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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump lays out guidelines for gradual reopening + US job losses since start of pandemic hit 22m + Facebook steps up fight against virus fakery + New York mother meets baby born during virus coma + Snow cannon enlisted in Austria's virus battle Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump lays out guidelines for a gradual reopening of the United States after the battering of the coronavirus pandemic, saying normal life should resume quickly in some states. 1000 words 0130 GMT by Shaun Tandon with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-economy-politics,WRAP Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment-building,WRAP WASHINGTON Job losses from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States reach 22 million, government data says, as President Donald Trump vows to unveil plans to re-open the world's largest economy. 700 words moved by Chris Stein Virus-health-US-IT-disinformation-Facebook,lead LONDON Facebook says it will start sending tailor-made warnings to users highlighting facts about the coronavirus pandemic, after the world's leading social media platform was accused of tolerating the spread of outlandish conspiracy theories. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi Health-virus-US-coma-birth WASHINGTON A woman in New York has met for the first time the baby she gave birth to in early April while she was on a ventilator in an artificial coma because she had a serious form of COVID-19. 350 words moved by Ivan Couronne. Picture. Video Health-virus-Austria VIENNA An Austrian waste disposal company has started using one of the Alpine country's more unusual resources in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic -- a snow cannon. 250 words moved. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-economy-recession-IMF-WorldBank,WRAP WASHINGTON The severe economic crisis ignited by the coronavirus pandemic requires the rapid deployment of every available financial lifeline to help countries survive, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says. 600 words moved by Heather Scott. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-smallbusiness-aid-politics,WRAP Health-virus-US-NewYork Health-virus-US-politics-post,FOCUS WASHINGTON For many Americans, checking the mailbox is a daily ritual. But as with many ordinary things as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the US Postal Service -- already compromised by a mountain of debt -- has a most uncertain future. 750 words 0130 GMT by Susan Stumme. Picture Entertainment-US-health-virus-paparazzi,FOCUS LOS ANGELES With Hollywood A-listers self-quarantined in their sprawling mansions due to the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles' notorious paparazzi have almost nobody to shoot -- despite soaring demand for celebrity pictures. 650 words 0130 GMT by Andrew Marszal Also moving: Health-virus-US-Maryland,PHOTOESSAY Health-virus-Canada-government-language-culture-offbeat OTTAWA "Stay the blazes home": the salty call by the premier of Canada's Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia has become a rallying cry in the coronavirus pandemic fight. 600 words 0130 GMT by Michel Comte. Picture -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Bangladesh-textile-economy,FOCUS ASHULIA, Bangladesh One day Parvin was frantically making clothes to satiate the fast fashion taste of European capitals, the next she was jobless and desperate along with hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi workers thrown out of work as international brands cancelled billions of dollars in orders. 700 words 0430 GMT by Shafiqul Alam. Picture. Video Health-virus-Australia,FOCUS COOLANGATTA, Australia A state border that bisects the beachside towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads has rarely troubled locals, but under the coronavirus shutdown, the frontier has been closed for the first time since the Spanish Flu pandemic a century ago. 700 words 0400 GMT. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Germany-politics-Merkel,FOCUS BERLIN Sporting events may be on hold in Germany, but the race to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel is gathering pace as the country makes cautious progress in the fight against the coronavirus. 650 words 0300 GMT by Mathieu Foulkes and Kit Holden Health-virus-Armenia-economy,FOCUS YEREVAN, Armenia Hayk Harutyunyan returned to Armenia full of enthusiasm for a country overhauled in 2018 by a velvet revolution that held out hope for a better future. 550 words 0300 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain,4thlead LONDON Britain extends its lockdown to tackle the coronavirus for "at least the next three weeks", as it remains among the countries worst-hit by the pandemic with hundreds dying daily from the disease. 550 words moved by Alice Ritchie. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Russia-military-history-politics,WRAP -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Mideast-prison-politics,FOCUS CAIRO As governments in the Middle East isolate their populations to prevent the spread of coronavirus, attention is turning to the region's jails, where detainees face a more punishing form of lockdown. 750 words 0300 GMT by Farid Farid with AFP bureaus. File Picture Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's parliament is tasked with forming a government after speaker Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin miss a deadline to seal an alliance, but negotiations between the sides resume. 650 words moved by Ben Simon. File Picture Also moved: Israel-politics-Netanyahu,CHRONO Israel-politics-government,CHRONO -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Ethiopia-Eritrea-politics-refugees,lead ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia plans to shutter a camp for Eritrean refugees and resettle thousands of its inhabitants in other camps that the UN considers already full, despite concerns this could make them more vulnerable to COVID-19. 600 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet Health-virus-Nigeria-rights-killing,2ndlead LAGOS, Nigeria Nigerian security forces have killed 18 people in their enforcement of measures to curb coronavirus, a figure higher than the documented toll inflicted by the disease, the country's human rights body says. 600 words moved -- SPORT -- Box-MMA-THA-health-virus,FOCUS KANCHANABURI, Thailand Training in masks, two metres apart, Thailand's professional fighters are battling a new reality -- shuttered gyms and cancelled money-making tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words 0200 GMT by Pitcha Dangprasith and Sophie Deviller. 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