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| - Duty Editor: Emma Charlton Tel: +1 202 414 0543 -- TOP STORIES -- + Pandemic fears as top Iran official among sick + Deadly riots rock India capital as Trump visits + Egypt's ousted leader Mubarak dies at 91 + White House rivals seek to derail Sanders + Domingo 'sorry' over sexual harassment Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA New coronavirus cases surge outside of China, with an Iranian deputy minister among the sick, triggering mass disruption as a top health official warns the world is "simply not ready" to contain the epidemic. 800 words 2200 GMT by Dario Thuburn with Laurent Thomet in Beijing. Picture. Video. Graphic India-US-diplomacy-trade,WRAP NEW DELHI Donald Trump fails to strike any trade deal with India at the end of a visit big on photo opportunities but short on substance and overshadowed by deadly riots. 700 words 2000 GMT by Jerome Cartillier and Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: India-unrest-law-religion-demonstration,WRAP Egypt-politics-Mubarak,WRAP CAIRO Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled autocratically for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, dies at age 91. 650 words moved by Farid Farid. File picture. File video Also moved: Egypt-politics-Mubarak,OBITUARY Egypt-politics-Mubarak,CHRONO US-politics-vote,WRAP WASHINGTON Frontrunner Bernie Sanders will be in the firing line as Democratic rivals seek to derail the leftist's push for the White House nomination at a crucial debate in South Carolina. 650 words 2200 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture Spain-opera-assault-Domingo,WRAP MADRID Opera star Placido Domingo, facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, apologises for "the hurt" caused to his accusers, saying he accepts "full responsibility" for his actions. 750 words moved by Hazel Ward. File picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Iran TEHRAN Iran says its coronavirus outbreak, the deadliest outside China, has claimed 15 lives among nearly 100 cases of infection -- including the country's deputy health minister. 700 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Spain-hotel SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain Hundreds of people are confined to their rooms at a Tenerife hotel after an Italian tourist is hospitalised with a suspected case of coronavirus, health officials in the Canary Islands say. 600 words moved by Desiree Martin. Picture. Video Health-virus-Italy ROME Italy's European neighbours pledge to keep borders open despite the new coronavirus spreading down the country and a surge in the number of infected people. 650 words moved by Ella Ide and Jastinder Khera. Picture. Video. Live Video Also moved: Health-virus-Italy-economy-fraud,FOCUS Health-virus-Austria-hotel,2ndlead Health-virus-monitoring,Q&A Heath-virus,FACTS Health-virus,CHRONO Health-virus-SKorea,WRAP SEOUL The novel coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is "very grave", President Moon Jae-in says on a visit to the epicentre of his country's nearly 1,000 cases of the illness. 550 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-Japan-ship-toll,WRAP Health-virus-fbl-JPN-Oly-2020,WRAP TOKYO Tokyo Olympics organisers say preparations are "continuing as planned", but Japan's football league becomes the latest sporting victim of the coronavirus, just five months before the Games. 650 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-entertainment-abuse-Weinstein-Trump-India,WRAP NEW YORK Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes conviction was a "great victory" for women, says President Donald Trump -- without acknowledging the numerous women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. 500 words moved by Peter Hutchison. Picture. Video US-politics-vote-Sanders,FOCUS WASHINGTON Bernie Sanders' past praise for communist regimes in Cuba and the Soviet Union comes back to haunt him as rivals for the Democratic White House nomination brand him a friend of left-wing dictators. 750 words 2000 GMT by Paul Handley. Picture -- EUROPE -- Germany-crime-investigation,WRAP VOLKMARSEN, Germany German authorities scramble to determine the motives of a man who ploughed his car into a carnival procession, injuring dozens and further unsettling a country rocked by a fatal mass shooting last week. 600 words 2030 GMT by Ina Fassbender with Tom Barfield in Frankfurt. Picture Greece-migrants-protest,WRAP LESBOS ISLAND, Greece Greek riot police fire tear gas to disperse angry locals on the islands of Lesbos and Chios protesting against the planned construction of controversial new migrant camps. 600 words moved by Will Vassilopoulos. Picture France-Canada-Pakistan-religion,INTERVIEW PARIS Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, says she has yet to taste true freedom in her new life abroad and dreams of returning home. 500 words moved by Mariette Le Roux. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghan-conflict-US-Taliban,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States voices optimism about reaching an accord to end the war in Afghanistan as a partial truce holds with the Taliban, warning rival leaders in the Kabul government not to scuttle the "enormous opportunity." 650 words 2100 GMT by Shaun Tandon with Usman Sharifi in Kabul. Picture. Video Also moved: Afghanistan-conflict-US-Taliban,Q&A China-Sweden-rights-court,WRAP BEIJING A Chinese court sentences Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad, prompting Stockholm to call for his release in a case that has rattled diplomatic relations. 600 words moved by Jing Xuan Teng. File picture. Graphic. video Malaysia-politics,Q&A KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's government has collapsed after the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, which followed a failed bid to form a new coalition aimed at stopping leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim's succession. Here are some details about the political crisis and what could happen next. 650 words moved by Sam Reeves. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Israel-Palestinians-conflict-WestBank,WRAP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledges to build 3,500 new settler homes in a highly sensitive area of the occupied West Bank, just a week before a tight general election. 600 words moved. Video. Picture Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,WRAP Libya-conflict-UN,WRAP TRIPOLI The UN's Libya mission and world powers urge the country's warring parties to engage in peace efforts, as doubts hang over talks set to start Wednesday in Geneva. 560 words moved Saudi-politics-cabinet,WRAP RIYADH Saudi Arabia announces the creation of three new ministries, for tourism, sports and investment, according to royal decrees that also unveil a sweeping cabinet reshuffle. 600 words moved by Anuj Chopra -- AFRICA -- Cameroon-unrest-anglophone-rights,WRAP YAOUNDE Human Rights Watch accuses Cameroon's armed forces of taking part in the massacre of at least 21 civilians in a region where troops are battling anglophone separatists. 600 words 1930 GMT by Emmanuel Giroud. File picture. Graphic Sahel-unrest-G5,WRAP NOUAKCHOTT A summit of Sahel states hears appeals to step up the fight against jihadists whose offensive across three countries has claimed thousands of lives and inflicted crippling economic damage. 600 words moved. File picture. Graphic -- ENVIRONMENT -- Climate-Arctic-agriculture,WRAP LONGYEARBYEN, Norway A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic receives 60,000 new seed samples, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural bounty in case of global catastrophe. 600 words moved by Mark Sabbatini with Pierre-Henry Deshayes in Oslo. File picture. File video. Graphic afp
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