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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Morocco latest Arab state to normalize Israel ties + US weighs Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine approval + Lebanon PM, ex-ministers charged in port blast + Afghan news anchor and activist shot dead + Airbnb doubles in soaring US market debut US-diplomacy-Morocco-Israel-Sahara,WRAP WASHINGTON Morocco becomes the fourth Arab nation this year to recognize Israel as US President Donald Trump in turn fulfills a decades-old goal of Morocco by backing its sovereignty in disputed Western Sahara. 700 words 2000 GMT by Shaun Tandon and Sebastian Smith. File Pictures. File Video Also moved: WSahara-conflict-Morocco-UN,FACTS Also moving: Israel-Arab-states-diplomacy,CHRONO Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US regulators meet to weigh emergency approval for a coronavirus vaccine a key medical journal deems a "triumph" after the United States logs more than 3,000 virus deaths in just one day. 750 words 2200 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Health-virus-US-vaccine-Pfizer-BioNTech Lebanon-blast-politics-justice,WRAP BEIRUT Lebanon's lead investigator into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion has charged outgoing premier Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with negligence, a judicial source says. 750 words moved. File Picture Afghanistan-conflict-media,WRAP JALALABAD, Afghanistan A female Afghan news anchor and activist is shot dead by assailants, her employer says, the second journalist killed in a month in Afghanistan. 550 words moved by Noorullah Shirzada. Picture. Video US-IT-lifestyle-travel-IPO-Airbnb,WRAP NEW YORK Airbnb shares more than double in a sizzling US market debut which vaults the home-sharing platform into an elite group of richly valued companies. 600 words 1930 GMT by Juliette Michel. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-vaccine-bioethics,FOCUS WASHINGTON With America poised to become the next country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, authorities find themselves facing an ethical dilemma: when to give trial participants who received a placebo the real deal. 600 words 2100 GMT by Issam Ahmed. Picture Nobel-peace-WFP-ceremony,WRAP OSLO Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus, the World Food Programme warns of a "hunger pandemic" it said could be worse than Covid-19. 700 words moved by Pierre-Henry Deshayes. Picture. Video. Live video Chess-IND-Anand-health-virus,INTERVIEW NEW DELHI Mass coronavirus lockdowns and "The Queen's Gambit" have sparked a surprise boom in chess, Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand tells AFP, praising the hit TV show's "accurate portrayal" of the game. 700 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson vows to go the "extra mile" for a Brexit trade deal but instructs his government to prepare for Britain to crash out of the European Union's single market at the end of this year. 700 words 1930 GMT by Phil Hazlewood, Jitendra Joshi and Dave Clark. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-Johnson,FOCUS Singapore-Britain-trade-EU-Brexit,3rdlead EU-politics-diplomacy-budgets-Brexit-climate-Turkey,WRAP BRUSSELS EU leaders resolve a bitter dispute with Poland and Hungary and salvage the bloc's landmark post-coronavirus recovery plan, as the threat of an imminent no-deal Brexit looms large. 700 words 2000 GMT by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-ECB-eurozone-inflation,WRAP Azerbaijan-Armenia-Karabakh-conflict-Turkey-diplomacy,WRAP BAKU Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says on a visit to Azerbaijan that Baku's struggle with Armenia is not over, as he hails his close ally's "glorious victory" in a bloody conflict with Yerevan. 800 words moved by Emil Guliyev with Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul. Picture. Video. Live video -- AMERICAS -- US-crime-justice-executions,WRAP WASHINGTON A convicted murderer is scheduled to die by lethal injection as the administration of President Donald Trump carries out a series of federal executions in its waning days in power, ignoring calls for clemency and Covid-19 outbreaks behind bars. 650 words 2030 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. File photo. US-vote-Biden-cabinet-diversity,FOCUS WASHINGTON Aware that he owes his presidential victory to Black voters, Joe Biden pledged to name the "most diverse" cabinet in US history. Behind the scenes African Americans seek to ensure he keeps his word by appointing minorities to key positions. 750 words 2100 GMT by Elodie Cuzin. Argentina-politics-abortion,WRAP BUENOS AIRES Argentine lawmakers begin discussions on a new bill to legalize abortion, with a vote expected Friday, re-opening a debate that has bitterly divided the traditionally Catholic South American nation. 600 words 2030 GMT by Liliana Samuel and Nina Negron. Picture. Video US-economy-unemployment-stimulus,WRAP WASHINGTON A massive increase in the number of workers filing for unemployment benefits ramps up the pressure on US lawmakers to break the impasse on a new federal relief package to help the ailing economy. 550 words 1930 GMT by Heather Scott -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- France-Qatar-diplomacy-politics-Islam,lead DOHA France's foreign minister says during a visit to Doha that his country's policies against extremism had been misrepresented and were not Islamophobic, despite facing fierce criticism. 500 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Ghana-vote ACCRA A respected group of Ghanaian election observers urges the public to trust the results of a presidential ballot, despite the opposition's angry rejection of the outcome. 500 words moved by Kent Mensah and Louise Dewast. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Ghana-vote-politics-AkufoAddo,PROFILE -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- Lifestyle-Poland-games-Cyberpunk2077 WARSAW Cyberpunk 2077, a video game reported to be one of the most expensive ever made, has launched worldwide after its makers vowed to fix graphics that risk triggering epileptic seizures. 650 words moved by Bernard Osser. File picture. Video -- ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & SCIENCE -- Climate-environment-UN-emissions,WRAP PARIS Earth remains on course to warm more than 3 degrees Celsius by the century's end despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions due to the pandemic and pledges to curb pollution, the UN says. 650 words moved by Patrick Galey. Graphic Also moved: Climate-UN-summit-netzero,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-hydrogen,FACTS Climate-UN-summit-carbon,FOCUS Climate-UN-summit-fuel,FACTS -- SPORT -- China-diplomacy-rights-fbl-ESP-Liga-Barcelona-Griezmann-Huawei,WRAP PARIS Barcelona's World Cup-winning footballer Antoine Griezmann says he is ending a commercial deal with Huawei over reports the Chinese telecoms giant was involved in the surveillance of Uighur Muslims. 550 words moved. Picture Fbl-ITA-Rossi,WRAP MILAN Paolo Rossi, who fired Italy to victory in the 1982 World Cup after almost missing the tournament through a match-fixing scandal, has died aged 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes. 750 words moved by Emmeline Moore. File picture afp
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