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| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + G7 leaders pledge billion jabs in Covid-19 fight + Northern Ireland overshadows Johnson-Biden meeting + Call for action to end 'nightmare' in Ethiopia's Tigray + Hong Kong to censor films for 'national security' + Pandemic-delayed Euro 2020 kicks off G7-summit,WRAP FALMOUTH, United Kingdom G7 leaders open a three-day summit aimed at helping to end the Covid-19 pandemic and forge a climate-centric economic recovery, after pledging to donate one billion vaccine doses for the world's poorest countries. 750 words 0800 GMT by Jitendra Joshi. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: G7-summit,FACTS G7-summit-health-virus,FACTS Britain-US-G7-NATO-EU-Russia-Biden,WRAP CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plays down reported tensions with US President Joe Biden over the impact of Brexit on the fragile peace in Northern Ireland, after the pair hold their first face-to-face talks on the eve of a G7 summit. 750 words moved by Jerome Cartillier, Jitendra Joshi and Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Britain-US-politics-diplomacy-Biden fashion Ethiopia-Tigray-conflict,WRAP BRUSSELS The US and EU issue an impassioned plea for greater international efforts to tackle an emerging famine in Ethiopia's Tigray and end the conflict wracking the region. 650 words moved HongKong-China-politics-film-censorship HONG KONG Hong Kong censors are to vet all films for national security breaches under expanded powers, in the latest blow to the financial hub's political and artistic freedoms. 400 words moved. Fbl-Euro-2020-2021-health-virus,WRAP PARIS An in-form Italy face Turkey in Rome as Euro 2020 finally gets underway a year behind schedule and with the coronavirus continuing to cast a shadow over the tournament. 750 words moved by Andy Scott with Emmeline Moore in Rome. Picture. Graphic -- SPOTLIGHT -- Lifestyle-Cyprus-art,VIDEOESSAY NICOSIA An Athenian "neo-muralist" is blending Greek mythology and Byzantine iconography with graffiti and street art to depict how the coronavirus has forced people the world over to put down roots. 600 word moved by David Vujanovic. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-US-cruises-travel,FOCUS MIAMI US-based cruise lines are chafing to resume voyages from Florida ports in July as the pandemic wanes -- but for vaccinated passengers only -- yet the state and its governor won't let them demand proof of vaccination. 800 words moved by Leila Macor. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-politics-Trump-Democrats-investigation,WRAP WASHINGTON Prosecutors in the US Justice Department under former president Donald Trump seized data from Apple from two Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as that of their staff and family members, The New York Times reports. 550 words 0700 GMT. File picture. G7-US-IT-taxation,FOCUS SAN FRANCISCO G7 countries that make up lucrative markets for US tech giants move closer to a plan to squeeze more tax money from the coffers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. 650 words moved by Julie Jammot. Peru-vote,WRAP LIMA Final results from Peru's presidential election -- in which leftist Pedro Castillo considers himself the winner -- are still days away, officials say, as a prosecutor seeks preventive custody for corruption-accused candidate Keiko Fujimori. 700 words moved by Francisco Jara. Picture. Video. Graphic US-politics-Congress-antiSemitism,WRAP WASHINGTON US congresswoman Ilhan Omar faces broad condemnation including from her Democratic Party's leadership after the Muslim lawmaker accused the United States and Israel of "unthinkable atrocities" comparable to those of Hamas and the Taliban. 650 words moved by Michael Mathes. File picture US-China-Taiwan-diplomacy-trade,WRAP WASHINGTON President Joe Biden's administration commits to resuming trade talks with Taiwan in its highest-level contact yet with the island, brushing off warnings by Beijing against pursuing an economic pact. 650 words moved by Shaun Tandon. File Picture Canada-crime-court-Islam,WRAP OTTAWA A Canadian man accused of slamming his pick-up truck into a Muslim family in London, Ontario, killing four people, makes a brief court appearance as new details emerge about him in the local press. 700 words moved by Michel Comte. File picture Venezuela-health-economy,FOCUS CARACAS Johany Perez, a stretcher-bearer at a hospital in Caracas, earns a "starvation wage" of the minimum $2.20 a month in a Venezuela wracked by a severe economic crisis. 650 words moved by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- China-US-business-law,Q&A BEIJING A new Chinese law against foreign sanctions is designed to significantly boost its power against international pressure, but could spark compliance dilemmas for global businesses operating in the world's second-largest economy. 600 words 0700 GMT by Beiyi Seow and Sebastien Ricci -- EUROPE -- Russia-opposition-politics-Navalny,WRAP MOSCOW Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption group vows to fight on after a court branded it an "extremist" organisation and ordered its closure. 900 words moved by Jonathan Brown. Picture. Video Also moved: Russia-politics-opposition-Navalny,CHRONO Spain-politics-Podemos,ADVANCER MADRID The radical left-wing Podemos, junior partner in Spain's ruling coalition, is expected to name Ione Belarra as its leader Sunday after the departure of Pablo Iglesias, who founded the faction in 2014. 650 words moved by Alvaro Villalobos. File picture -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-vote-nuclear,FOCUS TEHRAN Iran's presidential vote next week will likely replace a moderate with an ultraconservative, but this shouldn't derail ongoing nuclear talks because there is a broad political consensus in Tehran that they should succeed, analysts say. 700 words moved by Marc Jourdier. File picture. Graphic Egypt-economy-Israel-Palestinians-conflict-Gaza,FOCUS CAIRO Egypt is banking on a $500-million Gaza reconstruction project to shore up its influence in the Middle East, capitalising on clout it garnered by brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. 750 words moved by Bassem Aboualabass -- AFRICA -- France-Sahel-military-Mali,WRAP PARIS President Emmanuel Macron announces a major drawdown of France's military presence in the Sahel where forces have been battling jihadist insurgents for nearly a decade 550 words moved by Jurgen Hecker and Adam Plowright. Picture. Video Also moved: Sahel-France-unrest-facts Africa-Niger-Sahel,FACTS -- SPORT -- Tennis-FRA-Open,WRAP PARIS Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will clash for the 58th time on the same court where they first met 15 years ago with a place in the French Open final at stake. 550 words moved by Dave James. Picture Fbl-Copa-2021,PREVIEW RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil kicks-off the Copa America that almost never was on Sunday, on home soil for the second time in three years with minnows Venezuela as their opponents in a tournament already dominated by issues off the pitch. 750 words moved Also moved: Fbl-Copa-2021-BRA-health-virus-court,WRAP Fbl-Copa-2021-BRA-health-virus,FOCUS afp
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