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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump, Biden face off in final debate + France widens curfew as virus cases soar + Fresh unrest rocks Nigeria's biggest city + Goldman Sachs to pay $2.9 bn over scandal + Old is gold: aging chimps know true friends US-vote,WRAP NASHVILLE, Tennessee Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold a high-stakes debate that may be the final opportunity for the president -- trailing in the polls -- to present his case for reelection to a primetime American television audience of millions. 700 words 2130 GMT by Eric Baradat with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-campaign,POINTS Health-virus,WRAP DUBLIN France extends its anti-Covid curfew to cover two-thirds of the population and Ireland locks down again as governments warn of a dire situation in Europe where countries are registering record cases. 800 words moved by Joe Stenson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Nigeria-unrest,WRAP LAGOS Gunshots are fired, shops looted and a prison set ablaze as fresh violence rocks Nigeria's biggest city Lagos after the shooting of protesters that drew international outrage. 700 words 2000 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video US-Malaysia-bribery-corruption-1MDB-Goldman,WRAP WASHINGTON Global financial titan Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $2.9 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges in the 1MDB Malaysian bribery scandal, the largest US fine ever in a corruption case. 600 words 2030 GMT. File picture Science-animal-chimpanzees WASHINGTON When it comes to friendships, people are known to become more selective with age -- and the same is true of male chimps, who have fewer yet more genuine pals to ape around with as they get older, says a new study. 550 words moved by Issam Ahmed -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccine-trials PARIS None of the trials of Covid-19 candidate vaccines can detect a reduction in serious outcomes such as hospitalisation or death, a leading public health expert says. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey US-economy-employment-health-virus,FOCUS WASHINGTON Americans enduring a feeble economy and high unemployment because of the coronavirus pandemic are creating start-up companies at a record pace. 500 words 1930 GMT by Julie Chabanas -- US VOTE -- US-vote-automobile-layoffs-GM,FOCUS LORDSTOWN, Ohio Workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio listened when President Donald Trump told them the region would soon be booming. But two years after that 2017 speech, the plant closed. 750 words moved by John Biers. Picture. Video Also moved: US-vote-automobile-trade,Q&A US-vote-economy-trade-manufacturing-China,ANALYSIS -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-justice-court-Barrett,WRAP WASHINGTON The Senate Judiciary Committee pushes through US President Donald Trump's conservative pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, as Democrats boycott the vote saying it was too close to the November 3 election. 600 words moved by Paul Handley. Picture. Video US-vote-Iran-Russia-hacking-security,WRAP TEHRAN Iran and Russia strongly deny US allegations of having taken actions to influence public opinion ahead of the November 3 US presidential election. 750 words moved -- EUROPE -- Greece-trial-farright,WRAP ATHENS A Greek court orders neo-Nazi Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos and his former top aides to immediately begin serving prison sentences, capping one of the most significant trials in the country's political history. 650 words moved by Erika Vallianou. Picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain and the European Union launch an intensive round of Brexit talks, vowing to work round the clock to seal a trade deal in the little time left. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture France-attack,WRAP PARIS The investigation into the murder of a French teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turns to Syria where the killer had a jihadist contact, a source close to the case says. 700 words moved by Sylvie Maligorne and Jurgen Hecker. Picture Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict,WRAP MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin says that weeks of fighting over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh province have left close to 5,000 people dead as world leaders redoubled efforts to broker a truce. 650 words 2000 GMT by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-Karabakh-conflict-ICRC,INTERVIEW Azerbaijan-Armenia-conflict,SCENE EU-rights-award-Belarus,WRAP BRUSSELS The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for human rights to the movement opposing President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. 500 words moved by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Also moved: Belarus-EU-rights-unrest-politics,CHRONO Poland-abortion-justice,WRAP WARSAW Poland's constitutional court strikes on down a provision of the country's abortion law, allowing Europe's most restrictive strict legislation to be further tightened and provoking outcry from rights groups. 500 words moved by Anna Maria Jakubek -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics,WRAP BEIRUT Three-time Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri has been renamed to the post to create a reform-orientated cabinet that can lift the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades. 750 words moved by Layal Abou Rahal. Picture. Video Also moved: Lebanon-politics-Hariri,PROFILE Israel-Sudan-diplomacy-US,WRAP JERUSALEM An Israeli delegation has visited Sudan to discuss normalising relations following the Jewish state's US-brokered deals with UAE and Bahrain, sources in Khartoum and Jerusalem say. 800 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee -- AFRICA -- Seychelles-vote,WRAP VICTORIA The Seychelles kicks off three days of voting for the president and lawmakers, with polling to be spread out across the 115 scattered islands making up the idyllic archipelago. 700 words moved. Picture. File Video -- ASIA -- Thailand-politics-royals-unrest,WRAP BANGKOK Thailand's premier revokes an emergency decree that had been intended to quell pro-democracy rallies despite it failing to stamp out daily protests demanding he resign and for reforms of the unassailable monarchy. 700 words moved by Thanaporn Promyamyai. Picture. Video China-Vatican-diplomacy-religion-rights,WRAP BEIJING A secretive 2018 agreement between Beijing and the Vatican is renewed, despite strident US condemnation and warnings from underground Chinese priests loyal to Rome that they have only become more marginalised since it was signed. 750 words moved by Laurie Chen. Picture. Video -- SPACE -- Space-Russia-US-ISS,WRAP ALMATY An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touch down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-BRA-Pele,FOCUS SAO PAULO Considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, Pele will celebrate his 80th birthday Friday, confined to his home in Brazil because of Covid-19 but meeting the milestone with his trademark laugh. 550 words moved by Rodrigo Almonacid. File picture afp
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