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| - Duty Editor: Lachlan Carmichael Email: engdeskers@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + New lockdowns in Europe as AstraZeneca row escalates + Turkey denounced over women's treaty pullout + Protesters defy Myanmar campaign of fear + Iceland volcano erupts after 900 years + How big is your pet's carbon pawprint? Health-virus,WRAP PARIS France, Poland and Ukraine introduce strict new lockdown measures to fight a surge in Covid-19 infections, as the European Union threatens to block exports of AstraZeneca jabs in an escalating row over vaccines. 700 words 1100 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Turkey-politics-women-rights,WRAP ISTANBUL Turkey sparks international concern and condemnation after pulling out of the world's first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women. 600 words 1030 GMT. File Picture Myanmar-politics-military-unrest,WRAP YANGON Protesters return to the streets across Myanmar, defying a junta-led campaign of fear as regional powers Indonesia and Malaysia condemn the violence deployed by security forces against anti-coup demonstrators. 750 words moved. File picture. File video Iceland-volcano,WRAP REYKJAVIK Glowing red lava spews out from a volcano that has erupted near Iceland's capital Reykjavik after being dormant for more than 900 years. 650 words 0930 GMT by Jeremie Richard. Picture. Video. Climate-environment-animals-cats-dogs PARIS Is your adorable puppy as bad for the planet as a gas-guzzling SUV? 700 words moved by Amelie Bottollier-Depois. File Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Oly-Japan-2020-2021-virus-health TOKYO Olympic organisers meet for talks expected to bar overseas fans from this summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, in a bid to reduce virus risks and win over a sceptical public. 600 words 1000 GMT by Sara Hussein Health-virus-Brazil-hospital,FOCUS SAO PAULO There are fewer wrinkles and less gray hair among patients in Brazil's intensive care units as the country reels from a surge in Covid-19 that is increasingly hitting people under 60. 600 words moved by Rodrigo Almondacid. Picture. Video Health-virus-Nordics-vaccine,FOCUS HELSINKI The Nordic countries were among the first to suspend the use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine amid fears of possible severe side effects and, unlike most of Europe, they're holding off before resuming jabs. 600 words moved by Sam Kingsley -- EUROPE -- Belgium-attacks-politics-anniversary,INTERVIEW BRUSSELS It has been five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 32 people in the Belgian capital Brussels, in an attack then prime minister Charles Michel says changed the country forever. 600 words 1000 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere. File picture Belgium-attacks-witness-anniversary,FOCUS TERVUREN, Belgium Four months in hospital, 13 operations, a dead leg but the good fortune to still be alive: For Sebastien Bellin, seriously injured in the jihadist attacks of 2016 in Brussels, "rebuilding" is still an ordeal five years later. 650 words 1000 GMT by Matthieu Demeestere. Picture. Video Lifestyle-Britain-games-consumer,FOCUS LONDON Furious British gamers and lawmakers are training their sights on "scalpers" who are buying up coveted PS5 and Xbox consoles and selling them online at vastly inflated prices. 650 words moved by Charlotte Durand. File picture Germany-property-referendum,FOCUS BERLIN In Berlin's fashionable Kreuzberg district, Jannick, 29, is waiting in line to sign a petition for a referendum on expropriating large property developers, a drastic and unprecedented move in the fight against the German capital's spiralling housing crisis. 650 words moved by Florian Cazeres. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Saudi-energy-Yemen-conflict,WRAP RIYADH A drone strike sparks a fire at a Riyadh oil refinery in an attack claimed by Yemen's Huthi rebels, as the Iran-backed insurgents make major advances on the embattled Yemeni city of Marib. 700 words moved by Anuj Chopra with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Video. File picture. File video. Graphic Israel-vote,WRAP JERUSALEM Campaigning in Israel nears an end, with incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu seeking the majority that eluded him in three recent votes by highlighting the country's robust vaccination drive and his "real" right-wing credentials. 750 words moved by Ben Simon. Picture. File picture. Video Also moved: Israel-vote,CHRONO Israel-vote,FACTS -- AFRICA -- Tanzania-politics-Hassan,WRAP DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan calls for unity as she becomes the country's first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. 800 words moved. Picture. Video. Graphic. Also moved: Tanzania-politics-Hassan,PROFILE DRCongo-unrest-UN,WRAP GENEVA Nearly 200 people have been killed and 40,000 displaced since January following a surge of attacks by the ADF militia in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says, as protests against the massacres bring three cities to a standstill. 600 words moved by Nina Larson. File picture. Graphic Congo-vote,WRAP BRAZZAVILLE The Republic of Congo votes in a presidential election on Sunday with incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso aiming to extend his decades-long hold on power in the central African state. 650 words moved by Samir Tounsi and Laudes Martial Mbon Also moved: Congo-vote,CHRONO, Congo-vote,FACTS, Congo-vote,COUNTRYFACTFILE -- AMERICAS -- US-China-diplomacy,WRAP ANCHORAGE The first talks between President Joe Biden's administration and China are "tough and direct," a senior US official says, amid rising tensions between the rival world powers. 700 words moved by Frederic J. Brown with Francesco Fontemaggi in Washington. Picture. File Picture. Video Also moved: US-diplomacy-China-Biden,ANALYSIS US-crime-shooting-racism-Asian,WRAP ATLANTA US President Joe Biden denounces the upsurge of violence against Asian-Americans, telling a community plunged into grief after this week's Atlanta murders that the nation must not be complicit in the face of racism and xenophobia. 850 words moved by Eric Baradat. Graphic. Picture. Video Canada-China-diplomacy-trial,WRAP OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacts angrily to the closed-door trial of a Canadian man detained in China for more than two years on espionage charges, dismissing it as "completely unacceptable." 700 words moved by Michel Comte. Picture. File Picture -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military,FOCUS YANGON Makeshift barricades of bamboo, brick and burning rubber tyres have lent the streets of Myanmar's largest city the look of an urban warzone, and now the military are forcing civilians to dismantle them, piece by piece... at gunpoint. 600 words moved. Picture India-US-politics-defence-diplomacy,LEAD NEW DELHI Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin praises India's growing ties with "like-minded partners" as he holds talks in New Delhi dominated by shared alarm about China. 700 words moved. Picture. Video. afp
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