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| - Duty Editor: Kelly Macnamara Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Battle to contain European virus spread + Modi calls for calm after deadly clashes + Democrats round on Sanders in TV debate + Egypt buries ousted autocrat Mubarak + Goodbye, tennis: Sharapova announces retirement Health-virus,WRAP ROME Coronavirus cases spread beyond the outbreak's European hotspot Italy, as the world scrambles to contain the deadly epidemic that is fast growing beyond China's borders. 800 words 1530 GMT by Jastinder Khera. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Health-virus-Italy-panic,SCENE Health-virus-Europe,FACTS India-unrest-religion,WRAP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for calm after Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades left at least 22 people dead and prompted a military curfew. 700 words moved by Bhuvan Bagga and Aishwarya Kumar. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: India-politics-unrest-religion US-politics-vote,WRAP CHARLESTON, United States Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders continues his march to the presidential nomination largely unscarred from a chaotic debate ahead of Saturday's first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina. 600 words 1600 GMT by Leila Macor with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-vote-Sanders,FOCUS Egypt-politics-Mubarak,WRAP CAIRO Egypt lays to rest in a military funeral former president Hosni Mubarak, the autocrat who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011. 600 words 1500 GMT by Bassem Aboualabass. Picture. Video Tennis-RUS-Sharapova,WRAP PARIS Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable sportswomen, announces her retirement at the age of 32. 600 words by Luke Phillips 1430 GMT. File Picture. Graphic. Video. Also moving: Tennis-RUS-Sharapova,PROFILE -- CORONAVIRUS-- Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iranian police arrest 24 people accused of online rumour-mongering about the spread of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed 19 lives in the country. 650 words 1430 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-China-US WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump announces a news conference from the White House on the coronavirus epidemic, with experts warning they expect it to spread in the United States. 500 words 1500 GMT by Sebastian Smith. File picture Health-virus-screening PARIS Global screening efforts to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus are likely to fail, according to new research warning that even best-case screenings of air travellers will miss more than half of infected people. 550 words 1430 GMT by Patrick Galey Health-virus-NKorea,FOCUS SEOUL Loudspeakers blaring hygiene messages, foreign diplomats locked in their compounds and state media demanding "absolute obedience" to health authorities -- North Korea is keeping to type as it seeks to prevent a crippling coronavirus outbreak. 750 words moved by Sunghee Hwang Pakistan-Afghanistan-health-virus,FOCUS ISLAMABAD With porous borders, creaking hospitals and large illiterate populations, Afghanistan and Pakistan face a potentially devastating health crisis after the new coronavirus erupted in neighbouring Iran. 800 words moved by David Stout, with Maaz Khan in Taftan. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-spread,lead WASHINGTON American health authorities say they ultimately expect the novel coronavirus to spread in the United States and are urging local governments, businesses, and schools to develop plans like cancelling mass gatherings or switching to teleworking. 700 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-US-IT-disinformation,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO As the new coronavirus spreads globally, the online battle to keep misinformation about the disease is also stepping up -- Google, Facebook and other platforms are struggling to keep ahead of scammers, trolls, and others with ill intent who routinely use major tragedies or disasters as opportunities to swindle or manipulate people. 750 words moved by Glenn Chapman -- EUROPE -- Italy-US-trial-murder,WRAP ROME Two US students appears in an Italian court on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust. 650 words 1500 GMT by Ella Ide and Alexandria Sage. Video. Picture Spain-Catalonia-politics,WRAP MADRID Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez opens talks with Catalan separatists in a bid to defuse a crisis over the region's independence push that has dominated Spanish politics for years. 600 words 1430 GMT by Patrick Rahir. Picture. Video Slovenia-politics,WRAP LJUBLJANA The leader of an anti-migrant party is nominated as prime minister of Slovenia, making the EU member the latest with a populist right-wing leader. 500 words 1700 GMT by Bojan Kavcic. Picture Germany-euthanasia-court,WRAP KARLSRUHE, Germany Germany's highest court rules that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide is unconstitutional, saying in a landmark decision that people have "the right to a self-determined death". 650 words moved by Carsten Hauptmeier. Picture Montenegro-Serbia-religion-politics-Orthodoxy,FOCUS OSTROG, Montenegro Pressed into a rocky cliff-face in the heart of Montenegro, the Ostrog monastery welcomes Orthodox pilgrims to its tranquil sanctuary. But the peaceful setting belies the religious turmoil that is dividing the small Balkan state beneath. 750 words moved by Olivera Nikolic and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-politics-EU,WRAP VIENNA Iran says it is open "to any initiative" as Western powers step up efforts to try to save a 2015 deal to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions -- on life support since a 2018 decision by the US to withdraw and reimpose sanctions. 600 words 1700 GMT by Blaise Gauquelin. Picture. Video US-Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-Qatar,FOCUS DOHA Providing neutral space for talks on ending Afghanistan's 18-year conflict has boosted Qatar's international profile and helped it defy a painful embargo enforced by neighbours and former allies. 780 words moved by Gregory Walton. Picture. Video Saudi-racing-diplomacy RIYADH Saudi Arabia this week hosts the world's richest horse race, with $20 million in cash prizes on offer in the latest international sports extravaganza designed to boost its battered global image. 750 words moved by Haitham El-Tabei Israel-vote-social-economy,FOCUS RAMLA, Israel At Ramla market, on the eastern outskirts of Tel Aviv and the fringes of Israel's economic boom, veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now campaigning for reelection, is still king. 700 words moved by Delphine Matthieussent. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-vote-left,FOCUS -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-economy-politics,WRAP CAPE TOWN South Africa's finance minister announces a slew of measures to tighten government spending as the economy teeters on the edge of a fiscal cliff. 600 words 1630 GMT by Tanya Steenkamp. Video -- ASIA -- India-unrest-religion,SCENE NEW DELHI Mohamad Rashid was too afraid to remove his helmet. In front of him was a stick-wielding mob of up to 500 men, cheering loudly and throwing flaming tyres into his shop as deadly sectarian violence swept India's capital. 700 words 1500 GMT by Bhuvan Bagga, Maude Brulard and Archana Thiyagarajan. Picture. Video afp
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