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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump bids for late swing state resurgence + France in Covid curfew, US cases top 8 mn + Ardern set to win N.Zealand 'Covid election' + US rejects Putin nuclear treaty extension + Pink dolphins return to Hong Kong waters US-vote,WRAP FORT MYERS, Florida US President Donald Trump campaigns in Florida and Georgia -- two states he won four years ago, but which now threaten to swing to Democratic challenger Joe Biden -- in a visible sign of how far he has to catch up with only 18 days to go until the election. 700 words 2000 GMT by Brendan Smialowski, with Sebastian Smith and Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Paris and other French cities brace for their last night out before the start of a stringent anti-virus curfew, while in the US Covid-19 cases top the eight million mark. 800 words 2000 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic NZealand-vote-health-virus,ADVANCER WELLINGTON New Zealanders go to the polls with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in striking distance of reelection with an unprecedented outright majority after campaigning on her success handling the Covid-19 pandemic. 700 words moved by Neil Sands Russia-US-politics-defence,WRAP MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes a one-year extension without conditions of the last major nuclear arms reduction accord with the United States, which called his offer a "non-starter." 650 words 2000 GMT by Anna Smolchenko HongKong-virus-health-animal,FOCUS HONG KONG Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries, but scientists remain deeply concerned about their long-term survival in one of the world's busiest sea lanes. 700 words moved by Ayaka McGill. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-society-women,FOCUS STAMFORD Donald Trump says suburban women will reelect him president, but in Connecticut female voters calling themselves The S.W.A.T Team are campaigning against his efforts to court the crucial voting bloc. 700 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-vaccine,FOCUS WASHINGTON Two American companies expect to apply for emergency approval for their Covid-19 vaccines by late November, welcome news as the US enters a third surge of its coronavirus epidemic and approaches its eight millionth case. 650 words moved by Issam Ahmed. Picture Mexico-US-politics-arrest,WRAP NEW YORK A former Mexican defense minister is charged in the United States with drug trafficking and money laundering in the latest high-profile arrest linked to the country's powerful cartels. 650 words 1930 GMT by Thomas Urbain with Sofia Miselem in Mexico City. File picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON European and British negotiators will be in touch to discuss the "structure" of post-Brexit trade talks despite London's threat to walk away unless there was a major shift in Brussels' approach. 650 words moved by Jitendra Joshi, Alice Ritchie and Dave Clark. Picture. Video Already moved: Britain-EU-Brexit-politics-Farage-offbeat Markets-world,WRAP Kyrgyzstan-politics-unrest,WRAP BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister and acting president Sadyr Japarov styles himself a reformist in his first major address to the nation as he states his willingness to tackle crime and corruption after cementing control over the troubled country. 650 words moved by Tolkun Namatbayeva. Picture. Video Also moved: Kyrgyzstan-politics-Japarov,PROFILE France-attack,WRAP PARIS An unidentified assailant decapitates a history teacher in France who had recently shown cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class, with prosecutors treating the case as a terror incident. 600 words moved by Jurgen Hecker France-politics-corruption-Libya-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS French prosecutors say they have charged former president Nicolas Sarkozy over claims he accepted cash from the Libyan dictatorship of Moamer Kadhafi for his 2007 election campaign. 700 words moved by Guillaume Daudin. File picture. File video -- MIDEAST -- Yemen-conflict-prisoners,WRAP SANAA More than 350 prisoners are freed on the second and final day of a landmark exchange between the warring sides in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. 400 words moved. Picture. Video. Yemen-conflict-history-culture SEIYUN, Yemen Yemen's Seiyun Palace, one of the world's largest mud-brick structures, has become the war-torn country's latest heritage site facing the risk of collapse as heavy rains and years of neglect take their toll. 500 words moved by Mohammed Bahufain. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Guinea-politics-vote,ADVANCER CONAKRY Guineans will vote for a president on Sunday, with the 82-year-old incumbent Alpha Conde bidding for a third term despite mass protests against the move and concerns about democratic backsliding. 750 words moved by Laurent Lozano. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Guinea-politics-vote-economy,FOCUS Guinea-politics-vote,FACTFILE Nigeria-protests-police-youth,SCENE LAGOS Dancing, chanting and determined: young Nigerians jam the streets of megacity Lagos to protest against police violence and demand their say in a society that too often sidelines them. 700 words moved by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video Also moved: Nigeria-protest-police,FACTS SAfrica-crime-racism-politics,WRAP SENEKAL, South Africa Emotions run high as two black suspects appear in a South African court over the murder of a white farmer in a case which has sparked racial tensions. 730 words moved. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Thailand-politics-royals-demonstration,WRAP BANGKOK Thai police use water cannons against protesters in central Bangkok, as the pro-democracy activists defy an emergency decree banning gatherings for a second night running. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic. Live video Afghanistan-Guantanamo-prisoners,FOCUS PESHAWAR, Pakistan For 13 years, Sehar Bibi has waited for her son to be released from Guantanamo Bay, where life for one of the last Afghan detainees has been defined by hunger strikes, force-feedings and isolation. 650 words moved by David Stout and Sajjad Tarakzai. Picture. Video afp
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