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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + WHO says pandemic 'not even close' to being over + 'Golden State Killer' pleads guilty to 13 murders + US ends Hong Kong arms exports, China limits visas + US Supreme Court rejects abortion rights challenge + Cirque du Soleil files for bankruptcy protection 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 admitting to dozens of rapes, robberies and kidnappings, drawing a line under a sadistic crime spree that terrorized California for two decades. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture China-HongKong-US-politics-protest,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States ends sensitive defense exports to Hong Kong, further ramping up pressure in a row over the financial capital's autonomy from China. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Laurie Chen in Beijing 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 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 -- AMERICAS -- US-Russia-Afghanistan-Taliban-espionage-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON Reports that Russian spies put bounties on US troops in Afghanistan are prompting fresh calls in Washington to act against Moscow -- and once more, President Donald Trump is on the sidelines, hoping for the best. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon Also moved: US-Russia-Taliban-Afghanistan-espionage-politics,WRAP Health-virus-US-Broadway NEW YORK New York's iconic Broadway theater district will stay closed through the end of the year, its trade association says, due to the unpredictability of the coronavirus pandemic. 400 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File Picture US-racism-police-court,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS The four Minneapolis police officers accused in the killing of George Floyd setting off nationwide Black Lives Matter protests appear in court together for the first time. 550 words moved by Joy Powell with Charlotte Plantive in Washington 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 0200 GMT 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 0330 GMT 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 0330 GMT by Bhuvan Bagga. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Ireland-pubs,lead DUBLIN Irish pubs unlock their doors and begin pouring pints, ending a 15-week dry spell forced by the nation's coronavirus lockdown. 550 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Live video 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 0300 GMT 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 0300 GMT 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 0300 GMT by Maya Gebeily with Shwan Muhammad in Sulaimaniyah. Picture -- AFRICA -- ICoast-unrest-crime,FOCUS FERKESSEDOUGOU, Ivory Coast Residents of Ferkessedougou, a commercial hub in northern Ivory Coast, are shaken by this month's brazen jihadist attack just 100 kilometres (60 miles) away -- the first assault by Islamist extremists in the country in more than four years. 850 words 0300 GMT by Patrick Fort. Picture. Video -- 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 0130 GMT by Rob Lever Health-virus-media-misinformation-Russia-China LONDON Coronavirus misinformation spread on social media by Russian and Chinese journalists is finding a bigger audience in France and Germany than content from some of the European nations' own premier news outlets, according to new research. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi US-aviation-Boeing,WRAP SEATTLE US regulators launch a test flight of the Boeing 737 MAX, a key step in recertifying a jet grounded for more than a year following two fatal crashes. 600 words moved by Jason Redmond with Christophe Vogt in Washington -- 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 0200 GMT by Martin Parry. Picture afp
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