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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + New Covid vaccine breakthrough lifts global hopes + 'Catastrophic' hurricane heads to Central America + Peru seeks new leader after Manuel Merino resigns + African leaders push to mediate Ethiopia conflict + Critics blast first Saudi women's golf tournament Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Hopes of overcoming the coronavirus are boosted as a second vaccine claims nearly 95 percent effectiveness, bringing much-needed optimism to a world facing surging infections and gruelling restrictions. 800 words moved by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Weather-hurricane-Centram,WRAP BILWI, Nicaragua Hurricane Iota strengthens into a "catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane and is set to slam into Central America, threatening areas devastated by a powerful storm just two weeks ago, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warns. 600 words 2200 GMT by Julia Rios. Picture. Video Peru-politics,WRAP LIMA A divided Congress is set to meet for the second time in two days to try to agree on a new president and steer Peru out of a political crisis sparked by the impeachment of one popular president, and the resignation of his controversial successor amid protests which killed two people. 600 words 2230 GMT by Luis Jaime Cisneros. Picture. Video Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray-army,WRAP ADDIS ABABA African leaders try to kickstart talks over Ethiopia's internal conflict two days after rockets hit Eritrea, highlighting the risk of fighting spilling over borders. 700 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video. Graphic Saudi-KSA-golf-sports-gender KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia Denmark's Emily Pedersen wins the first ever women's golf tournament in Saudi Arabia in a tense playoff, but the event designed to soften the kingdom's austere image has drawn charges of being a "sportswashing" exercise. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-Moderna,FOCUS WASHINGTON Moderna has long been a darling of investors but it wasn't until the Covid-19 pandemic that the Massachusetts-based biotech company could prove the worth of its new vaccine technology. 650 words 2030 GMT by Ivan Couronne. File picture Health-virus-vaccine-mRNA,FACTS WASHINGTON The promising early results reported by Pfizer and Moderna for their "messenger RNA" Covid-19 vaccines are seen as validation for an experimental technology that has never before been approved. 700 words moved -- EUROPE -- France-train-attack-US,WRAP PARIS A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices stand trial in France for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. 700 words 1930 GMT by Marie Dhumieres. Picture. Video Health-disease-TB PARIS The global community is missing the chance to end the "modern tragedy" of tuberculosis, the biggest infectious killer, experts say as they warn how Earth's other pandemic will worsen during Covid-19. 500 words moved by Patrick Galey -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- WSahara-conflict-Morocco,3rdlead ALGIERS The pro-independence Polisario Front warns that conflict in the Western Sahara will only halt once Morocco ends its "occupation" of the disputed territory. 550 words moved Syria-conflict-Kurds-IS,lead Al-Hol Camp, SYRIA More than 500 Syrians, some related to alleged Islamic State group members, quit the overcrowded Kurdish-run camp of Al-Hol in the northeast of the war-torn country. 500 words moved. Picture. Video Ethiopia-conflict-Sudan-refugees,FOCUS UM RAQUBA, Sudan In a sun-baked wasteland in eastern Sudan, crews labour to build a refugee camp for the 25,000 people who have fled fighting in neighbouring Ethiopia. 730 words moved by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali. Picture. Video Iraq-execution-rights,WRAP NASIRIYAH, Iraq Iraq executes 21 people on terrorism charges at the notorious Nasiriyah prison in the south of the country, which is among the world's top five nations handing down capital punishment. 440 words moved Israel-Palestinians-conflict-UN-US,INTERVIEW GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories The worst financial crisis in the history of the UN organisation for Palestinian refugees could lead to "disaster" in the Gaza Strip and insecurity in Lebanon, the agency chief warns. 650 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. File picture -- AFRICA -- Guinea-vote-unrest Conakry Guinea's President Alpha Conde tells AFP and Radio France that he is not carrying out a "witch hunt" against the opposition in his first interview since his re-election. 650 words moved by Carol Valade with Philippe Siuberski in Dakar. Video SAfrica corruption politics Zuma JOHANNESBURG After months of refusing to testify, South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma appeared Monday before a panel probing rampant state corruption during his nine-year reign, demanding a fair investigation. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Pakistan-Afghanistan-conflict-Islam,FOCUS AKORA KHATTAK, Pakistan Maulana Yousaf Shah cracks a wide smile as he rattles off a list of former students turned Taliban leaders, revelling in their victories over superpowers on Afghanistan's battlefields after graduating from the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary -- Pakistan's "university of jihad". 900 words moved by David Stout and Sajjad Tarakzai. Picture. Video Britain-China-diplomacy-hero BEIJING A top British diplomat has become a hero in China after video of him rescuing a student from a swollen river racked up tens of millions of views on social media. 400 words moved -- SPORTS -- Oly-2020-2021-Japan-Bach-IOC,WRAP TOKYO Olympic chief Thomas Bach says he is "very, very confident" that spectators will be able to attend next year's Tokyo Olympics, as he kicks off a Japan trip to boost momentum for the pandemic-postponed Games. 650 words moved by Natsuko Fukue and Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video afp
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