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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + US facing 'serious problem' in virus surge + Coca-Cola joins social media ad boycott + New prime minister elected in Ireland + France arrests six over stolen Banksy Health-virus,WRAP HOUSTON, Texas America's top infectious diseases expert warns that the United States is facing a "serious problem" from a resurgent coronavirus as the illness puts the brakes on reopening two of the country's largest states. 750 words moved by Julia Bennarous with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic US-IT-social-racism-advertising-CocaCola SAN FRANCISCO Coca-Cola, a major force in global advertising, announces it will suspend ads on social media for at least 30 days, as platforms face a reckoning over how they deal with racist content. 250 words moved. File picture. Video Ireland-politics,WRAP DUBLIN Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin is elected Ireland's new prime minister, replacing Leo Varadkar as the country's Taoiseach during a special sitting of the Dail parliament. 500 words 1500 GMT by Joe Stenson. Picture. Video. Live video Also moved: Ireland-politics-Martin,PROFILE France-painting-theft-Banksy,2ndlead PARIS Six people have been arrested in France over the theft of an artwork by street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks that was stolen from the Bataclan concert hall. 400 words 1500 GMT by Sylvie Maligorne -- CORONAVIRUS -- US-health-virus-Florida,FOCUS MIAMI They are itching for a good time after months of lockdown, coronavirus be damned: young adults in Florida are fueling a dangerous rise in COVID-19 infections. 800 words 1500 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture Health-virus-Spain tourism,FOCUS LLORET DE MAR, Spain Surveillance is the watchword at the seaside this summer, with Spanish beaches using drones, cameras and coloured tape to ensure safety for tourists holidaying in the shadow of the virus. 650 words moved by Daniel Bosque. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-Spain-agriculture,FOCUS Health-virus-hotels-India,SCENE NEW DELHI Staff at the luxury Suryaa hotel used to wear bright saris as they welcomed guests. Now they must don medical suits and handle gurneys as New Delhi desperately prepares for a predicted surge in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks. 650 words moved by Abhaya Srivastava. Picture. Video Health-virus-Iraq-economy-migrants,FOCUS BAGHDAD For years, Rajib Sheikh wired money to his native Bangladesh from his day job in Iraq. But now, stuck without wages, he's asking his family for help. 700 words 1430 GMT by Haider Husseini. Picture. Video Health-virus-Lebanon-film,INTERVIEW NICOSIA Prize-winning Lebanese documentary filmmaker Carol Mansour fears the world has learnt nothing from the novel coronavirus shock and will go back to square one or worse when normal life returns. 550 words moved by Mahmoud Mroueh. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Malawi-politics-vote,WRAP BLANTYRE Malawi's governing party is pushing for a third presidential election, citing irregularities and intimidation in a vote re-run where unofficial tallies show the opposition leader beating incumbent President Peter Mutharika. 550 words 1600 GMT by Jack McBrams Ethiopia-Egypt-Sudan-water-diplomacy,WRAP ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia says it is on schedule to begin filling a controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile River within two weeks as the African Union steps in to help resolve its dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. 500 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. File Picture Cameroon-rights-army-politics,FOCUS YAOUNDE Buffeted by security and political crises and embarrassed by military blunders, Cameroon's government has been forced to give ground on human rights under intense pressure from campaigners and the UN and from allies who once chose to overlook its flaws. 750 words moved. File picture Sahel-France-unrest-summit,ADVANCER BAMAKO France and its allies in the Sahel next week will discuss the region's mounting struggles with a jihadist insurgency and ethnic bloodshed. 600 words moved by Amaury Hauchard Also moved: Sahel-France-summit-unrest-Burkina,FOCUS Sahel-France-unrest-summit-Barkhane,FOCUS -- EUROPE -- Iceland-vote,WRAP REYKJAVIK Iceland votes in a presidential election, the second European country to hold polls since coronavirus lockdowns were lifted, with incumbent Gudni Johannesson widely expected to win a second four-year mandate. 650 words moved by Jeremie Richard. Picture. Video Europe-migrants-charity-Pakistan,FOCUS ON BOARD THE OCEAN VIKING Leaning on the aft deck of the Ocean Viking, the humanitarian ship that picked them up in the Mediterranean, a group of Pakistanis look back to watch the Libyan coast receding behind them. 600 words moved by Shazal Abdul. Picture Syria-conflict-Idlib-Damascus Russia,PHOTOESSAY ARIHA, Syria Years of violence in Syria's last major opposition bastion has created a landscape of ruin, eerily lit in the early hours of Saturday by the Milky Way in the night sky. 300 words moved. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Brazil-politics-media,FOCUS RIO DE JANEIRO Communicaions has not exactly been Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's strong suit lately, from downplaying the coronavirus as a "little flu" to flinging expletives and insults in a cabinet meeting that was later made public. Enter his newly created communications ministry and the charismatic, handsome young lawmaker tapped to lead it, Fabio Faria. 700 words 1700 GMT by Louis Genot. File picture afp
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