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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump vs Biden in final vote debate + Thailand revokes emergency measures + Virus gloom as Europe cases surge + Lagos tense after protesters killed + Borat targets Giuliani in new film US-vote,WRAP NASHVILLE, Tennessee President Donald Trump squares off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden in what promises to be a bruising final debate with less than two weeks left in their turbulent fight for the White House. 600 words moved by Eric Baradat with Jerome Cartillier in Washington. Picture. Video Thailand-politics-royals-unrest,WRAP BANGKOK Thailand's premier revokes an emergency decree aimed at quelling pro-democracy protests after it failed to stamp out daily rallies demanding his resignation and reforms of the unassailable monarchy. 700 words moved by Thanaporn Promyamyai. Picture. Video Health-virus,WRAP DUBLIN Businesses close across Ireland for a second national lockdown, as record coronavirus case surges in Germany and Italy help spread gloom across the continent. 650 words 1000 GMT by Joe Stenson with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Nigeria-unrest,WRAP LAGOS Tensions are high in Nigeria's largest city Lagos but the streets are deserted following the shooting of protesters that has shocked Africa's most populous nation and triggered international condemnation. 400 words 1100 GMT by Sophie Bouillon. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-film-Borat,FOCUS LOS ANGELES Borat is back on the big screen -- and the fictional Kazakh journalist's return spells bad news for Holocaust deniers, Donald Trump supporters and the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. 550 words moved by Andrew Marszal. File picture -- US VOTE -- US-vote-Iran-Russia-hacking-security,WRAP WASHINGTON Russia and Iran have obtained US voter information and taken actions to influence public opinion ahead of the November 3 election, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says. 500 words moved US-vote-automobile-layoffs-GM,FOCUS LORDSTOWN, Ohio Workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio listened when President Donald Trump told them the region would soon be booming. But two years after that 2017 speech, the plant closed. 750 words moved by John Biers. Picture. Video Also moved: US-vote-automobile-trade,Q&A US-vote-economy-trade-manufacturing-China,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON Donald Trump has often boasted that his aggressive trade policies have helped American companies, but the impact of those tactics on consumers and the economy overall are less clear-cut. 750 words moved by Delphine Touitou. File picture -- See our special advisory for full coverage plan -- -- EUROPE -- Britain-EU-Brexit-politics,WRAP LONDON European Union negotiators head to London to resume Brexit trade talks after Britain called off a boycott, with both sides vowing to work round the clock to seal a deal in the weeks remaining. 650 words 1200 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video France-attack,WRAP PARIS The man who decapitated a teacher in France for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class had been in contact with a Russian-speaking jihadist in Syria, a source close to the case says. 500 words 1000 GMT by Sylvie Maligorne and Jurgen Hecker Ukraine-vote-Russia-conflict,FOCUS SLOVYANSK, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky rose to power on a pledge to end the deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine. But nowhere has the failure so far to fulfil that promise fallen more flat than in the east itself, where Russian-speaking inhabitants yearn for a future of harmonious cultural and commercial ties with their giant neighbour. 750 words moved by Dmytro Gorshkov. Picture. Video Spain-politics-justice,FOCUS MADRID A proposed reform of a top Spanish legal body sparks a storm of controversy with critics warning it risks undermining the judicial system's independence in concerns echoed by Brussels. 650 words 1100 GMT by Marie Giffard -- ASIA -- China-Vatican-diplomacy-religion-rights,WRAP BEIJING A secretive 2018 agreement between Beijing and the Vatican is renewed, despite strident US condemnation and warnings from underground Chinese priests loyal to Rome that they have only become more marginalised since it was signed. 750 words moved by Laurie Chen. Picture HongKong-China-Taiwan-politics-crime-unrest,FACTS HONG KONG Hong Konger Chan Tong-kai admits to murdering his pregnant girlfriend in a Taipei hotel room nearly two years ago. He has even said he is willing to return to Taiwan and face trial. Yet he remains a free man. 750 words moved by Su Xinqi and Yan Zhao -- AFRICA -- Seychelles-vote,WRAP VICTORIA The Seychelles kicks off a three-day election for the president and lawmakers, with voting to be spread out across the 115 scattered islands making up the idyllic archipelago. 650 words moved by Rassin Vannier. File Video. File Picture. Also moved: Seychelles-vote,CHRONO Seychelles-vote,FACTS -- MIDDLE EAST -- Saudi-Turkey-diplomacy-trade,FOCUS RIYADH From pickled vine leaves to coffee and cheese, Saudi supermarkets are taking Turkish products off the shelves after calls for a boycott, as rivalry between Riyadh and Ankara heats up. 800 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture Egypt-vote,ADVANCER CAIRO Egyptians go to the polls this weekend to elect a new parliament, which critics say will just replicate a "rubber-stamp" body in place since 2015 under hardline President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. 550 words moved by Menna Zaki Also moved: Egypt-vote-Sisi,CHRONO Egypt-vote-repression,CHRONO -- AMERICAS -- Bolivia-vote-observers,WRAP LA PAZ International observers declare Bolivia's presidential election transparent and Luis Arce's incoming leftist government legitimate, as an official but incomplete tally shows an overwhelming victory for the protege of ex-president Evo Morales. 600 words moved. Picture. Video -- SPORT Fbl-BRA-Pele,FOCUS SAO PAULO Considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, Pele will celebrate his 80th birthday Friday, confined to his home in Brazil because of Covid-19 but meeting the milestone with his trademark laugh. 550 words moved by Rodrigo Almonacid. File picture afp
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