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| - Duty Editor: Mike Smith Tel: +33 1 44 88 74 72 -- TOP STORIES -- + WHO team inspects Chinese virus lab + Myanmar's Suu Kyi charged after coup + Russia defends protest crackdown + Crisis-hit Italy turns to 'Super Mario' + Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO + 'Mank' leads Golden Globe nominations Health-virus,WRAP WUHAN, China World Health Organization experts inspect a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan that some US officials said could have been the source of the coronavirus, as countries around the world pin their hopes on vaccines as a way out the pandemic. 800 words 1700 GMT by Hector Rematal with AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographics. Also moved: Health-virus-China-lab,Q&A Myanmar-politics-army,WRAP YANGON Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is formally charged two days after she was detained in a military coup, as calls for civil disobedience to oppose the putsch gather pace. 900 words moved. Picture. Video. Live Video. Graphic. Russia-politics-protests-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Russia defends its crackdown on protesters demanding the release of opposition figure Alexei Navalny as his allies vow to continue putting pressure on the Kremlin. 600 words 1430 GMT by Anastasia Clark. Picture. Video Italy-politics,WRAP ROME Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi agrees to try to form a new government to see Italy through the devastating coronavirus pandemic, after the previous coalition collapsed. 650 words 1530 GMT by Alice Ritchie and Alvise Armellini. Picture. Video. Also moving: Italy-politics-Draghi,PROFILE Italy-politics-economy,FACTS Italy-politics-government,FOCUS US-IT-Amazon-Bezos,WRAP WASHINGTON Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he will stand aside this year as chief executive of the company he built from a startup into one of the world's most valuable firms. 700 words moved by Rob Lever. File picture. File video Also moved: US-IT-Amazon-Bezos,PROFILE Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes,WRAP LOS ANGELES Netflix's "Mank," a black-and-white drama that dives into Golden Age Hollywood with the making of "Citizen Kane," leads the Golden Globe nominations with six as Tinseltown's awards season kicks off in earnest. 600 words 1500 GMT by Andrew Marszal. File picture. Graphic. Also moving: Entertainment-US-film-television-Globes-nominees,FACTS -- SPOTLIGHT -- Yemen-conflict-women-crime,FOCUS SANAA Married at the age of 12, rejected at 16, and then disfigured in an acid attack, Al-Anoud Hussain Sheryan's fate is a shocking illustration of abuse in Yemen, a society beset by war and poverty. 700 words moved by Mohammed Huwais with Mohamed Hasni in Dubai. Picture. Video US-space-SpaceXIsaacman,FOCUS HAWTHORNE, California Jared Isaacman is not a professional astronaut, but by the end of the year the young billionaire will have shot around the Earth multiple times at the helm of a space mission made up entirely of tourists. 600 words moved by Laurent Banguet. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-China-WHO,INTERVIEW BEIJING There will be no quick answers into the origins of the coronavirus, one of the World Health Organization experts on a mission to central China where the outbreak first emerged tells AFP. 600 words moved by Laurie Chen. Video Health-virus-Britain-EU-France-politics,FOCUS LONDON Leaders in Europe are recklessly endangering their own public's health by using self-serving point-scoring to attack Britain's coronavirus vaccine rollout, UK health experts say. 700 words 1500 GMT by Jitendra Joshi Health-virus-Mexico-death,FOCUS MEXICO CITY When Miguel caught the coronavirus his family hoped help would come quickly for the Mexican grandfather, but instead they had to wait -- for oxygen, a hospital bed and, finally, a cremation. 500 words moved by Yussel Gonzalez. Picture. Video Health-virus-Israel-vaccines,FOCUS JERUSALEM Initial data from Israel's coronavirus vaccination campaign show the Pfizer/BioNTech jab protects against serious illness, but it is not yet clear whether it slows transmissions or spells progress toward achieving herd immunity, experts say. 780 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee and Ben Simon. File Picture Health-virus-SAfrica-agriculture-wine,FOCUS CAPE TOWN Drinkers in South Africa may cheer the government's decision to lift the latest bar on alcohol sales, but the wine sector fears the move has come too late to save thousands of jobs. 650 words moved by Tanya Steenkamp. File pictures -- WORLD CANCER DAY -- Ahead of World Cancer Day on Thursday, we have moved the following stories: Health-cancer-treatments,FOCUS PARIS More effective therapies, nanotechnology and even the prospect of vaccinating for certain tumours: battles may slowly be starting to turn in the never-ending war against cancer. 700 words moved by Amelie BauBeau Health-virus-Israel-Palestinians-cancer,FOCUS GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories For cancer patients in Gaza, already struggling under an Israeli-enforced blockade, pandemic restrictions mean they are unable to access lifesaving treatment. 600 words moved by Adel Zaanoun. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Italy-politics-government,FOCUS ROME In the whirlwind of Italian politics, prime ministers come and go with dizzying frequency -- but the job has not always been left to politicians. 550 words 1500 GMT by Alvise Armellini. Turkey-politics-protests,WRAP ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasts the LGBT movement as incompatible with Turkey's values and compares student protesters to "terrorists" as a month of youth-driven rallies shakes his rule. 600 words 1600 GMT by Burcin Gercek and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul. Picture. Video Britain-Scotland-politics-US-Trump-golf EDINBURGH Scottish lawmakers decide whether to call for an investigation into former US president Donald Trump's finances, over concerns about how he acquired two golf courses in the country. 500 words 1800 GMT by Stuart Graham France-culture-heritage-tourism-Olympics-Eiffel-Oly,PHOTOESSAY PARIS The Eiffel Tower has embarked on the most extensive revamp of its 130-year history to look its best for the 2024 Paris Olympics, including a paint job giving it a distinctly golden hue. 400 words moved. Picture. Video. Iran-Belgium-trial-diplomacy-France,INTERVIEW PARIS The trial in Belgium of an Iranian diplomat accused of plotting an attack on a meeting of an opposition organisation in France is historic since "all the regime is in the dock," the exiled group's leader tells AFP ahead of the verdict. 500 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA -- Lebanon-politics-security-Ibrahim,FOCUS BEIRUT Lebanon's spy chief Abbas Ibrahim has emerged as a master deal-broker, from securing the return of hostages and prisoners held abroad to mediating seemingly intractable political feuds at home. 800 words 1500 GMT. File picture Yemen-conflict-UN-environment SANAA Yemen's Huthi rebels say they are ready to allow a United Nations mission to inspect a long-abandoned fuel tanker which threatens to cause a massive oil spill, denying UN allegations of new delaying tactics. 500 words moved -- AFRICA -- Finland-Liberia-war-trial,WRAP TAMPERE, Finland A suspected warlord accused of committing atrocities in Liberia's civil war pleads innocent as his trial opens in Finland, the first such case to be partly heard on Liberian soil. 800 words moved by Sam Kingsley with Zoom Dosso in Monrovia. Picture. Video SAfrica-animal-conservation,SCENE CAPE TOWN Hundreds of abandoned baby Cape Cormorants poke their little beaks through the side of a cardboard box, eagerly awaiting their feed at a seabird shelter on South Africa's Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was once imprisoned. 500 words by 1530 GMT by Tanya Steenkamp. Pictures. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-Russia-nuclear-diplomacy,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden extends the last nuclear treaty with Russia by five years, seeing benefits of continued arms control even as he presses Moscow on a host of other issues including human rights. 600 words 1500 GMT by Shaun Tandon -- BUSINESS/ECONOMY -- US-earnings-Google-Amazon-pandemic,WRAP SAN FRANCISCO The pandemic -- which put the internet at the center of seemingly everything as much of the world faced restrictions on movement -- proved a financial boon for Amazon and Google in the final quarter of 2020, as the tech giants reported rock star earnings. 700 words moved by Glenn Chapman Germany-Siemens-manufacturing-earnings-technology,WRAP BERLIN German industrial giant Siemens turns a page with a new CEO following a restructuring drive, after a year marked by falling sales due to the coronavirus pandemic. 550 words 1630 GMT by Florian Cazeres. File picture. Picture. Video -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open-WTA-ATP-health-virus,LEAD MELBOURNE The Australian Open was again thrown into chaos Wednesday when up to 600 players and officials were told to isolate and get tested after a worker at a hotel they stayed in became infected with Covid-19. 400 words moved Cricket-health-virus-psychology,FOCUS NEW DELHI Psychologists have called for better support for cricketers' mental wellbeing as they head into a second year confined to biosecure "bubbles" around the world. 600 words moved by Faisal Kamal with Pirate Irwin in London. File Picture Oly-2020-2021-health-virus-Japan,FOCUS TOKYO With less than six months to go, Japanese who hope to be involved as spectators, torch bearers and volunteers are confronting the prospect of the Tokyo Olympics being drastically scaled back or cancelled altogether. 650 words moved by Andrew McKirdy. Picture. Video -- ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE -- France-environment-politics-trial,WRAP PARIS A French court holds the state responsible for its failure to take sufficient measures to halt climate change, handing a victory to NGOs in a landmark case backed by over two million citizens. 600 words 1530 GMT by Stephane Orjollet afp
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