with far-right march + UK, Australia agree post-Brexit trade deal + Beijing hits back at NATO 'confrontation' + French court convicts Ikea in spying scandal EU-US-summit-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS US President Joe Biden meets EU leaders to seek Brussels' backing to face a rising China, as the allies agree a truce in their dispute over aid to Airbus and Boeing. 650 words 1100 GMT by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Jerusalem,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's fledgling new government faces an early test as Jewish ultranationalists prepare to march into annexed east Jerusalem, stoking tensions the UN has warned threaten a fragile Gaza ceasefire. 650 words 1200 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video. Live video Britain-Australia-trade,WRAP LONDON Britain agrees a multi-billion-pound free trade deal with Australia following Brexit that scraps tariffs on goods ranging from wine, cars and farm products. 500 words 0930 GMT by Ben Perry. Photo. Video China-NATO-summit-politics,WRAP BEIJING Beijing accuses NATO of exaggerating the threat from China and "creating confrontation", after a vow from the Western allies to work together to counter the challenges posed by its policies. 600 words moved by Helen Roxburgh France-court-trial-labour-Ikea-Sweden,WRAP PARIS Ikea France gets a one million euro fine and its former chief a two-year suspended prison term after a court finds it guilty of widespread spying on employees. 600 words 1000 GMT by Ornella Lamberti. File picture. File video -- SPOTLIGHT -- China-Tibet-tourism-lifestyle,FOCUS NYINTRI, Tibet, China In a room warmed by an open wood stove, Baima says her family converted their white-brick house into a hotel as China's Communist leadership ushers tens of millions of tourists to the politically sensitive region of Tibet. 650 words moved by Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video Health-virus-Turkey-music,FOCUS ISTANBUL Turkish pop singer Seref Erdeniz had run out of options by the time he sold his guitar to pay the bills in the second year of coronavirus bans on live music. 800 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture. Video -- BIDEN-PUTIN SUMMIT -- US-Russia-summit-Switzerland-security,FOCUS GENEVA Switzerland is mobilising a "titanic" security effort for the meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, deploying around 4,000 police, troops and security personnel to guard the summit from all angles. 500 words 1000 GMT by Robin Millard. File picture. File video US-Russia-summit-diplomacy-Putin,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Vladimir Putin dismisses accusations that Russia was behind cyberattacks against the United States as "farcical" in an interview broadcast ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden. 450 words moved US-Russia-prisoners-cyber-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Vladimir Putin has renewed an offer to swap prisoners ahead of his first summit with Joe Biden, who has come under growing pressure to win the release of Americans from Russian jails. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Video. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-politics-US-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON The fall of Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, is bringing a sigh of relief to many in the Biden administration. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon Iran-vote-Raisi-rights-justice,FOCUS PARIS Ebrahim Raisi, the favourite in Iran's presidential election, has used his position at the very heart of the judiciary for grave rights violations, including mass executions of political prisoners, activists charge. 750 words 1100 GMT by Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Iran-vote-Rouhani,FOCUS TEHRAN Promising greater openness at home and outreach abroad when he was elected in 2013, Iran's outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani comfortably won a second term, but leaves office as a deeply unpopular figure. 700 words moved. File Picture Iran-Kurds-politics-women,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Rewaz Faiq is just one of two women serving as parliament speaker in the Middle East, where politics is a man's world, but the Iraqi Kurdish mother of two is unfazed. 600 words moved by Qassim Khidir. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-vote-unrest-politics,FOCUS ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia prepares to hold crucial and twice-delayed elections across the country next week, despite growing concern over the credibility of the vote as well as a famine in war-torn Tigray. 700 words moved. Video. Picture Also moved: Ethiopia-vote-unrest,FACTS ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,ADVANCER ABIDJAN Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo returns on Thursday to a country that he left in humiliation almost a decade ago, forced out after a bloody conflict and dispatched to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity. 700 words moved by Stephane Barbier, with Caroline Taix in Gagnoa. Picture. File picture. Graphic Also moved: ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,CHRONO ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,DATES -- EUROPE -- Germany-religion-Islam-education-politics,FOCUS OSNABRUCK, Germany Germany has launched a state-funded training centre for imams to help reduce the number of Islamic leaders coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups. 650 words 1200 GMT by Yannick Pasquet. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Fbl-Maradona-ARG-justice-Argentina,WRAP BUENOS AIRES A nurse accused of neglect in Diego Maradona's death tells Argentine prosecutors that he was following orders "not to disturb" the football icon while he slept. 600 words moved. Graphic. Video. Picture US-election-virus-NewYork,FOCUS NEW YORK Thirteen candidates, and no clear favorite: one week before the Democratic primary to select the mayor of post-pandemic New York City, progressives and moderates face off in a race made all the more uncertain by a new voting system. 650 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture US-education-racism-politics,FOCUS LEESBURG, Virginia "Are you ready to take back our schools?" activist Patti Menders shouts at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching in the United States that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as "oppressors." 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video Health-virus-Bolivia,FOCUS COCHABAMBA, Bolivia The alarm in the Bolivian hospital pierces through the din of beeping life support machines and hissing ventilators -- a patient lies unconscious, oblivious to the warning that his life hangs by a thread. 750 words moved by Martin Silva. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-trial-SuuKyi,lead NAYPYIDAW Myanmar junta witnesses are set to testify against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of sedition and flouting coronavirus restrictions, in a trial that could see the Nobel laureate jailed for more than a decade. 450 words 1100 GMT. Graphic. Video Myanmar-Bangladesh-refugee-UN-rights-HRW GENEVA The UN improperly collected and shared data from more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, passing it on to Myanmar, the country they fled, says Human Rights Watch, urging an investigation. 650 words moved by Nina Larson China-France-nuclear-environment,WRAP BEIJING Beijing says there has been no change in radiation levels at the Taishan nuclear power station in southern China, after its French operator said it was working to resolve an issue linked to gas build-up. 500 words 0930 GMT by Beiyi Seow and Laurie Chen. Video. File picture. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-health-polio,WRAP JALALABAD At least four people killed and four wounded in a string of attacks on polio workers in eastern Afghanistan, the second assault targeting vaccinators in the area in less than three months. 500 words 1000 GMT by Noorullah Shirzada China-animal-environment-elephant BEIJING Fourteen elephants on a 500-kilometre march across southwestern China take a break as they wait for a wayward teenager to rejoin the herd. 300 words moved. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- UAE-aviation-Emirates,WRAP DUBAI Dubai-based Emirates airline posts a $5.5 billion annual loss, its first in more than three decades, after the coronavirus pandemic devastated the aviation industry. 500 words moved. File Picture. File Video -- SPACE-- China-space,ADVANCER BEIJING The first crew for China's new space station is ready to blast off this week, another step in Beijing's ambitious programme to establish itself as a space power. 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret and Poornima Weerasekara. File Picture. Graphic -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS Reigning champions Portugal begin their defence of the trophy against Hungary at Euro 2020 in Budapest as World Cup holders France take on Germany in a hotly-anticipated clash between two of the continent's heavyweights. 750 words at 1100 GMT by Andy Scott. Graphic. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus,lead TOKYO International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates arrives in Japan as organisers ramp up final preparations with just over five weeks until the pandemic-postponed Games open. 600 words moved. Picture. Video afp
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