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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Rich nations hogging virus vaccine: study + Storm Sally batters US Gulf coast + Defying China, top US official visits Taiwan + Ivory Coast ballot bans stir opposition ire + After snakes, spiders, Australia gets stinging trees Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Rich nations representing a fraction of the global population have already bought up over half the promised Covid-19 vaccine stocks, a study shows, as US President Donald Trump pledges to begin inoculating Americans within weeks. 650 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-weather-hurricane,WRAP PENSACOLA, Florida Tropical Storm Sally downs trees, floods streets and homes and knocks out power, reportedly killing one person, as it pounds the US southeast with torrential rain. 650 words moved by Gianrigo Marletta, with Leila Macor in Miami. Picture. Graphic. Video US-Taiwan-China-diplomacy,WRAP TAIPEI A top US diplomat will arrive in Taiwan, the highest-ranking State Department official to visit in 40 years, in a further sign of Washington's willingness to defy China and its campaign to isolate the self-ruled island. 700 words moved by Amber Wang with Shaun Tandon in Washington ICoast-vote-politics,WRAP PARIS Former rebel leader Guillaume Soro fires a verbal broadside on presidential elections in Ivory Coast next month as supporters of ex-head of state Laurent Gbagbo call for protests ahead of the October 18 vote. 600 words 1100 GMT Australia-environment-plant BRISBANE, Australia Australia is notorious for its venomous spiders, snakes and sea creatures, but researchers have now identified a "scorpion-like" toxin secreted by a stinging tree that can cause excruciating pain for weeks. 350 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- France-Britain-migrants-Channel-EU-Iraq-Kuwait,SPECIAL REPORT CALAIS, France Britain! After years trekking through countless countries, weeks in a filthy camp on the French coast, seven gruelling hours on a small boat tossed about by the Channel, Walid has finally made it. He's managed to cross the so-called death route. His friend Falah, though, is still waiting. 1,600 words moved by Clement Melki, Sameer Al-Doumy, Thomas Bernardi with the London bureau. Pictures by Sameer Al-Doumy. Video by Thomas Bernardi Also moved: France-Britain-migrants,Q&A Greece-migrants-fire,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND, Greece Police on the Greek island of Lesbos launch an operation to rehouse thousands of migrants who have been sleeping rough after their camp was destroyed by fire. 550 words 1030 GMT by Manolis Lagoutaris. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-Ukraine-religion,WRAP KIEV Hundreds of Hasidic Jewish Pilgrims are massed at border posts in Belarus in the hopes of crossing into Ukraine even though Kiev has refused their entry citing coronavirus restrictions and Israel has urged them to return home. 550 words 1030 GMT by Olga Shylenko. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-Cyprus-poverty-migration,FOCUS TRIPOLI, Lebanon Suad Mohammad had hoped for a better life when her husband climbed into a dinghy to flee poverty-hit Lebanon, but he disappeared into the waves before he reached Cyprus. 700 words moved by Jana Dhayby. Picture. Video Libya-conflict-Sarraj,PROFILE TRIPOLI The head of Libya's unity government, Fayez al-Sarraj, who has said he plans to step down as part of peace efforts, has held his post through five years of economic crisis and deadly infighting that has drawn in foreign powers. 650 words 0930 GMT by Rim Taher. File picture -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-migration-discrimination JOHANNESBURG Foreign nationals in South Africa suffer "routine" harassment, violence and discrimination by locals and government authorities, Human Rights Watch reports. 600 words by 1000 GMT by Sofia Christensen. File pictures. -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump expresses renewed confidence that a viable Covid-19 vaccine will be ready by October, directly contradicting a top administration health expert and facing fierce criticism from his Democratic election rival Joe Biden. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes, with Elodie Cuzin in Wilmington. Picture. Graphic US-fires,WRAP LOS ANGELES California faces more devastation from wildfires that have ravaged the West Coast, authorities warn, with strong winds and dry heat expected to whip up flames from dozens of blazes raging across the state. 700 words moved by Jocelyne Zablit. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Canada-environment-urban-planning,FOCUS MONTREAL Hundreds of back alleys in Montreal have been turned into community gardens and parks, creating safe meeting places for pandemic-weary city dwellers eager for fresh air and greenery after months of isolation at home. 600 words moved by Anne-Sophie Thill. Picture. Video Argentina-law-discrimination-labour,FOCUS BUENOS AIRES Thomas Casavieja has just started a new job in a Buenos Aires bank, excited at a legislative breakthrough that establishes a hiring quota for transgender people like himself in Argentina's public sector. 750 words moved by Magali Cervantes, Carlos Reyes and Sonia Avalos. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-virus-rights-families,FOCUS WUHAN, China Wuhan pensioner Zhong Hanneng endured every parent's worst nightmare when coronavirus claimed her son in February, and -- alongside other bereaved relatives -- she wants to sue the local government she blames for his death. 750 words moved by Dan Martin. Picture. Video China-labour-religion-Xinjiang-rights BEIJING China lauds the success of its vocational and jobs schemes in the troubled Xinjiang region, just days after the US government said they were being operated from facilities run like "concentration camps". 550 words moved NZealand-economy-health-virus-vote,UPDATE WELLINGTON New Zealand's economy plunges into recession for the first time in a decade, posting a record contraction in the June quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern heads into next month's general election. 550 words moved by Neil Sands. Graphic. File Picture -- ECONOMY -- Health-virus-US-economy-bank-rate-politics,WRAP WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve pledges to keep boosting the US economy with low rates to help recover the tens of millions of jobs lost in the pandemic, but says additional help from the government will be key. 700 words moved by Heather Scott -- SPORTS -- Cricket-IND-IPL,PREVIEW NEW DELHI The much-delayed Indian Premier League starts Saturday without its customary glitz and glamour, but the Twenty20 tournament is expected to be a welcome relief to cricket fans amid the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture afp
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