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| - Duty Editor: Adam Plowright Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump, Biden prepare for first debate + Emir of Kuwait dies at 91 + Extra vaccines secured for world's poorest + Fighting rages in Nagorny Karabakh + 'Jet suit paramedic' tested in Britain US-vote,WRAP CLEVELAND, Ohio There will be no handshake, and venom to spare, as President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden meet in Cleveland for the first of three televised debates that could shake up an already volatile race for the White House. 700 words 1600 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture Also moved: US-vote-politics-debate,FOCUS US-vote-taxation-Trump,Q&A US-vote-debate-Wallace,PROFILE Kuwait-politics-emir,WRAP KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, dies aged 91 after 14 years on the oil-rich emirate's throne. 500 words 1430 GMT. File picture. File video Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual Covid-19 vaccines will be secured for poorer countries in 2021, health groups announces, as the virus shows no sign of receding after claiming more than one million lives around the world. 750 words moved by Nina Larson and AFP bureaus. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP YEREVAN Azerbaijani and Armenian forces defy calls for a ceasefire and claim to have inflicted heavy losses as fighting rages for a third day over the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh. 750 words 1500 GMT by Mariam Harutyunyan with Emil Guliyev in Baku. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,CHRONO Britain-health-technology-emergency LONDON Emergency responders and engineers in Britain say they have successfully tested "the world's first jet suit paramedic", which could transform how life-savers reach isolated casualty sites. 350 words moved. Picture -- EUROPE -- Belarus-politics-unrest,WRAP VILNIUS French President Emmanuel Macron promises to help with mediation in the political crisis in Belarus, but Russian Vladimir Putin lashes out at "unprecedented external pressure". 600 words moved by Laurence Benhamou and Vaidotas Beniusis. Picture. Video France-animals-fashion-circuses-mink,WRAP PARIS France says it will "gradually" ban mink farms and the use of wild animals in travelling circuses as well as the breeding of dolphins and orcas in captivity. 400 words moved by Stephane Orjollet and Fiachra Gibbons. File picture -- ASIA -- Australia-Vatican-religion-pope,WRAP SYDNEY Cardinal George Pell will return to Rome from Australia for the first time since being jailed -- and then acquitted -- on child sex abuse charges, an aide said. 550 words moved. File video. File picture China-crime-education BEIJING A kindergarten teacher in China is sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead. 250 words moved China-virus-health-test,FOCUS BEIJING In a Beijing lab, a printer-sized contraption carries hopes of breakthrough in the battle to contain the coronavirus -- the 'Flash 20' -- described as the "world's fastest" Covid-19 test machine that inventors say is as reliable as a lab test that can take much longer 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. Photo. Video Also moved: Health-virus-SKorea-festival,FOCUS -- AFRICA -- Health-virus-Ethiopia-aviation,INTERVIEW ADDIS ABABA Six months since the coronavirus pandemic upended the global airline industry, Ethiopian Airlines is facing a heavy toll: more than $1 billion in lost revenue, to say nothing of 850 infected employees. 750 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. File Picture. Video Health-virus-Africa,FOCUS SOWETO, South Africa "Things are getting back to normal, even though it will never be like it was before," says a relieved Petunia Maseko, relaxing in a bar in South Africa's Soweto township. 800 words moved by Michelle Gumede with AFP African bureaus. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST -- Kuwait-politics-emir,OBIT KUWAIT CITY The Arab "dean of diplomacy", Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah survived Kuwait's worst crises with an iron hand and a reputation as a shrewd, unshakeable monarch. 800 words 1500 GMT Also moving: Kuwait-politics-emir,CHRONO Iraq-politics-protest,FOCUS BAGHDAD Back in October 2019, unprecedented protests demanded the fall of Iraq's ruling class. One year on, with a new government in place and nearly 600 protesters killed, almost nothing has changed. 780 words moved by Maya Gebeily and Sarah Benhaida. File picture. File video Also moved: Iraq-politics-protest,CHRONO Yemen-conflict-history-culture TAEZ, Yemen Heavy rains have triggered the collapse of parts of the newly restored National Museum in Yemen's third city Taez, in the latest loss to the country's cultural heritage after years of war. 400 words moved. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-fires-California,WRAP SANTA ROSA, California Tens of thousands of Californians fled their homes in the Napa and Sonoma wine regions in the face of wildfires, emergency officials said, as a new blaze in the north of the state killed three people. 750 words moved by Samuel Corum with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco. Picture. Video Lifestyle-France-US-fashion-Trump PARIS An American designer has branded US President Donald Trump a "Ku Klux Klan tryant" at his Paris fashion week show. 450 words moved by Fiachra Gibbons. File picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Second seed Karolina Pliskova ends Mayar Sherif's fairytale Grand Slam breakthrough to set up a Roland Garros second round clash against former champion Jelena Ostapenko as world number one Novak Djokovic pledges to be on his best behaviour on his return to the majors after his US Open brain fade. 600 words 1500 GMT by Dave James. Picture Basket-NBA,PREVIEW ORLANDO, United States LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers begin the final challenge in their bid to return to the summit of basketball when they take on the Miami Heat team in game one of the NBA Finals. 750 words moved -- SPACE -- Space-astronomy-exoplanet PARIS A European Space Agency satellite tasked with tracking down exoplanets has made its first big catch, a world so hot that its atmosphere could melt iron, astrophysicists report. 450 words 1430 GMT by Marlowe Hood. Picture -- BUSINESS -- China-US-internet-Sinacorp-Tencent,WRAP BEIJING The parent company of China's vast Weibo platform and one of the country's major search engines have announced plans to delist from US stock markets in deals totalling over $6 billion as relations between Washington and Beijing grow increasingly tense 400 words 1500 GMT by Beiyi Seouw -- LIFESTYLE -- Lifestyle-France-fashion-Dior PARIS Dior wraps its models in cocooning kaftans to protect them from a menacing world in one of the few big shows to go ahead in its traditional form at virus-hit Paris fashion week. 400 words 1730 GMT by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. Video afp
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