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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Virus pushes US hospitals to the brink + Desperate search for Japan flood survivors + Australia state to be sealed over outbreak + Fraught Brexit talks restart in London + First online Paris fashion week begins Health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON Officials at the epicenter of the worsening coronavirus crisis in the United States warn their hospitals are in danger of being overwhelmed by the upsurge, as India overtakes Russia in the number of infections. 600 words 0730 GMT by Ben Sheppard. Picture. Video. Graphic Japan-weather-rain-flood,WRAP TOKYO Tens of thousands of rescue workers in Japan sift through the wreckage of houses shattered by deadly floods and landslides in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll rose and more torrential rain loomed. 650 words 0730 GMT by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video Australia-health-virus-pandemic,lead MELBOURNE Australia will effectively seal off the state of Victoria from the rest of the country as authorities impose unprecedented measures to tackle a surging coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne. 550 words 0630 GMT. Picture. Video. Britain-EU-Brexit-politics LONDON Britain's separation talks with European Union resume with few signs of compromise on a new trade agreement and time running out to avoid a messy split. 450 words moved by Dmitry Zaks. File picture Lifestyle-France-fashion-virtual,WRAP PARIS The first ever online Paris fashion week clicks off with the world of glitzy runway shows thrown into an existential crisis by the coronavirus. 600 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. Video Also moved: Lifestyle-France-fashion-hautecouture,INTERVIEW -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-politics WASHINGTON US Sunbelt mayors warn that their cities are at risk of being overwhelmed by a surge of coronavirus cases as they push back against US President Donald Trump's attempt to minimize the gravity of the spreading virus. 700 words moved by Brian Knowlton. Picture Dominican-vote-health-virus,WRAP SANTO DOMINGO Opposition candidate Luis Abinader claims victory in the Dominican Republic's presidental race after voters braved a worsening coronavirus outbreak to cast their ballots for a new leader and legislature. 650 words 0700 GMT. Picture US-politics-racism-history,FOCUS WASHINGTON A national park populated with statues of "American heroes"? The surprise idea, proposed by President Donald Trump over the July 4 holiday weekend, hardly seems likely to calm partisan passions in the deeply divided country. 800 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. Picture -- ASIA -- India-health-virus,2ndlead NEW DELHI Indian cities order new restrictions as the country overtakes Russia to become the world's third-biggest coronavirus sufferer with nearly 700,000 cases. 500 words 0600 GMT -- EUROPE -- France-politics,WRAP PARIS France's new Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected to unveil a reshuffled government tasked with helping the economy brave its worst crisis since World War II and injecting new momentum into the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. 600 words moved by Laurence Benhamou and Stuart Williams. Picture Germany-court-WWII-Holocaust BERLIN The prosecution's closing arguments are set to be heard in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II. 500 words moved by Femke Colborne. File picture France-museum-Louvre PARIS The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, reopens after its coronavirus closure, but with nearly a third of its galleries still shut. 300 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest-gas-Total MAPUTO, Mozambique Gunmen ambush and kill eight employees of a private construction firm working on a multi-billion-dollar gas project in Mozambique's restive north. 300 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-asnomia,FOCUS PARIS For some survivors of coronavirus, their brush with the virus costs them their sense of smell, which one sufferer describes as a kind of torture. 650 words moved by Laurence Coustal. File picture afp
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