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| - Duty Editor: Daniel Lawler Contact: Engdesk@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Up to 10,000 fans at Tokyo Olympic events + Sweden govt toppled in no-confidence vote + Iran president-elect gives nuclear talks warning + Ethiopia votes in poll overshadowed by Tigray + Weightlifter picked as first transgender Olympian Oly-2020-2021-Japan-health-virus-spectators,2ndlead TOKYO Up to 10,000 spectators will be allowed at Tokyo 2020 Olympic events, organisers say just weeks before the opening ceremony, but competition could move behind closed doors if infections surge. 650 words moved by Sara Hussein. Picture. Video. Live video Sweden-politics-government,WRAP STOCKHOLM Sweden's government is toppled after Prime Minister Stefan Lofven becomes the first Swedish premier to lose a no-confidence vote, leaving him the choice of resigning or calling a snap election. 700 words 1430 GMT by Johannes Ledel with Helene Dauschy. Picture. Video Also moving: Sweden-politics,PROFILE Iran-nuclear-politics,WRAP TEHRAN Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi says he will not allow nuclear negotiations for the sake of negotiations, in his first news conference since winning election last week. 700 words moved by Amir Havasi. Picture. Video. Live Video Ethiopia-vote,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Ethiopians vote in a delayed national election taking place against the backdrop of war and famine in the northern Tigray region, and questions over the poll's credibility. 800 words 1500 GMT by Nick Perry and Marion Douet. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Ethiopia-vote,CHRONO Ethiopia-vote,COUNTRY FACTFILE Oly-2020-2021-weightlifting-NZL-Hubbard-gender,2ndlead WELLINGTON New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is selected as the first transgender Olympic athlete after Kiwi officials made a groundbreaking call on "a highly sensitive and complex issue". 600 words moved by Neil Sands -- SPOTLIGHT -- Thailand-crime-television-Serpent,FEATURE BANGKOK Nearly half a century after he sowed fear along the 1970s "hippie trail", French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, the "Serpent" of the hit TV drama series, still haunts the lives of those who crossed his path. 1,100 words moved by Sophie Deviller and Pitcha Dangprasith. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-science-research-ethics,FOCUS PARIS In the fever rush to study the coronavirus as it scorched its way across the planet, unprecedented demand for information and intense online scrutiny have thrown a spotlight on mistakes in science research and tested public trust, experts say. 750 words 1500 GMT by Julie Charpentrat. Picture Also moving: Health-virus-science-research-ethics,Q&A Health-virus-India-lifestyle-yoga-vaccines,lead NEW DELHI India opens up free vaccinations to all adults in an attempt to bolster its inoculation drive as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicks off a muted International Yoga Day hailing its "protective" properties against the virus. 500 words by moved. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Armenia-vote,WRAP YEREVAN Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan scores a decisive victory in snap parliamentary elections, bolstering his rule after months of discontent and protests following a military defeat to Azerbaijan. 700 words 1430 GMT by Anna Smolchenko and Mariam Harutyunyan. Picture. Video Also moved: Armenia-vote-Pashinyan,PROFILE Spain-politics-Catalonia-prisoners,WRAP BARCELONA Spain will pardon the jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says. 700 words 1500 GMT by Rosa Sulleiro with Alvaro Villalobos in Madrid. Picture. Video EU-Belarus-diplomacy-sanctions,WRAP LUXEMBOURG EU foreign ministers agree to sanction key sectors of the Belarus economy as the bloc ratchets up pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko after the forced landing of an airliner. 600 words 1530 GMT by Christian Spillman. Picture. Video Also moved: EU-Belarus-diplomacy-sanctions-fertiliser-petroleum,FACTS Germany-Russia-espionage,WRAP BERLIN German police arrest a Russian scientist working at a German university, accusing him of spying for Moscow, the latest case that risks further inflaming tensions between Germany and Russia. 600 words 1530 GMT by Deborah Cole Germany-politics-CDU,WRAP BERLIN German conservatives will unveil their plan to win voters in a future without Angela Merkel, as chancellor candidate Armin Laschet looks to extend his lead ahead of September's election. 650 words moved by Femke Colborne Also moving: Germany-politics-CDU,POINTS France-vote-politics,WRAP PARIS France's far-right led by Marine Le Pen insists it can recover from a disappointing first round of regional polls marked by a strong results from the traditional right and another feeble performance by President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party. 700 words moved by Adam Plowright. Picture. Video France-trial-women,WRAP CHALON-SUR-SAONE, France A French woman who killed the man who raped her for years as her stepfather before becoming her husband and pimp goes on trial for murder in a case that has gripped the country and outraged feminists. 600 words moved by Loic Venin. Picture. Video France-Islam-trial-religion,PROFILE PARIS Aged just 18, French teenager Mila has created a nationwide controversy, faced relentless cyberharassment including death threats and been defended by President Emmanuel Macron after criticising Islam on social media. 700 words moved by Guillaume Daudin and Stuart Williams. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-UAE-diplomacy,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will visit the United Arab Emirates, the first official ministerial visit since the two nations agreed to normalise ties. 450 words moved. Picture Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Bedouin,FOCUS RAHAT, Israel From her tin-roof home in the sweltering Negev desert, Umm Jawad Abu Qwaider offers her bleak assessment of the first Arab party to back an Israeli government -- a shoulder shrug. 700 words moved by Majeda El-Batsh. Picture. Video Yemen-nature,VIDEOESSAY AL-MAHRA, Yemen Surrounded in mystery and tales of demons, the Well of Barhout in Yemen's east -- known as the "Well of Hell" -- is a little-understood natural wonder. 350 words 1000 GMT. Picture. Video Libya-conflict-Germany-diplomacy,ADVANCER BERLIN Germany will seek to broker lasting peace in Libya on Wednesday, gathering world powers in Berlin to extract a firm promise to withdraw foreign fighters and keep the North African country on track for its December 24 election. 550 words moved by Hui Min Neo Also moved: Libya-politics,CHRONO -- AMERICAS -- US-crime-homicide-justice-execution,FOCUS WASHINGTON Director Patrick Forbes hopes his new documentary "The Phantom" could be the spark prompting President Joe Biden to act against the death penalty thanks to its powerful message: "An innocent man was executed." 750 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-China-politics-media-Apple-Daily,lead HONG KONG Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily tells readers its board will decide whether to close the publication at its next meeting on Friday, after authorities froze its accounts using a new security law. 650 words moved by Su Xinqi and Jerome Taylor -- BUSINESS & TECH -- China-Bitcoin-finance-cryptocurrencies BEIJING Bitcoin tumbles more than 10 per cent after China broadened a crackdown on its massive cryptocurrency mining industry with a ban on mines in a key southwestern province. 450 words moved Also moved: China-Bitcoin-economy-finance-cryptocurrencies-regulation,Q&A Germany-US-probe-antitrust-Apple,WRAP BERLIN Germany opens an investigation against Apple over anti-competition practices, making the iPhone maker the fourth US tech giant to be hit by such probes. 500 words moved by Hui Min Neo -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Opera-women-France-Spain-US-celebrity,INTERVIEW PARIS Two years after sexual harassment accusations that cost him his career in the United States, opera legend Placido Domingo is back on stage in Europe and tells AFP: "We cannot rewrite our past." 700 words moved by Rana Moussaoui. File picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-Euro-2020-2021,WRAP LONDON Denmark host Russia at Euro 2020 seeking to snatch a place in the last 16 as coronavirus further disrupts the tournament, costing Scotland the services of breakout star Billy Gilmour. 650 words 1830 GMT by John Weaver with Terry Daley in Copenhagen. Picture. Video. Graphic Fbl-JPN-US-gender-Yokoyama TOKYO Japanese Women's World Cup star Kumi Yokoyama has come out as a transgender man -- one of the few athletes to do so in a country where LGBTQ rights lag behind other developed nations. 300 words moved afp
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