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| - Duty Editor: Abhik Chanda Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Spaniards hit the streets as lockdown eased + N. Korea's Kim reappears in public + Assault weapons banned in Canada + NASA, SpaceX target historic flight + Jagger, Will Smith to headline India virus concert Health-virus,WRAP MADRID Spaniards leave their homes to exercise and walk freely after 48 days of confinement as some European nations begin cautiously easing virus lockdowns while others like Russia face a spike in new infections. 800 words 1630 by Laurence Boutreaux with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic NKorea-politics-Kim,WRAP SEOUL North Korea's Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in nearly three weeks, state media reports, following intense speculation that the leader of the nuclear-armed nation was seriously ill or possibly dead. 800 words moved by Claire Lee. Picture. File picture. Video Canada-politics-guns,WRAP OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces an immediate ban on military-grade assault weapons in response to the country's deadliest-ever mass shooting, a rampage that left 22 people dead last month. 650 words moved by Jacques Lemieux. File picture Space-US-NASA-SpaceX,WRAP WASHINGTON NASA and SpaceX say they are pressing ahead with plans to launch astronauts to space from US soil for the first time in a decade later this month, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. 650 words moved by Ivan Couronne. File picture. Video Health-virus-pandemic-epidemic-disease MUMBAI Rock legend Mick Jagger and Hollywood's Will Smith will be among dozens of international and Bollywood stars who will take part in a four-hour concert Sunday to raise funds for the battle against coronavirus in India where the number of cases is surging. 300 words moved. File picture -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Germany-migrants,FOCUS BERLIN In a community centre in Berlin, two large rooms are filled with the clunk and whirr of sewing machines, rolls of colourful fabric strewn across the tables. About a dozen migrants from countries including Iran and Afghanistan are busy making face masks to donate to the community. 650 words moved by Femke Colborne. Pictures by John MacDougall. Video by Marion Payet Kazakhstan-politics,WRAP NUR-SULTAN The Kazakh president dismisses the eldest daughter of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev as speaker of the upper house of parliament, triggering speculation over a power struggle in the oil-rich Central Asian state. 450 words moved by Dana Rysmukhamedova. File picture Health-virus-Britain-education-Eton LONDON Britain's Eton College announces a $125 million drive to improve educational opportunity after growing evidence the coronavirus outbreak is hitting rich and poor differently. 500 words moved. File picture Health-virus-Bosnia-Yugoslavia-Tito-history,FOCUS BUGOJNO, Bosnia In the Bosnian town where the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito used to hunt for bears, a small group of admirers try to keep flickers of his legacy alive in a community scarred by war. 700 words moved by Rusmir Smajilhodzic. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-politics-Johnson-babay LONDON Boris Johnson's fiancee, Carrie Symonds, says they have named their newborn son after their grandfathers and the hospital doctors who treated the British prime minister for COVID-19. 250 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Yemen-conflict,FOCUS SANAA While most of the world's markets have closed to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Yemen's capital Sanaa, downtown districts selling qat -- the ubiquitous mild narcotic -- still bustle with people. 750 words moved by Abdulkarim al-Marani with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica,FOCUS LETSITELE, South Africa From his garden in South Africa's remote Limpopo province, Gilbert Phakola chuckled at a group of healthcare workers knocking on doors to test rural inhabitants for coronavirus. 700 words moved by Philippe Alfroy. File picture Health-virus-DRCongo KINSHASA More than 40 cases of the new coronavirus are recorded in two days in a military prison in Kinshasa, highlighting the danger posed to inmates of the country's vastly overcrowded prisons. 550 words 1730 GMT. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-vote-Biden,WRAP WASHINGTON US presidential candidate Joe Biden emphatically denies sexually assaulting a former aide, saying the incident she says occurred 27 years ago "never happened." 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture. Video. Graphic Brazil-health-virus-Bolsonaro,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Rarely have two words ignited such a firestorm of controversy. "So what?" said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro when a journalist asked him about the fact that more than 5,000 Brazilians had died of the coronavirus. 700 words moved by Pascale Trouillaud Virus-health-entertainment-celebrity,FOCUS NEW YORK As the coronavirus pandemic has forced populations worldwide indoors, many celebrities have harnessed their star power to try and raise spirits online, dubbing the illness a great unifier. 725 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- SPORTS -- OLY-IND-virus-IOA-Batra,INTERVIEW NEW DELHI India will step up its battle to win the 2032 Olympic Games and other international events when the global pandemic eases, its top sports leader Narinder Batra told AFP. 550 words moved Faisal Kamal. File picture afp
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