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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden hammers Trump over Covid in last debate + Libya factions sign 'permanent' ceasefire + Tilting Venezuelan oil tanker threatens spill + Nigeria's biggest city on edge after protests + Ageing chimps choose friends carefully US-vote,WRAP NASHVILLE, Tennessee President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden trade accusations of graft and clash on the Covid-19 pandemic but without landing a knockout blow 12 days before the election in a final debate that many saw as Trump's last big chance to change the narrative. 650 words moved by Eric Baradat with Sebastian Smith and Shaun Tandon in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-debate-HunterBiden-China US-vote-Trump-Biden,POINTS US-vote-debate,FACTCHECK Libya-conflict-UN-talks,WRAP GENEVA Libya's two warring factions sign a "permanent" ceasefire agreement following five days of talks at the United Nations. 400 words 1030 GMT by Robin Millard Venezuela-environment-oil,lead CARACAS Trinidad and Tobago says a damaged oil tanker off the island's coast is "stable" after opposition politicians in neighboring Venezuela warned of a potential "environmental catastrophe." 500 words moved. Picture. Graphic Nigeria-unrest,WRAP LAGOS Nigeria's biggest city Lagos is on edge, a day after the president urged an end to unrest sweeping the country but avoided mentioning the shooting of unarmed demonstrators that sparked international condemnation. 400 words 1000 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video Science-animal-chimpanzees WASHINGTON When it comes to friendships, people are known to become more selective with age. The same is true of male chimps, who have fewer yet more genuine pals to ape around with as they get older, according to a study published in the journal Science. 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- US VOTE -- US-vote-youth,FOCUS NEW YORK Most Americans under 30 don't vote. But this year, in a contest between two septuagenarians, experts predict a record number of younger people will cast ballots in the United States -- a development that could tip the result. 750 words moved by Laura Bonilla. File picture US-vote-diplomacy-nuclear-NKorea-SKorea,FOCUS SEOUL Donald Trump's fluctuating relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has gone from fire and fury to love letters, but Pyongyang's view of his rival is uncompromising: Joe Biden is a "rabid dog" who "must be beaten to death". 700 words moved by Sunghee Hwang. File picture US-vote-Germany,FOCUS KALLSTADT, Germany The mayor of Donald Trump's ancestral German village pledged before his surprise 2016 election that if he did anything great for America or the world, he would hang a plaque in the US president's honour. Four years on, there is still no plaque. 800 words moved by Deborah Cole. File picture. Video -- Please see our special advisory for full election coverage -- -- CORONAVIRUS -- Britain-health-virus LONDON More than 10 million people head into coronavirus lockdown in Britain as the government boosts a financial support package but admits failures in a hugely expensive testing programme. 500 words 1000 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Belgium,FOCUS LIEGE, Belgium Frazzled hospital staff, some who have tested positive for the coronavirus, fight a losing battle to turn back the tide in the Belgian city of Liege, one of Europe's worst hotspots in the second wave of Covid-19. 600 words 1300 GMT by Francoise Michel. Picture. Video Health-virus-France PARIS France's second wave of Covid-19 could be "worse than the first", the boss of Paris public hospital group AP-HP says as the country registered a record number of daily cases. 450 words moved -- ASIA -- China-conflict-NKorea-SKorea-US-anniversary,WRAP BEIJING President Xi Jinping warns of China's military resolve to defeat "invaders", speaking on a 70th anniversary for the Korean War, the only time Chinese forces have fought the United States. 650 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video Thailand-politics-royals-unrest-food,FOCUS BANGKOK With an intelligence network so good they have been compared to the CIA, Thai street vendors are often first on the scene at "guerilla" democracy protests in Bangkok. 550 words moved by Lisa Martin and Thanaporn Promyamyai. Picture. Video India-pollution-environment-health-virus-pandemic NEW DELHI New Delhi is blanketed in noxious haze as air pollution levels in parts of the city soar to "severe" levels, hours after US President Donald Trump described the air in the vast nation as "filthy". 450 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE/CENTRAL ASIA -- Karabakh-conflict-Turkey-politics-minorities,FOCUS ISTANBUL Turkey's support of Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh is loud and intensely partisan, and the tiny Armenian community in Turkey is feeling under pressure. 750 words moved by Fulya Ozerkan and Burcin Gercek in Ankara. Picture. Video Kazakhstan-China-rights-Xinjiang-court,FOCUS ALMATY When Bikamal Kaken's husband vanished during a 2017 visit to Xinjiang in northwestern China, she had good reason to believe he would not be returning home to Kazakhstan anytime soon. 900 words moved by Chris Rickleton. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-politics,Q&A BEIRUT One year after mass protests pushed him to resign, why is Saad Hariri back as Lebanese prime minister, tasked with putting together a pro-reform cabinet to rescue the country from crisis? 750 words moved by Laya Abou Rahal. File picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict-court,FOCUS KHIRBET AL-MAJAZ, Palestinian Territories Khirbet Al-Majaz, a patch of desert at the end of a long, dusty trail in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, may not look like an area at the centre of a two-decade court battle. 650 words 1000 GMT by Claire Gounon. Picture. Video Algeria-right-women,FOCUS TUNIS Algerian actresses angered by murders and violence targeting women have launched a campaign to fight the phenomenon -- but not everyone has welcomed the initiative. 450 words 1000 GMT by Salsabil Chellali. File picture Fbl-IRQ-Iraq-Mosul-reconstruction,FOCUS MOSUL, Iraq Mohamed Fathi, coach of Mosul's football club in northern Iraq, hardly recognises the ruined soccer stadium once used by Islamic State group fighters to fire rockets and lob mortars from. 750 words moved by Raad al-Jammas with Khalil Jalil in Baghdad. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-politics-racism-land-agriculture,FOCUS SENEKAL, South Africa A recent white farmer's murder, black anti-apartheid chants, an old national anthem and a heavily-guarded small town court room have all raised the ghosts of South Africa's racially-divided past. 850 words 1130 GMT by Susan Njanji. Picture. Video Seychelles-economy-tourism-health-virus,FOCUS VICTORIA The Seychelles, with its idyllic white beaches and luxury resorts, has had only 149 cases of Covid-19, but the global crisis caused by the pandemic has ravaged its vital tourism industry. 600 words moved by Rassin Vannier. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Chile-referendum,ADVANCER SANTIAGO A year after months of social unrest began, Chileans vote Sunday in a referendum to change a dictatorship-era constitution seen as the bedrock of the nation's inequalities. 550 words moved by Denis Barnett. Picture. Video Also moved: Chile-referendum-politics-protests,CHRONO Venezuela-social-poverty,FOCUS CARACAS Sunlight cannot penetrate, the air is fetid and fellow residents include rats and cockroaches -- but that's how 14 families are "dying slowly" in government accommodation in Venezuela's capital Caracas. 600 words moved by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video US-economy-employment-health-virus,FOCUS WASHINGTON Americans enduring a feeble economy and high unemployment because of the coronavirus pandemic are creating start-up companies at a record pace. 500 words moved by Julie Chabanas US-automobile-environment-merger-stocks-Lordstown,FOCUS LORDSTOWN, Ohio Could a new Tesla-like upstart be the savior of a once-mighty Ohio steel region ravaged by deindustrialization? Lordstown Motors has lofty ambitions for its flagship Endurance electric pickup truck to lead the way. 650 words moved by John Biers. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- China-telecommunication-Huawei-earnings SHANGHAI Huawei's revenue growth slowed significantly in the first nine months of 2020, the Chinese telecom giant says, citing "intense pressure" on operations during the coronavirus and as the US moves to cut off its access to vital components. 650 words 0530 GMT by Dan Martin. Picture. File video -- SPORTS -- Fbl-ESP-Liga-Clasico-Barcelona-RealMadrid-Messi-Tebas, INTERVIEW MADRID In an exclusive interview with AFP, La Liga president Javier Tebas laughs off the idea of a much-criticised proposal to crate a European Premier League and the prospect of this weekend's Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid being played at an empty Camp Nou. 840 words moved by Thomas Allnutt and Gabriel Rudio Giron. Picture. Video Fbl-Eur,PREVIEW PARIS Two of the biggest rivalries in world football will dominate the weekend's action in Europe, with the first Clasico of the season being followed by the Ruhr derby between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke on Saturday. 650 words moved RugbyU-FRA-WAL-Test-6Nations,PREVIEW PARIS France head coach Fabien Galthie denies there will be any negative from after off-field problems between the country's rugby union federation and league ahead of hosting Wales in a Six Nations warm-up Test on Saturday. 500 words moved by Illtud Dafydd RugbyU-6Nations-IRL-ITA,PREVIEW DUBLIN Ireland are determined to lift the mood of a country that is back in coronavirus lockdown by delivering a bonus-point win over Italy on Saturday that would lift them to the top of the Six Nations table. 600 words moved -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-Springsteen,FOCUS NEW YORK The Boss got the band back together for his 20th studio album, a work that sees the ever-reflective Bruce Springsteen converse with his past selves while meditating on his own mortality. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. 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