| schema:articleBody
| - Duty Editor: Katy Lee Tel: +33 1 40.41.78.31 -- TOP STORIES -- + EU awaits AstraZeneca approval as worries grow over Covid variants + New clashes at India farmer protests + China executes ex-banker in bribes, bigamy case + Dr Martens steps onto stock market with £3.7 billion value + Djokovic barefoot, Serena at the zoo as tennis quarantine ends Health-virus,WRAP AMSTERDAM European regulators are set to announce whether they have approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as concerns grow over the effectiveness of different jabs against new strains of Covid-19. 750 words 1500 GMT by Jan Hennop with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Also moving: Health-virus-vaccine,FACTS Also moved: Health-virus-China,lead India-agriculture-politics-demo,WRAP NEW DELHI Clashes erupt between hundreds of opponents and supporters of a major farmers protest that has disrupted the Indian capital for more than eight weeks. 600 words moved by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video Britain-stock-fashion-business-DrMartens LONDON British footwear group Dr Martens enters the London Stock Exchange, valuing the iconic brand at £3.7 billion (5.1 billion, 4.2 billion euros). 300 words moved China-corruption-banker-execution BEIJING China executes a former top banker accused of taking $260 million worth of bribes, as well as other forms of corruption and bigamy, state broadcaster CCTV reports. 500 words moved. File picture Tennis-AUS-Open-WTA-AFP-health-virus ADELAIDE, Australia Serena Williams takes her daughter to the zoo and Novak Djokovic walks barefoot in a park as the stars of tennis emerge from a fortnight of quarantine ahead of the coronavirus-delayed Australian Open. 650 words moved. Picture -- SPOTLIGHT -- US-internet-retail-games-Reddit-GameStop SAN FRANCISCO For some Reddit users, GameStop's dizzying rocket ride on Wall Street is a case of the masses rebelling against one-percenters hoarding the world's wealth. 800 words moved by Glenn Chapman Britain-books-children-MrMen,FOCUS LONDON It's an occasion that might make even Mr. Grumpy crack a smile. The colourful Mr. Men children's books are celebrating their 50th birthday. 750 words moved by Charlotte Durand. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccine,2ndlead WASHINGTON Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine has an overall efficacy of 66 percent, the company announces following a multicontinent trial of almost 44,000 people. 550 words 1430 GMT by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-novavax-vaccine,3rdlead WASHINGTON US biotech firm Novavax says its two-shot Covid-19 vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major Phase 3 clinical trial in Britain, and remained highly effective against a variant first identified there. 650 words moved by Issam Ahmed Health-virus-HongKong,FOCUS HONG KONG Quarantining on arrival is becoming increasingly common as the world grapples with a mushrooming pandemic. But in crowded and expensive Hong Kong how do you survive three weeks in a 20-square-metre hotel room? 650 words moved by Yan Zhao. Picture. Video Health-virus-Mexico-crime,FOCUS MEXICO CITY Fake vaccines, dubious coronavirus tests, non-existent oxygen tanks -- scammers are preying on desperate Mexican coronavirus patients and their relatives as the pandemic stretches the country's health system to the limit. 550 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias -- EUROPE -- Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny-Perm,FOCUS PERM When Ivan Rudnev saw thousands join an opposition protest in his gritty hometown despite freezing temperatures last weekend, he realised something had changed. 700 words moved by Thibaut Marchand. Picture. Video Portugal-euthanasia-parliament-law LISBON Portugal's parliament is expected to pass a law allowing medically assisted dying, making the Catholic-majority country the fourth in Europe to legalise euthanasia. 300 words moved Also moved: Europe-euthanasia,FACTS France-politics-LePen,FOCUS Paris French far-right leader Marine Le Pen proposes a ban on the Muslim veil in all public places as she looks to expand her support following record recent polling putting her almost neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron. 700 words 1530 GMT by Adam Plowright and Anne Renaud. Picture. Video. -- MIDDLE EAST -- Lebanon-politics-unrest,Q&A BEIRUT What is behind escalating street violence in Lebanon's Tripoli, and is the country heading towards mass social unrest as anger mounts over government mismanagement of many crises? 800 words moved by Bachir El Khoury. Picture. Video Morocco-prisoners-internet,FOCUS RABAT Moroccan former prisoners have moved out of their jail cells into the social media spotlight by sharing their thug life experiences on YouTube, making them minor celebrities. 750 words moved by Kaouthar Oudrhiri. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- CAfrica-unrest-refugee-UN,WRAP GENEVA More than 200,000 people have been displaced by election-based violence in the Central African Republic in the past two months, the UN says, with around half fleeing to neighbouring countries. 600 words moved by Robin Millard Netherlands-Nigeria-oil-court-Shell,WRAP THE HAGUE A Dutch court orders Shell to pay compensation in a long-running case brought by a group of Nigerian farmers who accuse the oil giant of causing widespread pollution. 600 words 1530 GMT by Danny Kemp with Joel Olatunde Agoi in Lagos. Picture. Video. -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON Normal is the new extraordinary under President Joe Biden. His most dramatic achievement in 10 days has simply been to remind Americans of a White House where nothing unexpected happens. 700 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. File picture Health-virus-Canada-magician,FOCUS MONTREAL Faced with the shutdown of his touring shows due to pandemic restrictions, Canadian illusionist Luc Langevin reached far up his sleeve and developed a new trick -- interactive virtual performances. 600 words moved by Eric Thomas. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-Britain-HongKong-politics,WRAP BEIJING China says it will "no longer recognise" the British National (Overseas) passport for Hong Kongers as Britain prepares to offer millions of its former colonial subjects a way to escape Beijing's crackdown on dissent. 700 words moved by Laurie Chen with Yan Zhao in Hong Kong Myanmar-politics-army YANGON More than a dozen embassies, including the US and EU delegation, urge Myanmar to "adhere to democratic norms", joining the UN in a chorus of international concern about a possible coup. 500 words moved. Picture. Video Pakistan-UK-US-crime-media-Pearl ISLAMABAD Lawyers file a last-ditch attempt to overturn the acquittal of a British-born militant convicted of masterminding the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. 400 words moved -- BUSINESS -- China-bankruptcy-restructuring-HNA BEIJING, China Embattled Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, which has been struggling to resolve a drawn-out cash crisis, announces it faces bankruptcy, in one of the biggest corporate downfalls in the country's history. 500 words moved. File picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Sundance LOS ANGELES The prestigious Sundance Film Festival, forced online this year by the pandemic, quietly opens to a virtual standing ovation for deaf family drama "CODA" about a high school teen pursuing her musical ambitions. 550 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture -- SPORT -- eSports-gaming-coaches,FOCUS SHANGHAI Not long ago it was "weird" for an eSports team to have a coach, but that is changing fast in a highly competitive environment where milliseconds matter and rewards are in the millions of dollars, insiders say. 600 words moved by Peter Stebbings. File picture afp
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)