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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Brexit trade talks near decisive point + Giuliani tests positive for Covid-19 + Venezuela's Maduro sweeps to vote victory + Ghana set for close presidential race + Last month was 'hottest November on record' Britain-EU-politics-Brexit,WRAP BRUSSELS Post-Brexit trade talks between the EU and UK reach a decisive point, with the outcome highly uncertain and the threat of a wrenching "no-deal" divorce mounting by the hour. 650 words 1100 GMT by Alex Pigman and Dave Clark. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-politics-Giuliani,4th lead WASHINGTON Donald Trump says his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for Covid-19, the latest member of the president's inner circle -- where mask wearing is rare -- to contract the disease. 600 words moved. File picture Venezuela-parliament-vote,WRAP CARACAS President Nicolas Maduro seizes total control of Venezuela's political institutions with a sweeping victory in legislative elections that were boycotted by the main opposition parties. 800 words moved by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video Ghana-vote,WRAP ACCRA Ghanaians vote in an election seen as a close fight between President Nana Akufo-Addo and his longtime rival John Mahama, in a country long viewed a beacon of stability in a troubled region. 550 words moved by Kent Mensah and Louise Dewast. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live Video Climate-warming-November-record,lead PARIS Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest autumn temperatures in history, an EU monitoring service says, noting the month was warmer than the 30-year recorded average. 400 words moved. -- EUROPE -- Romania-politics-vote,WRAP BUCHAREST Romania's governing pro-European liberals appear set to stay in power Monday following elections, despite a strong showing by the opposition socialists, according to partial results. 700 words 1000 GMT by Mihaela Rodina. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-church,SCENE UM RAQUBA, Sudan Under Sudan's merciless midday sun, an Ethiopian woman wearing a long white veil holds her hands up towards the sky in desperate prayer, her gaze fixed on a cross painted on a refugee church. 530 words moved by Peter Gume. Picture. Video Morocco-economy-IT-education,FOCUS KHOURIBGA, Morocco With its rows of sleek computers and ultra-modern study methods, Morocco's 1337 campus is a dream come true for budding geeks, in a country where IT skills are in high demand. 750 words moved by Sophie Pons. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-Germany-court-Nazis-treasure,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court is to hear a case involving an important medieval art collection that Nazi Germany acquired from Jewish dealers with works that are now on exhibit in a Berlin museum. 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. File picture Health-virus-US-politics WASHINGTON US health officials express alarm over the refusal of many Americans to wear masks as the nation faces a soaring daily Covid-19 death toll and Donald Trump holds a packed rally where basic health measures are flouted. 550 words moved by Brian Knowlton. Picture -- ASIA -- India-agriculture-demonstration-farms,SCENE KUNDLI, India Behind concertina wire and trucks blockading a major highway into India's capital, thousands of farmers are camping out in the bitter winter cold as they protest against agriculture reforms they fear could destroy their livelihoods. 550 words 0530 GMT by Jalees Andrabi with Money Sharma. Picture Animal-China,FOCUS CHONGQING, China Twenty years ago, Wen Junhong saved an abandoned dog from the streets of Chongqing in southern China. She now shares her home with more than 1,300 of them, and they keep on coming. 650 words moved by Helen Roxburgh and Qian Ye. Picture. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- Syria-conflict-heritage,FOCUS DAMASCUS Strolling through the alleyways of war-torn Syria's capital, Rania Kataf snaps photos of the city's famed houses, capturing their nooks and crannies for posterity. 780 words moved by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Cricket-AUS-IND-Burns-Pucovski,LEAD SYDNEY, Australia Fast-rising star Cameron Green plunders a century but the pair tipped to open for Australia in the first Test against India both fail in a warm-up against the tourists Monday. 350 words moved. Picture Box-exhibition-Mayweather LOS ANGELES Floyd Mayweather announces he is set for an exhibition boxing match against popular YouTube personality Logan Paul at an undetermined venue early next year. 250 words moved afp
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