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| - Duty Editor: Joseph Boyle Tel: 11014944 -- TOP STORIES -- + EU raises alarm over virus deaths + Russia seizes Navalny assets + US city erupts after police cleared + Trump heckled at Ginsburg tribute + Cosmonauts wary of Russia vaccine Health-virus,WRAP STOCKHOLM The EU raises the alarm on coronavirus, saying the epidemic is worse now than at the March peak in several member countries with rising death tolls, as governments in Europe and beyond reimpose drastic restrictions. 650 words 1430 GMT by Marc Preel. Picture. Video. Graphic Russia-Navalny-Germany,LEAD MOSCOW A Russian court froze bank accounts belonging opposition leader Alexei Navalny and banned other transactions while he was in a coma, his spokeswoman says. 500 words 1500 GMT by Anna Malpas. Picture. Video US-racism-police,WRAP LOUISIVILLE, Kentucky More than 120 people are arrested overnight in the US city of Louisville, as the announcement that no one will be charged with the killing of Breonna Taylor sends fresh demands for racial justice billowing across the United States. 500 words 1500 GMT by Camille Camdessus. Picture. Video. Graphic US-vote-court,WRAP WASHINGTON Protesters shouting "Honor her wish" heckle President Donald Trump as he pays his respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the US Supreme Court -- invoking the late justice's deathbed plea not to be replaced until after the election. 600 words 1530 GMT by Jerome Cartillier. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-court-issues,POINTS Health-virus-Russia-space MOSCOW Russian cosmonauts set to blast off for the International Space Station say it is too early to get a coronavirus vaccine touted by President Vladimir Putin. 300 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France-bars,lead PARIS Officials in Paris and Marseille react angrily after the national government announced tighter restrictions to curb a flare-up of coronavirus cases, in particular for restaurants and bars already hammered by a two-month lockdown last spring. 650 words 1530 GMT. Picture. Health-virus-Britain-budget-wage-labour,2ndlead LONDON Britain launches a coronavirus winter battle plan to protect jobs and boost the fragile economy after surging infections sparked fresh nationwide restrictions. 550 words moved by Roland Jackson. Picture. Video Also moved: Britain-politics-finance-Sunak-India,PROFILE Health-virus-Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel toughens its coronavirus measures as a second nationwide lockdown fails to bring down the world's highest infection rate a week after it was imposed. 600 words moved by Rosie Scammell. Picture US-economy-unemployment-real-estate,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States sees a worrying rise in unemployment claims, underscoring its continued struggles to recover from the mass layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic. 600 words 1530 GMT by Chris Stein US-health-virus-music-opera,lead NEW YORK New York's Metropolitan Opera announces the "painful" cancelation of its entire 2020-21 season over the still-spreading coronavirus, a major blow for the city's decimated arts and culture industry. 700 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. File picture -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-unrest-Britain-sanctions LONDON Britain says it is preparing sanctions against those in Belarus responsible for "rigging" the August 9 presidential election and for the subsequence crackdown on protests against President Alexander Lukashenko. 450 words moved Britain-US-newspaper-Evans LONDON Crusading British newspaper editor Harold Evans, celebrated for his expose on the birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide, dies in New York aged 92, prompting a flood of tributes. 650 words moved by James Pheby. File picture Russia-China-Belarus-politics-defence,UPDATE MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin will oversee massive military exercises with Russian forces joined by China and other allies amid fresh tensions with the West. 750 words 1430 GMT by Maxime Popov. Picture. Video France-politics-election-fraud-Libya-Sarkozy,WRAP PARIS Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy loses his bid to throw out an inquiry into claims he used Libyan cash for his 2007 presidential campaign, a ruling that could require him and several associates to stand trial. 550 words moved by Eleonore Dermy and Benjamin Legendre Spain-ETA-conflict-television,FOCUS ELORRIO, Spain Ten years after ETA renounced its armed struggle, few will speak of the bloody campaign that ravaged Spain's Basque country, but a new TV series is hoping to shatter that taboo. 750 words moved by Marie Giffard. File picture Also moved: Spain-ETA-conflict,CHRONO Britain-Germany-missing-crime-trial,WRAP LUXEMBURG The prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann gets a setback in his bid to be freed from jail, with the European Court of Justice rejecting his appeal against a separate rape conviction. 550 words moved. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Palestinians-politics-vote,WRAP RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories Gaza's rulers Hamas and their rivals in the occupied West Bank, Fatah, agree to hold the first Palestinian elections in nearly 15 years, united by their opposition to Arab-Israeli normalisation deals. 600 words 1600 GMT Lebanon-blast-business,FOCUS BEIRUT Standing in the gutted ruins of her bar destroyed by Beirut's massive port blast, Lebanese entrepreneur Gizelle Hassoun hopes crowdfunding can help save her business from the rubble. 750 words moved by Alice Hackman. Picture. Video Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Christianity-wine,PHOTOESSAY HAR BRACHA, Palestinian Territories Dangling off vines at Har Bracha settlement in the occupied West Bank, the grapes are plump and ready to pick, and this year evangelical Christians are volunteering for the job. 400 words moved. Picture Fbl-Syria-conflict-SYR-currency,FOCUS DAMASCUS Professional football clubs in war-battered Syria are struggling to sign new players, who are demanding raises to counter the decline in the value of their pay packets. 700 words moved by Fayez Wahbe. File Picture -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest,FOCUS DJUGU,DRCongo "My house was here. It has been destroyed," says Seraphine returning to Dhera, her village ravaged in a revenge attack by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile northeastern Ituri province. 750 words 1430 GMT by Marthe Bosuandole. Picture. Graphic -- AMERICAS -- Brazil-environment-fires-Pantanal-tourism,FOCUS POCONE, Brazil Domingas Ribeiro remembers how powerless she felt as the flames devastating the Pantanal wetlands burned through the ecotourism hotel she had spent the past year developing in central Brazil. 550 words 1430 GMT by Eugenia Logiuratto. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- HongKong-politics-Wong,WRAP HONG KONG Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is arrested for taking part in a protest at the height of the city's pro-democracy unrest last year, but vows to continue resisting China's crackdown on dissent. 550 words moved. Picture Also moved: HongKong-politics-Wong-EU Australia-animal-environment,WRAP MACQUARIE HARBOUR, Australia Australian rescuers are forced to begin euthanising some surviving whales from a mass stranding that has already killed 380 members of the giant pod. 600 words moved by Mell Chun with Andrew Beatty in Sydney. Picture. Video. Graphic SKorea-NKorea-diplomacy,WRAP SEOUL North Korean soldiers shoot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burn his body as a coronavirus precaution after he is interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials say. 650 words moved by Kang Jin-kyu. File picture. Graphic China-Australia-minorities-politics SYDNEY China's network of detention centres in the northwest Xinjiang region is much bigger than previously thought and has been expanded in recent years, according to research presented by an Australian think tank. 300 words moved Vietnam-conservation-wildlife-health-virus,FOCUS NINH BINH, Vietnam Life remains precarious in Vietnam for the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal, despite a vow to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that many blame for the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words moved by Alice Philipson. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS -- HongKong-China-ecommerce-AntGroup-IPO HONG KONG The financial arm of Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba is planning the biggest IPO in history, raising as much as $35 billion in a joint listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, a report says. 300 words moved Australia-banking-crime,2ndlead SYDNEY Australia's Westpac bank agrees to pay a record AU$1.3 billion fine for more than 23 million breaches of money-laundering laws and failure to block child exploitation payments. 600 words moved Turkey-economy-bank-rate,3rdlead ANKARA Turkey's central bank stunned investors by raising its main interest rate for the first time in two years to haul the lira up from historic lows. 500 words 1530 GMT by Raziye Akkoc. Picture -- SPORTS -- cricket-AUS-Jones,lead MUMBAI Former Australia batsman and cricket commentator Dean Jones, who had been covering the Indian Premier League from Mumbai, has died after a heart attack aged 59, broadcaster Star India says. 500 words moved. File picture. File video Fbl-JPN-Japan-Kazu-Miura TOKYO Japan's 53-year-old footballing golden oldie Kazuyoshi Miura, better known as King Kazu, wins plaudits for his latest record-setting appearance, but says he is disappointed he couldn't score. 300 words moved afp
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