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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US tops 3 mln cases, Trump pushes to reopen schools + Mexico's Obrador meets Trump, welcomes US 'respect' + Battle to rescue thousands trapped by Japan floods + Belgrade clashes over handling of virus turn ugly + Peer-pressure rat study explains 'bystander effect' Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States tops three million confirmed coronavirus cases as President Donald Trump pushes for schools to re-open amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. 750 words 0200 GMT by Issam Ahmed with AFP bureaus. Video. Picture. Graphic US-Mexico-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds talks with Donald Trump at the White House under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic and the US leader's past disparaging remarks about America's southern neighbor. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon and Ariela Navarro. Picture. Video Japan-rain-weather-climate-flood,WRAP TAKAYAMA, Japan Japanese emergency services and troops scramble to reach thousands of homes cut off by devastating flooding and landslides that have killed dozens and caused widespread damage. 650 words 0330 GMT by Quentin Tyberghien with Charly Triballeau in Kumamura, Japan. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Serbia-unrest,WRAP BELGRADE The Serbian capital is hit by clashes for a second night as police clashed with protesters outraged over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words moved by Miodrag Sovilj and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video Science-animal-rats-cooperation-US,FOCUS WASHINGTON Rats are less likely to assist a fellow rodent in need if other members of their group are being unhelpful, according to a study that sheds new light on the so-called "bystander effect." 600 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-Canada-animal-IT-offbeat,VIDEOESSAY UXBRIDGE, Canada The coronavirus pandemic has led millions of people to embrace meetings via Zoom, but the novelty is wearing thin for many. So one animal sanctuary in Canada has found a solution: Meet Buckwheat the donkey, who is ready to inject some fun into your humdrum work-from-home office day -- for a price. 450 words 0200 GMT by Jorge Uzon. Picture. Video US-health-virus-education-immigration,FOCUS NEW YORK Pakistani student Taimoor Ahmed is one of hundreds of thousands of foreigners enrolled at American universities now fearing for their future after Donald Trump's administration threatened to revoke their visas. 650 words 0200 GMT by Thomas Urbain Health-virus-Venezuela,SCENE MARACAIBO, Venezuela The pain of breathing made butcher Elkin cry. He caught the coronavirus in a street market where he works in Maracaibo, the main city in a once-prosperous oil producing region of Venezuela that has been left destitute by a fuel shortage and frequent blackouts. It's also a virus hotspot. 750 words 0130 GMT by Luis Bravo with Margioni Bermudez in Caracas. Picture US-IT-politics-rights-racism-Facebook,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook has made a series of decisions that undermined civil rights, including allowing posts from President Donald Trump that violate the values of the leading social network, an independent audit report says. 750 words moved by Glenn Chapman -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Australia MELBOURNE Five million people in Australia's second-biggest city begin a new lockdown, returning to tough restrictions after an optmistic few weeks believing they had contained the coronavirus. 400 words 0200 GMT by Ryan Smith. Picture. Video HongKong-China-internet-computers-politics,FOCUS HONG KONG The decision by Chinese-owned video platform TikTok to withdraw from Hong Kong is a savvy commercial move that sidesteps thorny privacy issues and keeps one of the world's top money-making apps on its global march, experts say. 750 words 0430 GMT by James Edgar. Graphic Also moving: HongKong-China-politics-internet -- EUROPE -- Italy-US-trial-murder ROME An American student on trial in Italy for the murder of a Rome policeman says he was kicked, punched and spat on in custody, a leaked official transcript showed. 450 words moved Britain-US-court-media-Depp LONDON Hollywood actor Johnny Depp denies claims that he slapped his ex-wife Amber Heard, as he faced a second day of questioning in his high-profile libel trial in London. 500 words moved by Phil Hazelwood. Picture Russia-Arctic-minorities-politics MOSCOW Lyudmila Laptander, an activist advocating autonomy for her mineral-rich Nenets region in the Russian Arctic, worries authorities are planning to sacrifice its traditions for the promise of economic enrichment. 650 words 0330 GMT by Romain Colas. Pictures. File Picture Bosnia-Srebrenica-anniversary SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Fatima Mujic prays every day for the husband and three sons killed in the genocide against Bosnian Muslims that unfolded over several summer days in the town of Srebrenica 25 years ago. 700 words 0200 GMT by Rusmir Smajilhodzic. Picture. Video Also moving: Bosnia-Srebrenica-massacre Bosnia-Srebrenica-massacre-siege -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia-diplomacy-water-internet,FOCUS CAIRO As Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan struggle to resolve a long-running dispute over Addis Ababa's mega-dam project on the Nile, some of their citizens are sparring online over their rights to the mighty waterway. 750 words 0330 GMT by Bassem Aboualabass Syria-conflict-silk,FOCUS HAMA, Syria After Syria's war whisked away the silkworms from his mulberry trees, 65-year-old Mohammed Saud instead turned his idle home workshop into a silk museum to celebrate the ancient craft. 630 words 0330 GMT by Maher al-Mounes. Picture. Video. -- AFRICA -- ICoast-politics-Coulibaly ABIDJAN Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died after attending a cabinet meeting, just three months before presidential elections that he was due to contest. He was 61. 550 words moved by Patrick Fort and David Esnault -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-Box-JPN-Japan-virus-health,INTERVIEW TOKOROZAWA, Japan Olympic boxing hopeful Arisa Tsubata is used to taking blows in the ring but it is during her work as a nurse that she faces her toughest opponent: coronavirus. 600 words 0200 GMT by Harumi Ozawa. Picture. Video afp
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