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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US top court grants LGBT job rights + Atlanta orders reforms after police shooting + Beijing virus cluster grows + Trump to cut troop numbers in Germany + Virus forces Oscars postponement US-court-LGBT-rights,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court rules that employers cannot discriminate against workers because of their sexual orientation, delivering a landmark victory for millions of gay and transgender Americans. 700 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video US-police-racism-shooting-politics,WRAP ATLANTA, Georgia The mayor of Atlanta orders immediate police reforms after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in the US city sparked further outrage over the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement. 750 words moved by Wes Bruer and Chris Lefkow. Picture. Video Also moved: US-police-racism-shooting-politics-Bottoms,PROFILE Health-virus,WRAP BEIJING A new cluster of coronavirus cases in Beijing is "extremely severe", an official warns as China offers a cautionary tale to parts of the world gingerly emerging from lockdowns. 600 words 0730 GMT by Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video. Graphic US-Germany-NATO-military-politics-trade,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump says he will halve the number of US troops in Germany because Berlin is "delinquent" in contributions to NATO and treats the United States "badly" on trade. 600 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Entertainment-US-film-health-virus-Oscars,2ndlead LOS ANGELES Next year's Oscars have been postponed by eight weeks to April 25 after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered movie theaters and wreaked havoc on Hollywood's release calendar, the Academy says. 600 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-hydroxychloroquine,lead WASHINGTON The United States withdraws emergency use authorizations for two antimalarial drugs favored by President Donald Trump to treat the new coronavirus, effectively shutting the door on the politically charged treatments. 500 words moved Health-virus-Saudi-hajj,FOCUS RIYADH Saudi Arabia is expected to scale back or call off this year's hajj pilgrimage for the first time in its modern history, observers say, a perilous decision as coronavirus cases spike. 750 words moved by Anuj Chopra with AFP bureaus. File vide. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-Britain-US-economy,INTERVIEW Health-virus-Israel-technology,FOCUS India-health-virus-monsoon-disease,FOCUS MUMBAI With hospitals already severely stretched, coronavirus-hit India is now bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, with an overwhelmed army of public health workers the only defence. 700 words 0600 GMT by Ammu Kannampilly. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Virus-health-Japan-computers-lifestyle-women-geisha,FOCUS HAKONE, Japan Japanese geisha "Chacha" sits on her knees with her fingertips neatly placed on the wooden floor, gracefully bowing to an audience sitting not metres but miles away, watching online. 700 words moved by Harumi Ozawa. Picture. Video Australia-indigenous-music-health-virus,FOCUS BRISBANE, Australia Aboriginal musicians used to performing for a few hundred people in Australia's remote far north have seen audiences swell by the tens-of-thousands as their online gigs go global during the pandemic. 600 words 0730 GMT by Holly Robertson. Picture. --AMERICAS -- US-politics-Trump-rally-health-virus,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Donald Trump rejects pleas from Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to risk aggravating coronavirus risks by holding a rally there, announcing he wants to triple the crowd to 60,000 people. 650 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture Yemen-conflict-UN-children-rights-Saudi,lead UNITED NATIONS Campaigners react angrily to removal of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children's rights, in a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. 450 words moved by Philippe Rater -- EUROPE -- Germany-politics-farright-homicide-trial FRANKFURT A German neo-Nazi goes on trial on charges of murdering pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke, in a case that shocked the country and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism. 600 words moved by Michelle Fitzpatrick -- ENVIRONMENT -- Health-virus-conservation-Europe-environment-wildlife,FOCUS PARIS Four wolves chase a herd of red deer through the central Italian town of Scanno, passing across front lawns and shuttered restaurant terraces. Across Europe and around the world, stay-at-home orders have allowed some animals to recolonise -- or at least revisit -- urbanised spaces, in which their kind once roamed free. 1,200 words moved by Phineas Rueckert. Picture Health-virus-climate-science-Lovelock,INTERVIEW PARIS James Lovelock -- founder of the Gaia theory and, arguably, the field of Earth system science -- thinks the world has lost perspective in responding to the new coronavirus, and should focus on a far more formidable foe: global warming. 750 words moved by Marlowe Hood. File picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr-health-virus,PREVIEW LONDON The Premier League returns on Wednesday after 100 days in the deep freeze, with Liverpool on the brink of winning the title in a radically changed football universe. 700 words moved by Steven Griffiths. File picture Also moved: Fbl-ENG-Pr-fixtures Fbl-ENG-Pr,TABLE Fbl-ENG-Pr-season Health-virus-fbl-ENG-Pr-HongKong,FOCUS HONG KONG The thousands of coronavirus tests that have enabled the Premier League to return this week have an unlikely source -- a little-known start-up in Hong Kong. 450 words moved by Talek Harris. Picture. Video Cricket-health-virus-AUS-WC-T20-2020,2ndlead SYDNEY Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this year in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic is "unrealistic", Cricket Australia's chairman admits. 500 words 0530 GMT afp
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