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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Defiant Lukashenko defends plane diversion + Shell ordered to cut emissions in landmark case + Deadly cyclone batters India again + Blinken heads to Jordan to shore up Gaza truce + Blood Moon rises over Pacific Belarus-politics-aviation-arrest,WRAP MINSK A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko defends Belarus's diversion of a European flight and arrest of a dissident on board, lashing out at critics at home and abroad. 850 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Netherlands-Britain-Shell-energy-climate-oil-court,WRAP THE HAGUE A Dutch court orders oil giant Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions targets in a landmark victory for climate activists. 600 words 1500 GMT by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video India-weather-cyclone,WRAP DIGHA, India At least three people die as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses belt eastern India in the Covid-stricken country's second cyclone in as many weeks. 600 words moved by Dibyangshu Sarkar. Picture. Video. Graphic Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US,WRAP CAIRO US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Jordan on the last leg of a Mideast tour that aims to shore up an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. 700 words 1600 GMT by Emmanuel Parisse. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Lebanon-Syria,FOCUS Science-astronomy-moon-eclipse-Australia,lead SYDNEY Stargazers across the Pacific cast their eyes skyward to witness a rare "Super Blood Moon", as the heavens align to bring a spectacular lunar eclipse. 450 words 1430 GMT. Photos. Video. Graphic. Videographic -- SPOTLIGHT -- HongKong-China-lifestyle-food-gender,FOCUS HONG KONG Despite the institutional status bestowed by her double Michelin star, Vicky Lau says the battle to improve gender parity in the male-dominated world of professional kitchens is a long way from won -- but small victories bring her hope. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video IT-security-France-ransomware-crime-health,FOCUS DAX, France At 2:00 a.m. on a day in early February, the deputy director of the main hospital in the southwestern French town of Dax took an urgent call from a normally unflappable colleague in the IT department. 750 words moved by Adam Plowright. File Picture ** Please see AFP's special advisory on cybersecurity ** Entertainment-Morocco-film-equestrian,FOCUS MARRAKESH Horse master Joel Proust hopes his stallions will soon return to the Morocco movie sets that made his name, from Hollywood epics to "Game of Thrones", after Covid restrictions hit the industry hard. 700 words moved by Kaouthar Oudrhiri. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-EU-vaccines-AstraZeneca-court,UPDATE BRUSSELS The European Union asks a Belgian court to impose penalties running to millions of euros per day on AstraZeneca for Covid-19 vaccine doses it failed to deliver to the bloc. 650 words 1500 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere. File Picture. File Video Health-virus-China-WHO-US-diplomacy BEIJING China accuses the US of "spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation" as the theory resurfaced that the coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan laboratory, while urging Washington to open its virology facilities to scrutiny. 400 words moved. Picture Health-virus-WHO-variants,lead GENEVA The coronavirus variant first detected in India has now been officially recorded in 53 territories, a World Health Organization report shows. 500 words moved by Robin Millard Health-virus-Switzerland BERN Switzerland will reopen indoor restaurants while fully vaccinated people will no longer need to enter quarantine, the government announces, saying it is lifting Covid restrictions faster than previously planned. 450 words 1430 GMT. Picture -- EUROPE -- Switzerland-EU-diplomacy-trade BERN Switzerland sets out where it stands on troubled attempts to seal a long-delayed cooperation agreement with the European Union, following talks in Brussels that flatlined. 400 words 1500 GMT. Picture Britain-politics-health-virus,WRAP LONDON The British government "disastrously" failed the public by mishandling the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former top adviser and Brexit architect Dominic Cummings tells lawmakers. 650 words 1600 GMT by Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Also moving: Britain-politics-health-virus,POINTS Also moved: Britain-politics-Cummings,PROFILE Italy-accident-cablecar-Israel,WRAP VERBANIA, Italy Italian police arrest three managers from the operator of a cable car that crashed into a mountain killing 14 people, accusing them of deliberately disabling the emergency brake. 550 words 1430 GMT by Giovanni Grezzi. Picture. Video Belarus-politics-aviation-law,FOCUS PARIS Governments were quick to denounce the diversion of a Ryanair plane by Belarus as an act of "terrorism" and "state-sponsored piracy" -- but will the country face legal consequences? 750 words moved by Tangi Quemener -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Syria-conflict-vote,WRAP DAMASCUS Syria's Bashar al-Assad dismisses Western charges that a presidential election in the war-torn country is neither "free nor fair" as voters cast ballots in government-held areas. 750 words 1600 GMT by Maher Al-Mounes and Rouba El-Husseini in Beirut. Picture. Video Iran-politics,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani calls for greater competition in an election for his successor next month after several hopefuls were barred from running against ultraconservative candidates. 700 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video Libya-migrants-EU-UN-rights GENEVA The United Nations urges Libya and the EU to overhaul their search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, saying current practices rob migrants of their lives, rights and dignity. 450 words moved by Robin Millard -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-conflict,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's interim president and prime minister resign, the top aide to junta boss Assimi Goita says, two days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to amount to the country's second coup in nine months. 650 words 1430 GMT by Serge Daniel and Malick Konate. File picture. Video. Graphic SAfrica-politics-corruption-Zuma,WRAP PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, pleads not guilty in a much-postponed corruption case dating back more than two decades. 500 words moved. Picture Nigeria-unrest-fbl,VIDEOESSAY JOS, Nigeria For years, the central Nigerian city of Jos was a flashpoint for ethnic strife pitting Christian and Muslim youths against each other. But football has brought the communities back together, easing tensions and building team spirit along the way. 460 words moved by John Okunyomih. Picture. Video DRCongo-volcano,WRAP GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo Aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern DR Congo shake the city of Goma four days after its eruption, badly damaging low-rise residential buildings as fearful people sleep outdoors and hundreds continue to flee. 550 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Brazil-vote-Lula,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who started out as a shoeshine boy and became the most popular president in Brazilian history, has racked up a lifetime of improbable victories. 750 words moved by Joshua Howat Berger. File Picture -- ASIA -- Macau-China-HongKong-politics HONG KONG Macau has banned a vigil marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown for the second year in a row, with authorities this time saying the event would "incite subversion", in the latest sign of withering political freedoms there. 450 words moved Samoa-politics-vote-Malielegaoi,PROFILE APIA Defying election results and court rulings, Samoa's veteran leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is determined to cling to power, convinced only divine intervention can end his 22-year rule of the Pacific island nation. 650 words moved Health-virus-Taiwan-China-politics TAIPEI Taiwan accuses China of hindering its efforts to obtain Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines from Germany as it struggles with a sudden spike in coronavirus cases and a slow inoculation campaign. 500 words moved -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- Health-virus-Tunisia-Russia-tourism,FOCUS TUNIS Tunisia, its economy badly bruised by the pandemic, is counting on Russians and eastern Europeans to salvage its tourism sector, whose employees fear hunger more than Covid. 600 words moved by Zeineb Boughzou. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health,3rdlead TOKYO Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, an official Tokyo Olympics sponsor, calls for the Games to be cancelled, in the latest sign of opposition less than two months before the opening ceremony. 750 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. Picture. Video. Live video -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-television-Friends,ADVANCER LOS ANGELES The stars of "Friends" never really left us -- they were simply on a break. The cast of the beloved 1990s sitcom about six attractive, straight, white New Yorkers with ludicrously giant Manhattan apartments are set to finally reunite for a much-hyped and long-delayed special. 650 words moved by Andrew Marszal and Thomas Urbain Entertainment-film-US-Britain-Cruella,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Pitting one of its most memorable villains against a fearsome new foe, Disney's devilishly fashionable "Cruella" is one of the studio's darkest movies yet, according to star Emma Stone. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal afp
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