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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Internet cut in Myanmar as crackdown fears deepen + UK hails milestone of vaccinating most vulnerable + West Africa faces new Ebola epidemic + Russians stage flashmobs to support Navalny + Meghan Markle, Prince Harry expecting second child Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar cuts internet access and deploys troops around the country in signs of a feared widespread crackdown on anti-coup protests, hours after security forces fired to disperse a demonstration. 750 words 0330 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Myanmar-politics-military-streets,SCENE Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Britain says its coronavirus vaccination programme has covered all its main target groups of vulnerable people, as New Zealand's largest city goes into lockdown over the UK variant. 850 words 0300 GMT by AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Guinea-health-virus-Ebola,WRAP CONAKRY West Africa faces its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016, with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an "epidemic". 650 words moved by Mouctar Ba with Philippe Siuberski in Dakar. File picture. Video. Graphic Russia-politics-opposition-Valentine,WRAP MOSCOW Residents of Moscow and Saint Petersburg stage Valentine Day's flashmobs in residential courtyards and public squares, lighting up their phones in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny. 600 words moved by Anna Smolchenko and Reza Nourmamode. Picture. Video Britain-royals-baby,WRAP LONDON Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are expecting their second child, their spokesman says in a Valentine's Day announcement. 500 words 0230 GMT by Sylvain Peuchmaud. Video. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-vaccine-AfricanAmerican,FOCUS WASHINGTON Gary Jackson doesn't want the Covid vaccine even though the virus kills Black people at a starkly higher rate -- a daunting problem experts say the United States must confront in controlling its disastrous outbreak. 750 words 0130 GMT by Joshua Melvin with Andrew Marszal in Los Angeles and Francois Picard in Houston. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-transport-taxis,SCENE NEW YORK They were omnipresent on the streets of New York day and night, as emblematic of the Big Apple as the Empire State Building or Yankees caps. But the pandemic has made yellow taxis scarce and facing an uncertain future. 700 words 0200 GMT by Catherine Triomphe. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-vaccinations,SCENE CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode island Most countries are still only vaccinating the elderly and healthcare workers, but one US town hit hard by the coronavirus is already offering doses to everyone age 18 and over. 450 words moved by Lauren Owens Lambert and Joseph Prezioso Health-virus-Mexico-psychology,FOCUS MEXICO CITY A surge in coronavirus infections following the year-end holidays has left a growing number of Mexicans struggling with feelings of guilt or resentment over deaths that could have been avoided. 550 words 0200 GMT by Sofia Miselem -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-impeachment,WRAP WASHINGTON After the Senate acquitted Donald Trump in a historic second impeachment trial, America weighs how long a shadow the former president will cast -- over his party, and over the country. 800 words moved by Brian Knowlton. File picture Argentina-Menem-obit,lead BUENOS AIRES Argentina's former president Carlos Menem, who marked his country with a neoliberal economic approach, has died in a Buenos Aires clinic at the age of 90. 500 words moved by Nina Negron. File picture -- EUROPE -- Kosovo-politics-vote,WRAP PRISTINA Kosovo's left-wing reformists are headed for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, initial results show, handing them a strong mandate for change from voters fed up with the political establishment. 750 words moved by Ismet Hajdari and Sally Mairs. Picture. Video Spain-politics-Catalonia-vote,WRAP BARCELONA Catalan separatist parties boost their parliamentary majority in a regional election overshadowed by the pandemic and marked by record low turnout, more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque and Adria Laborda. Picture. Video WTO-trade-Nigeria GENEVA Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start. 650 words 0230 GMT by Robin Millard. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Yemen-conflict,WRAP DUBAI Dozens were killed in overnight clashes in Yemen as Iran-backed Huthi rebels have intensified attacks to seize the government's last northern stronghold. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-Yemen-Iran-conflict,CHRONO UAE-space-Mars,lead DUBAI The UAE's "Hope" probe sends back its first image of Mars, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit. 250 words. Picture -- SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT -- Environment-corals-Israel-UAE-oil,FOCUS EILAT Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to "the next ecological disaster". 750 words 0300 GMT by Jonah Mandel. Picture. Video afp
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