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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Second Trump impeachment trial begins + Myanmar military raids Suu Kyi's party offices + Kobe Bryant pilot disorientated by clouds + No answers on Covid origins in WHO-China probe + Mars attracts: Arab probe goes into orbit US-politics-impeachment-trial,WRAP WASHINGTON Donald Trump's second impeachment trial begins with harrowing video footage of his supporters' assault on Congress, but Republican senators make clear how difficult it will be to win a conviction. 850 words 0300 GMT by Michael Mathes and Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-politics-impeachment-trial,FACTS Also moving: US-politics-impeachment-conviction,POINTS Myanmar-politics-military,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's military tighten their post-coup grip on power, stepping up a campaign of intimidation against the ousted civilian leadership while pushing harsher tactics to curb days of mass street protests. 650 words 0400 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-aviation-basketball-Bryant-NTSB,WRAP WASHINGTON The helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and six other passengers was probably caused by the pilot becoming disoriented after flying into clouds, investigators say. 650 words moved by Chris Lefkow. File picture Health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China A much-anticipated inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic wraps up its mission in China with no breakthrough discovery, as investigators rule out a theory that Covid-19 came from a lab while failing to identify which animal may have passed it to humans. 800 words moved by Laurie Chen with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic UAE-space-Mars,WRAP DUBAI The first Arab interplanetary mission reaches Mars' orbit in the most critical stage of its journey to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. 650 words moved by Dana Moukhallati. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: UAE-space-Mars,FACTS -- SPOTLIGHT -- Tunisia-tourism-pipes,FOCUS TABARKA, Tunisia Bent over a century-old machine, Tunisia's sole artisan pipe-maker Anis Bouchnak carves smoking pipes from native briar wood, a craft passed down by his grandfather and father. 650 words 0230 GMT by Kaouther Larbi. Picture. Video -- TRUMP IMPEACHMENT -- US-politics-impeachment-trial-Senate,SCENE WASHINGTON With footage of a pro-Trump mob storming the US Capitol playing out in their chamber, US senators sit transfixed before the shocking images that dominate the start of the former president's impeachment trial. 600 words 0300 GMT by Michael Mathes. Picture. video US-politics-impeachment-unrest,FOCUS WASHINGTON Among the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and hardcore fans of Donald Trump, the message was out weeks ahead: Trump wants you in Washington on January 6 to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as president. 750 words moved by Paul Handley US-politics-impeachment-trial-silence,FOCUS WASHINGTON Donald Trump's second impeachment trial may be the talk of America but a few people, at least, are mum so far, for very different reasons -- Trump himself, and his successor, President Joe Biden. 650 words moved by Jerome Cartillier. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Estonia,FOCUS TALLINN Could a QR code open up the world? That is the question in Estonia as it takes a lead in global efforts to develop digital vaccine passports. 650 words 0200 GMT by Polina Kalantar. File picture Health-virus-Belgium-Valentine-hotel-dining-lifestyle,FOCUS BRUSSELS It's a Covid-era conundrum for Valentine's Day: how to eat out with your beloved when you live in a country where all restaurants are closed? 650 words 0230 GMT by Marc Burleigh. Video. Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-IT-lifestyle-earnings-Twitter,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO Twitter says its user base jumped to 192 million in the quarter marked by US presidential election turmoil and a battle against misinformation. 500 words moved by Glenn Chapman US-IT-lifestyle-privacy-Facebook-WhatsApp,FOCUS WASHINGTON When WhatsApp users begin to raise concerns about a new privacy policy being rolled out, members of a Washington pickup soccer group decide to switch their communications to rival messaging platform Signal, ditching the Facebook-owned service. 750 words 0200 GMT by Rob Lever Science-animals-dogs WASHINGTON Pet dogs are far more likely to play with one another when their owner is present and being attentive, according to a new study, raising the intriguing possibility that they are putting on a show for our benefit. 450 words 0130 GMT by Issam Ahmed -- ASIA -- India-climate-glacier-flood,WRAP TAPOVAN, India Indian rescue workers struggle to dig away tonnes of rocks and mud to reach survivors in a choked Himalayan tunnel more than two days after a devastating flash flood likely triggered by a glacial burst. 700 words moved by Jalees Andrabi. Picture. Video. Live video. Graphic Also moved: Asia-environment-rivers,FOCUS Health-virus-Japan-entertainment-games,FOCUS TOKYO Bright, noisy gaming arcades are still a neighbourhood fixture in much of Japan, but a sector that was already struggling fears virus restrictions on opening hours may mean 'game over'. 700 words 0300 GMT by Mathias Cena. Picture. Video HongKong-environment-animal-LunarNewYear,FOCUS HONG KONG While many hope the Year of the Ox will herald times of plenty, a herd of wild cows in Hong Kong is on the verge of starvation after visitors to their habitat surged during the coronavirus pandemic. 500 words 0330 GMT by Yan Zhao. Picture. Video. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Russia-EU-politics-opposition-sanction,WRAP BRUSSELS EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he will propose the bloc impose sanctions on Russia, as he blasts the Kremlin's "merciless" crackdown on its top critic Alexei Navalny. 650 words moved by Max Delany and Anna Smolchenko in Moscow France-politics-trial,WRAP PARIS French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she has slammed as a violation of free speech. 500 words 0200 GMT by Clara Wright and Joseph Schmid Norway-US-Arctic-defence-diplomacy,FOCUS OSLO The United States is deploying long-range B-1 bombers to Norway to train in the strategically important High North in a new show of force unseen in the region since the Cold War. 800 words 0230 GMT by Pierre-Henry Deshayes with Maria Panina in Moscow and Sylvie Lanteaume in Washington. File video. File picture Germany-weather-transport-Britain,WRAP BERLIN Freezing drivers are stranded for hours in traffic jams in Germany and Covid-19 vaccination centres are shut in Britain as Europe is pummelled by the heaviest snow in years. 550 words moved by Femke Colborne with AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Turkey-politics-protest,FOCUS ISTANBUL Fenced in by riot police, Zeynep Kurbanzade stands with her university classmates in daily protest against the rector picked by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since she was just one year old. 800 words 0230 GMT by Fulya Ozerkan. Picture. Video Germany-politics-climate-insects,FOCUS BERLIN The German government is set to unveil legislation to halt a dramatic decline in insect populations, but farmers are up in arms over measures they say threaten their livelihoods. 600 words 0300 GMT by Florian Cazeres. Picture Hungary-media-court,WRAP BUDAPEST Hungary's leading independent radio station Klubradio loses an appeal to keep its licence after the media regulator said it had infringed rules, raising new press freedom concerns in the EU member state. 600 words moved by Peter Murphy. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- Morocco-flood-accident,WRAP RABAT Morocco's premier promises "sanctions" after 28 people died when heavy rain flooded an illegal textiles workshop in a basement, reviving a debate on work conditions in the North African country. 550 words moved by Ismail Bellaouali -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-kidnapping-school,WRAP KANO, Nigeria A Nigerian criminal gang leader behind the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolchildren in northwestern Katsina state in December has surrendered to authorities in an amnesty deal. 600 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. File picture. Graphic Kenya-unrest-politics,FOCUS NAIROBI Schools are shut, travel has become risky because of armed attacks, and cellphone towers are regularly destroyed. In the vast, arid northern corner of Kenya, bordering Somalia and Ethiopia, frustration is boiling over due to the growing strength of the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab jihadist group in the region. 800 words 0230 GMT by Fran Blandy. Graphic -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-film-Kirby,INTERVIEW LOS ANGELES Vanessa Kirby shot to global fame as young Princess Margaret in "The Crown." In "The World to Come," the English actress plays another complex and passionate woman grappling with the impossible pressures and conventions of her era -- this time, the 19th-century US frontier. 600 words 0130 GMT by Andrew Marszal -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan,FOCUS TOKYO Judith Gurney is desperate to know if she is going to the Tokyo Olympics, not as an athlete, but one of thousands of foreign volunteers left in limbo by virus uncertainty. 650 words 0230 GMT by Katie Forster. File picture afp
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