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| - Duty Editor: Rose Troup Buchanan Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Huge blast kills 20 in Equatorial Guinea + Right royal row: Harry and Meghan interview airs + Pope prays for Iraq war victims at trip end + Huthi rebels target Saudi oil facilities + Swiss vote to ban the burka EGuinea-army-blast,WRAP MALABO At least 20 people are killed and hundreds injured after four accidental explosions rip through a military camp in Equatorial Guinea and obliterate neighbouring residential areas. 500 words moved. Graphic US-Britain-royals-Harry-Meghan,WRAP NEW YORK Prince Harry and his American wife, Meghan, speak to Oprah Winfrey in a highly-anticipated TV interview that could rock the British monarchy after the couple quit royal life. 700 words 0230 GMT by Thomas Urbain with Ben Sheppard in Washington. Picture. Video. Moved: Britain-royals-Harry,PROFILE Britain-US-royals-Meghan,PROFILE Vatican-pope-Iraq,WRAP ARBIL, Iraq Pope Francis vows to keep Iraq in his heart, as he concludes the largest mass and final public event of a historic trip meant to encourage the country's dwindling Christian community and deepen interfaith dialogue. 750 words moved by Catherine Marciano. Picture. Graphic. Video. Live video Yemen-conflict-Saudi,WRAP RIYADH A missile and drone attack targets the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry in an assault claimed by Yemen's Huthi rebels, a new escalation in the six-year conflict. 700 words moved by Anuj Chopra with Shatha Yaish in Dubai. Picture. Video Switzerland-vote-Islam-burqa,WRAP GENEVA Swiss voters narrowly back a ban on full face coverings in public places -- a decision hailed by supporters as a bulwark against radical Islam but branded as discriminatory by opponents. 750 words moved by Robin Millard. Picture. Graphic -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-vaccines,ADVANCER GENEVA Global players are gathering online from Monday to brainstorm ways to rapidly boost vaccine production and fight a still-virulent coronavirus that has hobbled the world for 14 months. 700 words moved by Christophe Vogt. Picture. Graphic. Health-virus-Germany-vote-Merkel,FOCUS BERLIN With just a week to go before two key regional elections, support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has hit a one-year low on growing anger over the country's pandemic crisis management. 650 words moved by Yacine Le Forestier with Michelle Fitzpatrick in Frankfurt Health-virus-Britain-school LONDON Children return to school in England for the first time since January, as the government begins to ease tough restrictions thanks to a mass vaccination drive against the coronavirus. 700 words 0330 GMT by Callum Patton -- ASIA -- Myanmar-politics-military-unrest,WRAP YANGON Thousands of Myanmar anti-coup demonstrators defy an ongoing military crackdown, following overnight weekend raids in Yangon in which an official from Aung San Suu Kyi's party died and several others were detained. 800 words moved. Picture. Video Also moved: India-Rohingya-Myanmar-Kashmir -- AMERICAS -- US-racism-police-trial,WRAP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Minneapolis residents brace for the opening of what is sure to be one of the nation's most closely watched trials in years -- that of the white policeman charged with killing George Floyd, a Black man whose dying struggles were captured on a video seen around the world. 700 words 0230 GMT by Joy Powell and Charlotte Plantive. Picture US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,INTERVIEW MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Deeply wounded and forever changed by the death of his nephew George Floyd, Selwyn Jones is apprehensive about the murder trial starting Monday of the police officer responsible, his doubts fueled by a legal system that historically has been friendly to law enforcement. 650 words 0300 GMT by Charlotte Plantive. Video. File Picture Also moved: US-racism-police-trial-Floyd,PROFILE US-racism-police-trial-Chauvin,PROFILE Venezuela-crime-social-women,FOCUS LA MISION, Venezuela Denis Reanez was looking through her daughter's things when she found a handwritten song she had been penning on a sheet slipped inside her bible. 750 words 0300 GMT by Margioni Bermudez. Picture. Video US-politics-economy-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON The US Senate votes to approve a $1.9 trillion relief package in what President Joe Biden called a "giant step" towards reviving the pandemic-stricken American economy, capping frenzied negotiations and a marathon overnight voting session. 750 words moved by Michael Mathes. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-Iran-politics-rights,WRAP LONDON The UK government calls for the immediate release of a British-Iranian woman after her five-year sentence for sedition ended in Iran, as a new court summons causes further uncertainty about her fate. 700 words moved by Callum Paton. File picture. Video. File video Also moving: Britain-Iran-politics-rights,CHRONO France-aviation-Dassault-accident,WRAP PARIS French billionaire Olivier Dassault, a politician and scion of the Dassault aircraft-making family, is killed in a helicopter crash. 600 words moved. Picture. File picture Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,FOCUS SHURNUKH, Armenia Stepan Movsisyan has been told his house remains in Armenia but half of his cow shed now falls under Azerbaijan's control after a war last year dramatically shifted the boundaries between the ex-Soviet foes. 750 words 0300 GMT by Max Delany. Picture. Video -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Israel-politics-Labor,INTERVIEW TEL AVIV Tasked with reviving an Israeli Labor party seen as near death just weeks ago, new leader Merav Michaeli is campaigning for social democracy, feminism and environmental issues. 600 words 0200 GMT by Stephen Weizman. Picture. Video Iran-nuclear-diplomacy-Ireland,lead TEHRAN Iran's President Hassan Rouhani urges Europe to avoid "threats or pressure" in any negotiations with Tehran, as he receives Ireland's foreign minister amid diplomatic efforts to revive a landmark nuclear deal. 550 words moved. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- ICoast-vote,WRAP ABIDJAN Ivory Coast's ruling party and the main opposition both claim victory in the West African nation's legislative elections, with the official results still to be announced. 600 words moved by David Esnault. Picture. Video. Graphic Senegal-politics-unrest,WRAP DAKAR Senegalese President Macky Sall faces mounting pressure to speak out after a wave of deadly violence rocks the country. 750 words moved by Emmet Livingstone. Picture. Video. Graphic -- SPORT -- Fbl-ENG-Pr,WRAP LONDON Manchester United shatter Manchester City's record winning streak with an impressive 2-0 victory against the Premier League leaders, while Liverpool hit a new low as relegation-threatened Fulham win at Anfield. 700 words moved by Kieran Canning and Steve Griffiths. Picture Yachting-AmCup-NZL,PREVIEW AUCKLAND Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa of Italy contest the America's Cup on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour this week in a nautical showdown where the result relies on technological gains as much as sailing prowess. 650 words 0200 GMT. Picture, graphic Yachting-AmCup-NZL-Spithill,FOCUS AUCKLAND After snatching the America's Cup from Team New Zealand in humiliating fashion eight years ago, Australia's Jimmy Spithill is now plotting a smash-and-grab Italian job for the 'Auld Mug' in the Kiwis' own backyard. 600 words 0200 GMT. Picture We will also move: Yachting-AmCup-NZL,FACTS Yachting-AmCup-NZL-winners,FACTS Tennis-ATP-QAT-Federer,WRAP DOHA Roger Federer says retirement was never an option during his battle with injury, insisting the recovery from knee surgery was "completely under control" ahead of his return to competitive tennis at this week's Qatar Open. 650 words moved by Gregory Walton. Video -- BUSINESS AND ECONOMY -- ECB-EU-eurozone-rates-inflation-banking,ADVANCER FRANKFURT The European Central Bank is expected to stress its commitment to keeping borrowing costs low, as inflation concerns and a slow vaccine drive weigh on the eurozone. 650 words 0300 GMT by Michelle Fitzpatrick afp
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