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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + World steps up war on coronavirus + Pressure mounts on Tokyo Olympics + Stocks falter despite 'big bazookas' + Three billion lack soap and water Health-virus,WRAP PARIS World powers step up their war footing against the spiralling coronavirus pandemic despite a ray of hope from China where zero new domestic cases are reported for the first time. 850 words 1500 GMT by Mariette le Roux with Dmitry Zaks in Rome and AFP bureaus worldwide. Picture. Graphic. Video Oly-2020-IOC-health-virus LAUSANNE The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics are facing increased scrutiny over their unwillingness to either postpone or cancel the summer Games in response to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world. 600 words 1530 GMT by Eric Bernaudeau. File picture. Video Also moving: Oly-2020-health-virus-Japan,Q&A Markets-world,WRAP LONDON World stock markets falter again as massive central bank action to fight the coronavirus's economic fallout fails to calm investors nerves, even as the ECB fires its most impressive monetary salvo yet. 650 words 1700 GMT Health-virus-soap-water,FOCUS PARIS As nations around the world fight the coronavirus pandemic with mass lockdowns and travel bans, UN experts warn that some three billion people lack even the most basic weapons to protect themselves: soap and running water. 850 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Italy ROME Italy braces for an extended lockdown that could see the economy suffer its biggest shock since World War II from a pandemic that has killed almost as many people as in China. 500 words 1600 GMT by Dmitry Zaks Health-virus-EU-Britain-Brexit-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier tests positive for coronavirus, raising the pressure on Britain to extend a EU trade talks deadline beyond the end of the year. 550 words 1500 GMT by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy-elderly,FOCUS ROME Leaning out his window, the dashing octogenarian looks down on the little street in the ancient heart of Rome. It looks desperately empty, again, and Roberto Fichera could easily not see another human being today -- a growing problem in Europe's oldest country. 600 words moved by Gildas La Roux Health-virus-Russia-politics,FOCUS MOSCOW While President Vladimir Putin reassures the public that the virus pandemic is under control, many Russians instinctively distrust the official claims and fear the true situation is much worse. 700 words 1500 GMT by Thibaut Marchand. Video. Picture Health-virus-France-food,FOCUS PARIS The streets are empty, but the French insist on going on eating well, virus or no coronavirus. 700 words 1530 GMT by Fiachra Gibbons. Video Health-virus-Europe-rural,FOCUS PARIS The coronavirus lockdown in much of Europe has pitted rural people against city-dwellers invading the countryside to wait out the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the continent. 650 words 1600 GMT by Pierre Donadieu with AFP bureaus Health-virus-Ireland-gin,FOCUS DROGHEDA, Ireland The gin stills of the Listoke Distillery have been repurposed in the fight against the coronavirus, producing precious hand sanitiser currently in vanishingly short supply across Ireland. 550 words moved by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Scotland-restaurant,FOCUS EDINBURGH An award-winning restaurateur in Edinburgh is offering the chance to "self-isolate in style", allowing customers wanting fine-dining during the coronavirus outbreak to order meals to eat at home. 450 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics-Congress,FOCUS WASHINGTON With two US lawmakers testing positive for coronavirus and several others quarantined, concerns are mounting in Congress -- where 200 members are 65 or older -- over the pandemic's impact on Capitol Hill. 600 words 1630 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Health-virus-US-economy,FOCUS WASHINGTON As more data shows the damage already inflicted on the US economy by the coronavirus pandemic, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is urging Congress to pass a $1 trillion emergency stimulus package. 600 words 1700 GMT by Heather Scott. Picture Health-virus-Canada-cannabis,FOCUS MONTREAL To manage stress amid the coronavirus pandemic or just pass the time under quarantine with a buzz, Canadians and tourists have been lining up at the country's pot shops and flooding online retailers to stock up on cannabis supplies. 600 words 1530 GMT by Jacques Lemieux. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-millennial,FOCUS NEW YORK Before shutdowns swept the globe and many were urged -- or mandated -- to stay indoors to stymie coronavirus's spread, Divya Sonti sensed the worst was yet to come. 750 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture Also moved: US-social-lifestyle-technology-dating,FOCUS US-health-virus-Florida-students,FOCUS Health-virus-US-music-economy,FOCUS Health-virus-US-retail-Amazon,FOCUS -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-tourism-economy,FOCUS JERUSALEM Munib Abu Assab, a tour operator in Jerusalem's Old City, has seen deserted streets before, but he says not even past conflicts over the contested land compare to the impact of coronavirus. 700 words moved by Claire Gounon. Picture. Video Iraq-oil-economy-crisis-politics,FOCUS BAGHDAD Between plummeting oil prices, political deadlock and reduced global appetite for granting bail-outs, Iraq is on the cusp of financial calamity that could force austerity measures and renew anti-government protests. 800 words moved by Maya Gebeily -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Africa LAGOS Sub-Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city, Lagos, announces it will shut schools and limit religious gatherings to help fight the spread of coronavirus. 550 words moved -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China-mortality PARIS The novel coronavirus proved deadly in 1.4 percent of all people infected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the global outbreak -- far lower than official estimates, researchers say. 500 words 1430 GMT by Patrick Galey Health-virus-Australia-NZealand,WRAP SYDNEY Australia and New Zealand move to seal off their borders, announcing unprecedented bans on entry for non-residents in the hope of stemming the rise of COVID-19 infections. 550 words moved by Andrew Beatty. Picture Health-virus-Philippines-poverty,FOCUS TONDO, Philippines Mary Grace Aves is terrified of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, but the best weapons to protect her family -- isolation and sanitation -- are unreachable luxuries in the Manila shantytown they call home. 700 words moved by Joshua Melvin and Ron Lopez. Picture. Video -- ECONOMY -- Health-virus-Gulf-oil-stocks,FOCUS DUBAI Gulf stocks have plunged despite massive government stimulus as the energy-rich region orders unprecedented shutdowns to contain the coronavirus amid an oil price crash and gloomy economic prospects. 650 words moved by Omar Hasan Health-virus-transport-aviation,FOCUS HONG KONG With commercial airlines engulfed by the maelstrom of the coronavirus pandemic, one sector of the industry favoured by the wealthy is thriving: private jets. 650 words moved by Rose Troup Buchanan -- SPORTS -- Golf-Asia-health-virus-Oly-2020,INTERVIEW HONG KONG The Olympics going ahead in Tokyo this year is "highly unlikely", the boss of Asian golf tells AFP. 600 words moved by Daniel Hicks Oly-2020-surfing-JPN-Igarashi-Japan-health-virus,INTERVIEW TOKYO Japan's top surfer Kanoa Igarashi is already seeing his training for the Tokyo 2020 games hit by the coronavirus outbreak, but he's still hoping a 'heartbreaking' Olympic cancellation can be avoided. 550 words moved by Shingo Ito. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- SKorea-music-social-people,INTERVIEW SEOUL Thirty years ago his floppy hair, make-up, and flamboyant fashion sense outraged audiences, who threw stones at him as he performed on stage and threatened to beat him at shows. Today, 50-year-old Korean-American singer Yang Joon-il is enjoying an unlikely comeback. 800 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. Video afp
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