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| - Duty Editor: Joseph Boyle Tel: +33 641979813 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus infections close to one million + Air passenger numbers lowest since 9/11 + Millions of Americans lose jobs + Iran hits back in Trump spat + World can learn from HIV Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Confirmed coronavirus cases approached one million around the world as Europe reels from the pandemic and the United States reports record numbers of people out of work. 1,000 words 1600 GMT by Daniel Silva with AFP bureaux. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-aviation-IATA,lead GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic sends global air passenger demand plunging 14 percent in February, marking the steepest decline in traffic since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the global aviation association says. 500 words 1430 GMT by Nina Larson Health-virus-US-economy-unemployment,WRAP WASHINGTON A staggering number of US workers have lost their jobs in the second half of March -- a record 6.65 million last week alone -- as the coronavirus forces stores and businesses nationwide to close their doors. 600 words 1500 GMT by Heather Scott. File picture Iran-US-Iraq-diplomacy,WRAP TEHRAN Iran says it "only acts in self-defence" after President Donald Trump warned it against attacks on US troops in Iraq as a new war of words heats up amid the coronavirus pandemic. 540 words moved by Amir Havasi. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Iran Health-virus-HIV,Q&A PARIS From a killer in the shadows to having its own United Nations' ambassador, the world can learn many lessons from HIV when planning its COVID-19 response, the head of the International Aids Society tells AFP. 750 words 1630 GMT by Patrick Galey -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-chloroquine-shortage PARIS Limited global stocks of two anti-malarial drugs could wreck plans to use the medicines, currently in clinical trials, to treat COVID-19, doctors caution. 400 words moved by Patrick Galey EU-migration-court-Poland-Hungary-Czech,2ndlead BRUSSELS Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic broke EU law by refusing refugees when the bloc faced a migration crisis five years ago, the European Court of Justice rules. 600 words moved by Marc Burleigh Health-virus-Russia-Putin,WRAP MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a televised address to the nation after the country registers a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and imposes new measures to prevent the infection. 600 words 1700 GMT by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video Health-virus-Switzerland-heritage-arts,FOCUS ZERMATT, Switzerland As the world reels from the coronavirus crisis, a light shines out in the darkness from Switzerland's iconic Matterhorn mountain, a rock of stability carrying a message of hope. 650 words 1500 GMT by Eloi Rouyer with Robin Millard in Geneva. Picture. Video. Health-virus-France-hospitals,FOCUS PARIS Hospitals in Paris have turned to 3-D printing to churn out protective visors, ventilator parts and other equipment in short supply as the surge in coronavirus patients leaves doctors scrambling. 500 words 1500 GMT by Anne Chaon. Health-virus-economy,FOCUS PARIS As the coronavirus outbreak confines millions of Europeans to their homes, many others are still showing up each day for jobs that are often overlooked or taken for granted. AFP journalists gather the stories of workers ensuring a minimum of daily life. 1,200 words moved by Lucie Peytermann and AFP bureaus. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-DRCongo KINSHASA DR Congo's coronavirus response has been hobbled by poor resources, confusion over confinement and panic, fuelling warnings that cases could explode in the capital Kinshasa, one of Africa's largest cities. 650 words 1600 GMT by Samir Tounsi. File picture Health-virus-Nigeria-Lagos-shutdown,FOCUS LAGOS A crowd jostles for food handouts in Nigeria's megacity Lagos -- as anxiety rises among the millions of poor over how to survive a coronavirus lockdown. 700 words 1600 GMT by Celia Lebur. Picture. Video Health-virus-Rwanda, FOCUS KIGALI Out of work, with prices soaring and police on the streets, life for many Rwandans has become immeasurably harder under coronavirus lockdown, and the pain looks only set to deepen. 700 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-NKorea-diplomacy,lead SEOUL North Korea remains totally free of the coronavirus, a senior health official in Pyongyang insists, despite mounting scepticism overseas as confirmed global infections near one million. 600 words moved. Picture. Video Pakistan-US-Britain-crime-media-Pearl KARACHI A Pakistani court overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl. 500 words. Moved. File picture Health-virus-China-family-rights,FOCUS WUHAN Zhang took his elderly father to a Wuhan hospital for a surgical procedure in January, just as coronavirus was consuming the central Chinese city. Within days, his father was dead of the contagion. 900 words. Moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-India-ventilator,FOCUS NEW DELHI Originally created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic and demand is booming. 550 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video Health-virus-masks,FOCUS TOKYO The use of face masks in Asia during the coronavirus outbreak has been far more widespread than in the West, where governments have urged people to reserve supplies for frontline medical staff, so have they helped limit infections? 700 words moved by Sara Hussein. Picture Health-virus-fitness-HongKong,FOCUS HONG KONG In an empty park overshadowed by Hong Kong's cramped apartment blocks, personal trainer Kristen Handford presses record on her phone and begins a workout for clients trying to stay fit at home during the coronavirus pandemic. 750 words moved by Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video Health-virus-Singapore-nightclub-lifestyle,FOCUS SINGAPORE Strobe lights flash across a near-empty dance floor, as a DJ live-streams thumping electronic music from a Singapore nightclub to revellers confined to their homes. 550 words moved by Catherine Lai. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-Florida-ships,WRAP FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida US authorities prepare to evacuate hundreds of passengers from a virus-stricken cruise ship when it finally docks in Florida after being barred from a string of South American countries. 600 words 1700 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-doctors,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON AFP speaks to Doctor Daniel Brenner of Johns Hopkins Hospital to gain insight into what medical professionals are learning about the coronavirus in real time. 800 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-social,FOCUS NEW YORK Deprived of odd jobs and with university campuses closed, the coronavirus pandemic is forcing young Americans to move back in with their parents. 700 words 1530 GMT by Thomas Urbain. Picture Health-virus-Brazil-death,FOCUS SAO PAULO The biggest cemetery in Latin America, a seemingly endless stretch of graves on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, is adapting to the new funeral rites of our times: speedy burials, no hugs. And it is bracing for things to get a lot worse. 550 words 1500 GMT by Paula Ramon. Picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Health-virus-Israel-politics JERUSALEM Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, a leading member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to re-enter precautionary quarantine. 400 words moved Health-virus-Lebanon-Syria BEIRUT Lebanese authorities have introduced "discriminatory restrictions" exclusively targeting Syrian refugees as part of their response to the coronavirus, says Human Rights Watch. 450 words moved by Hashem Osseiran Libya-conflict-health-virus,FOCUS TRIPOLI While the world is gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, war-shattered Libya marks one year Saturday of its latest bloody conflict that is plunging it ever deeper into chaos. 850 words moved by Imed Lamloum. Picture. Video Also moved: Libya-conflict,CHRONO Health-virus-Palestinians-Israel,FOCUS RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories The onset of the coronavirus pandemic fostered rare moments of unity between Israeli and Palestinian leaders but as the severity of the outbreak has escalated so too have tensions. 800 words moved by Hossam Ezzedine and Joe Dyke. Picture Iraq-economy-oil-health-virus,Q&A BAGHDAD As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production and may spell trouble for future exports. 750 words moved by Maya Gebeily -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON A tentative rebound in global equities comes to an abrupt end as US jobless data fuel fears that no amount of government efforts can shield the economy from coronavirus. 600 words 1700 GMT Health-virus-EU-eurozone,lead BRUSSELS The EU proposes a bloc-wide guarantee that could raise 100 billion euros to aid strained national unemployment schemes as millions of jobs are hit by efforts to slow the coronavirus outbreak. 300 words moved. Video -- SPORTS -- Health-virus-RugbyU-WC-2023-ENG-Jones,WRAP TWICKENHAM, England Eddie Jones has signed a two-year extension to his contract as England coach that will see him remain in charge of the side until the end of the 2023 World Cup in France. 650 words moved by Julian Guyer. File picture afp
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