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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Woolls Email: daniel.woolls@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Palestinians try to piece lives back together after ceasefire + Ecological disaster feared as Greece battles forest fire + Glittery Eurovision hopes to lift pandemic gloom + China's Mars rover roams the Red Planet Israel-Palestinians-conflict,WRAP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories Gazans try to piece their lives back after a devastating 11-day conflict with Israel that killed more than 200 people, made thousands homeless and caused critical shortages of essential supplies in the impoverished Palestinian enclave. 800 words 1930 GMT by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Graphic. Video Also moving: Israel-Palestinian-conflict-Gaza-diplomacy-UN,2ndlead Greece-fire,WRAP ATHENS Hundreds of firefighters battle Greece's first major forest fire of the summer as experts warn of a huge ecological disaster in a nature conservation area near Athens. 550 words moved by Marina Rafenberg. Picture. Graphic Space-China-science-Mars SHANGHAI China's Mars rover has driven from its landing platform and begun exploring the surface, state-run Xinhua news agency says, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. 400 words moved Entertainment-music-Eurovision-Netherlands,WRAP ROTTERDAM It's back: the Eurovision Song Contest final gets under way in Rotterdam, returning after a year off with a glittery, kitschy message of hope in the time of coronavirus. 700 words 1930 GMT by Danny Kemp. Picture. Video. Live video. -- SPOTLIGHT -- France-water-environment,FOCUS VOLVIC, France The lush volcanic hills surrounding Volvic in central France have long been a source of mineral water prized worldwide, but locals and geologists warn that too much is now being pumped out, putting the entire region at risk. 750 words moved by Celine Castella. Picture Mexico-women-children-indigenous,FOCUS METLATONOC, Mexico Eloina Feliciano begged her mother not to sell her into marriage aged 14 under an ancestral tradition in their indigenous community in Mexico, but her pleas were in vain. 650 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias. Picture. Video Greece-language-education-history-game,FOCUS ATHENS Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby daughter will likely never fully learn the distinctive oral tradition of her ancestors that dates back centuries. 800 words moved by John Hadoulis. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-patents-WTO GENEVA Dozens of countries have revised a proposal at the WTO for patent waivers for medical tools needed to combat Covid, insisting it must be broader than just vaccines. 600 words moved by Nina Larson Health-virus-Europe-travel,Q&A BRUSSELS The "EU digital Covid certificate" comes into use on July 1. How will it use data on coronavirus vaccinations, tests and immunity to usher in a return to summer tourism and non-essential travel across the 27-nation bloc? 600 words moved by Anne-Laure Mondesert. File picture Health-virus-Hungary-vaccine-Roma,FOCUS KISTARCSA, Hungary Hungary's Roma community has been largely left out of the country's aggressive Covid-19 immunisation rollout and been forced to fend for itself, leaders of the poverty-stricken minority say. 700 words moved by Peter Murphy. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-media-royals-Diana-BBC LONDON A former BBC chief who was criticised for his "woefully ineffective" probe into Martin Bashir's deception in securing a bombshell interview with Princess Diana resigns as chair of Britain's National Gallery. 500 words moved by James Pheby. File picture Europe-migrants-Spain-Morocco-children,UPDATE CEUTA, Spain Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory. 850 words 1430 GMT by Hazel Ward and Noemi Gragera. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-politics,FOCUS JERUSALEM After a ceasefire with Israel, Islamist group Hamas has claimed "victory" for Palestinians but the militants' success lies more in marginalising its political rival Fatah than in battle, analysts say. 750 words moved by Claire Gounon -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-Belgium-politics-history,FOCUS BRUSSELS Sixty years after Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated and dissolved in acid, former colonial power Belgium is to restore his last remains -- a single tooth -- to his family. 700 words moved by Matthieu Demesteere. Video. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-China-Taiwan-nuclear-history WASHINGTON US military planners pushed for nuclear strikes on mainland China in 1958 to protect Taiwan from an invasion by Communist forces, classified documents posted online by Daniel Ellsberg of "Pentagon Papers" fame show. 450 words moved by Carlos Hamann. File picture US-crime-race WASHINGTON Initial claims by Louisiana authorities that a Black man stopped after a high-speed chase had died of crash-related injuries are undercut this week by newly released video showing police Tasing, dragging, choking and beating the man. 500 words moved by Brian Knowlton. Picture. -- ASIA -- Health-Virus-India-politics-Modi,Q&A NEW DELHI India is suffering a coronavirus catastrophe with millions of infections and nearly 300,000 dead but it is likely to have limited impact on the political fortunes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 650 words moved by Aishwarya Kumar and Bhuvan Bagga. Video -- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT -- Britain-music-Glastonbury-livestream,lead LONDON The Glastonbury Festival will livestream a concert featuring Coldplay at its famous farm site in southwest England, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the blockbuster event's cancellation for the second consecutive summer. 500 words 2000 GMT. File picture. File video Italy-Venice-architecture-leisure,FOCUS VENICE, Italy The world's most prestigious architecture event, the Venice Architecture Biennale, opens for a six-month show exploring the question of coexistence in a post-pandemic world. 550 words moved by Kelly Velasquez. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Fbl-ESP-Liga,WRAP MADRID Atletico Madrid are crowned La Liga champions for the first time since 2014 as veteran striker Luis Suarez scores the winner in a 2-1 victory over Valladolid. 650 words 2000 GMT by Tom Allnutt Picture RugbyU-Eur-Champions,WRAP LONDON Toulouse see off 14-man La Rochelle to be crowned European club rugby union kings for a record fifth time following a dramatic finish to the Champions Cup final at Twickenham. 650 words 2000 GMT by Julian Guyer Picture Auto-Prix-MON,WRAP MONACO Charles Leclerc will start on pole for his home Monaco Grand Prix after setting the fastest time in qualifying despite crunching his Ferrari into a wall which could yet lead to a penalty removing him from the front of the grid. 600 words moved Picture afp
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