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| - Duty Editor: Jenny Vaughan Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Europe quickens reopening, virus surges elsewhere + Taliban, Afghan forces poised for new battles + 'I didn't kill my wife': Lesotho PM to AFP + Pompeo in Israel for West Bank annexation talks + Australia church fined for 'miracle' bleach cure Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS Europe moves ahead with its emergence from coronavirus lockdown and lays out plans for summer tourism, but the pandemic gathers pace elsewhere. 900 words 1530 GMT by Damon Wake with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic Afghanistan-unrest-hospital,WRAP KABUL The Taliban warns it is ready to fight back after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani orders forces to resume strikes in response to a series of deadly attacks, further unravelling a tentative peace process. 500 words moved by Usman Sharifi. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Afghanistan-police-Taliban,FOCUS Lesotho-politics,INTERVIEW JOHANNESBURG In an exclusive interview with AFP, Lesotho's embattled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane denies any role in the murder of his estranged wife, a drama that has gripped the tiny kingdom for months. 700 words moved by Susan Njanji. File picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict-diplomacy-US,WRAP JERUSALEM US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Israel a day before its new government is to be sworn in to discuss plans to annex much of the West Bank, the occupied territory again rocked by deadly violence. 700 words 1530 GMT by Ben Simon. Picture. Video Also moving: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-US-diplomacy,CHRONO Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-WestBank Health-virus-Australia-church-bleach SYDNEY A church in Australia is fined for unlawfully advertising a purported "miracle" coronavirus cure that contains a bleach product. 350 words moved -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-WHO-France-China-Briand,INTERVIEW GENEVA Pinning down the source of the coronavirus pandemic should help in working out how COVID-19 has "invaded the human species" so quickly, a senior WHO official tells AFP. 650 words moved by Agnes Pedrero. Picture. Video Also moving: Health-virus-WHO-Briand,Q&A Health-virus-Russia,2ndlead MOSCOW Russia reports more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases, continuing a grim trend that has seen the country register the world's second-highest number of infections. 550 words 1530 GMT Health-virus-Britain,2ndlead LONDON People living in England get more freedom to leave their homes, including to go to work, the first stage of an easing of the seven-week coronavirus lockdown. 650 words 1600 GMT by James Pheby. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Scotland,FOCUS EDINBURGH First independence. Then Brexit. Now Scotland's handling of the coronavirus outbreak has stirred up fresh tensions with the UK government, despite an initial unified approach. 750 words moved by Stuart Graham. File picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-economy-bank-budgets,WRAP WASHINGTON Crisis spending measures to confront the coronavirus pandemic are costly, but worth the risk if they avoid even worse and more lasting damage to the US economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says. 550 words 1500 GMT by Heather Scott. File picture Health-virus-US-hospitals,FOCUS WASHINGTON Hailed as the heroes of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of US health care workers have been laid off or are facing reduced hours as a fall in lucrative procedures not linked to COVID-19 hits hospitals' bottom line. 700 words 1800 GMT by Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics-diplomacy-Ashkenazi,PROFILE JERUSALEM Israel's former army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, a veteran special forces commando who spent nearly four decades in the military, is set to become the next foreign minister. 500 words 1500 GMT. File picture Health-virus-Morocco-migrants-Africa,FOCUS RABAT Deprived of work and access to aid, thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in Morocco are struggling to make ends meet under COVID-19 restrictions. 600 words 1600 GMT by Hamza Mekouar. Picture. Video Health-virus-Iran-religion,SCENE TEHRAN In spite of their fears over the coronavirus, hundreds of pious Iranians take advantage of the temporary opening of mosques to pray at one of the holiest times of year. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Egypt-entertainment-lions,FOCUS CAIRO In his Cairo living room, Egyptian Ashraf al-Helw reprimanded his lioness Joumana for not obeying him after bringing her home for live streamed performances during the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Emmanuel Parisse. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Nigeria,FOCUS KANO, Nigeria Surging death tolls in northern Nigeria have sparked fears the coronavirus is spreading, combining with established diseases to pose a lethal threat in a region where medical care is poor. 600 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. File pictures. Graphic Health-virus-Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania-DRCongo-SSudan,FOCUS NAIROBI Every day hundreds of trucks fan out from East Africa's main ports in Kenya and Tanzania carrying cargo to the landlocked hinterland, and fears are rising they are becoming a major vector for the coronavirus. 900 words moved by Fran Blandy. Picture. Video Benin-media-abuse-politics,FOCUS COTONOU Women journalists in Benin say they are subject to widespread harassment in the country's media industry, provoking a lively debate that has reached the highest echelons of power in the week leading up to municipal elections. 600 words 1630 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- SriLanka-Indonesia-Facebook-rights-religion HONG KONG Facebook apologises for its role in the deadly communal unrest that shook Sri Lanka two years ago after an investigation finds that hate speech and rumours spread on the platform may have led to violence against Muslims. 600 words moved Health-virus-China-IT,FOCUS BEIJING To enter many Chinese venues, people must now show an app based on their travel history. And while the idea of such technology has raised concerns in Europe, it has already spread widely in China. 750 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. File Picture -- ECONOMY & BUSINESS -- Health-virus-Britain-economy-indicator,5thlead LONDON Britain's economy shrinks in the first quarter at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis as the country went into coronavirus lockdown, data shows, prompting the government to warn of a "significant" recession. 650 words moved by Roland Jackson. Picture Health-virus-US-IT-lifestyle-sharing,FOCUS WASHINGTON "Sharing economy" firms like Uber and Airbnb were seeing surging growth and predictions they would reshape several economic sectors. Then the pandemic hit. 750 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture Markets-world,WRAP LONDON Fears of a second coronavirus wave and a warning that fiscal support may be needed to prevent lasting damage to the US economy from the coronavirus crisis help push stocks lower. 650 words 1600 GMT -- SPORT -- Fbl-GER-Bundesliga-Germany-health-virus-guidelines,FOCUS BERLIN Players arriving in several sparsely-populated team buses, substitutes wearing masks and goal celebrations limited to elbow bumps -- when German football returns to the pitch this weekend, it will have to follow a draconian set of guidelines. 500 words 1600 GMT by Christophe Beaudufe. Picture Golf-KOR-health-virus-SKorea,2ndlead SEOUL Leading professional golfers will return to competitive action for the first time in months after the coronavirus shutdown when three of the world's top 10 women tee off in South Korea on Thursday. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Oly-2020-fencing-Japan-health-virus-Miyake-JPN,FOCUS TOKYO With the Olympics postponed due to the coronavirus, top Japanese fencer Ryo Miyake has swapped his metal mask and foil for a bike and backpack as a Tokyo UberEats deliveryman. 600 words moved by Jarumi Ozawa. Picture. Video afp
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