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| - Duty Editor: Abhik Chanda Contact: engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + G7 agrees 'historic' corporate tax deal + 114 massacred in Burkina Faso jihadist violence + Judge rejects California assault weapons ban + Nadal, Djokovic target French Open last 16 + Bomb-sniffing rat retires after glorious career G7-Britain-economy-politics,WRAP LONDON Finance ministers from wealthy G7 nations pledge commitment to a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15 percent, rallying behind a US-backed plan targeting tech giants and other multinationals accused of not paying enough. 650 words 1430 GMT by Ben Perry. Picture. Video Also moving: Britain-economy-politics-environment-taxation,POINTS Burkina-unrest,WRAP OUAGADOUGOU Suspected jihadists massacre at least 114 civilians in Burkina Faso's volatile north, in the deadliest attacks since extremist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015. 550 words 1430 GMT by Armel Baily. File Picture. Graphic US-justice-law-guns LOS ANGELES A US judge overturns California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons in a move swiftly condemned by the state's governor Gavin Newsom as gun-related homicides surge across America. 350 words moved Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer target the French Open last 16 as Elina Svitolina crashes out, leaving just three of the women's top 10 seeds in the tournament. 600 words by Dave James 1600 GMT. Picture Cambodia-offbeat-landmines-animal-rat PHNOM PENH A giant African pouched rat called Magawa who spent years detecting landmines in the Cambodian countryside has stopped working and will enjoy a well-earned retirement eating bananas and peanuts, his employers tell AFP. 350 words 0930 GMT. File picture. File video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Health-HIV-40years-US-race,FOCUS WASHINGTON Dedra Spears Johnson was working as a social worker in a suburb of the US capital Washington at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, when she concluded Black women's needs weren't being met by efforts to fight the disease. 900 words moved by Philip Van Slooten. Picture Also moved: Health-HIV-40years-timeline,CHRONO Greece-Acropolis-archaeology-politics,FOCUS ATHENS Controversy has engulfed an ambitious restoration project on the Acropolis, with critics accusing the Greek government of endangering the country's priceless heritage. 750 words moved by John Hadoulis. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-India-virus NEW DELHI Markets and shopping malls in New Delhi will be allowed to reopen from Monday in a further easing of the Covid-19 lockdown, the chief minister says as infections fall in major Indian cities after weeks of restrictions. 400 words moved Health-virus-India-social-rural,FOCUS KALWA, India When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against Covid-19. 700 words moved by Glenda Kwek with Abhaya Srivastava in New Delhi and Nishant Saxena in Lucknow. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-unrest-Poland-border,SCENE BOBROWNIKI, Poland Draped in opposition flags, exiled Belarusians protest at the Polish frontier, calling for President Alexander Lukashenko to lift a border closure. 500 words 1500 GMT by Dario Thuburn. Picture. Video France-Libya-media-legal-Sarkozy PARIS Mimi Marchand, a major figure in France's paparazzi world, has been charged with witness tampering in a case involving former president Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer says. 450 words moved Finland-fbl-religion-women VANTAA, Finland Finland's football association starts offering a free "sports hijab" to any player who wants one, in a move designed to attract a greater diversity of players into the sport. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-telecommunications-internet-politics ABUJA Telecoms operators in Nigeria say they have complied with a government directive to suspend access to Twitter indefinitely, two days after the US social media giant deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari's account for violating its rules. 700 words moved -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Trump WASHINGTON Banished from social media but still influential among Republicans, former president Donald Trump addresses an adoring crowd in his first speech in months as he toys more than ever with the prospect of running for president again. 600 words 1800 GMT by Elodie Cuzin. File Picture Canada-indigenous-school,INTERVIEW KAMLOOPS, Canada A tribal elder who was once forcibly enrolled at an indigenous residential school in Canada where the remains of 215 children were discovered says teaching young people their shared native language and culture now helps heal those wounds. 700 words 1500 GMT by Julien Besset US-IT-politics-internet,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook bans former US president Donald Trump for two years, saying he deserved the maximum punishment for violating platform rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol. 750 words moved by Glenn Chapman. File picture US-justice-law-guns LOS ANGELES A US judge overturns California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons in a move swiftly condemned by the state's governor Gavin Newsom as gun-related homicides surge across America. 350 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iraq-unrest-Kurds-Turkey-refugee,WRAP ARBIL, Iraq Three civilians are killed in a Turkish drone attack on a refugee camp in northern Iraq in an area Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently threatened to "clean up", a Kurdish lawmaker says. 500 words 1500 GMT Syria-conflict-Kurds-Netherlands,WRAP QAMISHLI, Syria Syria's Kurds hand four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands. 550 words 1500 GMT by Delil Souleiman with Julie Capelle in Amsterdam. Picture. Video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-musical,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Long before his mega smash-hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda dazzled Broadway with "In The Heights," a Latin pop and salsa-inspired musical celebrating the New York immigrant community that raised him. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- AUTO-PRIX-AZE-pole,WRAP BAKU Ferrari's Charles Leclerc claims pole for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after a crash-laden, red-flagged qualifying session in Baku with Mercedes world champion Lewis Hamilton joining him on the front row. 600 words 1415 GMT. Picture Racing-ENG-Derby,WRAP LONDON Bolshoi Ballet is favourite to give trainer Aidan O'Brien a ninth Epsom Derby and a 41st British classic breaking a record that has stood for almost 150 years. 600 words at 1500GMT by Pirate Irwin. Picture afp
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