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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Nations test tentative lockdown easing + Trump halts WHO funding over virus handling + South Korea holds election despite coronavirus + Notre-Dame bells ring one year after fire + Social distancing may last until 2022: Harvard Health-virus,WRAP COPENHAGEN The world enters a new and uncertain phase of the coronavirus pandemic as more countries experiment with easing lockdowns, testing global coordination of a crisis kicking the economy towards the worst recession in a century. 800 words 1200 GMT by Camille Bas-Wohlert with Susan Stumme in Washington and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Health-virus-US-economy-politics WASHINGTON President Donald Trump announces that swaths of the United States could lift coronavirus shutdowns "very soon" but announces a freeze in US funding to the World Health Organization because he said it had been biased to China. 750 words moved by Sebastian Smith Also moved: Health-virus-US-Texas-physician,FOCUS Sport-USA-virus-health,FOCUS SKorea-politics-vote-health-virus SEOUL South Korean voters turn out in force despite the coronavirus threat, putting on compulsory face masks and gloves to cast their ballots in a parliamentary election. 750 words 0930 GMT by Sunghee Hwang. Picture. Graphic. Video France-religion-Notre-Dame PARIS The bells at Notre-Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris will ring out as France marks one year since a massive blaze nearly destroyed one of the world's most revered monuments. 500 words 1130 GMT by Mariette le Roux. Picture Health-US-virus-model,lead WASHINGTON A one-off lockdown won't stop the novel coronavirus pandemic and intermittent periods of social distancing may be required into 2022 to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, Harvard scientists say. 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Denmark,2ndlead COPENHAGEN Denmark begins reopening schools for younger children after a month-long closure over the novel coronavirus, becoming the first country in Europe to do so. 600 words 1000 GMT by Camille Bas-Wohlert. Video. Picture Health-virus-Italy-testing,FOCUS ROME Testing is being held up as the world's best bet for ending the economically crippling -- and emotionally draining -- coronavirus lockdown. But doctors at the Italian epicentre of the health crisis doubt countries can test their way out of confinement. 650 words 1100 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. File picture Health-virus-EU-economy-technology BRUSSELS As the EU economy tanks because of virus lockdowns, Brussels sets out a possible roadmap to gradually reopening for business, one that relies on tracking apps. 600 words 1100 GMT by Marc Burleigh. Video Health-virus-politics-philosophy,INTERVIEW BRUSSELS One of France's best known public intellectuals, philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, argues in an AFP interview that the coronavirus epidemic is not an unprecedented health threat but that the way societies are responding to it is new -- and dangerous. 500 words 1030 GMT by Dave Clark. File picture -- AFRICA -- Malawi-vote-politics-court,lead LILONGWE Malawi's Supreme Court begins hearing an appeal by President Peter Mutharika against the re-run of an election in which he was returned to office last year. 500 words 1030 GMT by Jack McBrams. File picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-India-religion-Varanasi,FOCUS VARANASI, India The stench of smouldering funeral pyres usually hangs heavy by the Ganges in Varanasi, where the fires have burned since time immemorial, but a nationwide lockdown over coronavirus has left the ghats eerily quiet. 600 words moved by Anand Singh with Bhuvan Bagga in New Delhi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Japan-social,FOCUS YOKOHAMA, Japan Thousands of cash-strapped "net cafe refugees" in Japan risk being turfed out onto the streets as the coronavirus pandemic forces the closure of these 24/7 havens unique to the country. 800 words moved by Miwa Suzuki. Picture. Video Health-virus-Australia-court-police SYDNEY An Australian who repeatedly sneaked out of coronavirus quarantine, reportedly to visit his girlfriend, is jailed for a month -- the first person imprisoned under the country's lockdown laws. 200 words moved -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-politics-Democrats-Obama-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden's White House bid, saying his longtime vice president can unify and "heal" a nation struggling through some of its darkest moments. 700 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture US-health-virus-California,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Swift and strict containment measures in California appear to have succeeded in reducing hospital overcrowding and mass deaths from coronavirus, according to health experts in the country's most populous state. 750 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Video Health-virus-Ecuador-mayor,INTERVIEW GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador Ecuador's economic capital Quayaquil is reeling from the most aggressive outbreak of COVID-19 in Latin America after the pandemic hit the city "like a bomb," its mayor says. 650 words moved Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON Asian and European stock markets kick lower despite an overnight Wall Street rally as investors mull dire assessments of the global economic impact of the devastating novel coronavirus pandemic. 700 words 1100 GMT -- SPORT -- Health-virus-cycling-FRA-Tour PARIS Tour de France organisers are expected to announce a new date for cycling's biggest race after large public gatherings were banned until mid-July as part of French efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words 1130 GMT by Jean Montet. Picture -- LIFESTYLE/TECHNOLOGY -- Health-US-virus-workplace,FOCUS WASHINGTON Mandatory temperature checks, hands-free hand sanitizers, staggered shift timings and no meetings: When we finally go back, workplaces will be far different to how we remember them. 650 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-US-IT-smartphone,Q&A WASHINGTON Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world. 800 words moved by Rob Lever afp
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