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| - Duty Editor: Adam Plowright Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Moderna to seek vaccine approval in December + Iran blames Israel, exiled group for assassination + Trump takes vote fight to Supreme Court + French police charged after beating scandal + Grosjean to sit out next race after horror F1 crash Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Hopes for a first wave of vaccinations against coronavirus before the end of 2020 get a boost with US firm Moderna filing for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe. 750 words 1530 GMT by Ben Sheppard. Picture. Video. Graphic Iran-nuclear-attack,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says Israel and an exiled opposition group used new and "complex" methods to assassinate its leading nuclear scientist, as it buries him in a funeral befitting a top "martyr". 800 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Live Video. Graphic US-politics-court-census,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump's administration wages what will likely be its last major Supreme Court fight as it seeks to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count used to determine states' representation in Congress. 500 words 1700 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video France-police-protest-law,WRAP PARIS Four French police officers are charged over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, a case that has outraged France and ramped up pressure on the government to give ground on a controversial security bill. 650 words 1530 GMT by Guillaume Daudin and Jurgen Hecker. Picture. Video Auto-prix-BRN-Grosjean-crash,2ndlead SAKHIR, Bahrain French driver Romain Grosjean will sit out next weekend's Formula One race after escaping a fiery high-speed crash in the Bahrain Grand Prix with just burns to his hands, his team Haas says. 650 words moved -- ASIA -- Australia-China-diplomacy-Afghanistan,WRAP SYDNEY Australia's prime minister angrily denounces a "repugnant", "outrageous" and "appalling" tweet from a top Chinese government spokesman and demands Beijing formally apologise. 550 words moved Indonesia-volcano JAKARTA Thousands flee the scene of a rumbling Indonesian volcano that burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash, the country's disaster agency says. 300 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video Cambodia-Pakistan-animal-wildlife,WRAP SIEM REAP, Cambodia Superstar Cher welcomes "the world's loneliest elephant" to Cambodia where it will begin a new life at a specialised sanctuary after being rescued from apparently grim conditions in a Pakistani zoo. 550 words 1530 GMT by Suy Se. Picture. Video Australia-fire-environment-climate,lead BRISBANE Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bushfire that has already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hits. 550 words moved -- EUROPE -- Britain-pollution-inquest,WRAP LONDON The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died from acute respiratory failure after repeated asthma attack says she hopes a coroner's inquest would conclude that air pollution played a role in her death, in what would be a legal first. 600 words moved by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video France-protest-law-Syria-conflict-rights,INTERVIEW PARIS A Syrian photographer wounded in a weekend protest in Paris says the sight of "blood everywhere" during clashes between police and protesters brought back memories of a crackdown in his home country almost a decade ago. 600 words 1500 GMT by Rana Moussaoui. Picture. Video. NATO-diplomacy-defence,WRAP BRUSSELS The NATO alliance should seek a more political role as the lynchpin of the West, ministers will hear this week, despite disputes about its strategy. 700 words moved by Christian Spillmann. Picture. Video EU-politics-anniversary,FOCUS BRUSSELS Running the Europe Union is no simple matter and the duo at the head of the bloc of 27 very distinct nations has struggled mightily to have their voices heard. 700 words moved by Francoise Michel. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Biden-appointments,lead WASHINGTON US President-elect Joe Biden announces an all-female senior White House communications team, what his office calls a first in the country's history. 550 words moved by Mike Smith Fbl-Argentina-Maradona-ARG-doctor,WRAP BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona's surgeon responds to the launch of an investigation for involuntary manslaughter by saying he did "everything he could, up to the impossible" for an "unmanageable" patient. 650 words moved. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-attack-scientist,PROFILE TEHRAN Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in an attack the Islamic republic blames on Israel, was little known before his death, but one thing is certain: he was important. 600 words 1100 GMT -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says Tigray region's dissident leaders have fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting, but federal forces are monitoring them closely and will attack them soon. 800 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video Ethiopia-unrest-Sudan-refugees,FOCUS GEDAREF, Sudan Ethiopians who fled the Tigray region into Sudan are torn between a grim future in refugee camps and returning to an almost month-old conflict in their homeland. 750 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali and Menna Zaki. Picture. Video -- SPORT - Sweden-gymnastics-gender-rights STOCKHOLM The Swedish Gymnastics Federation says it will let teenagers decide for themselves in which gender they wish to participate in the sport, for both practice and competitions. 300 words moved Fbl-ENG-Pr-MEX-Wolverhampton-Jimenez-Arsenal-BRA-Luiz LONDON Wolves striker Raul Jimenez fractured his skull in a clash of heads with Arsenal's David Luiz in Sunday's match, his club says. 300 words moved -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- OPEC-oil-health-virus,WRAP LONDON OPEC kicks off a virtual meeting for member states to discuss continuing an extension of a production cut put in place in April as the pandemic continues to hit demand. 450 words 1600 GMT by Benoit Pelegrin with Denise Hruby in Vienna US-financial-rating-merger-S&PGlobal-IHSMarkit,WRAP NEW YORK Ratings giant S&P Global reaches an all-stock deal to buy IHS Markit for $44 billion, creating a giant in data and analysis used by Wall Street. 500 words 1430 GMT -- ENTERTAINMENT -- France-literature-award-Goncourt,WRAP PARIS A futuristic thriller about the double lives of passengers aboard a flight from Paris to New York wins France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt, which was awarded by video link. 500 words moved by Hugues Honore and Clare Byrne. Picture. Video France-literature-award-Goncourt,Q+A PARIS A member of the Oulipo group wins France's top books prize with a bestseller compared to "The Matrix", casting the spotlight on a secretive literary society. 400 words 1530 GMT afp
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