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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + US leads multi-billion dollar virus fightback + Biden scores decisive primary wins + Markets plunge despite stimulus pledges + China expels US journalists in major crackdown Health-virus,WRAP PARIS The United States and Britain lead a multi-billion-dollar global fightback against economic havoc unleashed by the coronavirus as the European Union shuts its borders to travellers from outside for 30 days. 800 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Video. Graphic. Videographic US-politics-vote-health-virus,WRAP MIAMI Joe Biden scores decisive victories in all three major Democratic primaries, earning him a nearly insurmountable lead over rival Bernie Sanders in their race for the party's presidential nomination. 750 words moved by Leila Macor with Michael Mathes in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic Markets-world,WRAP LONDON Asian and European stock markets sink further, as vast global stimulus measures fail to offset mounting concerns that the coronavirus outbreak will tip the world into recession, dealers say. 700 words 1100 GMT by Roland Jackson China-US-media-diplomacy,WRAP BEIJING China announces it will expel American journalists from three major US newspapers in one of the communist government's biggest crackdowns on the foreign press, escalating a bitter row over media freedoms. 700 words 1000 GMT by Laurent Thomet with Shaun Tandon in Washington -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-EU-government,FOCUS BRUSSELS The European Union runs on meetings -- endless summits to maintain consensus between 27 diverse member states. But how will it cope with an epidemic that has forced Brussels to adopt the long distance videoconference? 650 words 1200 GMT by Martin Trauth Health-virus-Greece,2ndlead ATHENS Greece says it is placing migrant camps across the country on a two-week shutdown to visitors to ward off the new coronavirus. 500 words moved -- MIDDLE EAST -- Health-virus-Saudi-energy-economy,FOCUS RIYADH From empty hotels to shuttered beauty salons, oil-dependent Saudi Arabia is bracing for a coronavirus-led economic slump on top of possible austerity measures as prices of its vital crude exports go into freefall. 800 words moved by Anuj Chopra. File picture Health-virus-Yemen-conflict,FOCUS SANAA In war-torn Yemen, 20 women bring back to life a long-shuttered factory to make a product that could save lives amid the coronavirus pandemic: face masks. 650 words 1200 GMT by Abdulkaim Al-Marani with Dana Moukhallati in Dubai. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-Australia-NewZealand-travel-aviation,4thlead SYDNEY Australia tells its citizens not to travel abroad and warns those already overseas to rush home as it imposes unprecedented steps to choke off the spread of the coronavirus epidemic taking off Down Under. 650 words moved by David Millikin. Picture. Video Health-virus-China-recovery,FOCUS SHANGHAI Restaurants are reopening, traffic and factories are stirring, and in one of the clearest signs yet that China is awakening from its coronavirus coma, the country's "dancing aunties" are once again gathering in parks and squares. 700 words moved by Dan Martin with Qian Ye in Beijing. Picture. Video Health-virus-Taiwan-religion,FOCUS TAIPEI Buddhist monk Chang Kuan delivers a sermon to an empty room, his words live-streamed to followers praying at home as Taiwan's faithful learn to cut back on mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. 650 words moved by Sean Chang. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US-IT-crime,FOCUS WASHINGTON It may look like an email from a supervisor with an attachment on the new "work from home policy." But it could be a cleverly designed scheme to hack into your network. 700 words moved by Rob Lever Health-virus-US-economy-politics WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump is drawing up a massive emergency spending package while the Federal Reserve opens the financing floodgates to contain growing economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved by Heather Scott. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-lifestyle,FOCUS NEW YORK With New York restaurants closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, residents unused to eating at home are increasingly relying on the city's army of bicycle delivery men for their dinner. 650 words moved. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-seniors,FOCUS DELRAY BEACH, Florida Florida, often called "the grayest state" in the US because so many elderly retire here, is facing up to the fact that it has an alarming concentration of the demographic most at-risk from coronavirus. 700 words moved by Leila Macor. File Picture -- AFRICA -- DRCongo-unrest,FOCUS BUNIA, DR Congo With three fingers chopped off his left hand, Father Guy-Robert Mandro bears physical witness to a resurgence of violence in DR Congo that has gone widely unnoticed in a world fixated by the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved. Picture -- SPORT -- Fbl-Eur-C1-UEFA-health-virus,FOCUS LONDON UEFA's decision to postpone Euro 2020 for 12 months because of the coronavirus pandemic buys European club football some time to decide how to proceed, but extremely difficult decisions lie ahead on how, if and when to finish the season. 700 words moved by Kieran Canning. File picture Oly-2020-health-virus-opposition TOKYO Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi says athletes are being forced to take health risks as competitors start to speak out about holding the Tokyo Games during the coronavirus crisis. 500 words moved. File picture -- BUSINESS -- Health-virus-aviation-economy-finance,WRAP NEW YORK Fears of bankruptcies and calls for emergency bailouts sweep global airlines as the US warns the coronavirus crisis threatens the air travel industry more than the September 11 attacks. 700 words moved. File picture afp
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