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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe takes cautious steps to ease lockdowns + US oil price finishes negative for first time + Israel's Netanyahu, Gantz agree on unity govt + Harry and Meghan blacklist four UK newspapers + Baseball brawl spoils Taiwan social distancing Health-virus,WRAP LEIPZIG Germany and other parts of Europe take tentative steps to ease lockdown measures as coronavirus death rates fall in some nations, while groups of anxious Americans take to the streets to protest stay-at-home orders. 950 words 2030 GMT by Raphaelle Logerot with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Moved: Health-virus-confinement,FACTS Markets-world,WRAP NEW YORK US oil prices crash to unprecedented lows as futures end in the negative territory for the first time ever amid a devastating supply glut that has forced traders to pay others to take the commodity. 600 words 1930 GMT Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaches a historic deal with one-time rival parliament speaker Benny Gantz to form an emergency unity government, ending the country's worst-ever political crisis. 750 words 1930 GMT by Alexandra Vardi. File Picture. File Video Also moving: Israel-politics-Gantz,PROFILE Israel-politics-Netanyahu,PROFILE Israel-politics,CHRONO Britain-royals-media,2ndlead LONDON Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have blacklisted four major British tabloid newspapers because of their reporting, in the latest escalation of their public battle with the media. 650 words moved by David Harding and Phil Hazlewood. File picture Baseball-TPE-Taiwan-sport-virus-health TAIPEI Playing to empty stadiums, Taiwan has managed to keep its baseball league running during the coronavirus pandemic -- but social distancing went out of the window on Sunday when a game descended into an on-field brawl. 350 words moved -- AMERICAS -- Canada-police-crime-shooting,WRAP MONTREAL Investigators scour crime scenes from the worst mass shooting in Canadian history Monday to determine why a dental worker with no criminal past killed at least 18 people. 750 words 2000 GMT by Eric Thomas. Picture Health-virus-US-smallbusiness-aid-politics, WRAP NEW YORK A giant emergency lending program for small businesses devastated by coronavirus shutdowns is under fresh scrutiny after upscale burger chain Shake Shack returns a $10 million loan. 700 words 1900 GMT by John Biers Health-virus-US-demonstration,SCENE HARRISBURG Nearly 1,000 people in Pennsylvania protest confinement measures aimed at combating the coronavirus, part of a fringe movement arguing that public health regulations unduly threaten economic freedom. 650 words 2100 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Health-virus-Mexico-labor,FOCUS MEXICO CITY When Ana Lilia Gonzalez fell ill with flu-like symptoms, she went to the infirmary at her factory in a Mexican city on the US border, where the doctor told her she could carry on working. Two weeks later, she was dead. 800 words moved by Jennifer Gonzalez Covarrubias -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-WHO-US,2ndlead GENEVA The World Health Organization insists it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic. 600 words 1930 GMT by Robin Millard. Video. Health-virus-Germany,2ndlead BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel urges discipline in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, warning that Germany is not "out of the woods" even as the country took small steps in easing curbs imposed to slow contagion. 700 words moved by Kit Holden with Raphaelle Logerot in Leipzig. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy ROME Italy reports its first drop in the number of people currently suffering from the novel coronavirus since it recorded its first infection in February. 500 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-tourism,VIDEOESSAY -- MIDEAST -- Health-virus-Mideast-Ramadan,FOCUS RIYADH From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramadan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. 850 words moved by Anuj Chopra with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-France-sociology,INTERVIEW JERUSALEM The coronavirus pandemic has "destroyed" the rights of dying people, renowned Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz says, lamenting the absence of meaningful human contact in many patients' final days. 450 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Nigeria-tests,FOCUS LAGOS A black market in coronavirus test kits is surging in Nigeria, along with scepticism in the country's health system to cope with an insidious, spreading foe. 800 words moved by Sophie Bouillon and Celia Lebur Health-virus-Ghana-lockdown,SCENE ACCRA While some Ghanaians are relieved to get back to work, others are fretting after the country became one of the first in Africa to lift a coronavirus lockdown. 700 words moved by Kent Mensah. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Australia-internet-media-Google-Facebook,WRAP BRISBANE Australia says it will force Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for their content, vowing to lead the world in making the tech giants share lucrative advertising revenues with traditional media. 700 words moved by Holly Robertson. File Picture China-politics-corruption-HongKong BEIJING China's deputy public security minister, who was placed in charge of security affairs for protest-wracked Hong Kong in 2017, is being investigated by the country's anti-graft body for alleged corruption. 400 words moved -- CLIMATE -- Climate-icesheet-oceans-warming PARIS The melting of the Eurasian ice sheet around 14,000 years ago lifted global sea levels by about eight metres, according to new research that highlights the risks of today's rapid ice cap melt. 450 words moved by Patrick Galey -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-health-virus-JPN,lead TOKYO A Japanese expert who has criticised the country's response to the coronavirus warns that he is "pessimistic" that the postponed Olympics can be held even in 2021. 600 words moved by Sara Hussein. Video. Picture FBL-health-virus-Germany-GER-Bundesliga BERLIN Germany's Bundesliga could resume from May 9, regional leaders of the country's biggest states say, although games can only take place without spectators to prevent coronavirus contagion. 600 words moved afp
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