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| - Duty Editor: Joshua Melvin Email: joshua.melvin@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Protest crackdown in Belarus + Trump attacked over wildfires + Israel sets new virus lockdown + Hope as Afghan peaces talks open + Thai 'plane cafes' take off Belarus-politics-unrest-protest,WRAP MINSK Riot police harshly detain more than 400 demonstrators in Belarus as tens of thousands of people take to the streets on the eve of crunch talks between strongman Alexander Lukashenko and his main ally, Russia's Vladimir Putin. 700 words moved by Tatiana Kalinovskaya. Picture. Video US-fires,WRAP PORTLAND, Oregon Top officials in West Coast states where record-breaking fires have killed 31 people accuse President Donald Trump of being in denial about climate change, as he prepares to meet emergency services workers in California. 650 words 2300 GMT by Cyril Julien. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel announces a three-week lockdown as coronavirus cases soar in one of the Middle East's worst-hit country, while European nations grapple with mounting infections and restrictions ease in other regions. 750 words 2000 GMT by Jonah Mandel with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Afghanistan-conflict-talks,WRAP DOHA Afghan government negotiators express cautious optimism for progress on thorny issues including ceasefires as peace talks with the Taliban get underway in the Qatari capital. 800 words moved by Gregory Walton with Usman Sharifi in Kabul. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Afghanistan-conflict-talks-women,FOCUS Thailand-travel-lifestyle-aviation-pandemic BANGKOK With millions around the world stuck at home due to the pandemic, "plane cafes" in Thailand are offering customers the chance to pretend they are in the sky -- and the idea seems to have taken off. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-demonstration-Australia MELBOURNE Authorities in Melbourne arrest more than 70 people for flouting stay-at-home orders to protest against lockdown restrictions, with some demonstrators clashing with riot police at a market in the city. 400 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Trump-rally,FOCUS MINDEN, Nevada President Donald Trump's campaign rallies are packed with familiar rituals, chants and colors -- essentially the same as his 2016 campaign, giving the sense of traveling back in time. 700 words 2000 GMT by Jerome Cartillier. File Picture -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-vote,WRAP NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia Russian independent monitors condemn a reported "stream" of voting irregularities in regional elections as allies of poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny said some initial election results looked promising. 750 words 2000 GMT by Romain Colas. Picture. Video Greece-migrants-fire-refugee,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND,Greece Greece says it hopes thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by fires at Europe's largest migrant camp can be rehoused within a week to end a crisis that has seen protesters clash with police. 750 words moved by Marina Rafenberg in Lesbos with Katerina Nikolopoulou in Athens. Picture. Graphic. Video Turkey-Greece-diplomacy-energy,WRAP ISTANBUL A Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over gas exploration has left disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean and returned to port in a move hailed as a "positive first step" by the Greek prime minister. 600 words moved by Raziye Akkoc with Katerina Nikolopoulou in Athens. File Picture. Graphic Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-trade,WRAP LONDON The European Union rejects an incendiary claim by Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the bloc is plotting to destabilise the UK as another week of Brexit high drama beckons, headlined by a stormy parliamentary debate in London. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. File picture Britain-Iran-rights-politics,3rdlead LONDON Tehran has abruptly postponed a new trial of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, according to her husband, who accused the Islamic republic of treating his wife as "a piece of bait". 500 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. File picture -- MIDEAST -- Lebanon-rights-labour,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists say the exploitative "kafala" system remains in place. 750 words 1930 by Alice Hackman. File Picture -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-coup,WRAP BAMAKO Mali's popular opposition movement rejects a charter for a transition government backed by the army officers who ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. 550 words moved by Serge Daniel and Kassim Traore. File Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Cycling-Tour-FRA-2020,WRAP CULOZ Egan Bernal's defence of the Tour de France is reduced to cindersas the Colombian suffers a meltdown on the first major mountain of the race, while the overall leader Primoz Roglic denies any suggestions he is doping. 650 words moved by Damian McCall. Picture. Video. Graphic Auto-prix-ITA-Tuscan,WRAP MUGELLO, Italy Lewis Hamilton demonstrates his class and authority on an afternoon of wild chaos, winning an extraordinary crash-hit Tuscan Grand Prix to extend his runaway lead in this year's Formula One championship. 600 words moved by Tim Collings. Picture afp
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