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| - Duty Editor: Joseph Boyle Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe ramps up virus curbs + Verdict in France attacks trial + Fiji braces for super cyclone + Gaps narrowing in Brexit trade talks + First premier league sacking of season Health-virus,WRAP BERLIN Several European countries tighten restrictions, as Germany sets a record for daily deaths and the United States breaks its own daily high for infection numbers. 700 words moved by Deborah Cole and AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video France-attacks-justice,WRAP PARIS Judges are set to issue their verdict on 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered some of France's most famous cartoonists at weekly Charlie Hebdo in 2015, killings that horrified the nation. 650 words 1630 GMT by Anne-Sophie Lasserre. Picture. Video Fiji-Tonga-weather,lead SUVA Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone are told to hunker down at home or head to emergency shelters immediately as authorities warn of the storm's potential cause mass destruction. 500 words moved. Picture. Graphic Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS British and EU negotiators close in on a deal to oversee fair competition in a post-Brexit trade deal, but remain deeply divided over fishing. 700 words 1500 GMT by Dave Clark. Picture. Video Fbl-ENG-Pr-WestBrom-Bilic,2ndlead LONDON Slaven Bilic becomes the first Premier League manager to lose his job this season when he is sacked by struggling West Bromwich Albion, with former England boss Sam Allardyce in the frame to replace him. 500 words moved. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccine-Kariko,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON Hungarian-American scientist Katalin Kariko's obsession with mRNA as a disease-fighting tool cost her a faculty position at a prestigious university, which dismissed it as a dead end. Now, her pioneering work -- which paved the way for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines -- could save the world from a 100 year pandemic. 750 words 1800 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-hospital,FOCUS LOS ANGELES California officials order thousands of extra body bags as record coronavirus cases left Los Angeles with fewer than 100 intensive care beds available for a county of 10 million people. 550 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture Health-virus-Britain LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson resists calls to tighten coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, as London went into stricter measures and concern mounted about rising case numbers. 600 words 1500 GMT by James Pheby and Joe Jackson. Picture. Video Health-virus-Germany-toll,3rdlead FRANKFURT Germany registers a record number of deaths from Covid-19 on the first day of a new partial lockdown that will keep schools and non-essential shops stay closed until at least January 10. 500 words 1430 GMT by Ed Frankl. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-US-diplomacy,lead TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says US "enmities" towards Iran will not cease with the looming departure from office of President Donald Trump. 550 words 1500 GMT. Picture. Video Iran-nuclear-politics-EU,WRAP VIENNA The remaining parties to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear accord meet after Tehran announced plans for a new breach of the deal, and as uncertainty reigns ahead of US President-elect Joe Biden's January inauguration. 600 words 1700 GMT by Jastinder Khera and Anne Beade Iraq-alcohol-conflict-minorities,FOCUS BAGHDAD Escalating attacks on the Iraqi capital's few liquor stores have terrified shop-owners who fear hardline Islamists are flexing their muscle against alcohol consumption. 750 words moved by Ammar Karim. Video. Picture WSahara-diplomacy-Morocco-US-Israel,Q&A NICOSIA US President Donald Trump's surprise backing of Morocco's claim to sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara upended years of international consensus, but will this break a deadlock or inflame a conflict? 850 words moved by Peter Martell. File picture. File video -- EUROPE -- Germany-culture-history-museum-politics,FOCUS BERLIN A reconstructed Prussian palace opens in Berlin as a museum complex housing colonial artefacts, just as debate is gathering pace around the return of treasures plundered from abroad. 650 words 1430 GMT by Isabelle Le Page. Picture. File picture. File video Health-virus-Germany-toys-leisure,FOCUS BERLIN Gerhard Berndt's model railway has been three decades in the making, but this year it's really been full steam ahead for the 72-year-old Berliner. He is one of many Germans who have turned to model railways this year as coronavirus restrictions leave them looking for ways to entertain themselves and their families at home. 550 words moved by Femke Colborne. Picture France-Russia-internet-Africa-military,FOCUS PARIS The disabling by Facebook of accounts linked to Russia and the French military on the grounds of carrying out interference campaigns in Africa has exposed the intensity of the battle for influence between Paris and Moscow in the region. 600 words 1630 GMT by Didier Lauras Britain-pollution-inquest,WRAP LONDON In a British legal first, a coroner rules that air pollution contributed to the death of a nine-year-old girl with severe asthma who lived by a busy road. 650 words 1500 GMT by Pauline Froissart. File picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-kidnapping-unrest-children-school, WRAP KANKARA, Nigeria Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in northwest Nigeria to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf, security and local sources say. 600 words 1530 GMT by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Graphic Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-children, SCENE KANKARA, Nigeria Confusion, terror, then safety: How a boy survived Nigeria's mass abduction. 550 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Graphic. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Japan-crime-arson-animation,WRAP TOKYO Japanese prosecutors charge a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation that killed 36 people, the country's deadliest violent crime in decades. 600 words moved by Kyoko Hasegawa and Natsuko Fukue. File picture. File video Pakistan-rights-women ISLAMABAD Pakistan approves the chemical castration of rapists as part of sweeping new legislation sparked by outcry over the gang rape of a mother on a motorway. 350 words moved Taiwan-US-China-military TAIPEI The United States has issued an export permit for a digital sonar system critical to Taiwan's indigenous submarine project, a top defence official says. 350 words moved Marshalls-crime-drugs MAJURO, Marshall Islands Marshall Islands police find the Pacific nation's largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas, possibly for years. 250 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Colombia-indigenous-gay-rights,FOCUS LETICIA, Colombia Growing up in an indigenous village in the Colombian Amazon, Junior Sangama long hid his sexuality -- before clashing with his family and choosing to leave. But the 27-year-old has since returned home, one of a number of gay villagers who have found a place -- of sorts -- in the deeply traditional community. 700 words 1700 GMT by Hector Velasco. Picture. Video -- ROHINGYA SPECIAL REPORT -- Rohingya-migration-trafficking-brides,SPECIALREPORT KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh Many Rohingya women face a bleak choice: stay in a squalid refugee camp, hopeless and starving, or leave, risking death, rape and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. 1,300 words moved by Sam Jahan, with Haeril Halim in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia and Sam Reeves in Kuala Lumpur. Picture. Video. Graphic Rohingya-migration-trafficking-family,FOCUS LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia Weeks after a funeral for the wife and daughter he thought had died at sea while trying to sail to him, Nemah Shah was stunned when he saw online images of them emerging from a refugee boat in Indonesia. 550 words moved by Haeril Halim. Picture. Video. Graphic -- BUSINESS -- US-economy-bank-rate-stimulus,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve concludes its final policy meeting of the year, faced with weighing how to help the American economy as Covid-19 case soar but vaccines are being rolled out. 500 words 1500 GMT by Heather Scott -- SPORTS -- Doping-Russia-RUS-Oly-2020-2021-court LAUSANNE Sport's highest court will on Thursday deliver its verdict on whether to overturn Russia's four-year ban from international sport imposed following allegations of state-sanctioned doping. 400 words moved. File picture AsianGames-KSA-QAT-2030-2034,WRAP MUSCAT Doha will host the 2030 Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announces, while Riyadh was named as host of the 2034 edition under a compromise agreed between the rivals. 450 words moved RugbyU-JPN-Goromaru TOKYO Japanese rugby star Ayumu Goromaru announces his retirement, admitting he struggled to deal with fame but saying he hoped he helped transform his country's rugby fortunes. 500 words moved -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-music-Ringo,INTERVIEW NEW YORK He kept the beat for one of the world's most iconic bands, has fronted his supergroup for three decades, is a two-time rock hall-of-famer -- and at 80, Ringo Starr is as energetic as ever. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video afp
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