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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Biden will lay down a 'red line' to Putin + 'New day' for Israel after Netanyahu unseated + Beijing hits back at NATO 'confrontation' + Maradona nurse says was following orders + Wayward teen delays Chinese elephant trek NATO-summit,WRAP BRUSSELS US President Joe Biden says he will lay down "red lines" to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their upcoming meeting, after rallying NATO allies to face up to challenges from Moscow and Beijing. 650 words moved by Max Delany and Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video Also moved: NATO-summit-points,POINTS Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, gets down to work at the head of a precarious coalition government that faces stark challenges, after 12 years under right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu. 800 words moved by Maggy Donaldson. Picture. Video. Live Video. Graphic China-NATO-summit-politics,WRAP BEIJING Beijing accuses NATO of exaggerating the threat from China and "creating confrontation", after a vow from the Western allies to work together to counter the challenges posed by its policies. 600 words moved by Helen Roxburgh Fbl-Maradona-ARG-justice-Argentina,WRAP BUENOS AIRES A nurse accused of neglect in Diego Maradona's death told Argentine prosecutors on Monday that he was following orders "not to disturb" the football icon while he slept. 600 words moved. Graphic. Video. Picture China-animal-environment-elephant BEIJING Fourteen elephants on a 500-kilometre march across southwestern China take a break as they wait for a wayward teenager to rejoin the herd. 300 words 0530 GMT. Video -- SPOTLIGHT -- China-Tibet-tourism-lifestyle,FOCUS NYINTRI In a room warmed by an open wood stove, Baima says her family converted their white-brick house into a hotel as China's Communist leadership ushers tens of millions of tourists to the politically sensitive region of Tibet. 650 words 0600 GMT by Helen Roxburgh. Picture. Video Iran-Kurds-politics-women,FOCUS ARBIL, Iraq Rewaz Faiq is just one of two women serving as parliament speaker in the Middle East, where politics is a man's world, but the Iraqi Kurdish mother of two is unfazed. 600 words moved by Qassim Khidir. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-Bolivia,FOCUS COCHABAMBA, Bolivia The alarm in the Bolivian hospital pierces through the din of beeping life support machines and hissing ventilators -- a patient lies unconscious, oblivious to the warning that his life hangs by a thread. 750 words moved by Martin Silva. Picture. Video -- BIDEN-PUTIN SUMMIT -- EU-US-summit-trade,WRAP BRUSSELS US President Joe Biden will seek the EU's backing to face the rise of China, but Brussels wants a swift end to lingering trade rows and a clean break from Donald Trump's era. 600 words moved by Alex Pigman. Picture. Video Also moving: EU-US-summit-economy-trade-diplomacy,FACTS US-Russia-summit-diplomacy-Putin,2ndlead WASHINGTON President Vladimir Putin dismisses accusations that Russia was behind cyberattacks against the United States as "farcical" in an interview broadcast ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden. 450 words moved US-Russia-prisoners-cyber-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON President Vladimir Putin has renewed an offer to swap prisoners ahead of his first summit with Joe Biden, who has come under growing pressure to win the release of Americans from Russian jails. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon. Video. Picture Russia-US-summit,FOCUS MOSCOW When Vladimir Putin meets Joe Biden for their first summit the Russian leader will not be looking for progress on arms control, the lifting of sanctions or even an apology for the US president saying he is a "killer". Putin already got what he wanted: the summit itself. 800 words moved by Michael Mainville Also moved: US-Russia-summit-Switzerland-history,FOCUS Russia-summit-Switzerland-venue-history,FOCUS Ukraine-conflict-Russia-politics-US,WRAP KIEV Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky says that Joe Biden should have met him before the US president's first summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin as they can resolve nothing on Ukraine without Kiev's involvement. 700 words moved by Ania Tsoukanova. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-election-virus-NewYork,FOCUS NEW YORK Thirteen candidates, and no clear favorite: one week before the Democratic primary to select the mayor of post-pandemic New York City, progressives and moderates face off in a race made all the more uncertain by a new system of voting that has muddied all predictions. 650 words moved by Catherine Triomphe. File picture US-education-racism-politics,FOCUS LEESBURG, Virginia "Are you ready to take back our schools?" activist Patti Menders shouts at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching in the United States that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as "oppressors." 650 words moved by Charlotte Plantive. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-space,ADVANCER BEIJING The first crew for China's new space station is ready to blast off this week, another step in Beijing's ambitious programme to establish itself as a space power. 600 words moved by Ludovic Ehret and Poornima Weerasekara. File Picture. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-G7-vaccines,ANALYSIS GENEVA The WHO warns that Covid-19 is moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7's vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations is simply not enough. 650 words moved by Agnes Pedrero Spain-crime-children-gender,2ndlead MADRID Spanish rescuers trawl the seabed for the body of a toddler in waters off Tenerife after investigators said they believed she -- like her sister -- had been killed by their father. 550 words moved by Hazel Ward. Picture Hungary-politics-LGBT-rights BUDAPEST Thousands of Hungarians protest in Budapest against a law expected to be approved by parliament that would ban the "promotion" or "portrayal" of homosexuality or sex reassignment surgery. 350 words moved. Picture. Video Britain-NIreland-politics-EU-Brexit-Foster BELFAST Arlene Foster formally steps down as Northern Ireland's first minister, bringing further instability to the British-ruled province where tempers are already frayed over post-Brexit trading arrangements. 650 words moved by Paul Faith and Joe Stenson. File picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics-US-diplomacy,FOCUS WASHINGTON The fall of Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, is bringing a sigh of relief to many in the Biden administration, who will no longer have to deal with the pugnacious right-winger who had closely allied himself in US politics with the rival Republican Party. 800 words moved by Shaun Tandon Israel-politics,ANALYSIS JERUSALEM Israel's new government, a fragile alliance spanning the political spectrum, is meant to endure until 2025 but it could be brought down quickly by divisive issues such as the Palestinian conflict, analysts say. 750 words moved by Guillaume Lavallee. Picture. Video Also moved: Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Jerusalem Israel-politics-court-Netanyahu,BACKGROUND Iran-vote-Rouhani,FOCUS TEHRAN Promising greater openness at home and outreach abroad when he was elected in 2013, Iran's outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani comfortably won a second term, but leaves office as a deeply unpopular figure. 700 words 0300 GMT. File Picture -- SPORT -- Oly-2020-2021-badminton-TPE-Chou,INTERVIEW TAIPEI It's an unorthodox approach, but Taiwan's world number four Chou Tien-chen is hoping his decision to go without a coach will help him win badminton gold at the Tokyo Olympics. 700 words moved by Amber Wang. Picture. Video afp
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