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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Britain begins mass coronavirus vaccination + EU, Britain bid to salvage Brexit agreement + Almost one tenth of Amazon gone in 18 years + Call for gun curbs as US mourns John Lennon + Everest 'grows' by 86 cm in new measurement Health-virus,WRAP LONDON Britain becomes the first Western country to start a mass coronavirus vaccination campaign with a 90-year-old receiving the initial jab, as more positive developments are announced for vaccines to fight back against the pandemic. 700 words 2030 GMT by Phil Hazlewood with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON Britain and the European Union announce a pact to regulate complex arrangements for Northern Ireland after Brexit, as both sides ready for a face-to-face showdown to try to salvage a wider trade deal. 750 words moved by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-NIreland-Ireland,lead Brazil-environment-Amazon,WRAP SAO PAULO Deforestation in the Amazon destroyed an area bigger than Spain from 2000 to 2018, wiping out eight percent of the world's largest rainforest, according to a new study. 650 words moved by Paula Ramon. File picture Entertainment-US-music-Lennon-guns,SCENE NEW YORK Mourners sing and lay flowers on Central Park's candlelit memorial to John Lennon on Tuesday's 40th anniversary of his murder, as Yoko Ono marks the moment with a call for gun control. 650 words 2030 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video Nepal-China-mountaineering-geology-Everest,2ndlead KATHMANDU The highest point on Earth gets a bit higher as China and Nepal finally agree on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after years of debate. 550 words moved by Paavan Mathema. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Britain-vaccine,4thlead COVENTRY, United Kingdom Nurses cheer as a 90-year-old grandmother in Britain becomes the first person in the Western world to receive an approved vaccine against Covid-19, at the start of a marathon campaign health officials hope heralds a fight-back against the pandemic. 650 words moved by Phil Hazlewood, with Stuart Graham in Edinburgh and Paul Barker in Preston. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-vaccine WASHINGTON President Donald Trump plans to issue a decree aimed at granting Americans priority access to certain vaccines, but faces questions over whether the White House missed an opportunity to shore up sufficient doses in the months ahead. 650 words 2000 GMT by Issam Ahmed with Sebastian Smith in Wilmington. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Health-virus-US-vaccine-transport,FOCUS Health-virus-US-vaccine-transport-timetable,FACTS Health-virus-Germany-vaccine-ethics,FOCUS -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-business-lobbying-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON US President-elect Joe Biden didn't go far for his choice of defense secretary: retired general Lloyd Austin came from the same inside-the-Beltway consultants as Biden's secretary of state, intelligence chief and White House communications head. 800 words 1930 GMT by Paul Handley -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-politics,WRAP KINSHASA Police deploy in DR Congo's parliament on the second day of clashes sparked by a crisis between President Felix Tshisekedi and supporters of his predecessor Joseph Kabila. 600 words 2000 GMT. File picture. Video Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray-UN-refugees,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Friction mounts between Ethiopia's government and the UN over access to the northern region of Tigray, as alarm grows at the plight of civilians and refugees more than a week since fighting was declared over. 750 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Ethiopia-conflict-Tigray-Sudan-refugees-school,FOCUS Mozambique-unrest-gas,lead MAPUTO Islamist militants attack and occupy a northern Mozambican village in their closest raid yet to a giant gas project, military sources tell AFP. 500 words moved -- ASIA -- China-politics-US,WRAP BEIJING China blasts new US sanctions against officials involved in the clampdown on Hong Kong, calling the move "crazy and vile", a further worsening of relations between the world's superpowers. 550 words moved India-politics-farmers-agriculture-demonstration-farms,WRAP NEW DELHI Railway tracks and highways are blocked across India as farmers launch a national day of action against reforms deregulating the agriculture sector, upping the stakes after 10 days blockading the capital. 650 words 1930 GMT by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Live video NZealand-mosques-attacks-inquiry,lead WELLINGTON New Zealand police and intelligence services made a string of errors ahead of last year's Christchurch mosques attack, but may not have been able to prevent the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry finds. 700 words moved by Neil Sands Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-US-WikiLeaks-Assange-UN-rights-Australia GENEVA A UN rights expert urges Britain to release Julian Assange immediately following a decade of "arbitrary detention", insisting the WikiLeaks founder should await a decision on extradition to the US outside prison. 450 words moved -- SPORTS -- Fbl-Eur-C1,WRAP PARIS Manchester United bid to secure qualication for the last 16 of the Champions League alongside Paris Saint-Germain, while Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo renew their storied rivalry as Barcelona host Juventus. 650 words 2300 GMT by Martyn Wood. Picture. Video Cricket-AUS-IND,lead SYDNEY Virat Kohli blasted 85 but it wasn't enough to prevent Australia from fighting off a T20 series sweep with a thrilling 12-run victory in the final match in Sydney. 600 words moved. Picture afp
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