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| - Duty Editor: Frankie Taggart Email: frankie.taggart@afp.com -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden introduces cabinet 'ready to lead the world' + Britain, France loosen coronavirus restrictions + Pressure mounts to protect civilians in Ethiopia + Anger in France over 'brutal' removal of migrants + Beyonce leads 2021 Grammy nominations with nine US-vote,WRAP WILMINGTON, Delaware President-elect Joe Biden introduces his nominees for top national security and foreign policy posts, saying "America is back, ready to lead the world." 800 words 2000 GMT by Chandan Khanna and Chris Lefkow. Photo. Graphic. Video Health-virus,WRAP PARIS France and Britain announce the loosening of coronavirus restrictions after a drop in infections as Russian developers announce more positive vaccine results bringing cautious hope for an end to the pandemic. 750 words 2030 GMT by AFP Bureaus. Picture. Video. Graphic Ethiopia-unrest-Tigray,WRAP GONDAR, Ethiopia International pressure mounts on the warring parties in northern Ethiopia to cease fighting and protect civilians in Tigray, after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gives the dissident region's leaders a deadline to surrender. 700 words moved by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: Sudan-Ethiopia-Tigray-refugees,FOCUS France-migrants-police-Paris-Afghanistan,WRAP PARIS French authorities order an investigation into the "brutal" removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris, as parliament gives initial approval to a new security law condemned by activists as eroding press freedom. 650 words moved by Shahzad Abdul and Stuart Williams. Picture. Video Entertainment-US-music-Grammy,WRAP NEW YORK Pop queen Beyonce leads the Grammy pack with nine nominations, as the music world prepares to celebrate its hitmakers in a year in which the coronavirus devastated the industry. 700 words 2000 GMT by Maggy Donaldson. File Picture. Graphic Also moving: Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-takeaways,POINTS Also moved: Entertainment-US-music-Grammy-nominees,FACTS -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines-Russia MOSCOW Russia says its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is 95 percent effective and will be cheaper and easier to store than some alternatives, as the global race heats up to develop a jab. 600 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-economy-aviation PARIS The aviation sector has taken a historic hit from the coronavirus and pending an effective vaccine, can only bounce back with systematic testing, the sector association IATA says. 600 words moved by Sonia Wolf Health-virus-travel-aviation-Australia,3rdlead SYDNEY Australia will likely require international arrivals to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face a prolonged quarantine, as officials sketch out what "new normal" virus restrictions may look like. 550 words moved. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-economy-aviation Iran-cinema-health-virus,OBIT TEHRAN Movie director Kambuzia Partovi, who scripted the only Iranian film to win a Golden Lion in Venice, has died of the novel coronavirus, the Islamic republic's film body says. 400 words moved. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-cabinet,POINTS WASHINGTON With his first cabinet appointments, President-elect Joe Biden is signaling that he favors experience, competence and centrism and is not out to please his Democratic Party's left-wing base, although he achieved historic firsts for women and minorities. 500 words moved by Shaun Tandon US-NewYork-politics,lead NEW YORK David Dinkins, New York City's first Black mayor, has died, US media reports. He was 93. 450 words moved. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-Scotland-Libya-court-Lockerbie-appeal,WRAP GLASGOW Abdelbaset Mohmet Al-Megrahi should not have been found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, his family's legal team says, as a posthumous appeal begins against his conviction for the attack on a Pan Am flight that killed 270 people. 600 words moved by Stuart Graham. Picture. File picture. Video Britain-HongKong-China-politics-law,lead LONDON Britain's government says it is considering reviewing a deal allowing its judges to sit on Hong Kong's highest court over concerns China is trampling on the semi-autonomous city's freedoms, drawing a sharp rebuke from Beijing. 450 words moved -- MIDEAST -- Saudi-Yemen-Aramco-energy-attack,WRAP JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco says a strike by Yemeni rebels on its plant in Jeddah tore a hole in an oil tank, triggering an explosion and fire in another assault on the kingdom's energy infrastructure. 700 words moved by Anuj Chopra. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Afghanistan-aid-UN,WRAP GENEVA The international community pledges around $12 billion in aid for Afghanistan over the next four years -- but ties its money to rights being upheld in ongoing peace talks with the Taliban. 700 words 2000 GMT by Robin Millard with Jay Deshmukh in Kabul. Picture. Video Afghanistan-conflict-blasts-Bamiyan KABUL At least 14 people Are killed in central Afghanistan when two blasts rip through the historic city of Bamiyan, home to many members of the mainly Shiite Hazara ethnic minority, officials said. 500 words moved. Picture -- SCIENCE -- Climate-science-geoengineering-Africa-SAfrica,FOCUS PARIS Dialling down the Sun's heat a notch by injecting billions of shiny sulphur dioxide particles into the stratosphere could curtail devastating drought across parts of Africa, new peer-reviewed research has reported. 700 words moved by Marlowe Hood China-space,WRAP BEIJING A rocket heading for the Moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades blasts off from China, in the latest milestone for Beijing's spacefaring ambitions. 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret. Picture. Video. Graphic Science-nature-ant PARIS A well-known leaf-cutting ant grows its own body armour using biominerals, a protective power previously unknown in the insect world, scientists have discovered in research showing this makes the ants almost unbeatable in battle. 600 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Picture -- ECONOMY & TECHNOLOGY -- Markets-world NEW YORK The Dow surges past 30,000 points for the first time as receding US political uncertainty and hopes for coronavirus vaccines offset worries over spiking Covid-19 cases. 600 words 2200 GMT by John Biers EU-tech-internet,FACTS BRUSSELS The European Union will next month unveil major proposals to regulate Big Tech, in what could force a revolution in the way Google or Facebook do business. 600 words moved by Daniel Aronssohn and Alex Pigman -- SPORTS -- RugbyU-FRA-Dominici, OBIT Paris The rugby world mourns one of the legends of modern French game after Christophe Dominici was found dead at the age of 48 in a park near Paris. 600 words 2000 GMT. File picture. Video afp
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