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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hospitalised Trump says 'real test' in coming days + Armenia, Azerbaijan trade rocket fire + First Belarus protest since US, EU sanctions + Nadal, Thiem face unknowns in French open + Sarcophagi buried 2,500 years ago found in Egypt Health-virus-US-vote-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump posts a video from the hospital where he is battling Covid-19, saying he is improving and will be "back soon" -- but acknowledges the crucial coming days will be "the real test." 850 words 1030 GMT by Daniel Woolls. Picture. Video. Graphic Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP STEPANAKERT Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchange rocket fire as fighting intensifies over Nagorno-Karabakh, with the breakaway region's capital and Azerbaijan's second-largest city under bombardment. 700 words 1000 GMT Picture. Video. Graphic Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP MINSK Belarusians prepare to take to the streets in support of the ex-Soviet country's political prisoners, with the latest weekend march coming after Brussels and Washington introduced sanctions over strongman Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election. 500 words 1030 GMT Picture. Video Tennis-FRA-Open PARIS Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem take great leaps into the unknown when they tackle opponents ranked outside the top 200 for a place in the Roland Garros quarter-finals. 600 words 1100 GMT by Dave James. Picture Also moved: Tennis-FRA-Open-week1-memories Egypt-heritage-archaeology,WRAP SAQQARA, Egypt Egyptian archaeologists unveil the major discovery of 59 ornately decorated sarcophagi and mummified remains in one of them, thought to have been buried more than 2,500 years ago. 450 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-vote-scenarios,FACTS WASHINGTON A US presidential nominee has never died or had to withdraw from a White House race this close to an election. But President Donald Trump's hospitalization for coronavirus just a month from the November 3 vote has raised the question of what happens if such an event should occur. 600 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File Picture Health-virus-US-economy-Washington,FOCUS WASHINGTON With just a month to go before the presidential election, Washington, the hub of American politics, is still in the social and economic deep freeze it was plunged into by the Covid-19 outbreak that began six months ago. 800 words moved by Delphine Touitou. Picture. File picture US-racism-politics-economy,FOCUS FAYETTE, Mississippi, United States All that remains of what was once a Civil War-era cotton plantation is a crumbling building overgrown by weeds. But the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County in the Deep South US state of Mississippi remains clearly visible. 850 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video Also moved: US-racism-farms,FOCUS -- EUROPE -- Kyrgyzstan-vote,WRAP BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan holds parliamentary polls with observers and smaller parties warning that vote buying could spoil a rare competitive election in former Soviet Central Asia. 700 words 1100 GMT by Tolkun Namatbayeva. Picture. Video Germany-trial-Russia-diplomacy,ADVANCER BERLIN A Russian man goes on trial Wednesday accused of assassinating a former Chechen commander in a Berlin park on Moscow's orders, a case that has cast a pall over ties between Russia and Germany. 650 words moved by Hui Min Neo Also moving: Russia-Chechnya-politics,FACTS -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Saudi-religion,WRAP MECCA Mask-clad Muslim worshippers circle Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths, as Saudi authorities partially resumes the year-round umrah pilgrimage amid extensive health precautions after a seven-month coronavirus hiatus. 600 words 1200 GMT. Picture. Video. Live Video -- AFRICA -- Senegal-religion-virus,ADVANCER DAKAR Hordes of Sufi pilgrims are descending on the Senegalese holy city of Touba for a giant annual celebration, despite the threat of coronavirus hanging over the event. 600 words moved by Selim Saheb Ettaba. File Picture -- ASIA -- France-vote-NewCaledonia,WRAP NOUMEA France's south Pacific outpost of New Caledonia awaits the outcome of a tightly-contested referendum on independence, marked by long voter queues as people turned out in droves to decide on their territory's future. 700 words 1130 GMT by Claudine Wery and Cecile Azzaro. Picture. Video Japan-lifestyle-alcohol,FOCUS TOKYO At a trendy Tokyo cocktail bar, customers sip on brightly coloured beverages with sophisticated flavour profiles, designed for a small but growing market in hard-drinking Japan: teetotallers. 800 words moved by Kyoko Hasegawa. Picture. Video Cambodia-US-China-diplomacy-naval PHNOM PENH Cambodia has razed a US-funded defence facility on its southern coast, the deputy prime minister confirms, the latest move in the ongoing controversial expansion of a strategically crucial naval base being developed with Chinese aid. 400 words moved. File picture. -- BUSINESS & TECH -- US-internet-politics-Facebook,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO As division roils the country ahead of the US presidential election, Justine Lee is out to "Make America Dinner Again" and foster understanding in the process. 750 words moved by Glenn Chapman afp
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