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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Tel: +1 202 414 0544 -- TOP STORIES -- + Jerusalem march tests new Israeli government + Biden heads to Switzerland for Putin summit + Beijing accuses NATO of 'creating confrontation' + US tops 600,000 Covid deaths but end in sight + Ronaldo crowned all-time top scorer at Euros Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Jerusalem,WRAP JERUSALEM More than a thousand ultranationalist demonstrators bearing Israeli flags pour through Jerusalem's flashpoint Old City in a march that poses a key test to Israel's new government on its second full day in office. 650 words 1930 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video. Live Video US-Russia-summit,WRAP GENEVA President Joe Biden lands in Geneva on the eve of his first summit with Vladimir Putin, a meeting the White House hopes will set clear "red lines" preventing the combustible US-Russia relationship from further deterioration. 900 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Russia-summit-Switzerland-security,FOCUS 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 Health-virus,WRAP NEW YORK The US death toll from Covid-19 surpasses 600,000, although authorities hail progress towards a return to normality as its world-leading vaccination program promises to turn the page on one of the worst health crises in its history. 600 words 2000 GMT by Catherine Triomphe fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP PARIS Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the all-time top European Championship goal-scorer with a brace as reigning champions Portugal get their Euro 2020 campaign off to a winning start, beating Hungary 3-0 in Budapest before world champions France face Germany in a heavyweight clash. 650 words by Andy Scott 1900 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic -- 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 -- EUROPE -- France-Sweden-retail-labour-trial-Ikea,WRAP PARIS A French court finds Ikea and several former managers guilty of illegally spying on hundreds of employees and job applicants, using private detectives as well as police sources. 650 words moved by Ornella Lamberti. File picture. File video Slovakia-media-court-homicide,WRAP BRATISLAVA Slovakia's Supreme Court overturnes the acquittals of a businessman and his suspected accomplice for the murder of a journalist, in a case that triggered mass protests and toppled the country's previous government. 450 words moved by Laszlo Juhasz. File picture Hungary-politics-LGBT-rights,WRAP BUDAPEST Hungary's parliament passes legislation banning the "promotion" of homosexuality to minors in what critics have slammed as a crackdown on LGBTQ rights. 750 words moved by Peter Murphy. Picture. Video -- MIDEAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Algeria-vote-results,WRAP ALGIERS Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN) party wins parliamentary elections on record low turnout in a poll boycotted by the Hirak protest movement and marked by widespread abstention. 400 words 1930 GMT. Picture Morocco-US-military-WSahara,PHOTOESSAY GREIER LABOUIHI, Morocco US-led forces are carrying out war games near the disputed region of Western Sahara, in exercises jointly organised with Morocco and touted by US Africa Command as its largest. 450 words moved. Picture -- AFRICA -- Somalia-attack,WRAP MOGADISHU A suicide bomber kills 15 army recruits and wounds 20 more as they queued outside a military training camp in Mogadishu, military and hospital sources say. 450 words by moved ICoast-politics-Gbagbo,PROFILE ABIDJAN Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, who returns home on Thursday, has known glory and humiliation in equal measure, and his popularity has remained largely intact despite a 10-year absence. 650 words moved by Stephane Barbier. Picture. File picture SAfrica-mining-metal-poverty,SCENE KWAHLATHI, South Africa Thousands of people armed with shovels and picks have flocked to South Africa's remote KwaHlathi village in search of diamonds after a local man unearthed a handful of unidentified crystal-like pebbles. 550 words moved by Claire Doyen. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Peru-vote,WRAP LIMA Peru's leftist presidential hopeful Pedro Castillo seeks to defend his narrow lead in elections held nine days ago that his rightwing rival Keiko Fujimori is disputing as she fights to avoid an imminent corruption trial. 500 words 2000 GMT by Carlos Mandujano. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-trial-SuuKyi,WRAP NAYPYIDAW Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi goes on trial for sedition in a junta court, more than four months after her government was ousted in a coup that has thrown her country into turmoil. 550 words moved. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-health-polio,WRAP JALALABAD, Afghanistan At least five polio workers are shot dead in eastern Afghanistan, officials say, in the latest attack on vaccinators in one of the last places on Earth where the disease still exists. 500 words moved by Noorullah Shirzada with Usman Sharifi in Kabul. Video. Picture. Graphic -- CLIMATE -- Climate-warming-Arctic-Germany-science,WRAP BERLIN The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic warns. 600 words moved by Min Neo. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- EU-US-summit-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS US President Joe Biden and the EU agree a long-term truce in the 17-year-old Airbus-Boeing dispute, as they try to push past their own disputes and turn their focus to a rising China. 700 words moved by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video 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 US-economy-bank-rate-inflation-employment,WRAP WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve opens its two-day policy meeting, as a host of new data shows the US recovery is a bumpy one, complicating the central bank's job. 550 words moved by Heather Scott -- SPORTS -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus,WRAP TOKYO Athletes could be kicked out of the Tokyo Olympics if they violate virus rules including daily testing and mask-wearing, organisers say as they unveil updated guidelines just over five weeks before the opening ceremony. 750 words moved by Sara Hussein. Picture. Video afp
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