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| - Duty Editor: Karl Malakunas Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump bans travellers from Europe over virus + Weinstein gets 23 years for rape, sexual assault + Sanders says still in fight despite Biden surge + Six-fold jump in polar ice loss since 1990s Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump announces a 30-day ban on travelers from mainland Europe and other countries impose further travel restrictions in belated efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. 900 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographics US-court-entertainment-abuse-Weinstein-sentence,WRAP NEW YORK Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, capping a sensational downfall for the once-powerful producer in a landmark case for the #MeToo movement. 850 words moved by Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video. Live video US-politics-vote,WRAP BURLINGTON, Vermont Bernie Sanders shrugs off a string of primary defeats and pressure to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying he remains in the fight against centrist frontrunner Joe Biden. 750 words moved by Bastien Inzaurralde with Sebastian Smith in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Climate-oceans-sealevel-Antarctica-Greenland PARIS Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, and driving a sea level rise that could see the annual flooding by 2100 of regions home to some 400 million people, scientists warn. 650 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Italy,2ndlead ROME Italy shuts all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in a desperate bid to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 827 in the country in just over two weeks. 600 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. Picture Health-virus-US-entertainment-Hanks,5thlead GOLD COAST, Australia Hollywood megastar Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson test positive for the new coronavirus and enter isolation at a hospital in Australia, where the multi-Oscar-winner had been working on a film. 0600 GMT 0600 GMT by Abbey Smith. Photo. US-health-virus-sport,WRAP LOS ANGELES Sport across the United States and Canada is gripped by coronavirus fears, with the NBA suspending its season after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for COVID-19. 750 words moved by Rob Woollard. Picture Oly-2020-Japan-JPN-virus-health,WRAP TOKYO Cancelling the 2020 Olympics is "unthinkable" although the classification of the coronavirus as a pandemic will likely have some impact on the Games, says the Tokyo city governor. 600 words moved by Kyoko Hasegawa. Picture Health-virus-Italy-south,FOCUS NAPLES, Italy It's a race against time at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, where a new intensive care unit is being assembled as southern Italy's underfunded and overstretched healthcare system braces for the worst. 700 words moved by Ella Ide. Picture. Video Health-virus-LatAm,FOCUS MONTEVIDEO Latin American countries step up measures to slow the advance of the coronavirus, announcing a slew of restrictions on travelers from the worst-affected countries and shutting down major sports events. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic ECB-EU-eurozone-rate,WRAP FRANKFURT The European Central Bank is under pressure to show it too has the firepower to respond to the coronavirus crisis and shore up the eurozone economy after other major central banks have already leapt into the breach. 700 words moved by Tom Barfield Also moving: Health-virus-ECB-EU-eurozone,POINTS -- AMERICAS -- US-Iran-politics-Congress-conflict,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Congress gives its final approval to a bid to restrain President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, a sign of lawmakers' alarm after soaring tensions. 550 words moved by Shaun Tandon US-music-politics-Sanders-offbeat,FOCUS NEW YORK Today music's hottest club is a Bernie Sanders rally -- The Strokes and Public Enemy have been among the acts onstage for him -- but decades ago the presidential hopeful got behind the mic to drop some of his own bars. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson, with Diane Desobeau in Burlington, Vermont. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Syria-conflict,FOCUS BEIRUT As it enters its 10th year, the war in Syria is anything but abating as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human suffering keeps reaching new levels. 800 words moved by Rouba El-Husseini. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Syria-conflict,SCENE Syria-conflict-Damascus,SCENE Syria-conflict,CHRONO Syria-conflict-interventions,FACTS Syria-conflict-numbers,FACTS -- ASIA-PACICIC -- Australia-assault-crime-Catholic,lead CANBERRA Australian prosecutors defend their case against disgraced Cardinal George Pell under a barrage of questioning from judges, as the final day of his appeal against child sex abuse convictions begins. 0700 GMT 600 words by Holly Robertson -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-royals-politics,FOCUS KANO, Nigeria An outspoken ruler mired in conflicts is ousted without warning from his palace and banished under armed guard into an uncertain exile beyond the borders of his realm. This is not the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy, but the real-life drama that has played out in northern Nigeria's influential Islamic emirate of Kano. 800 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. File picture Senegal-environment-concrete DAKAR Residents of Senegal's booming capital Dakar are petitioning to transform one of the city's last blank spaces into a leafy park, hoping to beat back an ever-rising tide of concrete. 550 words moved. Picture afp
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