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| - Duty Editor: David Fox Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hackers target Myanmar government websites + Facebook accused of 'censorship' in Australia + Gunmen kidnap dozens from Nigeria school + United Nations urges global vaccine effort + World's oldest DNA sequenced from mammoths Myanmar-politics-military YANGON Hackers attacked military-run government websites in Myanmar as a cyberwar erupts after authorities shut down the internet for a fourth straight night. 650 words 0230 GMT. Picture. Video. Australia-US-IT-media-Facebook,WRAP BRISBANE Facebook is accused of "censorship" and putting Australians at risk after introducing a local ban on sharing news content that unexpectedly blocked vital messages from emergency services. 600 words by 0200 by Holly Robinson. File picture. Health-virus,WRAP UNITED NATIONS UN chief Antonio Guterres says the world "urgently needs a global vaccination plan" to stop wealthy countries leaving poorer nations behind in the coronavirus fightback. 750 words moved by Philippe Rater. Picture. Video. Graphic. Nigeria-unrest-students-kidnapping,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Gunmen believed to members of a criminal gang storm a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, in the country's latest mass abduction. 750 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Video. Graphic Science-paleontology-mammoth-genome PARIS Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a million years have yielded the world's oldest DNA ever sequenced, according to a new study, shining the genetic searchlight into the deep past. 700 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Picture -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France-cinema,FOCUS ROMORANTIN, France The coronavirus pandemic might not seem like the obvious time to build new movie theatres, but in cine-mad France, it will take more than a virus to dampen passions for the big screen. 550 words 0300 GMT by Francois Becker. Video Health-virus-Canada-skating,VIDEOESSAY MONTREAL With health authorities restricting public gatherings and other social activities, more Canadians than ever are embracing an old winter tradition -- the backyard ice rink. 500 words 0200 GMT by Anne-Sophie Thill. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-celebrity-podcast,FOCUS WASHINGTON Cooped up like many of us, movie stars, politicians and reality show types eager to hold onto their fans are turning to podcasts to get through the pandemic, converting their homes -- even a bathroom in one case -- into makeshift recording studios. 750 words 0130 GMT by Daxia Rojas. File picture Health-US-virus-masks,FOCUS MIAMI A Florida manufacturer that pounced on the N95 mask shortage at the start of the pandemic and retooled to churn them out now has 30 million of the coverings going begging. 700 words 0130 GMT by Leila Macor. Picture. Video -- AMERICAS -- US-weather,WRAP HOUSTON, Texas Millions of people are still without power in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, and facing water shortages as an unusual winter storm pummels the southeastern part of country. 700 words 0200 GMT by Francois Picard with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video Also moving: US-energy-electricty-Texas,Q&A Cuba-agriculture-tourism-health-pandemic,FOCUS VINALES, Cuba A year ago, Carlos Millo was renting rooms to foreigners in the picturesque Cuban town of Vinales. Now, with the pandemic driving tourists away, Millo and other townsfolk have resorted to growing their own food to survive. "We have had to return to the land," he says. 800 words 0130 GMT by Leticia Pineda. Picture. Video US-politics-Trump-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON Insisting that he won the US election and brawling with his own party's top senator, Donald Trump was back to demanding national attention this week. President Joe Biden just yawned. 550 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-radio-Limbaugh,OBIT WASHINGTON Rush Limbaugh, the firebrand radio host and relentless provocateur with a finger on the pulse of America's conservative middle class, has died after battling lung cancer. He was 70. 650 words moved by Joshua Melvin. File picture -- EUROPE -- Britain-royals-health-Philip,WRAP LONDON Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, remains in a London hospital as a "precautionary measure", according to Buckingham Palace, with sources saying it is not due to coronavirus. 600 words 0230 GMT by Callum Paton and Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Live video. Spain-politics-rights-music,WRAP MADRID Scores of protesters clashed with police in Madrid and Barcelona as hundreds rallied in the capital over the jailing of a Spanish rapper for tweets insulting police and the monarchy. 500 words 0300 GMT. File picture. Picture Italy-politics,WRAP ROME Prime Minister Mario Draghi pledged Wednesday to use "all means" to fight the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated Italy, and said it presented an opportunity for the country to rebuild as it did after World War II. 750 words 0230 GMT by Alivise Armellini. Picture. Video. Live video. Russia-politics-Navalny-court,WRAP MOSCOW Europe's rights court tells Russia to release jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny out of concern for his life, but Moscow swiftly rejects the call. 700 words moved by Anastasia Clark with Antoine Pollez in Strasbourg. Picture Also moved: Russia-politics-Navalny,CHRONO France-racism-university-politics-Islam,FOCUS PARIS The French minister for higher education has sparked a backlash from university heads after warning about the spread of "Islamo-leftism" in the country's academic institutions. 750 words moved by Adam Plowright. -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-housing-politics,FOCUS TEL AVIV, Israel Ten years since protests against the cost of living rocked Israel, affordable housing remains just as scarce, even prompting some city-dwellers to seek cheaper living on a rural kibbutz. 650 words 0300 GMT by Alexandra Vardi. Picture Libya-revolution-anniversary,WRAP TRIPOLI Libyans mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the uprising that toppled longtime ruler Moamer Kadhafi, ending a long-lived dictatorship but throwing the country into a decade of violent lawlessness. 700 words moved by Rim Taher. Picture. Video Also moved: Libya-revolution-anniversary,CHRONO Science-Egypt-archaeology CAIRO A high-tech study offers new clues into the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt over three millennia ago. 300 words moved. Picture -- AFRICA -- Rwanda-court-trial-genocide,WRAP KIGALI Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," goes on trial in a closely-watched case in Kigali where he stands accused of serious crimes including terrorism. 750 words moved. Picture. Video CAfrica-unrest-ICC-trial,SCENE BANGUI Wearing suits on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the two men look like harmless office workers. But in the Central African Republic, the horrors wrought by the militias they are accused of leading remain vivid in the minds of their victims. 700 words moved by Camille Laffont. File picture. Graphic -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- Vatican-pope-religion-health-virus-economy,FOCUS VATICAN CITY With donations down 25 percent, revenues from the Vatican Museums cut by 85 percent and millions of euros lost to support struggling shopkeepers, the coronavirus pandemic has left a big hole in Pope Francis' finances. 650 words moved by Catherine Marciano. Picture. - ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT -- France-auction-people-art PARIS Artworks owned by the late artist Christo and his wife Jean-Claude, a duo famed for wrapping landmarks in fabric, sold for eight million euros ($9.6 million) at auction on Wednesday. 250 words moved. afp
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