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| - Duty Editor: Patrick Markey Tel: patrick.markey@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Billions mark Easter in lockdown as toll mounts + Pope livestreams Easter prayer for victims + UK's Johnson leaves hospital, thanks medics + WikiLeaks' Assange fathered kids in embassy hideout + Motor racing legend Stirling Moss dies Health-virus,WRAP ROME Billions around the world mark Easter Sunday from lockdown at home as the pope urges solidarity to fight the coronavirus pandemic and the European death toll from the disease tops 75,000. 950 words 1530 GMT by Dmitry Zaks, with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-Easter,2ndlead VATICAN CITY Pope Francis offers a prayer for coronavirus victims in an unprecedented livestream Easter Sunday message delivered from a hauntingly empty Vatican to a world under lockdown. 950 words 1630 GMT by Dmitry Zaks. Picture. Video Health-virus-Britain-Johnson LONDON Boris Johnson leaves hospital to convalesce from COVID-19 at Chequers, the country estate of British prime ministers, officials say, as Britain braces for its virus death toll to pass 10,000. 700 words 1630 GMT by Joe Jackson. File picture. File video Britain-US-espionage-Assange,Lead LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London for much of the past decade, according to a report confirmed by the mother. 600 words moved by Joe Jackson. File picture Auto-Prix-GBR-Moss,WRAP LONDON Motor racing great Stirling Moss has died aged 90 following a long illness, the British sporting icon's wife announces. 560 words moved by Julian Guyer and Nick Reeves. File picture -- EUROPE -- History-Holocaust-Jews-Netherlands-AnneFrank,FOCUS AMSTERDAM A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger. Seventy-five years after her death in Belsen-Belsen concentration camp, Anne Frank's diary remains more relevant than ever. 800 words moved by Danny Kemp. Video -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's president rejects parliament speaker Benny Gantz's request for more time to form a government, a task that could now fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 600 words 1530 GMT by Ben Simon Iran-US-banking-sanction-Luxembourg TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the country has won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. 400 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-Morocco-women-poverty,FOCUS CASABLANCA, Morocco A small van zips through the streets of Casablanca to deliver food to single mothers, as economic paralysis caused by the coronavirus crisis puts pressure on Morocco's poor. 600 words moved by Sophie Pons. File Picture. Video Health-virus-Algeria-oil-politics-economy-social,ANALYSIS ALGIERS Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if oil prices continue to collapse, experts warn, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political turmoil and now, coronavirus. 670 words moved by Amal Belalloufi with Philippe Agret in Tunis UAE-banking-technology-Islam,FOCUS DUBAI Islamic finance has become a $2 trillion business over the past two decades, but with complex standards set out by Islamic bodies, it's not easy for observant Muslims to decide whether an investment is halal. 770 words moved by Mathilde Dumazet. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON The government's top infectious diseases expert says United States may be able to start gradually reopening next month amid hopeful signs that the coronavirus pandemic is reaching its peak. 500 words 1500 GMT by Shaun Tandon. Picture Health-virus-US-religion,SCENE BALTIMORE, Maryland With authorities banning large gatherings to stem the coronavirus, churches are livestreaming services. But defiant Baptist pastor Alvin Gwynn says in-person gatherings are "the Christian way" -- posing a delicate problem for law enforcement. 700 words 1700 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-telemedicine,FOCUS WASHINGTON For a follow-up visit after her recent cancer surgery, Gail Rae-Garwood opted for a video consultation with her specialist, avoiding a long journey -- and potential exposure to COVID-19 in medical offices. 800 words moved by Rob Lever Health-virus-US-lifestyle-nightlife,FOCUS NEW YORK With New York's nightlife spots closed, digital dance parties are all the rave, as DJs stream sets while revelers don their nipple pasties and disco-ball facemasks for clubs online. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video. File picture Health-US-virus-doctor,FOCUS LOS ANGELES A US doctor's dance videos posted on social media have proven just the right medicine for hundreds of thousands of people, including health care workers, who are cheering him on for lifting their spirits during the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Jocelyne Zablit. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-Taliban-prisoners,WRAP KABUL The Taliban says it will release the first prisoners in a delayed exchange deal with the Afghan government, a potential breakthrough after the insurgents walked out of talks with Kabul last week. 550 words moved by Usman Sharifi Health-virus-China-employment-economy,FOCUS BEIJING Although China is claiming success in the battle against the coronavirus, millions have lost their jobs in the economic fallout, throwing in jeopardy an ambitious target to eradicate poverty this year. 800 words moved by Beiyo Seow Taiwan-sport-baseball-virus-health TAICHUNG, Taiwan Taiwan swings into a new baseball season -- with one team planning to place robot mannequins in their crowdless stands -- as the island bucks the global trend for scrapping sports events during the coronavirus. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORTS -- Health-advertising-Fbl-marketing-ENG-FRA-ESP,FOCUS PARIS With stadiums dark, match shirts folded in closets and most players confined at home, football's sponsors have lost all visibility and are growing restless. 750 words by moved by Yassine Khiri. File pictures Fbl-virus-IND SRINAGAR, India Stranded by the coronavirus lockdown in one of the world's most militarised regions, Zambia's Aaron Katebe is one of 10 foreign footballers reduced to playing video games or training in a hotel gym in Indian-administered Kashmir. 550 words 0230 GMT by Tauseef Mustafa in Srinagar and Faisal Kamal in New Delhi. Picture afp
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