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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Worldwide virus cases top 100 million + Biden signals tougher stance in Putin call + Heavy security after Delhi farmer riots + Two-thirds of world see 'climate emergency' + Napoleon's account of Battle of Austerlitz on sale Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON More than 100 million Covid-19 cases have now been recorded worldwide, according to an AFP tally, as newly inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged to ramp up the United States' struggling vaccine program. 900 words moved by Ben Sheppard and AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Russia-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden signals a tougher US stance on Russia in his first phone call with President Vladimir Putin, raising concerns over human rights and "aggression" against Ukraine, but welcoming cooperation on a new nuclear weapons accord. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video India-agriculture-politics-demo,WRAP NEW DELHI Indian police impose heavy security and close several main roads around New Delhi, a day after farmers went on the rampage in the capital, leaving one person dead and several hundred injured. 600 words 1000 GMT by Aishwarya Kumar and Bhuvan Bagga. Picture. Video. Live video Also moving: India-agriculture-politics-demo,Q&A World-climate-public-opinion PARIS Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, according to a UN survey, the largest of its kind ever undertaken. 750 words moved by Marlowe Hood France-history-heritage-Napoleon PARIS Napoleon Bonaparte's account of his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, which he dictated in exile on the island of Saint Helena, goes on sale in Paris for one million euros. 400 words 1000 GMT by Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere. Picture. Video Also moving: France-history-heritage-Napoleon,CHRONO -- SPOTLIGHT -- Balkans-Serbia-assault-gender-theatre-film,FOCUS BELGRADE When a Serbian actress accused her former drama teacher of rape last week, the reaction was seismic: thousands of women across the Balkans have since come forward with their own stories, united under the banner "You are not alone". 850 words 1000 GMT by Marion Dautry. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-rights-families,FOCUS WUHAN, China Relatives of Wuhan's coronavirus dead say authorities have deleted their social media groups and are pressuring them to keep quiet while a World Health Organization team is in the city to investigate the pandemic's origins. 700 words moved by Leo Ramirez with Dan Martin in Shanghai. Video. File picture. Health-virus-China BEIJING China says it will use anal swabs to test those it considers at high risk of contracting Covid-19, as doctors say they can be more effective in detecting the virus. 350 words 0930 GMT Health-virus-Romania-religion-vaccines,INTERVIEW BUCHAREST When Romanian Orthodox priest Dorel Galan decided to declare his wish to get vaccinated against Covid-19, he wasn't expecting to become the latest target for the country's corona-sceptical online trolls and anti-vaxxers. 700 words 1200 GMT by Mihaela Rodina and Ionut Iordachescu. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-Holocaust,FOCUS HAIFA, Israel When 86-year-old Naomie Lichthaus reaches out, staff at Israel's Yad Ezer La-Haver foundation are ready to help her and other Holocaust survivors who have been isolated by the Covid-19 pandemic. 450 words moved by Alexandra Vardi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-prison,FOCUS LONDON Concern is growing about the potential long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on prisoners in England and Wales, even though jails have avoided the worst predictions about infections. 750 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture Health-virus-Austria-Czech-Bulgaria-Switzerland-cafe-lifestyle VIENNA As coronavirus lockdowns are extended across Europe, protests have flared across the continent's hard-hit hospitality sector, along with warnings that many businesses are on the verge of extinction. 700 words moved by Jastinder Khera with AFP Europe bureaus. Picture. Video. File picture. File video -- EUROPE -- France-Britain-trade-Brexit,FOCUS PARIS French companies must confront new procedures which have created delays and added to the costs of doing business with post-Brexit Britain and they are concerned by an uncertain future. 650 words 1000 GMT by Boris Cambreleng. Video, File Picture Switzerland-France-lifestyle-ski-mountains,FOCUS GINGINGS, Switzerland France and Switzerland find themselves in a cold war with each other -- over a cross-border car park which serves Swiss ski slopes but has been closed by the French due to the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words moved by Agnes Pedrero. Picture -- AFRICA -- Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France-court,SPECIALREPORT BISESERO, Rwanda A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills. Survivors of one of the most terrible episodes of the genocide in Rwanda have just spotted Alain Gauthier -- their lifeline to justice. 2,200 words by Lucie Peytermann. Pictures by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Francois Nascimbeni in France. Video by Simon Wohlfahrt in Rwanda and Guillaume Bonnet in France Also moved: Rwanda-genocide-investigation-France-court-survivor,SPECIALREPORT Somalia-Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict MOGADISHU Somalia is under growing pressure to explain the fate of soldiers whose families fear they were secretly deployed from training camps in neighbouring Eritrea to fight in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region. 750 words moved. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-environment-climate-politics-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden plans to announce new bans on oil and gas drilling on federal lands as part of a raft of actions that take aim at climate change, according to reports and a White House memo. 750 words moved by Issan Ahmed. Picture US-politics-impeachment,FOCUS WASHINGTON He's gone, he's golfing, but from his palm-lined Florida hideaway Donald Trump is also plotting revenge. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture. File video. Graphic US-politics-diplomacy-Blinken,PROFILE WASHINGTON Unfailingly calm and courteous, America's new top diplomat Antony Blinken advocates a more humble approach to build alliances but, more than his boss, has advocated military power when human rights are in question. 750 words moved by Shaun Tandon. File Picture Also moved: US-politics-economy-Yellen,PROFILE -- ASIA -- SriLanka-UN-rights-conflict,FOCUS GENEVA, Switzerland The UN human rights chief calls for an International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist conflict and sanctions on military officials accused of war crimes, according to a report obtained by AFP. 650 words moved by Christophe Vogt in Geneva and Amal Jayasinghe in Colombo. Picture -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-IOC-health-virus,WRAP LAUSANNE With the coronavirus pandemic threatening the holding of the re-arranged Tokyo Olympics, IOC chief Thomas Bach is expected to set out how a "safe" Games could be organised and respond to growing questions on the vaccination of competitors. 500 words 1130 GMT. Picture. Video Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan,LEAD TOKYO, Japan The first Tokyo Olympics test event of 2021 will be postponed due to travel restrictions under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency, media reports. 250 words moved Also moved: Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan-Ito,INTERVIEW -- OFFBEAT -- SKorea-animal-panda-offbeat SEOUL Video footage of an adorable baby giant panda clinging desperately to her zookeeper's leg in South Korea garners more than four million hits on YouTube. 200 words moved. Video afp
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