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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + President gears up for Republican convention + Navalny tests 'indicate poisoning': hospital + NZ mosque gunman 'wanted to shoot more people' + Belarus police arrest protest leaders + Protests in US after shooting of black man US-politics-vote-Republicans-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will draw on all his showman's instincts at the Republican convention to get Americans to look beyond his handling of the coronavirus crisis and return him to the White House for a second term. 700 words 1530 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture Germany-Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,WRAP BERLIN The Berlin hospital treating leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny after his transfer from Siberia says his test results "indicate poisoning". 650 words 1500 GMT by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video NZealand-Australia-attacks-mosque-court,3rdlead CHRISTCHURCH The white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosque shooting shows no emotion as distraught survivors confront him in court with harrowing accounts of the atrocity. 700 words moved by Chris Foley. Picture. Video Belarus-vote-unrest,WRAP MINSK Police in Belarus arrest protest and strike organisers as authorities crack down on opposition leaders after unprecedented demonstrations against President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election. 650 words 1500 GMT by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video. Graphic US-police-shooting-racism WASHINGTON Protests erupt in the US city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police shot a black man in the back several times from close range as he got into a car, according to cellphone video of the incident. 400 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States announces an emergency authorization to use blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients as a treatment for the disease, which has killed more than 800,000 people around the world. 650 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-US-plasma,Q&A WASHINGTON What is convalescent plasma? How much do we know so far about its safety and efficacy? Is the US letting political considerations get ahead of the science? 500 words 1700 GMT by Issam Ahmed -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-US-UAE-diplomacy,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's prime minister and the visiting US top diplomat voice hope the Jewish state will soon build ties with more Arab countries, following its landmark normalisation of relations with the UAE. 750 words 1500 GMT by Stephen Weizman. Picture. Video Also moved: Mideast-Gulf-Israel-politics,BACKGROUND Syria-conflict-UN-diplomacy-constitution,lead GENEVA Syrians tasked with amending their war-torn country's constitution meet in Geneva for the first time in nine months amid cautious hopes the talks could help spark a broader political process. 550 words moved by Nina Larson. Picture Libya-conflict BENGHAZI, Libya A spokesman for eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has slammed a ceasefire announcement by the rival Government of National Accord as a media stunt, accusing it of preparing a new offensive. 400 words moved Syria-conflict-blast,WRAP DAMASCUS War-torn Syria's government blames a "terrorist" attack on a gas pipeline near Damascus for a nationwide blackout, in the latest such alleged assault on its energy infrastructure. 650 words moved by Maher al-Mounes with Alice Hackman in Beirut. Picture. Video Saudi-politics-rights-royals-UN,FOCUS RIYADH Two rights groups are lodging a complaint to the UN over the "arbitrary" detention of a philanthropist Saudi prince, according to a document seen by AFP, adding to international pressure for his release. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra. File Picture Lebanon-blast-rights-migration,FOCUS BEIRUT After struggling first through Lebanon's economic crisis and then the coronavirus pandemic, Ethiopian worker Tarik Kebeda said the deadly blast that ripped through her Beirut home was the final straw. 700 words moved by Oumeima Nechi. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-unrest-coup,WRAP BAMAKO West African envoys enter the third day of talks with Mali's new junta over how the troubled country should chart its return to civilian rule 500 words 1530 GMT by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate. File picture. Graphic ICoast-vote-unrest,WRAP ABIDJAN Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara calls for peace after violent ethnic clashes over his bid for a third term in office that have claimed at least eight lives. 500 words 1600 GMT by Patrick Fort and Christophe Koffi. Picture Congo-politics-history-Lissouba,lead BRAZZAVILLE Former Congolese president Pascal Lissouba, who won his country's first multi-party presidential elections before being ousted in a civil war, dies in France at the age of 88. 350 words moved. File picture Sudan-archaeology-crime,FOCUS JABAL MARAGHA, Sudan When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha, they first thought they were lost. Gold-hunters had destroyed almost all signs of the two millenia-old site. 700 words moved by Sammy Ketz. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-Republicans-convention-gunrights CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Were they exercising constitutional rights, or recklessly asserting their white privilege? The couple who brandished guns at protesters weeks ago and were rewarded with speaking slots at the Republican convention embody the culture wars gripping America. 400 words 1600 GMT US-politics-aides WASHINGTON The resignation of Kellyanne Conway, a political aide to Donald Trump, adds to the long list of ministers, advisors and strategists who have left -- of their own will or not -- the 45th US president. 600 words 1500 GMT. File picture -- ASIA -- Philippines-unrest,WRAP JOLO, Philippines At least 14 people are killed and dozens wounded -- including soldiers and police -- in a twin bombing involving a suicide attacker on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants. 400 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Australia-mining-indigenous SYDNEY Mining giant Rio Tinto strips its CEO of US$3.5 million after the company destroyed a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site to expand an iron ore mine in Australia. 400 words moved Japan-politics-Abe-health,WRAP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returns to hospital but declines to give details about his condition, a week after an initial visit fuelled speculation about his health. 600 words moved by Kyoko Hasegawa. Picture. Malaysia-France-Ireland-Britain-missing-court-inquest,WRAP SEREMBAN, Malaysia A Malaysian coroner opens an inquest into the death of a French-Irish teenager, a year after her unclothed body was found in the jungle after she disappeared while on holiday. 450 words moved by M. Jegathesan. Picture. Video Singapore-justice-rights-gender,FOCUS SINGAPORE Sexual harassment and assaults against women are not being taken seriously enough in Singapore, activists warn, after students at elite universities were given punishments criticised as too lenient for their crimes. 900 words moved by Catherine Lai. Picture -- SPORT -- fbl-Eur-C1-FRA-GER-PSG-Bayern-demonstration-arrests,WRAP PARIS Over 150 people are arrested as Paris Saint-Germain fans set cars ablaze, smash shop windows and clash with police in the French capital after the team's Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich, police say. 650 words 1500 GMT by Riwan Marhic. Picture. Video Fbl-Eur-C1-FRA-PSG,FOCUS LISBON Paris Saint-Germain will look back at their narrow defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in Lisbon and wonder what might have been, while also steeling themselves to come back stronger in Europe's elite club competition in a new season which is already starting. 650 words moved by Andy Scott. Picture. Video Fbl-Eur-C1-GER-Bundesliga-Bayern-Flick-Alcantara-Alaba,FOCUS BERLIN Bayern Munich are already fighting to stop their treble-winning squad breaking up in the wake of their Champions League triumph despite sweeping all before them in Europe this season. 650 words moved by Ryland James -- CLIMATE -- Climate-investment-energy-renewables-oil-gas,INTERVIEW PARIS Norwegian investor Storebrand Asset Management says it has divested from fossil fuel and petrochemical giants because they lobbied against regulations designed to tackle the climate crisis and speed the greening of the global economy. 550 words 1600 GMT by Marlowe Hood afp/tgb
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