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| - Duty Editor: Mike Smith Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Fire at Iraqi Covid hospital kills 82 + Delhi lockdown extended in virus-hit India + 53 dead as Indonesia finds missing sub + Fashion designer Elbaz dies of Covid aged 59 + Unique Covid-era Oscars reunites stars Iraq-fire-health-virus,WRAP BAGHDAD More than 80 people die in a fire that rips through an Iraqi Covid-19 hospital, sparking anger and prompting the suspension of top officials in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure. 750 words 1500 GMT by Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-India,2ndlead NEW DELHI India's capital New Delhi extends its lockdown as the country's Covid-19 crisis grows, with infections and deaths hitting record highs. 650 words moved by Glenda Kwek and Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Graphic. Indonesia-military-submarine BALI, Indonesia All 53 crew aboard an Indonesian submarine that disappeared last week were killed, the military says as it confirms the vessel has been found in pieces on the seafloor. 550 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Lifestyle-France-fashion-Elbaz,WRAP PARIS Alber Elbaz, who restored the lustre of the French fashion house Lanvin only to see himself ousted in 2015, has died aged 59 after a battle with Covid-19. 600 words moved by Alexandra del Peral. File picture Entertainment-US-film-Oscars,WRAP HOLLYWOOD It is guaranteed to be an Oscars like no other: broadcast live from a train station, honoring films few saw in movie theaters, and reuniting Hollywood's A-listers for the first time in more than a year due to Covid-19. 850 words 1400 GMT by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Entertainment-US-film-Oscars-nominees,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India's capital New Delhi extends its lockdown and EU nations pledge help as the country's coronavirus crisis grows, while the death toll from a fire that ravaged an Iraqi Covid-19 hospital rises to 82. 800 words 1600 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-vaccines-misinformation,FOCUS PARIS Anti-vaccine campaigners once confined to relatively obscure groups have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to reach a wider audience online, feeding on public fears to sow doubt about the drugs now available. 1,000 words by Marine Laouchez -- SPOTLIGHT -- Britain-environment-transport-gardening-health-virus,FOCUS LONDON A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs. But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit during the pandemic. 700 words moved by Anna Mackenzie. Picture. Video China-clothing-lingerie,FOCUS GUANYUN, China Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up -- so goes the street-corner discussion in Guanyun, a sleepy coastal county that for generations followed the rhythms of wheat and rice cultivation, but today concerns itself with global preferences on sensual wear. 750 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-economy-internet,FOCUS COLLE DI TORA, Italy The last time a customer tried to pay by card in Anna Rita Pani's grocery store in Colle di Tora, a small town outside Rome, things got a bit awkward. Her card reader works with wifi, but Colle di Tora is one of the least connected towns in Italy -- itself a digital laggard compared with the rest of the European Union. 600 words moved by Alvise Armellini. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Iraq-fire,FOCUS BAGHDAD Iraqis see the death of over 80 people in a Baghdad Covid-19 hospital fire as more proof of the deadly consequences of mismanagement and corruption. 650 words moved by Sarah Benhaida and Ammar Karim. Picture. Video. Graphic Yemen-conflict,WRAP DUBAI Yemen's Huthi rebels have made important gains in the battle for the government's last northern stronghold, advancing close to the centre of Marib city despite heavy casualties, military sources say. 550 words moved. Cyprus-UN-diplomacy,ADVANCER NICOSIA Four years after their last peace talks failed, rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet in Geneva next week to explore elusive "common ground" on the divided Mediterranean island. 800 words 1430 GMT by Mathilde Dumazet. Picture. Video. File video Iraq-literature-Kurdistan,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Huda Kathem waits anxiously for feedback on her first novel, scrutinised by a book club in Iraqi Kurdistan's Arbil, where young authors are breathing new life into a centuries-old oral culture. 600 words moved by Qassim Khidhir. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- France-attack-police,WRAP PARIS French investigators say the Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee outside Paris watched jihadist propaganda videos just before the attack, as a fifth person was detained for questioning. 600 words 1500 GMT by Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid. Picture. Video. Graphic Albania-vote,WRAP TIRANA Albanians stream into polling stations for a parliamentary election, following a bitter campaign marred by a gunfight between rival supporters that drew international concern. 600 words 1000 GMT by Briseida Mema and Joseph Boyle. Picture. Video Also moved: Albania-vote,PROFILE Albania-vote,FACTS Armenia-politics-vote,WRAP YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigns while staying on in a caretaker capacity, setting the stage for a June 20 parliamentary election aimed at defusing a protracted political crisis. 550 words moved by Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Joe Biden recognizes the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey. 850 words moved by Shaun Tandon with Maryam Harutyunyan in Yerevan. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Turkey-Armenia-diplomacy-genocide,SCENE US-politics-Biden-100,FOCUS WASHINGTON The daily (hourly) White House melodrama of the Trump era is history, but there has been nothing quiet about Joe Biden's 100 days rush to transform the country he inherited. 900 words moved by Sebastian Smith. File picture Also moved: US-politics-Biden-100,FACTS US-politics-immigration-Bush,FOCUS WASHINGTON Out of office for a dozen years and still castigated for his "war on terror," former US president George W Bush has resurfaced as a passionate immigration advocate just as his Republican Party careens in the opposite direction. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-unrest,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's shadow government of ousted lawmakers welcomes a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after their crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Ming Aung Hlaing. 550 words moved. File Picture. File Video. China-rights-Uyghurs-Canada,INTERVIEW OTTAWA During the decade they lived in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, Canadians Gary and Andrea Dyck had a front-row seat to Beijing's "very methodical" repression of the Uyghur people, which Canada's parliament and others have declared to be genocide. 650 words moved by Michel Comte. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-Ger-Bundesliga BERLIN Second-place RB Leipzig face Stuttgart knowing that defeat will crown Bayern Munich as Bundesliga champions for a ninth successive season. 500 words 1500 GMT by Ryland James. Picture Fbl-Eng-PR LONDON Manchester United attempt to keep their slim English title hopes alive as they face old enemies Leeds. 500 words 1430 GMT. Picture MMA-Usma-Masvidal-Namajunas-Zhang LOS ANGELES The UFC welcomes back American fans for their first live event in over a year and three of its greatest fighters -- Kamaru Usman, Rose Namajunas and Valentina Shevchenko -- rise to the occasion with stunning knockouts at UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida. 650 words moved. Picture afp
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