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| - Duty Editor: Becca Milfeld Email: Becca.Milfeld@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus infections accelerate globally + Trump ally in razor-edge Polish vote run-off + Mali protest leader seeks calm after four more killed + Bollywood superstar Rai tests positive + Manhunt ends for ex-soldier who fled with Puma Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Hundreds of thousands of Catalonia residents are ordered back into lockdown as coronavirus cases spike in the Spanish region and new figures show infections accelerating in many other parts of the world. 700 words 2300 GMT by Emmanuelle Mmichel, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Poland-vote,WRAP WARSAW Poles votes in a razor edge presidential run-off election between a populist incumbent allied with US President Donald Trump and a europhile liberal challenger, with experts saying the result will define the future of the country's young democracy. 600 words 1930 GMT by Dario Thuburn and Mary Sibierski. Grpahic. Picture. Video. BAMAKO A Malian protest leader appeals for calm after four more people are killed in escalating demonstrations demanding President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation, in the West African country's worst civil unrest for years. 700 words 1930 GMT by Serge Daniel and Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Video Health-virus-India-film-people-Rai,2ndlead MUMBAI Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai has tested positive for the coronavirus, her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan says just a day after he and his father, screen legend Amitabh Bachchan, were admitted to hospital with the infectious disease. 300 words moved. File Picture. File Video. Video Poland-puma-offbeat,lead WARSAW A former Polish soldier who fled into a forest with his pet puma to avoid handing it over to a zoo turns himself in to police after a three-day manhunt. 350 words. 1930 GMT. File picture. -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON The Trump administration presses for full school reopenings in the fall, even as resurgent COVID-19 infections raise mounting criticism that a premature return to classes could pose a danger of greater spread of the disease. 800 words 2000 GMT by Brian Knowlton. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader calls the resurgence of the novel coronavirus in the Islamic republic "truly tragic" and urges all citizens to help stem what has been the region's deadliest outbreak. 500 words moved. Picture Health-virus-Israel JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledges immediate financial aid for citizens whose livelihoods have been devastated by the coronavirus, amid mounting anger over his pandemic response. 450 words moved Turkey-court-HagiaSophia-religion,FACTS NICOSIA Istanbul's Hagia Sophia is to reopen as a mosque after an almost nine-decade hiatus in the latest tussle with Christianity over religious sites. The move is the most recent of many such conversions over the centuries. 700 words moved by Haro Chakmakjian. Picture. File picture Libya-conflict-oil TRIPOLI A blockade of Libya's oil production will continue, forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar warn, despite the country's National Oil Corporation announcing this week the resumption of production. 400 words moved Iran-Ukraine-aviation-investigation,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says that the misalignment of an air defence unit's radar system was the key "human error" that led to the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January. 600 words 1930 GMT by Marc Jourdier. File picture Yemen-UN-environment-energy,FOCUS DUBAI Yemen's Huthi rebels have given UN inspectors approval to inspect an oil tanker abandoned off the coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board, which experts say could rupture at any time. 800 words moved by Omar Hasan and Sarah Stewart -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-vote,lead HONG KONG More than half a million Hong Kong people vote in primaries held by pro-democracy parties to choose candidates for upcoming legislative elections, organisers say. 450 words moved. Picture Vietnam-politics-economy-technology,FOCUS HO CHI MINH CITY A tech-savvy population, a fast-growing economy, and the perks of being first in an emerging market -- Vietnamese entrepreneur Le Thanh saw the potential in booming Ho Chi Minh City for his start-up transforming coffee grounds into masks. 700 words moved by Tran Thi Minh Ha with Alice Philipson in Hong Kong. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Cricket-AUS-Paine-mental SYDNEY Australian captain Tim Paine reveals he used to hate playing cricket and was left "crying on the couch" after losing confidence during an injury-plagued period of his career. 500 words moved. afp
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