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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + EU leaders seek COVID rescue funding deal + Indian coronavirus cases pass one million + BA to retire 747 as virus hits air travel + Amber Heard faked injuries for 'blackmail' + Britain's Princess Beatrice weds Italian Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS EU leaders meet face to face to try to rescue Europe's economy from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, as India became the third country to record one million cases and the US battles surging infections. 850 words 2000 GMT by Dave Clark with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Moved: Health-virus-world-lockdown,FACTS Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-vaccine,Q&A Health-virus-India-million,lead NEW DELHI Coronavirus cases in India pass one million, official data shows, as authorities struggle to check the spread of the deadly pandemic across the world's second-most populous nation. 550 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Video. Live video. Picture Health-virus-Britain-aviation-IAG-Boeing LONDON British Airways retires all its Boeing 747 jumbo jets, hastening the withdrawal of its ageing aircraft after the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand for air travel and carriers started switching to greener jets. 550 words moved by Roland Jackson. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-aviation-Boeing,Q&A Britain-US-court-media-Depp,WRAP LONDON A live-in friend who witnessed Johnny Depp's tumultuous marriage to Amber Heard tells the Hollywood star's libel trial the actress faked her injuries to blackmail him. 450 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Britain-royals-wedding-Beatrice LONDON Prince Andrew's eldest daughter Princess Beatrice marries her Italian businessman fiance in a small private ceremony in front of Queen Elizabeth II, after postponing the wedding because of the coronavirus outbreak. 430 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON The United States' COVID-19 epidemic is once more blowing up at an exponential rate, even as leaders of some of the worst-hit states resist mandatory mask measures to stem the spread. 550 words 1930 GMT by Ivan Couronne Also moved: Health-virus-engineering,FOCUS Health-virus-Mexico-culture,FOCUS US-justice-SupremeCourt-Ginsburg,WRAP WASHINGTON US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 87-year-old anchor of its liberal wing, says she is undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer but will remain on the bench. 600 words 2000 GMT by Chris Lefkow. File picture -- EUROPE -- EU-summit-budget,UPDATE BRUSSELS European leaders hunker down for two days of tortuous negotiations to thrash out the terms of a huge post-coronavirus economic rescue plan. 700 words 2000 GMT by Damon Wake and Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Already moved: EU-summit-budget,SCENE Health-virus-Spain,3rdlead BARCELONA, Spain The Catalan regional government urges residents of Spain's second city Barcelona to stay at home unless absolutely necessary or else face a potential second lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. 550 words moved by Daniel Bosque Health-virus-Britain LONDON Britain could return to normality from the coronavirus outbreak by Christmas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, despite fears of a second wave of cases over winter. 600 words moved by David Harding. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Britain-data,lead Health-virus-Britain-royal-charity-Moore WINDSOR, United Kingdom A 100-year-old World War II veteran who became a coronavirus lockdown hero by raising millions for British health charities is knighted in a special ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II. 400 words moved Germany-police-crime BERLIN After a huge six-day manhunt, German police have caught the "Black Forest Rambo", a heavily armed suspect accused of stealing officers' weapons and going on the run in the forest. 600 words 1930 GMT by Femke Colborne. File picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-politics,LEAD BAMAKO Mali's opposition is sticking to its demand that the country's embattled president resign, despite the presence of international mediators intended to defuse tensions in the fragile West African state. 500 words 2000GMT by Serge Daniel. File picture. Video SAfrica-politics-Mandela-people JOHANNESBURG Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, is buried at a private funeral following her death aged 59 earlier this week. 500 words moved by Susan Njanji. File picture -- MIDEAST -- Health-virus-Israel-politics,FOCUS JERUSALEM His poll numbers are sinking, protests are growing and economically punishing restrictions have just been reimposed: surging coronavirus cases in Israel have left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu encircled by trouble. 850 words moved by Ben Simon -- ASIA -- Virus-health-India-hospital,SCENE GREATER NOIDA, India In suffocating full protective gear inside an Indian intensive care unit with no air conditioning, doctor Showkat Nazir Wani risks his life battling brutal heat and treating coronavirus patients. 600 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-EU-economy-jobs,FACTS PARIS The coronavirus pandemic has battered whole sectors of Europe's economy, with plans to repair the damage central to a high-stakes summit of EU leaders starting Friday in Brussels. A look at the major casualties. 600 words moved Health-virus-US-economy-IMF WASHINGTON The dominant risk to the US economic recovery is a resurgence of COVID-19 cases that would force renewed business shutdowns, and the US government will need to do more to provide support to households and worsening poverty, the IMF warned. 650 words moved by Heather Scott. File picture -- SPORT -- Oly-IOC-Bach,2ndlead LAUSANNE Thomas Bach announces he will stand in 2021 for a second term as president of the International Olympic Committee but admits there is "no solution today" to the challenges posed by coronavirus to the postponed Tokyo Games. 700 words moved. File picture Fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Eur-C1,FOCUS MADRID Barcelona made it all about the Champions League and, after surrendering La Liga to Real Madrid, now it is all they have left. 600 words moved by Tom Allnutt. Picture Also moved: Fbl-ESP-Liga-RealMadrid,WRAP fbl-ESP-Liga-RealMadrid-Zidane,FOCUS -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-politics-country-Chicks,FOCUS NEW YORK Nearly two decades after country music shunned them for famously repudiating George W Bush, the trio formerly known as The Dixie Chicks have soared back with a new album, new name and renewed fearlessness. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture afp
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