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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + China passes controversial Hong Kong security law + Global virus crisis 'not even close' to over: WHO + 'Golden State Killer' pleads guilty to 13 murders + TikTok denies giving China data on users in India + Spying claims rock America's Cup yachting regatta China-HongKong-politics,WRAP HONG KONG China passes a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong, a historic move that critics and many western governments fear will smother the finance hub's freedoms and hollow out its autonomy. 700 words 0600 GMT by Yan Zhao and Jeremy Taylor. Picture. Video Also moved: China-HongKong-US-politics-protest,WRAP Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic is "not even close to being over", the WHO warns, as the global death toll passes half a million and cases surge in Latin America and the United States. 850 words moved by Robin Millard with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-crime-murder-California,WRAP LOS ANGELES A US former policeman dubbed the "Golden State Killer" pleads guilty to 13 murders, as well as confessing to dozens of rapes, robberies and kidnappings -- drawing a line under a sadistic crime spree that terrorized California for two decades. 700 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture India-China-conflict-diplomacy-IT-TikTok,WRAP NEW DELHI TikTok denies sharing users' data with the Chinese government, after India bans the wildly popular app amid a worsening territorial row sparked by a deadly border clash. 500 words 0600 GMT by Bhuvan Bagga Yachting-NZL-AmCup,lead WELLINGTON Team New Zealand says it has fired a number of employees for leaking confidential information as spying claims rock preparations for next year's prestigious America's Cup yachting regatta. 550 words 0600 GMT. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-Russia-Taliban-Afghanistan-espionage-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump received a written briefing about alleged Russian bounties offered to Afghan militants to kill American troops as early as February, The New York Times says in a report undercutting the US president's claims he was not told of the threat. 750 words 0600 GMT US-politics-court-abortion,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court strikes down a Louisiana law that tightly restricted access to abortion, in the first constitutional test of abortion rights since President Donald Trump named two conservative justices. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. File video US-racism-police-court,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS A Minneapolis judge sets the trial date for four ex-police officers charged in the murder of African American George Floyd for March next year, making clear he does not want the sensitive case to become a media circus. 600 words moved by Joy Powell with Charlotte Plantive in Washington. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-Texas,SCENE HOUSTON, Texas Armed with blankets and pillows, Texans wait in their cars for hours outside a testing center in Houston, one of the new COVID-19 epicenters in the US. 450 words moved by Julia Benarrous. Picture. Video Health-virus-Peru-Venezuela-family,FOCUS LIMA The 14 members of the Hernandez family arrived in Peru from Venezuela two years ago with hopes high for a better life, but the coronavirus pandemic has cruelly shattered the dream: the grandfather died and now the entire family is struggling with the disease. 650 words moved by Jesus Olarte. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-unrest,FOCUS HONG KONG Jailed without trial when Hong Kong was a British colony, former underground communist Lau Man-shing says he fears a new generation of dissidents could suffer a similar fate once Beijing imposes its new national security law. 650 words moved by Su Xinqi. Picture Health-virus-India-religion-tourism,SCENE HARIDWAR, India Life is slowly returning to normal among the hallowed temples of Haridwar, one of Hinduism's holiest places, but the Indian pilgrimage town still has a forlorn air as the country emerges from its coronavirus lockdown. 600 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Canada-entertainment-circus-Cirque-health-virus,2ndlead MONTREAL Cirque du Soleil announces it is filing for bankruptcy protection and cutting thousands of jobs as the world's most famous circus troupe seeks to survive the coronavirus pandemic. 450 words moved by Anne-Sophie Thill. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-US-Broadway Germany-crime-children-abuse,WRAP BERLIN Germany is investigating 30,000 suspects as part of a probe into an online paedophile network, the latest in a series of child sex abuse scandals that have shocked the nation and led authorities to promise a crackdown. 550 words moved by Ralf Isermann and Femke Colborne France-politics-fraud-trial,WRAP PARIS A Paris court sentences former French prime minister Francois Fillon to five years in prison, with three suspended, after finding him guilty of orchestrating a fake job for his wife, a scandal that cost him his shot at the presidency in 2017. 700 words moved by Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video. Also moved: France-politics-justice,FACTS Romania-environment-conservation-tourism,FOCUS SFANTU-GHEORGHE, Romania As the "last rower" left in one of the villages dotting Romania's Danube Delta, Iosif Acsente is all too aware of how the traditions and vistas of the region are slowly disappearing -- an issue brought into sharper relief by the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved by Mihaela Rodina and Ionut Iordachescu. Picture. Video. Britain-immigration-racism,FOCUS LONDON Ijeoma Moore came to Britain from Nigeria as a toddler and is now 25. "I have lived here since I was two. I feel very much British," she says. 700 words moved by Pauline Froissart. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Iraq-doctors,FOCUS BAGHDAD Unpaid salaries. Mask shortages. Threats from patients' families. Doctors across Iraq are cracking under those conditions just as they face a long-feared spike in novel coronavirus cases. 800 words moved by Maya Gebeily with Shwan Muhammad in Sulaimaniyah. Picture -- AFRICA -- Sahel-France-unrest-summit NOUAKCHOTT Leaders from five West African countries and their ally France meet Tuesday to confer over their troubled efforts to stem a jihadist offensive unfolding in the Sahel. 500 words 0530 GMT -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- US-IT-politics-advertising-Facebook,FOCUS WASHINGTON The advertiser boycott of Facebook has morphed into a global digital activist campaign aimed at curbing hateful and toxic content on the social media giant. But its impact remains unclear. 700 words moved by Rob Lever -- SPORT -- Football-AFL-AUS-Australia-racism,FOCUS SYDNEY Australian Rules teams came together to take a knee in support of the "Black Lives Matter" movement, but ongoing racist attacks show there's still work to do. 750 words moved by Martin Parry. 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