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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Contact: emma.charlton@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Anger at European football Super League plan + NASA helicopter in historic flight over Mars + Kremlin critic Navalny moved to hospital + Floyd death was murder, not policing, jury told + Facebook takes on audio startup Clubhouse Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1-,WRAP Paris Plans for a breakaway Super League announced by 12 powerful clubs from England, Spain and Italy plunges European football into an unprecedented crisis as UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin calls it a "spit in the face" for supporters. 900 words 2100 GMT by Andy Scott. File picture. Graphic. Video Also moved: Fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1-FACTS fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1,QUOTES fbl-Eur-Super-business,ANALYSIS fbl-Eur-Super-ENG-Pr-Arsenal-Tottenham-fans,SCENE fbl-Eur-Super-UEFA-C1-EU-politics fbl-Eur-Super-ENG-Pr-ManUtd-Liverpool-ManCity-Chelsea-Tottenham-Arsenal,FOCUS US-space-Mars-Ingenuity,WRAP WASHINGTON NASA successfully flies its mini helicopter Ingenuity on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet and a feat a top engineer called "our Wright brothers moment." 600 words 2030 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Graphic Also moving: US-space-Mars-Ingenuity,FACTS EU-Russia-Ukraine-diplomacy-politics-opposition,WRAP MOSCOW Russia's penitentiary service transfers ailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a prison hospital, as the EU warns it will hold Moscow responsible for the state of his health. 800 words 2000 GMT by Jonathan Brown with Max Delany in Brussels. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Russia-espionage-diplomacy,FOCUS Russia-opposition-health-Navalny,FACTS Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,CHRONO US-racism-trial-police-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota A prosecutor urges jurors to convict the white former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, saying the death of the 46-year-old Black man, which was captured on video, was a "shocking abuse of authority." 800 words 2030 GMT by Robin Legrand with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video Also moving: US-racism-trial-police-Floyd-Minneapolis,SCENE US-IT-lifestyle-Facebook,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Facebook will offer "audio rooms" and access to podcasts as part of a new push into audio, taking on the fast-growing audio-based startup Clubhouse. 500 words 2000 GMT by Glenn Chapman -- SPOTLIGHT -- Mexico-US-immigration-crime,FOCUS MEXICO CITY The tide of migrants sweeping across Mexico to the US border is not just a humanitarian crisis -- it is also a highly organized, multibillion-dollar trafficking business dominated by the drug cartels. 750 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez with Henrika Martinez in Ciudad Juarez. Picture Environment-Sudan-nature-conservation,FOCUS DINDER, Sudan Sudan's Dinder National Park, tucked away by the Ethiopian border, boasts the country's most diverse wildlife, but rangers face a daily battle to protect it as human encroachment mounts. 600 words moved by Menna Zaki. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP NEW DELHI India will lock down its capital New Delhi for a week from Monday night to try and control a raging coronavirus outbreak, as the hard-hit United States passes a hopeful milestone of giving at least one vaccine dose to half its adults. 700 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava and Jalees Andrabi, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-India,5thlead Health-virus-vaccines-WHO-climate-Thunberg,2ndlead NZealand-Australia-travel-virus-pandemic,2ndlead QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand Families reunite in emotional scenes as Australia and New Zealand launch a quarantine-free travel bubble that opened the border almost 400 days after its pandemic-enforced closure. 650 words moved by Andrew Leeson. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Cuba-politics-party HAVANA It is the end of an era: power in Cuba transfers out of the hands of the Castro clan after six decades, as the first civilian leader takes over. 500 words 1930 GMT by Leticia Pineda. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Cuba-politics-party-Castro,PROFILE Cuba-politics-party-DiazCanel,PROFILE -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics-Greens,WRAP BERLIN Germany's Green party names its co-chair Annalena Baerbock as their candidate to succeed Angela Merkel, throwing down the gauntlet to the chancellor's conservatives who are locked in vicious infighting for her crown. 550 words moved by Hui Min Neo. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Germany-politics-Baerbock,PROFILE Germany-politics-CDU-CSU,lead Russia-espionage-diplomacy,FOCUS MOSCOW In 2018, after former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, Britain said it had identified two Russian agents seen wandering through the sleepy English town. 800 words moved by Maxime Popov. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Saudi-Iran-diplomacy-Iraq,WRAP BAGHDAD Middle East rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran have been holding talks in Baghdad in reent weeks, hoping to rebuild diplomatic relations severed five years ago. 650 words moved by Sarah Benhaida. Video -- AFRICA -- SAfrica-fire-university,WRAP CAPE TOWN A blaze advances along South Africa's iconic Table Mountain toward central Cape Town after ravaging university buildings, while firefighters battle strong winds in their efforts to control it and officials evacuate residential areas. 600 words moved by Linda Givetash. Picture. Video Rwanda-France-genocide-history,WRAP KIGALI France "bears significant responsibility" for enabling the genocide in Rwanda and still refuses to acknowledge its true role in the 1994 horror, a newly released report commissioned by Kigali says. 800 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Rwanda-France-genocide-history,CHRONO Rwanda-France-genocide-history,FACTS Chad-conflict-Libya-vote,WRAP N'DJAMENA Chad's army says it has killed more than 300 rebels following a heavily armed group's election day incursion in the country's north and the government seeks to assure concerned residents that calm has been restored. 700 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Pakistan-France-protests-religion,WRAP LAHORE Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan pleads with a radical Islamist group to end its violent campaign to oust the French ambassador, saying the unrest is harming the nation. 650 words moved. Picture. Video Myanmar-politics-military-Japan-media,WRAP BRUSSELS The EU announces sanctions on 10 Myanmar junta officials and two conglomerates linked to the military over the coup and bloody crackdown on protesters in their country. 700 words moved. Picture. Video -- CLIMATE -- US-climate-diplomacy-coal,lead WASHINGTON The United States will press all nations to reduce reliance on coal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, warning "we won't have much of a world left" without stronger leadership from Washington on climate change. 500 words 2130 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Picture UN-climate-weather GENEVA 2021 must be the year of action for protecting people against the "disastrous" effects of climate change, the United Nations says ahead of a crucial US-convened summit. 750 words moved by Robin Millard. Video. Graphic Also moved: Climate-environment-agriculture-coffee -- SPORT -- fbl-ENG-Pr-Tottenham-Mourinho LONDON Jose Mourinho is sacked by Tottenham just six days before they play Manchester City in the League Cup final as the Portuguese boss pays the price for a turbulent campaign. 750 words moved by Steven Griffiths. File picture. Graphic Also moved: fbl-ENG-Pr-Tottenham-Mourinho,PROFILE fbl-ENG-Pr-Tottenham-Mourinho,FOCUS afp
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