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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Jordan prince pledges loyalty, palace mediation + Floyd neck restraint violated policy: cop chief + N.Korea to skip Tokyo Olympics over Covid fears + Indonesia, E. Timor floods toll surges past 150 + Secret Covid-defying dinners spark French anger Jordan-politics,WRAP AMMAN Jordan's Prince Hamzah pledges loyalty to the king as the monarch accepts mediation over a rift within the royal family that saw the prince placed under house arrest, the palace says. 850 words moved. Picture. Graphic Also moved: Jordan-politics-king,PROFILE US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo testifies that officer Derek Chauvin violated the department's training policies and its "values" by kneeling on George Floyd's neck after he had stopped resisting. 700 words moved by Joy Powell with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video. Graphic NKorea-diplomacy-Oly-2020,WRAP SEOUL North Korea will not attend this year's Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pyongyang's sports ministry says, blowing the final whistle on Seoul's hopes of using the Games to restart talks with its nuclear-armed neighbour. 700 words moved by Claire Lee. File picture Indonesia-ETimor-flood-disaster-landslide,WRAP LEMBATA, Indonesia Rescuers search for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and East Timor, killing more than 150 people and leaving thousands more homeless. 600 words 0600 GMT by Handrianus Emanuel. Picture. Video. Graphic Health-virus-France-politics-justice,WRAP PARIS A report by a French television channel alleging clandestine luxury dinners in Paris despite the pandemic sparks an investigation and a political furore over the claims the elite were brazenly ignoring rules they themselves had set. 600 words moved by Guillaume Daudin and Stuart Williams -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-travel-NZealand-Australia,2ndlead WELLINGTON New Zealand approves quarantine-free travel with Australia completing a two-way corridor for travel between the two largely Covid-free nations to begin on April 18. 500 words 0600 GMT. Video Health-virus-Saudi-religion,2ndlead RIYADH Saudi authorities say only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims. 500 words moved. Britain-virus-health-travel-politics-4thlead LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces that pubs and restaurants can reopen to serve outdoors in a week's time, as Covid restrictions are lifted, but sounds a note of caution on international travel resuming. 600 words moved by Callum Paton and Stuart Graham. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-economy-politics-taxation,WRAP WASHINGTON The United States is pushing in the G20 to adopt a global minimum corporate tax to stem the erosion of government revenues halt the 'race to the bottom,' US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says. 650 words moved by Heather Scott. Live video -- ASIA -- Singapore-science-biology-technology SINGAPORE Remote-controlled Venus flytrap "robo-plants" and crops that tell farmers when they are hit by disease could become reality after scientists developed a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation. 450 words moved by Catherine Lai. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Denmark-Greenland-vote NUUK The autonomous Danish territory of Greenland votes in legislative elections after a campaign focused on a disputed mining project, as the Arctic island confronts first-hand the effects of global warming. 650 words moved by Christian Solbeck, with Camille Bas-Wohlert in Copenhagen. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moving: Denmark-Greenland-vote,FACTS Turkey-EU-diplomacy-migration ANKARA The European Union's top two officials will pay a rare visit to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at testing his avowed commitment to improve uneasy ties. 650 words moved by Raziye Akkoc Turkey-politics-military-canal,WRAP ANKARA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses dozens of retired admirals of eyeing a "political coup" by attacking his plans for a canal linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. 600 words moved by Raziye Akkoc and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul. File picture. Graphic Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,lead MOSCOW Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he is suffering from a heavy cough and fever but will continue a hunger strike he launched last week demanding adequate medical treatment. 430 words moved Also moved: Russia-politics-Putin,WRAP Britain-Ukraine-Russia-diplomacy -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics-court,WRAP JERUSALEM Israel's legal and political dramas converge, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced court in his corruption trial while his bid to form a government after another inconclusive election entered a critical phase. 800 words moved by Jonah Mandel. Graphic. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-attack-prison,WRAP ABUJA More than 1,800 inmates escape after heavily armed men attack a prison in southern Nigeria using explosives, authorities say, in one of the West African country's largest jailbreaks. 400 words moved. Graphic Sudan-unrest-Darfur,WRAP KHARTOUM At least 40 people have been killed and 58 injured in three days of clashes in Sudan's West Darfur state, the United Nations says. 500 words moved Mozambique-conflict,WRAP MAPUTO Mozambique's military says it is regaining territory in the northern town and gas hub of Palma, seized by Islamic State-linked jihadists last month, claiming a "significant" number of militants had since been killed in fighting. 600 words moved. File picture. Graphic Also moved: Mozambique-attacks-migrants-Tanzania -- ENVIRONMENT -- Iceland-volcano,lead REYKJAVIK Iceland's spectacular, two-week old volcanic eruption enters a new phase as television pictures show a fresh fissure has opened up and begun spitting out lava. 300 words moved. Picture. Video Climate-warming-oceans-fishing PARIS Warming waters have driven thousands of ocean species poleward from the equator, threatening marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of people who depend on them, researchers report. 500 words moved by Marlowe Hood -- SPORT -- Asia-MAS-fbl-women,INTERVIEW KUALA LUMPUR A women's version of the AFC Champions League will be launched in 2023, Asian football's governing body says, hoping a new international club tournament can boost the women's game in the region. 650 words moved by Sam Reeves. Picture. Video fbl-Eur-C1-ESP-ENG-RealMadrid-Liverpool-Klopp MADRID Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he is not seeking revenge on Real Madrid for defeat in the 2018 Champions League final despite his anger at Sergio Ramos for the challenge which ended Mohamed Salah's match that night in Kiev. 450 words moved afp
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