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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.76.80 -- TOP STORIES -- + Iran buries slain top nuclear scientist + Australia slams 'repugnant' China tweet + Biden names all-women comms team + Maradona doctor 'did everything he could' + 'World's loneliest' elephant lands in Cambodia Iran-nuclear-attack,WRAP TEHRAN Iran lays to rest its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as the Islamic republic weighs how to retaliate for an assassination pinned on arch-foe Israel. 750 words 1000 GMT by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Live Video. Graphic Australia-China-diplomacy-Afghanistan,WRAP SYDNEY Australia's prime minister angrily denounces a "repugnant", "outrageous" and "appalling" tweet from a top Chinese government spokesman and demands Beijing formally apologise. 500 words 0930 GMT US-vote-Biden-appointments,lead WASHINGTON US President-elect Joe Biden announces an all-female senior White House communications team, what his office call a first in the country's history. 550 words moved by Mike Smith Fbl-Argentina-Maradona-ARG-doctor,WRAP BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona's surgeon responds to the launch of an investigation for involuntary manslaughter by saying he did "everything he could, up to the impossible" for an "unmanageable" patient. 650 words moved. File picture Cambodia-Pakistan-Cher-animal-wildlife-zoo,2ndlead SIEM REAP, Cambodia An elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" lands in Cambodia from Pakistan, receiving a warm welcome from American superstar Cher who will accompany it to a sanctuary housing three potential mates. 400 words 1100 GMT by Suy Se. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON America should prepare for a "surge upon a surge" in coronavirus cases as millions of travelers return home after the Thanksgiving holiday, top US scientist Anthony Fauci warns. 800 words moved by Ben Sheppard. Picture. Graphic. Video Health-virus-Britain,FOCUS TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England In quintessentially conservative Tunbridge Wells, residents are living up to the town's caricatured reputation for perpetual indignation due to the government's coronavirus restrictions. 650 words moved by Joe Jackson. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-Biden-health,2ndlead NEWARK, Delaware, United States Joe Biden has a foot fracture, his team says after the US president-elect was taken to the doctor because he had slipped while playing with his dog. 250 words moved. Picture Mexico-US-diplomacy-economy,FOCUS MEXICO CITY After years of fiery rhetoric from outgoing President Donald Trump, Mexico is bracing for more discreet but steadfast pressure from Joe Biden's administration to fulfill its trade obligations to the letter, analysts say. 650 words moved by Sofia Miselem US-vote-Trump WASHINGTON In the first TV interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicates that he may never concede to Joe Biden or abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud. 400 words moved Brazil-vote,WRAP SAO PAULO Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's candidates suffer further defeats and the traditional center-right emerges stronger in municipal runoff elections seen as a gauge of where things stand in Brazilian politics ahead of presidential polls in 2022. 700 words moved by Paula Ramon, with Joshua Howat Berger in Rio de Janeiro. Picture. Video Also moving: Brazil-vote-mayors,PROFILE -- ASIA -- Australia-fire-environment-climate,lead BRISBANE Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bushfire that has already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hits. 550 words moved NZealand-volcano-work,2ndlead WELLINGTON New Zealand's workplace watchdog hands down criminal charges over the White Island volcanic eruption last year that claimed 22 lives and left dozens more with horrific burns. 550 words moved by Neil Sands. Picture. Video Indonesia-volcano JAKARTA Thousands flee the scene of a rumbling Indonesian volcano that burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash, the country's disaster agency says. 300 words moved. Picture. Video. Live video -- EUROPE -- France-police-protest-law,WRAP PARIS Four French police are charged over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer in a case that has ramped up the pressure on the government to give ground on a controversial new security law. 650 words 1000 GMT by Guillaume Daudin and Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Britain-pollution-inquest,WRAP LONDON A coroner's inquests starts in London to determine a legal first of whether air pollution played a role in the death of a nine-year-old girl who lived near a busy road. 600 words 1100 GMT by Pauline Froissart. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh-Lachin,SCENE LACHIN, Azerbaijan A herd of cows slowly advances along the snow-covered Lachin corridor, the only road now connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. Sixty-seven-year-old Asya Petrosyan is leading her animals out of the area before it is handed over to Azerbaijan. 600 words 1130 GMT by Emmanuel Peuchot. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Iran-nuclear-attack-scientist,PROFILE TEHRAN Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in an attack the Islamic republic blames on Israel, was little known before his death, but one thing is certain: he was important. 600 words 1100 GMT -- AFRICA -- Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray-Eritrea,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Hospitals in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region face an influx of trauma patients, an aid group says, after federal troops claim control of the city and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declares the fighting over. 800 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Graphic. Video Ethiopia-unrest-Sudan-refugees,FOCUS GEDAREF, Sudan Ethiopians who fled the Tigray region into Sudan are torn between a grim future in refugee camps and returning to an almost month-old conflict in their homeland. 750 words 1000 GMT by Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali and Menna Zaki. Picture. Video -- SPORT - Auto-Pirx-BRN-Haas-Grosjean-crash,WRAP MANAMA Race officials and drivers praise the modern safety systems developed for Formula One after Romain Grosjean said he was "okay" after surviving a high-speed crash and fireball blaze on the opening lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix. 600 words moved -- BUSINESS & ECONOMY -- OPEC-oil-health-virus,WRAP VIENNA The OPEC oil producers' club and its allies hold a virtual meeting to finalise an expected extension to production cuts as the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on global demand 500 words 1300 GMT by Denise Hruby US-market-rating-merger-S&P-IHS-Markit NEW YORK S&P Global is nearing a deal to buy IHS Markit for around $44 billion, reports say, in what would be a merger of two of Wall Street's largest data providers. 200 words moved Italy-employment-women,FOCUS MILAN Whether through new nurseries or bridging the gender pay gap, many Italian women hope a post-pandemic recovery plan will tackle entrenched inequality in the labour market, especially in the poorer south. 700 words 0930 GMT by Celine Cornu Britain-fraud-accounting-business,FOCUS LONDON Britain's audit sector, dominated by the so-called Big Four accountancy giants, is shortly expected to discover how it must reinvent itself amid a series of probes into alleged corruption, including one linked to the collapse of German electronic payments group Wirecard. 700 words 0930 GMT by Roland Jackson. 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