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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + EU to unveil trillion-euro virus rescue package + Hong Kong police stamp out China protests + Twitter flags Trump tweets for first time + SpaceX astronauts ready for US launch + No screams please: Japanese funfairs prepare for virus era Health-virus,WRAP BRUSSELS The EU is set to unveil a one-trillion-euro recovery plan to get the bloc back on its feet after the devastation wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic, as Latin America outpaces Europe and the US in the number of daily infections. 850 words 1200 GMT by Marine Laouchez with AFP bureaus. Picture. Graphic. Video HongKong-China-US-politics-unrest,WRAP HONG KONG Hong Kong police place a dragnet around the financial hub's legislature and fire pepper-ball rounds in the commercial district as they clamp down on protests against a bill banning insults to China's national anthem. 750 words 1200 GMT by Jerome Taylor. Picture. Video. Live Video US-politics-Trump-Twitter-conspiracy SAN FRANCISCO Twitter labels two Donald Trump tweets "unsubstantiated" and accuses him of making false claims, a first for the social network which has long resisted calls to censure the US president over truth-defying posts. 800 words 1100 GMT by Glenn Chapman US-SpaceX-launch-space-aerospace,WRAP KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida A new era is set to begin with the launch by SpaceX of two NASA astronauts into space, a capability that for six decades symbolized the power of a handful of states, and which the United States itself had been deprived of for nine years. 750 words moved by Ivan Couronne. Picture. Video. Graphic Virus-health-Japan-entertainment-offbeat TOKYO No screaming on the rollercoaster, socially distant spooks in the haunted house and please refrain from high-fiving your favourite superhero: welcome to Japanese amusement parks in the coronavirus era. 300 words moved -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-France-drug,2ndlead PARIS French doctors are no longer allowed to treat COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, a controversial treatment that has not been clinically proven and may pose serious health risks, but which nonetheless is promoted by some doctors and even US President Donald Trump. 500 words 1000 GMT by Joseph Schmid Health-virus-Spain-poverty,FOCUS MADRID Accepting food handouts for the first time has become reality for thousands in Spain, where poverty has soared aggressively during the epidemic, echoing the 2008 crisis from which many have barely recovered. 750 words 1100 GMT by Thomas Perroteau. Picture. Video Health-virus-vaccine-UN-patent GENEVA The UN patent agency hails the push to create a coronavirus vaccine and make it globally available, but warns against allowing copyright rows to overshadow and delay the innovation process. 500 words moved Health-virus-social-Belarus-hospital,SCENE MINSK Belarusian volunteers are stepping in to rush free supplies of much-needed protective equipment to hospitals as authorities in the ex-Soviet state play down the scale of the coronavirus epidemic. 650 words moved by Alexander Grebenkin. Picture. Video Health-virus-Montenegro-Croatia-tourism-economy,FOCUS KOTOR, Montenegro Less than two months after detecting its first infection, Montenegro is the first country in Europe to declare itself coronavirus-free, a success story the tiny state hopes will lure tourists to its dazzling Adriatic coast this summer. 750 words moved by Olivera Nikolic with Lajla Veselica in Zagreb. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-internet-misinformation-Mideast,FOCUS BEIRUT Mass conversions, immunity for Muslims: in the global maelstrom of disinformation spurred by coronavirus, many of the more outlandish claims that went viral in the Middle East were religious-themed. 620 words moved Iran-politics-parliament,WRAP TEHRAN President Hassan Rouhani urges Iranian lawmakers to "cooperate" with his government in the inaugural session of the new parliament following February elections dominated by conservatives. 500 words 0930 GMT. Picture. Video. Live Video Iran-US-prisoner-politics,FACTS TEHRAN Iran and the United States have long been sworn enemies, and despite rare prisoner swaps in recent years, they still hold a number of each other's nationals behind bars. 750 words 1200 GMT -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-SAfrica-migrants, FOCUS JOHANNESBURG Deprived of work and often denied access to South Africa's social safety net, migrants and refugees have borne the brunt of hunger and xenophobia during the country's tough anti-coronavirus lockdown. 1,200 words by Philippe Alfroy 1000 GMT. Pictures. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-police-race,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS Four police officers in Minneapolis are sacked as a video showing one of them kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed black man who later died sparks street protests in the US city. 650 words moved. Picture. Video US-science-aerospace-space,SCENE MERRITT ISLAND, Florida NASA begged tourists to watch the SpaceX launch online, but space fans are still showing up in Florida. It would have been pretty good news for Brenda Mulberry -- if she'd had some SpaceX T-shirts to sell them. 550 words moved by Ivan Couronne. Picture Canada-China-US-court-extradition,ADVANCER OTTAWA A Canadian judge will deliver a key decision on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou that could set her free and help repair Canada-China relations. 750 words moved by Michel Comte -- ASIA -- Australia-indigenous-culture-mining SYDNEY Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote Pilbara region -- blasting near the 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine. 450 words moved. Picture India-climate-weather-heat NEW DELHI India is wilting under a heatwave, with the temperature in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and the capital enduring its hottest May day in nearly two decades. 350 words moved. Picture. Video -- ECONOMY/BUSINESS -- France-economy-recession-health-virus,3rdlead PARIS Economic activity in France is making a clear if cautious recovery after lockdown measures were relaxed earlier this month but the country is still heading for a roughly 20 percent contraction this quarter, the national statistics agency says. 550 words 1300 GMT by Marie Heuclin France-Japan-automobile-Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi,2ndlead PARIS Struggling automakers Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi unveil a plan to deepen their cooperation, reaffirming an alliance that just months ago seemed ready to split apart the world's biggest producer of cars. 500 words 1000 GMT by Daniel Aronssohn -- SPORTS -- Cricket-IND-Shaw,FOCUS NEW DELHI Comparisons to India's "god of cricket" Sachin Tendulkar have not always helped Prithvi Shaw as he seeks to put a doping ban and injury worries behind him and return to the national side. 600 words moved by Faisal Kamal. File picture afp
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